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"Sarandipity" after my daughter Sara! First one ripe today.
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Here's a tomato I helped breed and named for one of my girls (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2015
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I need to work on it - the flavor is a bit above average, but it is just gorgeous
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2015
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antiquie
(4,299 posts)1. Gorgeous, and sweet name.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,040 posts)2. I need to work on it - the flavor is a bit above average, but it is just gorgeous
So I am crossing it with Pink Berkeley Tie Dye to see if I can get the size and flavor enhanced. Such fun, this amateur tomato breeding!
One I named for my wife, Dwarf Sweet Sue, worked out better - one of my favorite tomatoes!
antiquie
(4,299 posts)3. Should be even sweeter.
Amateur!
Your book is still in my Amazon wish list.
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)4. Beautiful! Thank you for your continuing gifts to the world!
TBF
(32,160 posts)5. Happy to see the crops are doing well! :) nt
Kali
(55,032 posts)6. so cool looking!
I haven't done a damn thing this year but put the "perennial" cherry tomato I had from last year outside. It made a bunch of fruit and has now pretty much died off. so I guess it was a biannual instead.
they were tasty and I did get a good crop of apricots this year, freezer is almost full of those!
oh yeah a few zinnias and some basil.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,841 posts)7. How beautiful it looks, my dear NRL!
What did your daughter say when you told her about the name?
NRaleighLiberal
(60,040 posts)8. she said "nice looking but why doesn't it taste better"?
The nice thing about developing new tomatoes is naming them. So far, we have, in addition to the above
Sauce Mary (still being worked on) and Dwarf Kelly Green for Sue's aunt and uncle
Dwarf Wild Fred for my dad
Dwarf Black Angus for Sue's dad (not released/finished yet)
Dwarf Caitydid for my other daughter (play on words with the insect and her name) - not done yet
applegrove
(118,965 posts)9. Ah. Now I'm craving a fresh garden tomato.