Telegraphing our Thrillingly Tasty Tomato Tally for 2019!

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Remember Snowmageddon?  Our tasty tomato talent search began during the depth of the snowstorm!

Hmm which tomatoes is she going to plant this year?

Many of the following 65 varieties were started indoors while the snow piled up outside.  Most are Heirloom varieties, with the exception of Sungold our only hybrid. Can you see the snow outside?

Uh Oh!  Someone left a shovel out in the snow!!! :(

Heirlooms are famous for their flavor and their fantastic variations in shape, size, color, and interior and exterior patterns.  Many of our students have never seen tomatoes like these before!

Here is our tantalizing tally of tomatoes already started or on order this year! (names in quotations are names I created when I lost the plant tags--we save seed every year!)

• Amish paste  
• "Big Monster"
• Big Rainbow  
• Black from Tula  
• Black Krim  
• Black Prince  
• Black Sea Man  
• Black Zebra  
• "Broad Paste"  
• Bumblebee cherry red w/ green stripes 
• Bumblebee cherry red w/ yellow stripes 
• Bumblebee cherry yellow w/ red stripes  
• Caspian Pink  
• Cherokee Purple  
• Chocolate Cherry  
• Chocolate Pear  
• Cuore de Bue  (ginormous!)  
• Cuore De Toro  
• Dester  
• Federer  
• Giant Belgium  
• Hillbilly  
• Honey Drop Cherry  
• Indigo Blue Beauty 
• Indigo Cherry Drops  
• Indigo Pear Drops  
• Indigo Rose  
• Japanese Trifele Black  
• Jaune Flamme  
• Kellogg’s Breakfast   
• "Long Pointy" 
• "Long Striped"  
• Mariana’s Peace  
• Martina’s Roma 
• Mortgage Lifter   
• "Mystery A, B, and C"  
• Nebraska Wedding  
• Old German  
• Opalka 
• Paul Robeson  
• Peacevine Cherry  
• Pineapple Hawiian 
• Pink Berkeley Tie Dye  
• Pink Brandywine  
• Polish Giant   
• Principe De Borghese Determinate 
• Red pear 
• Red Zebra 
• Ripley’s Believe It or Not  
• San Marzano  
• Snow Cherry  
• Speckled Roma 
• Striped German 
• "Striped Paste"  
• Sungold  
• Ten fingers of Naples  
• Thessaloniki Tomato  
• Tiger Mix  
• "Triplet Huge Paste"  
• Uncle Wilfred  
• Vintage Wine 
• Wild Boar Beauty King  
• Wild Boar Mint Julep  
• Wild Boar Solar Flare 
• Yellow pear 

Can you spot the fluffy seed of a very nasty invasive plant called Canadian Thistle?  It blew in on the wind and landed in our tomato patch! (Hint...it is resting on top of one of the yellow tomatoes and is trying very hard not to be noticed!  Need another hint? It is resting on top of the yellow tomato just under the red tomato.) 😊

Want to learn more about tomatoes?  Check out these interesting websites!

Tomato Facts For Kids
https://www.natgeokids.com/za/discover/science/nature/ten-top-tomato-facts/
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/food/tomatoes.html

Tomato Growing Info
https://www.craiglehoullier.com/
https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/?s=tomatoes
https://www.tomatofest.com/organic_heirloom_tomato_seeds_videos_s/102.htm

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