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Re: Bay Area tomatoes

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From: Jon Shemitz
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:32
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dkra wrote:

> The variety "Sungold" (orange-yellow sweet cherry variety) received rave
> reviews in the article.  

Takes all kinds - the yellow varieties seem like white peachs to me:
all sugar, no flavor. Personally, I find the purple varieties have the
best flavor.

> I'm also experimenting with Pink Ping Pong, Mortgage Lifter, Sweet 100,
> and Stupice.  Well, I think it's Stupice, but it might be another variety,
> since it doesn't have the characteristic "potato leaf" growth habit, and
> tags have a mysterious way of being switched around in garden centers
> which experience heavy traffic.

Stupice seems to like the Bay Area. (At least, my foggy,
third-mile-from-Monterey-Bay part of it, in Santa Cruz.) My one
Stupice was a very heavy producer for me, last year, and this year all
my Stupices were some of the first to set fruit. (Not sure why - does
it se at lower night time temps than other varieties?)

Mortgage Lifter has not done well, for me. Very susceptible to some
sort of blight.
 
-- 

programmer, author  http://www.midnightbeach.com
and father          http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs
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From: Jon Shemitz <jon@midnightbeach.com>
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Subject: Re: Bay Area tomatoes
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