Tomato Tuesday- Prue

This weeks Tomato Tuesday spotlight is on Prue. This was another good paste/plum tomato I grew last year. Early in the season the plant looked sickly because of it's extremely wispy leaves, but as the season progressed it produced really nice tomatoes for me up until the first frost. Here is some info from Tatiana's site about it.

Indet. plants with regular wispy foliage, which is sparse and droopy. Fruits are large elongated red plums, some with a nipple at the bottom, some without, variable shapes, but mostly a variation of plum shape. 4-12 oz. Delicious rich flavor, juicy flesh, very few seeds. Originated from Tom Gallucci of Connecticut, seeds came from Tom's ex-wife's grandfather, Mr. Prue of Massachusetts, who was born around 1900 and had been growing this tomato in the 1940s or earlier. Original source is unknown.

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Tomato Tuesday- Grow List & Seedling Update



I thought I would do a post for Tomato Tuesday about the varieties I am growing this year. I listed below my grow list for my Home Garden and Community Garden Plots. I started my dwarf varieties on February 23rd and the rest of my varieties were sown on March 29th. I will be planting them outside into my gardens the middle of May. I have many new varieties to try this year thanks to all the seed trading I did over the winter. I traded seeds with gardeners overseas this year, which was very exciting. I will be doing future Tomato Tuesday posts about each of the varieties at the end of the season.

 



 



Community Garden Plots:

 

Cherries:

Sunrise Bumblebee

Iva's Red Berry

Lucky Tiger

Carbon Copy

Dwarfs:

Uluru Ochre

Pit Viper

Wild Fred

Sweet Adelaide

Plum/Paste:

Streak Lightning

Orange Banana

Wessel's Purple Pride

Smiley Worms

Justyna

Smoky Mountain

Small,Medium,Large:

Pennheart

Bradley

Carneal Tiger

Sailor's Luck

Heshpole

Janet's Jacinthe Jewel

Everette's Rusty Oxheart

Copper Penny

Wes

Noire Charbonneuse

Gail

Banded Amazon

Mexico

BKX

Pink Siberian Tiger

Green Copia

Le Cadero

Surpriz

Lithium Sunset

Damascus Steel

Wine Jug

Copper River


Home Garden:

Dwarfs:
Shamrock
Arctic Rose
Utyonok
Jackass Yellow
CT Large Red
Chocolate Lightning
Dwarf Purple Heart
CT Striped Plum
Shadow Boxing
Patio Song

Grinch

Cherries:
Angora Super Sweet
Sinister Minister

Med/Large Varieties:
Missouri Rose
Royal Hillbilly
Spudatula
Pink Lemon
Dark Copia Heart
Buffalo Soldier
Red Barn
Sgt. Peppers
NPS x Sgt. Peppers
Reinhard Green Heart
Dolly Parton
Texwine
Grosse Verte Rose
P20 x Beauty King
Captain Lucky
Marie Antoinette
The Thong
Spudayellow

 

Seedlings started on 3/29. I will be transplanting them into individual cups

this week.

Dwarf plants started on 2/23

Dwarf plants started 2/23

 

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Tomato Tuesday- Vorlon

Vorlon is a large black beefsteak tomato with a great flavor. The plants are indeterminate and have potato leaves. It is a mid season variety. My plant was not overly productive because it was unfortunately suffered due to disease. Vorlon is a stabilized accidental cross between Cherokee Purple and Pruden's Purple that appeared in the garden of Joe Fisher of Winterport, Maine. Said to be named for the enigmatic alien race of the T.V. program Babylon 5. I really liked the flavor of Vorlon and I will give it another try in my garden in the future.

 

 

 

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