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Offsite articles:
• Dave's Garden
• Tatiana's TOMATObase

Vendors:
• Johnny's Selected Seeds
• Renaissance Farms

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Here's my Japanese Black Trifele tomato, so far, this year. I think it bloomed, today (and was among the first to do so). It's adapting with vigor, so far.



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Offsite articles:
• Dave's Garden
• Tatiana's TOMATObase

Vendors:
• Annie's Heirloom Seeds
• Fruition Seeds
• Renaissance Farms
• Seed Savers Exchange
• Uprising Organics

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Here's my Italian Heirloom tomato, so far, this year:



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Here's my Isis Candy tomato, so far, this year. It was my most vigorous tomato in the greenhouse for a while. It's doing well after the transplant, too. I thinned it, today.



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Here's my Indian Stripe tomato, this year, so far. I've grown Indian Zebra before, which is presumably the same thing. I thought this was going to be ISPL, but it was regular leaf, and I found out it was supposed to be the regular leaf version. That's fine. My ISPL from my other source froze, I believe; so, I'm not growing ISPL, this year. I do hope to grow it another year.

Anyway, in 2016, I overwatered Indian Zebra, in an area with full sun. It had a fairly small plant with large, watery fruit. They didn't have lots of flavor to me. This year, I'm growing them in a more shaded area (it has room to grow into a sunny location), with some shredded poplar wood in the soil. I guess we'll see what happens!



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Here's my Homestead tomato, so far, this year. I've been waiting to grow these for years. Yes, I've had the seeds for years, too. It's supposed to be quite heat-tolerant in the southeastern states, and similar to Marion. Marion is one of my favorite tomatoes; so, I hope I like Homestead.



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Here's my Green Gables tomato, so far, this year:



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Here's my Garnet tomato (a cherry tomato), so far, this year:



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I grew this in 2018, and loved eating it. The taste isn't extremely surprising or anything, but it's a really good tomato to eat. Unfortunately, I didn't save seeds from it that year (since I was fatigued and I didn't plan to regrow it at the time, for production reasons; I'm hoping it's more prolific this year, however).

Yes, this breed is true-to-type. It's not an F1 hybrid like the Garden Leader Monster watermelon is.

Here's my plant, this year, so far. I just thinned it, today:



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Here's my Eva tomato, so far, this year. If you don't know the story behind it, I recommend talking to the breeder and hearing it. I don't remember it in full, since I booted myself from Tomatoville on accident, and can't read my private messages (wherein I was told the story). This is not the same as Eva Purple Ball. I believe it's a sweet, bullet-shaped tomato, in the same class as Maglia Rosa, Wild Tiger and others. The plant is wispy, so far. I thinned it, today.



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A kind woman from Kansas on Gardenweb gave me the seeds for this, a year or two ago. Here's my Esterina F1 tomato plant, this year, so far:



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