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Tomato Summary for 2012

Bush Early Girl - Determinate - F1. Extra large fruit on extra early plants. Good slicer.

Brandywine Red - OP - Indeterminate, 90 days. Heirloom. Clusters of 8-12 oz. fruit with a robust tomato flavour. Vigorous vine.

Black Krim - 75 days. Indeterminate. Rare Heirloom beefsteak mahogany coloured tomato. Intense flavour. A black favourite.

Bloody Butcher - 55 days - Indeterminate. OP. Produces 2" fruit, 5-9 per cluster. Rich heirloom flavour. Produces early and up to frost.

Bush Beefsteak - 62 days. Determinate. Large amounts of large early tomatoes in clusters. Popular for short seasons. Excellent slicer.

Celebrity - Determinate. 72 days. F1. Great flavour, firm crackfree fruit. Good blight tolerance.

Cherokee Purple - Indeterminate 80 days. Productive producer of rose to purple coloured large 12 oz. fruit. Pretty and a good slicer.

Chocolate Cherry - 75 days - Indeterminate. Produces sweet clusters of juicy burgundy coloured sweet fruit.

Early Girl - 59 days. Indeterminate hybrid. Sets the standard for early round 6 oz. slicing fruit. Bright colour, good flavour.

Elizabeth - Indeterminate greenhouse variety. Produces huge numbers of 2 inch fruit. Sweet and delicious. Very prolific and produces over a long period. Can grow up to ten feet. From Saltspring Seed company.

Fantastic - F1 - Indeterminate. High yields of meaty bright red 3-5 inch fruit. Solid slicers. Reliable variety.

Indigo Rose - NEW - OP - 80 days. Indeterminate. Indigo blue skin on the sun-side of 2 inch fruit. The shaded side stays green/red. Excellent vigorous producer bred at Oregon State University.

Jersey Giant - OP. Heritage variety that has been on the verge of extinction. Large 6 inch long fruit are perfect for canning. Rich flavour, few seeds, a good one to isolate and save seeds from.

Mountain Spring - 68 days. F1. Determinate. Very strong plant produces early firm dark red globe shaped fruit. Disease resistant, and said to be good for our climate.

Oregon Spring - 85 days. Determinate. Early tomatoes for cooler growing areas.

Plum Lemon - 81 days. Indeterminate. Heirloom 3 inch long solid meaty fruit with mild flavour and bright yellow lemon shape.

Riesentraube - Indeterminate 80 days. The original Grape Tomato. Huge trusses of 1 inch pointed grapes that are sweet and sturdy skinned.

Roma Paste - 75 days. Compact determinate plants are very productive producers of paste tomatoes. Reliable and excellent for canning.

Saltspring Sunrise - Determinate. Heritage variety from Saltspring Island via Saltspring Seed Company. Low acid, excellent flavour, blight resistant. Wide range of sizes in the fruit.

San Marazano - Indeterminate 70 days. Heirloom variety is productive producer of high yields of early large plum type tomatoes.

Schlemmig Striped Hollow - Indeterminate 80 days. This heirloom produces bell shaped 3-5 inch fruit that is hollow in the center for stuffing. Beautiful with golden stripes on the outside.

Siletz - 70 days. Determinate. Vigorous. F1. Nearly seedless and very flavourful. Has several bursts of 8 oz. deep red fruit throughout the season.

Sweet 100 - 65 days. Indeterminate. F1. Vigorous plant grows huge drooping clusters of sweet 1 inch tomatoes.

Sunshine Yellow Cherry - Determinate, dependable. Similar to Sweet Million, producing high yields of low acid yellow cherries

Sweet Million - 65 days. Indeterminate tall vigorous plants yield incredibly long clusters of 1 inch fruit. Said to be more resistant to cracking than Sweet 100.

Taxi - 68 days. Determinate. OP. Compact bushy plant grows early lemon yellow meaty fruit that is 6 oz. and firm and low acid.

Ukranian Purple - 80 days. Indeterminate productive plant grows 4 inch plum shaped burgundy fruit. Beautiful.

February 2012.