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NRaleighLiberal

(60,501 posts) Thu Aug 2, 2018, 08:08 AM Aug 2018

Tomato and wine dinner next week - Hummingbird restaurant, Raleigh

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Tomato and wine dinner next week - Hummingbird restaurant, Raleigh (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Aug 2018 OP

He is the guy who named the Cherokee Purple, I just ate my first one to ripen, this week, it seems braddy Aug 2018 #1

yep - I was the lucky fellow that Mr Green sent the seeds of the unnamed variety to in 1990! NRaleighLiberal Aug 2018 #2

The one I ate this week was my first taste of an heirloom tomato, it was just a whim that had me braddy Aug 2018 #3

braddy

(3,585 posts)

1. He is the guy who named the Cherokee Purple, I just ate my first one to ripen, this week, it seems

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Thu Aug 2, 2018, 08:45 AM

Aug 2018

easy to grow.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,501 posts)

2. yep - I was the lucky fellow that Mr Green sent the seeds of the unnamed variety to in 1990!

Reply to braddy (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 2, 2018, 09:01 AM

Aug 2018

Lucky with a capital L!

braddy

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3. The one I ate this week was my first taste of an heirloom tomato, it was just a whim that had me

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 2, 2018, 09:22 AM

Aug 2018

grab it at Walmart (or Lowes) when I was grabbing random tomato plants to see which would do well in my new desert location at 5100 feet. The Cherokee Purple seems to be doing great and the plant is robust and producing many tomatoes even though we have had a number of 100 degree days recently.

Tuesday I had decided to try more Heirloom varieties and seeing your video has inspired me to soon order seeds for a large sample of Heirloom plants, I don't really have the space or water for a large plush garden so my intent is to continue what I did this time, plant one each of different tomatoes for fun, experimentation, and sampling, except this time make all but 1 or 2, Heirlooms.

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