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Subject: [DUG Listserv] Unique tomatoes and chiles featured at plant sale

Vegetable gardeners looking for better plants can find them at the CSU

Extension Plant-A-Palooza plant sale this year. The sale features

tomato plants from around the world and better chiles for chile

lovers.

Tomatoes available include Azoychka, a Russian heirloom that produces

yellow, 3-inch tomatoes in 70 days. It has a good acid content to

balance its sweet, citrusy flavor. Zhefan Short is from the Zhengjiang

province of China. This 68 day tomato produces pink 3 inch fruits with

good sweet/acid balance in the juice. Stupice from Czechoslovakia is a

prolific, early bearing red type with great taste.

The chiles featured are grown from seed acquired from the New Mexico

Chile Pepper Institute. The Institute returned fifty year old seed

lines to what they used to be before they wandered off-type in the

last few decades. The bonus for gardeners is traditional heritage

chiles that yield 10 percent more and have 20 percent more flavor.

Two chile types will be sold. 'Nu-Mex Heritage 6-4' provides

consistent medium heat with good yield. 'New Mex Big Jim' produces a

high heat level for those who like their chiles hot.

The Plant-A-Palooza plant sale fundraiser has long been known for

heritage tomato transplants in addition to modern tomatoes, peppers,

basil, perennials and annuals. The sale takes place on Saturday, May

14 from 8 am to 3 pm or sold out in Denver's Harvard Gulch Park, 888

E. Iliff Avenue (at Emerson Street). More information at 720-913-5270.

Dan