Paquebot 2010 Tomato List
Tomatoes!
Paquebot recently asked me to update the list of tomatoes he’s offering from what I posted here for him last year.
Paquebot lives in Wisconsin, USA. He’s offering more than 200 tomatoes, organized into the year grown, giving an indication of the age of the seeds. Tomato seed are normally good for about 5-10+ years, so age isn’t an issue if you plant them within the next couple of years.
He’s offering them as part of the Seed Network, and in particular he said they are available to anyone, anywhere in the world. You have to discuss payment or trading terms with him yourself.
If you’re interested in anything here, send me an email and I’ll forward it to him.
2009 seeds
Aker’s West Virginia Black
Albany Georgia Heirloom
Amish Paste
Anna Hermann
Apelsin
Apricot Brandywine
Aunt Ruby’s German Green
Banjan Roomii
Belgian Heart
Big White Pink Stripes
Black Sea Man
Bosu
Buckeye Yellow
Carbon
Caro Rich
Chico III
Chocolate Cherry
Cour de Bou
Cow’s Tit
Eagle’s Beak
Endless Summer
Ernesto
Fantome de Laos
Giraffe
Guido
Guernsey Island
Hawaiian Orange Cherry
Hawaiian Pineapple
Hazelfield Farm Red
Heinz 1439
Japanese Black Triffle
Kardinal
Lagidny
Limmony
Marizol Purple
Mirabell, Red
Mirabell, Yellow
Monkey Ass
Moya
Northern Crown
Northern Lights
Pantano Romanesco
Paquebot Roma
Persimmon
Pink Ruffled
Portugal Monster
Principe Borghese
Riesentraube
Rozovii Giant
Sainte Lucie
Siberian
Silvery Fir Tree
Snowberry
Super Snow White
Ten Fingers of Naples
Tennessee Britches
The Orange
Tiny Tim
Togo Trefele
Turks Muts
Volgogradskij 5/95
Vorlon
West Virginia Pink Slicer
Willamette
Wisconsin 55
Wisconsin 55 Gold
Yellow 1884 Pinkheart2008 seeds
Amish Red
Belarusan Heart
Besser
Black From Tula
Black Plum
Black Prince
Bloody Butcher
Boondocks
Borgio Cellano
Brianna
Cherokee Purple (PL)
Chianti Rose
Chocolate Stripes
Dinner Plate
Dr. Lyle
Dorothy’s Mennonite Beefsteak
Dorothy’s Mennonite Bicolor
Dorothy’s Mennonite Big Heart
Douce de Picardie (PL)
German Head
Giant Belgium
Giant Oxheart
Giant Roma
Giant Tree
Gigante Liscio
Golden Dwarf Champion
Hungarian Italian Paste
Japanese Oxheart
King Pineapple
Lancaster Pink
Large Pink Bulgarian
Legend
Long Keeper
Marglobe
Market Miracle
Mexico
Noire Russie
Old German
Preacher
Red Heart Yellow
Red Penna
Red Zebra
Russian Annie
Sandul Moldovan
Spoon
Super Beefsteak
Super Choice
Tater Kin
Taxi
Teton de Venus
Thessaloniki Oxheart
Valencia Pink
Watermelon Beefsteak
White Tomesol
Woodle Orange
Wuhib
Yamal2007 seeds
Ace 55
Amana Orange
Ananas Noir
Aunt Madge’s
Aussie
Bear Claw
Beauty King
Berkeley Tie Dyed
Black Oxheart
Blue Beech
Boyarsky
Boy Boy
Brown Berry
Bull’s Heart
Burracker’s Favorite
Carmelo
Chateau Rose
Clover Trefle
Costoluto Fiorentino
Crimson Cushion
Crnkovic Jugoslavian
Danish Export
Des Andes Jaune
German Queen
Gogosha
Greater Baltimore
Gregori Altai
Grosse Cotelee
Hartman’s Yellow Gooseberry
Hog Heart
Howard German
Japanese Golden Pear
Julia Child
Kalman’s Hungarian
Korney’s Jelly Bean
Kosovo
Lemon Giant
Lumpy Red
Mandarine
Matt’s Wild Cherry
Mennonite Orange
Merveilles des Marches
Minibel
Nelson’s Golden Giant
Novikov Giant
Oaxacan Jewel
Olive Doree
Orange Giant
Paul Robeson
Peacevine Cherry
Pigmeo
Pipo
Pomodoro Palla di Fuoco
Pomodoro Red Pear
Raspberry Giant
Sausage
Scatalone
Selandia
Super Marmande
Tiger Tom
Tumbling Tom
UC82B
Ukrainian Pear
Wanda’s PT
Wes
Zebra
Zorica’s Croatian Bull Eye2006 Seeds
Abraham Lincoln
Amish Salad
Amish Yellow
Aunt Gertie’s Gold
Aztec
Balkon Star
Black Cherry
Bradley
Cherry Roma
Cherokee Green
Cosmonaut Volkov
Croatian Heart
Douce de Picardie (RL)
Emeraude
Gardeners Delight
Garden Peach, Red
Garden Peach, Yellow
German Pink
Giant Syrian
Goose Creek
Greenbush Italian
Green Cherry
Green Giant
Green Zebra
Harvard Square
John Baer
Kristina Vatcheva
Leatha’s
Lemon Drop
Lithuanian
Long Tom
Marianna’s Conflict
Marianna’s Peace
Medford
Moby Grape
Mr. Fumo
Novogogoshary
Nyagous, Red
Oregon Spring
Perito Italian
Roman Candle
Segler
Sheyenne
Striped Cavern
Surender’s Indian Curry
Tigerella
Tommy Toes, Red
Tommy Toes, Yellow
Ugly Ripe
Voyage
West Virginia 63
Yellow Pear
Yoder’s German Yellow
Monsanto in Cyberspace
Monsanto is Here
A number of posts have been made in recent weeks on different blogs about Monsanto buying nearly all commercial seed companies, everywhere. There was a particularly good one on the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog.
It’s pretty clear in the aftermath of all this consolidation, the next frontier for Monsanto is the Internet.
This blog has received quite a number of requests for Monsanto seed companies to be added to my list of recommended sources of seeds in recent weeks, and comments challenging old posts I’ve made critical of Monsanto are also starting to come in. Note the one here dated Jan 26th from ‘Rick’.
A discussion forum I frequently participate on also just had some visitors from Monsanto. At least one of these visitors had actually been around for months, and out of the blue just started spewing nonsense about how good Monsanto’s seed companies were. He did this together with someone else, so it sort of looked somehow like a legitimate conversation was taking place.
He started by giving a list of his favorite seed companies, including some many well known and trusted places like Baker Creek, Sandhill and Seed Savers Exchange, then went on to include some relatively unknown Monsanto seed companies and started promoting them.
Common Theme
Until now, all of these visits have had a common theme. Monsanto is ‘normal’. Each one has in some way tried to promote Monsanto as a normal seed company, and people who don’t want to grow seeds from Monsanto are somehow extreme.
These visits have included marketing slogans like ‘Most experienced gardeners trust Johnny’s.’ In particular, the theme that Johnny’s is somehow a trusted place to buy seeds seems to reoccur. Any blog or other place on the Internet that recommends Johnny’s Seeds is suspect as advertising for Monsanto.
The Truth
The real truth is that us bloggers have been tremendously successful at proving commercial seeds, in particular from Monsanto, have very little legitimacy in a home garden.
When you grow commercial seeds, you can’t re-save them for sharing or replanting. In general your chance of success is often lower, and you usually don’t end up with something worth taking a picture of and posting on your blog. There are very few serious and successful blogs out there about gardens growing commercial seeds, because they just aren’t interesting.
Of course I don’t mean to suggest gardeners who grow a few commercial hybrid seeds are doing something wrong, but these plants don’t usually end up being the ones they post and rave about.
What to Do
I’m afraid more is likely to come! Even if we have a wave of this nonsense and it passes, it’s reasonable to assume Monsanto will keep trying.
In the short run, keep an eye out for it on your blogs and discussion forums. I don’t do Facebook or Twitter, but those of you who do or visit similar places on the Internet, keep an eye on it there too.
If you see someone who seems to be promoting commercial seed companies in the wrong place, be sure to say something. Be sure to mention Monsanto, and don’t accept being told that growing seeds from Monsanto is somehow normal! If they persist, ask them about who they are and what they are doing there. Make sure you are very clear that you think what they are saying is wrong and just nonsense.
Be sure and talk about your experiences other places on the Internet, so the rest of us can be prepared to cope with the same thing. By all means, please use this post as a place to leave comments on this.
Non-GMO Project
Since I don’t live in the US, I don’t know if something like this is already generally known, but this looks like a great resource for people who don’t want to eat GMO foods.
I think we really need something like that in Europe, because there are so many loopholes by now that let in GMO foods.
Dexter Cows
On my way back from the Oxford meeting this year, after taking Tom to London Heathrow airport, and then arriving in Dover a little early for our ferry connection, we ended up in a nearby park in order to have a picnic before getting on our boat.
Besides the ruins of a WWII bunker, the main feature of this park were an unusual breed of cows, uniquely suited for the white cliffs of Dover.
Waist high, and only a little larger than a very large dog, they were really kind of interesting cows.
Pretty Butterfly
I found this flying around my garden a few months ago. Probably because I let it live, it’s now going to lay eggs on my cabbages resulting in them being eaten down to the stems. Anyway, I thought it was interesting enough to make a short post.
Happy New Years everyone!
