Are These Older Seed Varieties Really Available
I've been interested in the new section on this site on the older tomatoes and have read through some of the older catalogs posted. I've looked around at different sites that seem to be selling some of these seeds. I have bought from Victory on some of these and trust they are indeed what they say they are. But I've seen some people selling others that I didn't think were available. Some of them are:
Bonny's Best
Dwarf Champion
Matchless (Austin Strain)
New Big Dwarf
Red Fig
Scarlet Topper
Break O Day
Grahams Good Keeper
Mikado
I would be curious to maybe try these sometime but wanted to know if anyone knows if these are really the same tomatoes from the old catalogs, and if they are out there as stated. I've enjoyed all the old varieties I've tried in the past like Livingston's etc, but I bought them on recs from others and a write up that they were propagated from seed banks that had the original seed. The ones I've found above are written up as the old seeds from yesteryear but no mention how they got them. Anyway I wanted to ask more tomato seed historians out there if these are legit. If anyone has tried any of them I'd like to know if they were worth growing. After reading the controversial Black Brandywine post it made me wonder a bit.
Thanks,
Ron
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