Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:45 pm Hmm, do I trial Gapan Native side-by-side with Purple Calabash to see which is worse? And then, do I take it to a lower level, and make the cross?

Just know that I happen to love Purple Calabash. You've been warned.

Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:45 pm Hmm, do I trial Gapan Native side-by-side with Purple Calabash to see which is worse? And then, do I take it to a lower level, and make the cross?

That cross would have to have an appropriate name. My top choices would be:
Dianoga (that monster that loves in the trash pit in star wars)
I Can't Get Enough Putrefaction (sung in full Rolling Stones style)

Julianna wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 8:07 am

Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:45 pm Hmm, do I trial Gapan Native side-by-side with Purple Calabash to see which is worse? And then, do I take it to a lower level, and make the cross?

That cross would have to have an appropriate name. My top choices would be:
Dianoga (that monster that loves in the trash pit in star wars)
I Can't Get Enough Putrefaction (sung in full Rolling Stones style)

Thinking about this, there would be some redeeming qualities. A healthy plant capable of surviving any conditions with a larger, more attractive fruit in the most intense, inviting pink color. A survivor!

All from 2021.

6x Sweet Splash Electra (5 seeds)
10x common milkweed (15 seeds)

Ok, I am for sure sending the following. I will also look through wish lists and see if I can throw in some extras to fill specific wishes. Will probably edit to add more as I continue bagging seeds through the weekend.I also wasn't sure if the Nifty Fifty seeds are supposed to remain top secret so I left them off this list just in case:

Tomatoes

Alice’s Dream
Aunt Eula’s Rockhouse
Blue Beauty
Blueberries (cherry)
Brad's Black Heart
Captain Lucky White
Dragon’s Eye
Emerald Apple
Fuzzy Wuzzy (dwarf)
Hardin’s Miniature (Micro)
Jewish
Karma Peach
Napa Chardonnay (cherry)
Olimp Malinovyi
Olive Hill
Rebel Starfighter Prime
Rose
Sakharnyi Slon
Thornburn’s Terra Cotta
Tomate de Quito
Turks Muts

Non Tomato

Louisiana Long Green Eggplant
Aswad Eggplant
Melanza Rossa di Rotonda Eggplant
Minnesota Midget Melon
Marshmallow
German Wine Rhubarb

Hi tomato lovers,

These are on their way to the swap! I've never done this before, so I can't wait to see what comes back my way!

Tomatoes - 10 packets of each with 10+ seeds/packet
Chianti Rose (potato leaf, slicer)
D’Amico (heirloom Italian, San Marzano-type)
Darby Red and Yellow (striped)
Dark Orange Muscat (cherry)
Dancing with Smurfs (indigo cherry)
Early Willamette (early)
Galina’s Yellow Cherry (cherry, good storage)
Jesse Saylor (pink)
Mashenka (red, Russian)
Paul Robeson (brown)
Pineapple (bicolor)
Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (bicolor)
Principe Borghese (cherry)
Striped Red Roman (paste)
Stupice (early, cold weather)

Other seeds, 30 packets each with 10+ seeds/packet
Mexican sour gherkin
Aunt Molly’s ground cherry
Calendula, mixed colors
Lovage
Orach Purple Mountain Spinach

Hello and Welcome to the Junction @mamadisalvo!

You have never participated in the MMMM before? Well you are going to be blown away by what comes back to you.

You sure have a great seed list too! Have fun and

Enjoy!!!

Hi everyone !
I mailed my bubble envelope this morning ! the post office said it should get to you by Saturday, Gary. There are way too many varieties to list here so if its okay you will all just have to be surprised ! Some I only had a few seeds of but I wanted to send them because I saw they were on someone's wish list. I was happy to see that I had several wishlist seeds This is so much fun !

Iris

ok, here is the final list of what has been mailed to gary in todays mail.

tomato seeds

alston everlasting, a good red cherry tomato everyone should grow
armenian, a big red/yellow bi-color, sweet flavor
berkley tie die
black and brown boar
karma purple
inzir rozovyi (pink fig)
matina, a great tasting early small red tomato. no need to try stupice or bloody butcher. this one is fine, thanks.
milkas red bulgarian, a good tasting red.
sheryls portuguese red heart, a big heart tomato, did very well for me this year.
taiga cross, experimental, this one was regular leaf, produced rosy pink heart shaped tomatoes good flavor.
no telling what you will get from f2 seeds.
todd county amish
uncle steve italian, a family heirloom from my great uncle steve. a big roma type tomato that tapers at the end.
this one is a great tasting all purpose tomato that everyone should grow. a very good year for this one

peppers

indian jwala (indian finger) if you like hot, this one is plenty hot. 20,000 to 30,000 shu
black hungarian, 5,000 to 10,000 shu

beans bush

cantera, smaller green i got from a church member, productive, good flavor. from baker creek
jumbo romano bush, grow it every year now.
blue ribbon, another good bean from sandhill preservation
provider, still getting excellent germination from 2015 seeds

beans, pole

emelias italian, a good purple streaked pole bean from annette in B.C.
grandma roberts purple pole bean from darrel jones
uncle steves italian pole bean, from great uncle steve. a great tasting bean. limited seeds this year.

squash experimental

saved seeds from mountaineer hubbard squash 2020
you might get true mountaineer, a dark orange squash or you may get a hybrid with gills sugar hubbard.
the hybrid will be a lighter orange color with green varigation in the 5 to 10 lb range. very good flavor.
i also came across a smaller orange with dark green varigation. if you don't mind getting something unexpected
the flavor of all of these has been good. sweet, moist to slightly dry.

thats it.


keith

My package that is assembled and will be mailed Monday contains the following:

Dwarf Purple Heart
Brandyfred Dwarf
Stump of the World
Glacier
Black Prince
Black Krim
Carbon
Cherokee Chocolate
Chef's Choice Black Hybrid
Super Sioux
Green Giant
Aunt Ruby's German Green

Finally got around to making a list and going out Tuesday
Going out this week
Tomatoes all 2021
Bijskaya Roza 35 packs
Costoluto Fiorentino 25 packs
Crnkovic Yugoslavian 50 packs
Elgin Pink 50 packs
Ernie’s Plump 50 packs
Gardener’s Sweetheart 20 pscks
Gold Stripe 15 packs
Green Mustang 20 packs
Guido 15 packs
Legenda Tarasenko 50 packs
Mano 15 packs
Megatrusses 25 packs
Permoga 165 25 packs
Sunrise Bumblebee 50 packs

Peppers all 2021
Ajvarski 14 packs
Blot 10 Packs
Elephant ears 24 packs
Leysa 50 packs
Sweeet Antigua 20 packs
Sweet Pickle 25 packs
Terhune 5 packs

sdambr wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 10:58 pm Finally gor around to making a list and going out Tuesday
Going out this week
Tomatoes all 2021
Bijskaya Roza 35 packs
Costoluto Fiorentino 25 packs
Crnkovic Yugoslavian 50 packs
Elgin Pink 50 packs
Ernie’s Plump 50 packs
Gardener’s Sweetheart 20 pscks
Gold Stripe 15 packs
Green Mustang 20 packs
Guido 15 packs
Legenda Tarasenko 50 packs
Mano 15 packs
Megatrusses 25 packs
Permoga 165 25 packs
Sunrise Bumblebee 50 packs

Peppers all 2021
Ajvarski 14 packs
Blot 10 Packs
Elephant ears 24 packs
Leysa 50 packs
Sweeet Antigua 20 packs
Sweet Pickle 25 packs
Terhune 5 packs

I just got busy.

Hopefully I’ll get these in the mail today. I found a lot of goodies among the seeds @FarmerShawn sent me last year! Notes for some are more complete than others, but please don’t read into it if there’s no comment about flavor for a particular variety. I grew 150 varieties this year and just didn’t have a chance to taste every one individually.

Aladdin’s Lamp - my favorite sauce tomato, 4-5oz orange pears that can sit on the counter for 10 weeks before they rot (not that I would know ) and make the most amazing sweet sauce
Blue River - pink beefsteaks
Brown Berry - tasty black cherries
Charnue de Huy - firm red salad tomato
Chernaya Lakomka - very productive, 3-5oz brown globes
Cherokee Tiger Black - cute chartreuse plants, tasty black with green stripes, way more tomatoes than I expected from such a small plant, determinate
Dagestanskie - early pink hearts
Dikaya Roza - vigorous plants, pink beefsteaks
Dikovinka - amazingly delicious black cherries
Diospiro da Maia - suuuper productive orange saladettes
Elsa - amazingly productive, early and persistent - earlier than Matina and Stupice this year, definitely tasty but not amazing (which is how I’d describe Matina too), adorable small red beefsteaks, on the shorter side
Garnet - tasty black cherries
Green Gables - very tasty green tomatoes, later than Green Moldovan and Romovaya Baba though, PL
Green Moldovan - mid-season green tomatoes, very healthy plants
Meme Beauce - super vigorous plants, really loaded with beautiful pink tomatoes and great flavor too
Romovaya Baba - delicious, early, large green tomatoes
Russkaya Dusha - wonderfully productive red slicers, delicious flavor, this one definitely should be grown more
Tigerella Nero - these are 2-3” plum-shaped, black with green stripes and crunchy. Crunchy isn’t my thing so I couldn’t really evaluate flavor well…
Sakharnyi Zheltyi - very delicious medium sized, meaty orange tomatoes
Sukkerknald - the most addictive orange cherry tomatoes ever
Zuckertraube - delicious red cherries on a compact plant
…. and a few from wish lists

I moved a few weeks ago and had to leave my garden behind for a while until I can make another trip to get my tunnels, trellises, dahlias - and all the beans. Tormato sent me a whole mess of beans last year, I planted almost all of them, plus some other uncommon ones I got elsewhere, and I’m so disappointed I won’t have them in time to share this year. I left them in a tunnel so at least they should be safe and sound to share next year…

On the bright side, I now have an even bigger garden space and literally 100” less rain per year, so that oughta help.

Just kidding about mailing out today. I just got the urge to clean out my seed stash, these things aren't meant to just sit in a box. I'll include:

Alice's Dream
Casey's Yellow Heirloom
Chuhloma (the orange one)
Cuor di Bue Albenga
Dwarf Arctic Rose
Dwarf Golden Heart
Fiaschetto di Manduria
Gary'o Sena
Guido
Kodiak Brown
Kosovo
Lampchen
Lime Green Salad
Mushroom Basket
Piedmont Pear
Piennolo Vesuvio Giallo
Rebel Alliance
Sweet Tooth
Tel Aviv Train
Torre Canne
Woodle Orange

we'll see what else I find... but it'll have to go out Friday or Saturday.

Here's what I'm sending; it will be delivered to the post office before closing today. I'm sorry it's so late, but this is my first time doing something like this, and it turns out I'm indecisive and also kind of bad at putting little seeds into small, electrically-charged ziploc bags. But I promise I was extremely careful!

Notes:
All seeds are purchased seeds, directly from vendors, not seeds I saved myself (hoping to save more in 2022)
All seeds are from Sand Hill Preservation unless otherwise marked
All seeds were packed for 2019 unless otherwise marked
Sending 10 packs of each; all packs contain 6-14 seeds (mostly 7-10)

Eva Purple Ball (2020)
Soldacki
Terhune (2020)
Violet Jasper
Siberian Pink (Sand Hill's own 1-2oz early determinate cluster)
Baker Family Heirloom (2020)
Novogogoshary (stuffer tomato)
Rutgers (2020 Ferry Morse)
Sioux (2020)
Starling
Superbec
Togorific
Ultrabec
Usabec
Viva Lindsey's Kentucky Heirloom (Sand Hill calls it a red; most other descriptions say white, don't know why & haven't grown it)
Zelovu
Orange (that's all it's called)
Snowball
Transparent
White Queen
RP 23-2
Russian Currant
Thai Pink Cherry
Whippersnapper
Wickline
Matt d'Imperio (Sand Hill says Matt d'Emperio; 2020)
Veepro
Vera Pepper (stuffer/paste tomato)
Victoria
Old Virginia (Southern Exposure Seed Exchange)
Akers West Virginia (2020)
Stuse
Super Beefsteak
Yamal
Olomovic
Optimus (this Optimus is early semideterm 4-6oz Czech per Sand Hill; there seem to be other tomatoes with this name)
Bulgarian #7 (2020)
Potato Leaf (2-4oz salad; 2020)
Traveler (aka Arkansas Traveler; 2020)
Bonus: Early Girl hybrid -- Burpee 2021, 43 seeds total, not divided into packs
Bonus: Italian Gold -- Victory Seed 2021, 32 seeds total, not divided into packs

Seven Bends wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:27 am Here's what I'm sending; it will be delivered to the post office before closing today. I'm sorry it's so late, but this is my first time doing something like this, and it turns out I'm indecisive and also kind of bad at putting little seeds into small, electrically-charged ziploc bags. But I promise I was extremely careful!

Notes:
All seeds are purchased seeds, directly from vendors, not seeds I saved myself (hoping to save more in 2022)
All seeds are from Sand Hill Preservation unless otherwise marked
All seeds were packed for 2019 unless otherwise marked
Sending 10 packs of each; all packs contain 6-14 seeds (mostly 7-10)

Eva Purple Ball (2020)
Soldacki
Terhune (2020)
Violet Jasper
Siberian Pink (Sand Hill's own 1-2oz early determinate cluster)
Baker Family Heirloom (2020)
Novogogoshary (stuffer tomato)
Rutgers (2020 Ferry Morse)
Sioux (2020)
Starling
Superbec
Togorific
Ultrabec
Usabec
Viva Lindsey's Kentucky Heirloom (Sand Hill calls it a red; most other descriptions say white, don't know why & haven't grown it)
Zelovu
Orange (that's all it's called)
Snowball
Transparent
White Queen
RP 23-2
Russian Currant
Thai Pink Cherry
Whippersnapper
Wickline
Matt d'Imperio (Sand Hill says Matt d'Emperio; 2020)
Veepro
Vera Pepper (stuffer/paste tomato)
Victoria
Old Virginia (Southern Exposure Seed Exchange)
Akers West Virginia (2020)
Stuse
Super Beefsteak
Yamal
Olomovic
Optimus (this Optimus is early semideterm 4-6oz Czech per Sand Hill; there seem to be other tomatoes with this name)
Bulgarian #7 (2020)
Potato Leaf (2-4oz salad; 2020)
Traveler (aka Arkansas Traveler; 2020)
Bonus: Early Girl hybrid -- Burpee 2021, 43 seeds total, not divided into packs
Bonus: Italian Gold -- Victory Seed 2021, 32 seeds total, not divided into packs

"electrically-charged ziploc bags"

All this time, I thought they were running away from my fingers out of spite.

My donation is incoming. I don't need anything from the MMMM. Just cleaning out my seed inventory. I ran out of minibags, so I can't send more at the moment till I buy more.
Mostly dwarf tomato project releases (a fair bit of newer stuff not in the recent MMMMs) and melon seeds.

People may remember me from my own SASEs that I've done, but I find myself with less and less time recently, and so I thought I would offload the work to Tormato.

Scooty wrote: ↑Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:25 pm People may remember me from my own SASEs that I've done, but I find myself with less and less time recently, and so I thought I would offload the work to Tormato.

That is what I now do too and it helps to keep him busy, off of the streets and out of the bars.

MissS wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:35 pm

Scooty wrote: ↑Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:25 pm People may remember me from my own SASEs that I've done, but I find myself with less and less time recently, and so I thought I would offload the work to Tormato.

That is what I now do too and it helps to keep him busy, off of the streets and out of the bars.

Is that out of bars, or out from behind bars?

I think I posted in the wrong forum.
I am only sending 3:
"Teddy Globe" was a by-product of searching to see if Big Boy and Better Boy really had a pink beefsteak parent. Supposedly a family heirloom more recently (as in 1990) named Teddy Jones. Think Bonny Best, but pink. Ripens about 3 days later than BB.
I grow them every year and we fill canning jars with them.
"Teddy Steak" was my favorite of the pink Beefsteaks after about 12 years of experimenting it's likely NOT exactly like Teddy Jones (selected for my preferences with limited knowledge of the original). Its a pink, somewhat ribbed, flattened beefsteak. Unlike some very old beefsteaks, it's not very prone to misshapen fruits, but total production is like many heirlooms... perhaps 10# per plant per season. Ripens with most varieties advertized around 80 days.

Heshpole is a pink, potato-leaf heart. Typical of many hearts, it has a sparse habit, and like some PL varieties displays leaf roll on hot sunny days. This belies the 8-20oz hearts hanging on the plant. Because of the spare foliage the fruit can get sunscald on the shoulders; shade cloth helps, and I have experimented with paper hats.

It was selected out of F3 seeds supplied by Darrel Jones of Georgia; it was a chance cross out of Large Pink Bulgarian. Some of the F3's displayed good cold tolerance and the F4 I selected held blossoms at 43 deg in May of 2004 here. Because of this it is usually my first large ripe tomato, about a week after Kotlas/Stupice.