Name that Tomato!

kimbledawn · Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:21 pm

My garden started with 7 tomato plants that were free at a festival. They were labled once but not anymore. I know that among the plants, there was an abe lincoln, and an amish paste but this doesn't look like either of those. I lost two of my seven plants and of my five remaining, I have two growing fruit like this one, two growing small slicing tomatoes and one with small cherry tomatoes. I would like to know what it could be so that I can save seed and label them if possible.

Thanks, Dawn

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dmcness · Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:27 pm

Lots of luck on identifying that one.

!potatoes! · Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:15 am

sure looks like a paste of some sort.

pharmerphil · Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:27 am

first lets go back to your opening statement:

My garden started with 7 tomato plants that were free at a festival.

there may be a reason they were free, if grown together, heirloom tomatoes easily cross, leaving the grower with new and sometimes NOT so exciting results...
Now as far as the pic, this looks like the tomato variety called "Sausage"
still a very good sauce tomato

PennyG · Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:43 am

Hmmm, good choice Phil.

Have you eaten any so far?
What is the taste like?

kimbledawn · Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:10 am

Well, I figured it was a paste type and when I search for tomatoes I came up with two it looked most like one was a Polish Linguisa and the other a SABRE UKRAINIAN HEIRLOOM TOMATO but I figured that I couldn't get that lucky with a free festival tomato so I came to you guys.

I will save the seeds anyway and see how it tastes. I won't really know much about it until next year because this was my first year gardening and I don't think that any of my plants produced as well as they could have.

Thanks again for the replies.

kimbledawn · Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:53 pm

I looked up sausage tomato and it looks like that as well. It is more than likely that type of tomato. Thanks

applestar · Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:15 pm

If it ripens yellow, it might be a Banana Leg....
I'm guessing you'll be keeping records in triplicate next year.

(I usually draw a "map" of my garden and write down the varieties on the map. In my garden, tag and labels in the ground are quickly lost, buried in mulch, pulled out with the weeds, faded in the sun, etc.

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kimbledawn · Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:01 pm

Great idea about the map. Thanks

I 've decided to keep a garden journal about what I use I can incorporate a map in the pages.