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| It's momotaro, thanks Need2SeeGreen I had my first Momotaro today and the flavors were out of this world. I would strongly suggest you look for the momotaro and give it a try. This is the only variety I will grow this year. My wife complains that I keep going on and on about this tomato and she's right. Has anyone ran across a tomato variety that tasted so great. Is there a comparable variety to the momotaro or even better? I know everyone will have different opinions when it comes to tomatoes but I was curious about others experiences. List your favorite tomato and describe its taste the best you can. Ron
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| My mother tried some Cherokee purple tomatoes in Grainger county a couple months ago. She said they were the best tomatoes she had ever tasted. I knew it would certainly please her if I grew some, so I bought seed offline and we will see if they are as good as she remembers :) |
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- Posted by prestons_garden 9B SZ 22 HZ 6 SoC (rpreston1000@yahoo.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 0:33
| LogyMcKae, Ron |
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| I surely will :) Im really excited this is they first thing i've ever done by myself (im young) and I hope they all do well! |
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| I am already making plans for next year, That is why i am curious as to what everyone likes :) (browsing google is how i found this amazingly helpful website) |
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- Posted by prestons_garden 9B SZ 22 HZ 6 SoC (rpreston1000@yahoo.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 0:46
| LogyMcKae, Welcome and there are a lot of people that are willing to take the time to help others. I wish I could get my daughter to help in the garden from time to time. As soon as we had to get rid of our chickens, she wanted nothing to do with gardening or at least being in the garden, lol. Ron |
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- Posted by prestons_garden 9B SZ 22 HZ 6 SoC (rpreston1000@yahoo.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 0:52
| LogyMcKae, Just some advice, perhaps you would like to reconsider editing your post and delete your age as you never know. I have a daughter the same age and perhaps I'm being a little paranoid, but to me I don't care. Be safe. Ron |
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| Yes, very true Im too trusting! and I know teens can be stubborn! as i am. but to get next year started i bought a mixed lot of heirloom seeds on Ebay i hope to get a good variety next year! it says "60+ varieties" so FINGERS CROSSED! |
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| Cherokee Purple is good, but I very much prefer Cherokee Chocolate, hands down. Might also try Aunt Ruby's German Green and Marianna's Peace |
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| HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, I mainly just grew the Cherokee Purple because my mother loved them, but i will most definantly have to give both of them a try, Thanks so much! |
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- Posted by Tomatovator1 none (My Page) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 6:12
| What is a "Monotaro"??? I never heard of this variety... |
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- Posted by prestons_garden 9B SZ 22 HZ 6 SoC (rpreston1000@yahoo.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 13:23
| Tomatovator1, It's for sure not a heavy producer but the flavors make up for it. Try and google it as this forum seems to be really paranoid about linking to other forums and or other sites. I tried to link to a reliable source but was warned by this: o GardenWeb Spam Alert: In order to fight spam, we need your cooperation! Unfortunately, we have been the victims of spam attacks (the posting of ads) promoting this site or business (#*^@*#@^%&@) and they are now blocked completely to prevent a recurrence. Please do not mention them in our forums or elsewhere at this site. Any attempt at circumventing this block by using our site to refer others to this business will be interpreted as an attempt to further spam our site and you will be permanently banned from using our services.GardenWeb We appreciate your cooperation in keeping messages ad-free! Ron |
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- Posted by prestons_garden 9B SZ 22 HZ 6 SoC (rpreston1000@yahoo.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 13:43
| fcivish, Thanks for the recommendations. I would like to try Marianna's Peace but I hear the seeds are way over priced. Do you have any you are willing to spare? Thanks, Ron |
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- Posted by foose4string z7 MD (My Page) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 15:32
| Preston, I can probably help you out with Marianna's Peace. I tried growing it out a couple times. Like my experience with most heirlooms, production was low. In fact, I don't think I got a single usable tomato either time I tried growing it. I have seed if you want to try a few. Sent you an email. |
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| Ron, one of the companies that originally promoted Marianna's Peace charged something like $2 PER SEED initially, as a gimmick. But nobody every needed to pay that price, as it is an open pollinated variety and many people have seeds out there. If that company is still publishing that price, after all these years, then they are just full of garbage. (I never ordered from that company anyway, since they often seemed to be doing semi-shady things like that.) Marianna's Peace, in my garden, is reasonably productive, excellent flavor, large size, smooth, pink, potato leaf and fairly late tomato. I understand that there is a lot of crossed seed out there, but true Marianna's Peace is a large pink, smooth, excellent beefsteak. (As a side note: I crossed Marianna's Peace with Jaune Flamme and have a medium sized, orange, beefsteaky tomato that I like from it, bu that is another story. That IS NOT the crossed variety that people are talking about.) Anyway, I might have some Marianna's Peace seeds available in August. I won't know until then, when I see what my current seeds are growing out. If you are interested in emailing me in August, I might have some seeds from that, and maybe a number of other tomatoes, too. Of my 120 or so plants this year, about 100 of them are varieties I have been raising from various crosses (including the orange one I mentioned, above). I am working with dozen's of new tomato varieties I have been developing, some of which I have been working on for about 10 years, and maybe I am getting close to releasing some of them. But I can't come up with anything other than stupid names for them. I just feel like I'm not imaginative enough. |
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- Posted by prestons_garden 9B SZ 22 HZ 6 SoC (rpreston1000@yahoo.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 19:19
| fcivish, That is determination on your part. Sent you a PM. Ron |
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- Posted by Need2SeeGreen 10/22-24LosAngCa (My Page) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 20:19
| It might be spelled, "Momotaro," instead. I think. We are growing a Momo Gold this year. The first one (well, actually the first couple ones disappeared -- we think maybe a possum?) was an absolutely gorgeous orange. The flavor was good but not va-va-voom yet. A little bland-ish. Hoping they get better. I've never had the regular Momotaro. It sounds great. |
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| Ron is there any way for me to get a few seeds of this monotaro tomato? Email me? This is my first time trying to trade I won't have any to trade for a while but maybe we can work something out? |
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- Posted by Tomatovator1 none (My Page) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 21:39
| If this thread is about "Momotaro" then I have grown it several times in the past and to me it is just OK. Again, there is no variety named "Monotaro". As far as Marianna's Peace, it is not expensive to buy seeds. Several places offer them for sale at the same price as any other heirloom seed. The high prices asked for them was years ago. Not even a revelant discussion now... |
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- Posted by prestons_garden 9B SZ 22 HZ 6 SoC (rpreston1000@yahoo.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 22:01
| Tomatovator1, Yes it's Momotaro, I was multitasking and look where it got me, can't even spell now.
LogyMcKae, Ron |
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- Posted by foose4string z7 MD (My Page) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 22:27
| The Marianna's Peace seed that I have is direct from Sandhill Preservation. Pretty sure it's the real deal. |
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| Nice to know about Momotaro, am growing one plant new for me this year, we will see. I am giving Marianne peace one more try this year as well, my experience in the past summer was not long enough to get MP going well and I did not grow it last year when we had hot summer. |
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- Posted by LogyMcKae 7 (logymckae2011@gmail.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 22:49
| I made my email to show, and i emailed you :) |
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- Posted by Tomatovator1 none (My Page) on Fri, Jun 21, 13 at 5:52
| Marianna's Peace seeds for sale here in 2013: Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds |
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- Posted by Tomatovator1 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 21, 13 at 6:01
| It is important to spell variety names correctly as misspelled names can eventually become commonly used and it can get very confusing. I did not know if "Monotaro" was a new variety or a misspelling of "Momotaro". Thanks for clearing that up. |
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