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Originally Posted by gorbelly
Thanks for all the replies. Lots of great varieties to research.
I'd forgotten about Uluru Ochre, which I considered trying this year. I'm sure I can find a container for at least one plant next year (I don't have a tomato addiction problem!).
The TomatoBase says this has a dwarf habit. Is it a relatively compact plant that I could try in a container? If so, I might be able to grow this as well as an in-ground large yellow or orange (no, really, I don't have a problem!).
Thanks to those of you suggesting Orange Strawberry as well. I may try that one because I don't have a heart tomato on my growlist, so that ticks off 2 boxes. Those of us with smaller gardens need multitasking varieties. I'm also curious because it seems to differ a lot depending on who grows it; descriptions from various sources describe it as everything from mild to sweet to tart. Has it been around for a while? I'm wondering whether it's not entirely stable, or whether it's stable but even more influenced by growing conditions than the average tomato.
But I have plenty of time to decide, haha. And pondering the growlist and doing the associated research is almost as fun as growing the darned tomatoes. At least it's a way to indulge my love of tomatoes that isn't dependent on the weather conditions!
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http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Earl_of_Edgecombe
Tania lists it as indeterminate and then kind of throws something in about dwarf habit,which I don't understand.
You can see from the history that when seeds got back to the Henry Doubleday Project in the UK,members their adopted new ones and did seed production,or used to since it's taken a different angle now,then Ulrike sent me the seeds.
From the get go it was always indet for me,the largest indet I've grown,no, but indet.
Orange Strawberry?
You can see that I was the first to introduce this variety via the SSE yearbook and where it came from.
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Orange_Strawberry
As I grew it,many times,IMO it was very mild, not intense at all.
At first and still today some folks think it is related to German Red Strawberry which I also introduced,also from seeds from Margery.
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/G...Red_Strawberry
They are in no way related, GRS is a family heirloom from her family and OS came from a stray seed from a pack of Pineapple seeds. She named both of them at my request/
Carolyn
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