Earl/45th Seeds Michigan

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Earl/45th Seeds Michigan

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Post: # 6701Unread post OneoftheEarls
Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:48 am

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 :)

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Post: # 6703Unread post Tormato
Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:53 am

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

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Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:01 pm

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

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Post: # 6708Unread post EdieJ
Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:12 pm

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?
North Central AL (mountains)
Zone 7

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Post: # 6710Unread post OneoftheEarls
Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:24 pm

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

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

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Post: # 6715Unread post MissS
Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:40 pm

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

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Post: # 6717Unread post OneoftheEarls
Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:56 pm

TY MissS

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Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:00 pm

[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)

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Post: # 6720Unread post OneoftheEarls
Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:05 pm

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

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

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Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:19 pm

Hi, Earl! Nice to see you again!

kath

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Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:25 pm

Welcome to the Junction from Down Under Earl

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Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:31 pm

Welcome to the Junction

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Post: # 6739Unread post Tormato
Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:40 pm

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.

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Fri Jan 17, 2020 3:35 pm

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

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Post: # 6758Unread post EdieJ
Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:07 pm

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.
North Central AL (mountains)
Zone 7

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Fri Jan 17, 2020 8:43 pm

Welcome Earl!

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Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:05 am

Welcome from a fellow Michigander!

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Post: # 7225Unread post hdrider
Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:04 pm

Welcome, I just joined over at the Depot.
Tracy

Conjunction junction what's your function - whoops wrong place!

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Post: # 7312Unread post AZGardener
Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:11 am

Welcome to the junction Earl!
USDA Zone 9b, Sunset Zone 13
Average Rainfall 9.5 inches
Climate: Sonoran Desert

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Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan

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Post: # 8124Unread post OneoftheEarls
Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:59 am

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 :)

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