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1. That's a fun question....and each tomato enthusiast will have equally valid responses.
Sat Dec 24, 2011, 01:36 PM
Dec 2011

Main crop canning/processing tomato - Nepal and Red Brandywine (Landis strain)

Red sauce/plum type - Martino's Roma and an Opalka type (so many differently named similar ones)

Orange - Yellow Brandywine, Kellogg's Breakfast

Yellow - Lillian's Yellow Heirloom, Lemon Boy or Azoychka

Green - Green Giant, Cherokee Green

Purple (which is a pink or clear skinned black) - Cherokee Purple, Carbon or Black from Tula

Chocolate (which is a red or yellow skinned black) - Cherokee Chocolate, Black Prince

White - Great White, White Queen

Striped/Bicolor - Lucky Cross, Little Lucky

Cherry - Sungold, Black Cherry

You forgot....Pink - Stump of the World or Brandywine, Winsall

And our new dwarf growing tomato project has many of the sizes/shapes/flavors above in easy to grow short varieties now!

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