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Here's a tomato I helped breed and named for one of my girls (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 OP
Gorgeous, and sweet name. antiquie Jun 2015 #1
I need to work on it - the flavor is a bit above average, but it is just gorgeous NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #2
Should be even sweeter. antiquie Jun 2015 #3
Beautiful! Thank you for your continuing gifts to the world! LiberalLoner Jun 2015 #4
Happy to see the crops are doing well! :) nt TBF Jun 2015 #5
so cool looking! Kali Jun 2015 #6
How beautiful it looks, my dear NRL! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2015 #7
she said "nice looking but why doesn't it taste better"? NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #8
Ah. Now I'm craving a fresh garden tomato. applegrove Jun 2015 #9

NRaleighLiberal

(60,040 posts)
2. I need to work on it - the flavor is a bit above average, but it is just gorgeous
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:58 PM
Jun 2015

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!

Kali

(55,032 posts)
6. so cool looking!
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 10:11 PM
Jun 2015

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.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,040 posts)
8. she said "nice looking but why doesn't it taste better"?
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 10:57 PM
Jun 2015


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
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