Now I am totally devastated...

[b54red]

Tania, I'm sorry to hear of your troubles. I've grown a lot of varieties the past two years and saved quite a few seeds. I also have a lot of seeds of varieties that are not best suited for the heat and humidity down here. I can make you a list of what I have available or you can list some that you need and if I have them I will be glad to share.

[feldon30]

Tania,

I think I'd be cracking up at this point.

I'm so sorry to hear this. Please take care of yourself and take time to regroup.

[remy]

Oh, I wish I could come give you a big hug. This is tough. I could see myself sitting there and just crying. You know if you need anything I have, it is yours. Remember it might not seem like it, but things will get better and just might be the best they've ever been once all this has passed so hang on tight for now.
Remy

[greyghost]

I'm so sorry to hear you are going through this additional terrible situation.
Like others, I'll watch for a seed list. Darlene

[nicky]

From the posts that i have read it sounds like you are an inspiration and friend to a lot of gardeners & have helped a lot of people over the years... Now the good will that you have shown to others is about to come back to you! Although everything has been going badly lately it must feel great to know how respected & loved you are! I am a newbie, but any seed that I can save this summer is yours. Thank you for your amazing website. I wish you the best.

[WVTomatoMan]

Tania,

So sorry to hear of your loss. If you need any of the seeds that I'm the original source for please let me know (seems like you're more than covered for everything else). Hang in there and good luck.

Randy

[huntoften]

My seed collection can't compare to the heavy hitters here, but I'll do what I can to help make your next season a success!

[amideutch]

Hang in there girl. Anything you need from across the pond let me know. Ami

[Paul R]

Thats terrible. I have over bagged 40 plus varieties this year and would be happy to help you out.

Paul R

[delltraveller]

Like everyone else here, Tania, what's mine is yours.

[delltraveller]

So then, this is your fallow year. Perhaps a nice green cover crop in some of the beds to turn under and build up the soil? I can kick some in for the cost of seed....

[guruofgardens]

Tania,
There are so many wonderful people here that want to help you with seeds, or anything else. Please post a list of the tomatoes you'd like, and we will try our best to fill it. I will also send any seeds that you may need. You have been an inspiration to us and we do want to help.

I, too, suffered this year, with devastating hail, but luckily the tomatoes were protected for the most part. This just seems to be a very difficult year for many of us.

Please post a list of seeds you'd like. We DO want to help.

Originally Posted by delltraveller

So then, this is your fallow year. Perhaps a nice green cover crop in some of the beds to turn under and build up the soil? I can kick some in for the cost of seed....

Now that's a good attitude to have... bring something positive out of this...

[Tania]

My dear friends,

Thank you so much for such kind responses and your offers of help, I am very overwhelmed and deeply touched.

Losing my tomatoes has been very devastating event for me, it is still very hard for me to go to the garden and see what happened. I am still grieving about the loss. This is a lost year, and I will have to reschedule the growout of the 200+ varieties for the future years. So many tomatoes I yet want to trial, and who knows how long I can do that on a large scale...

I will compile the list of the lost varieties in the next several days, once I feel strong enough to go through this. The problem is I had many new to me varieties that are not widely available, from Germany and Russia. These may be hard to replace.

Thank you so much for your love and help and support, this is truly precious.
You are the best people I have met in my life. Thank you.

[carolyn137]

Tania, last night I went through your list of 2011 growouts and did see many many varieties that I'd not seen before so assumed they were very rare.

Did you have any backup seeds for those?

I could see a few that I introduced that I could help with but while some are recent seeds others are older seeds and perhaps someone has more recent seeds of what I have. I also think I saw some of the ones you asked me for b'c you weren't happy with the traits of the ones you already have, but to replace them would be the same older seeds I sent to you.

Based on the two threads we put up for varieties to be sent to Adam Gleckler I'm not sure how well it's going to work with a list that you put up. YOu might indicate how many seeds for most varieties would work well for you, and also , the persons responding should by all means state the seed age, so that if someone has the same seeds that are more recent that would be best.

And everyone, I think, should respond in the thread so everyone knows what others can helop with. With the seeds for Adam, some PMed me since I'd started the thread, but honestly, PMing you is not the best way to go, I don't think, b'c then others have no idea of what's been offered to you directly. If you don't so that it means that you have to step in and say you got a PM offering X and Y, and trust me, having gone through that twice, I would n't want to do it again with the PMing.

Hope those suggstions might help.

So I'll wait until I see what your list is like rather than just looking at those 2011 growouts b'c for some, especially the rare ones, I'm hoping you can ask the same person who sent them to you initially if they have more.

It will work out, I know it will.

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