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Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:48 am
by 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

Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:53 am
by Tormahto
Welcome Earl. Now, I have my Earls confused. Are you the Earl, of Earl's Faux fame?
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:01 pm
by 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
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:12 pm
by 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?
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:24 pm
by OneoftheEarls
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:40 pm
by MissS
Welcom Earl. It's nice to see you again.
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:56 pm
by OneoftheEarls
TY MissS
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:00 pm
by 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)
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:05 pm
by OneoftheEarls
Good job ddsack....that's why I am "one" of the Earls
Earl's Red Beefsteak review-
https://natureandnurtureseeds.com/produ ... -beefsteak
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:19 pm
by kath
Hi, Earl! Nice to see you again!
kath
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:25 pm
by Whwoz
Welcome to the Junction from Down Under Earl
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:31 pm
by eyegrotom
Welcome to the Junction
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:40 pm
by 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.
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 3:35 pm
by 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
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:07 pm
by 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.
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 8:43 pm
by HL2601
Welcome Earl!
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:05 am
by SusieQ
Welcome from a fellow Michigander!
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:04 pm
by hdrider
Welcome, I just joined over at the Depot.
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:11 am
by AZGardener
Welcome to the junction Earl!
Re: Earl/45th Seeds Michigan
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:59 am
by 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
