Earl/45th Seeds Michigan

[OneoftheEarls]

Tomato Depot owner

45th Seeds owner

4,000 tomato variety inventory

sending my pepper collection to Ken Fry

30+ years growing in the "north".

Large Canadian variety resource.

Large collection of Livingston's.

Reuniting with many of you

[Tormahto]

Welcome Earl. Now, I have my Earls confused. Are you the Earl, of Earl's Faux fame?

[OneoftheEarls]

no...Earl's Green Cherry-Earl's Red Beefsteak-Earl's Best Canner-Earl's First Early....hmmm, I think that's it...LOL

[EdieJ]

Hi Earl!
I have, in the past, grown yellow oxhearts which were purported to be Livingston; I am pretty sure I got them from Shumway's. They were excellent - in Ohio. (I grew German Red Strawberry and Orange Oxheart last year here in Alabama and they both were utter failures so I am not sure I want to waste good seed by trying any oxhearts again.) The Yellow Oxhearts were my only experience with Livingston's seeds; what other varieties do they have?

[OneoftheEarls]

http://blog.seedsavers.org/blog/livingston-tomatoes

Don't give up on Oxhearts...they can be awesome.

[MissS]

Welcom Earl. It's nice to see you again.

[OneoftheEarls]

TY MissS

[ddsack]

[mention]Tormato[/mention] - That was Earl Cadenhead you are thinking of --

as quoted from from Tania's dbase-

"Discovered' by Earl Cadenhead, Ohio, in the early 2000s, who received the seed in a seed trade as 'Red Brandywine' and was surprised to see potato leaf plants, as Red Brandywine should have regular foliage. Earl found the taste to be truly outstanding, and he distributed the seeds among the members of Garden Web and Tomatoville."

(and Earl's Faux is a PL Pink)

[OneoftheEarls]

Good job ddsack....that's why I am "one" of the Earls

Earl's Red Beefsteak review- https://natureandnurtureseeds.com/produ ... -beefsteak

[kath]

Hi, Earl! Nice to see you again!

kath

[Whwoz]

Welcome to the Junction from Down Under Earl

[eyegrotom]

Welcome to the Junction

[Tormahto]

Too many Earls, back then.

I was confused because another site posts about Earl Cadenhead as the owner of Tomato Depot. It reminds me of a small swap I was in more than a decade ago. The host asked me for a reference to contact to also join the swap, and the that reference to give another reference, etc...We had 5 people in the swap, 4 named Gary.

[OneoftheEarls]

I did the largest traveling seed swap a few years ago....Dozen Dozen was one, Baker's Dozen, Sweet 100...nice to see old friend's

[EdieJ]

Wow, Earl, thanks for the link to the A. W. Livingston article! Well at least now I know why Reynoldsburg bills itself as the "Home of the Tomato" and has the big festival (that somehow in the 45+ years I lived not too far away I never got to go ) I am only growing one variety of tomato this year so I can be 100% sure of seed purity but next year I will try the yellow oxheart again.

[HL2601]

Welcome Earl!

[SusieQ]

Welcome from a fellow Michigander!

[hdrider]

Welcome, I just joined over at the Depot.

[AZGardener]

Welcome to the junction Earl!

[OneoftheEarls]

well, AZGardener, I'm here in Surprise AZ for a short vacation from frozen inland lakes and a 450 foot driveway in Northern Michigan....howdy...also if you visit my site I brought seed along so I am open but limited...pretty big list of tomato varieties I brought with me...have some Micros here coming up though here