Off topic, Heritage tomatoes

[parsley]

Went to east coast USA. Gourmet shop. Bought a Russian 🍅 . Brown. Dark green around the stem. Huge. US$5.95 for one tomato. It called my name. Added it to the green salad for dinner. Not acidic. Really meaty. Lots of large seeds but a slight squish gets rid of most of them. Good flavour. They don't look appetizing. I kept a few seeds. Hardy. Germinate well. I germinate and plant them every year. If anyone wants seed, I'll dry them and send some to tomato-lovers. I like this tomato very much.

Quite often, if there is a dry spell, and you water tomatoes and soak them too much, they will form irregular shapes, and even split open I find. Like potatoes, don't threaten to drown them. Pars.

[parsley]

i just rub them onto paper towels (space them out) to dry and if they stick, who cares, they can be planted with the paper. The main thing with seed is you gotta let the fruit ripen to almost rotten on the vine for real vigorous seed.

I do exactly the same sumdum. When the seed gets ready to harvest inside the rotting fruit or veggie, the coating on the seed that forms, fights viruses. Which is why I never wash them. Makes for hardy seed, not puny. Mucky harvesting, tho. Pars

[sumdumguy]

Went to east coast USA. Gourmet shop. Bought a Russian 🍅 . Brown. Dark green around the stem. Huge. US$5.95 for one tomato. It called my name. Added it to the green salad for dinner. Not acidic. Really meaty. Lots of large seeds but a slight squish gets rid of most of them. Good flavour. They don't look appetizing. I kept a few seeds. Hardy. Germinate well. I germinate and plant them every year. If anyone wants seed, I'll dry them and send some to tomato-lovers. I like this tomato very much.

Quite often, if there is a dry spell, and you water tomatoes and soak them too much, they will form irregular shapes, and even split open I find. Like potatoes, don't threaten to drown them. Pars.

I would love a few seeds Pars. When you are coming to Regina call me.

Funny thing, not 10 minutes ago I was thinking, "where the h is Parsley?" Haven't heard from you in awhile.

[parsley]

Busiest summer ever.

Will send you some in the mail when seeds are dry. Don't know when I'll get to Regina. I choose the well-formed large tomatoes for seed use. They turn red when ripe, and they seem to be disappearing in mouths at an unusally fast rate their year... but won't be long before we've had our filI, & I'll start juicing/ drying them. Pars
PS send me a message with your current address in it. I've learned to assume that people move, build new houses, change their box numbers, and remarry. 😜

[parsley]

Now this is a topic I can get interested in.
For my retirement project I am going to find the perfect tomatoe. I tried 10 store bought varieties this year. Some were passable. On a scale from 1 to 10 there were a few that were a 6 or 7. But none had the kick ass flavour that I am looking for. I may try some heritage varieties next year. I found the above discussion helpful.
Any recommendations on varieties are appreciated.

Id be pleased to gift you some of this year's seed if you'd like. Romas? I've saved the same seed for prob 20 years. Lots of varieties. All heirlooms. So is the Russian tomato.
They all just pop up in the spring. Cocky bunch. Pars