SIBERIAN TOMATOES

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I bought several packets from Seeds Trust last
year and planted them this year. They did all
tend to sprout, but the results in terms of what
kind of tomato grew from them were very
inconsistent.

One that was consistent was Aurora, and the
descriptions above are accurate. Mine are
still producing tomatoes with good flavor in
a rainy summer where a lot of other varieties
have washed-out flavor.

Galina: two real PL Galina plants, one RL yellow
cherry a little smaller and sweeter, and a
mystery dark-fruited, larger tomato that is
actually quite tasty. The real Galinas taste like
real tomatoes (excellent flavor).

Red Siberian: four different kinds, none of
them matching the description. One golf-ball
sized red from the lot tastes pretty good. (I
gave two of these to relatives, because the
plants looked so healthy, I am cringing in
advance at the results.)

Market Miracle: two very early, indeterminate
PL plants that produced hard, sweet, pointy
fruit a tiny bit bigger than a golf ball, and one
indeterminate with fruit that looks like
the cultivar description, although none
of the latter have ripened yet. (Supposed to be
65-day determinate.)

Odessa: two determinates consistent with
the description and one indeterminate
producing smaller fruit.

Ispolin: seems consistent with the description,
though no ripe fruit yet (weather uncooperative).

Sasha's Altai: all plants the same, not so early
as described, ripe fruit came in after Aurora.
Warning: they get soft before they look ripe,
and the plant stays fairly small. Good flavor,
although "the best tomato in Siberia" is perhaps
an exaggeration (no offense to Sasha; Galina
and Aurora simply both taste better to me).

Gregori's Altai: consistent plants, as described
(big, early, prolific fruit set even in bad
weather; flavor sweet, a little washed out
this year).

If you expect to get exactly what was described,
this vendor is not a good choice on average.