For only God knows why, I was moved to try an old tomatoe variety, called Table Talk, which is the tomatoe which is pictured on this 1943 Burpee's catalogue.
Burpee's from that ear was clever in they gave away 100 dollars in a contest to name this mystery tomatoe, and 5 gardeners sent in the exact name, and of course that American brilliance sucked me into trying this variety as I just love saying Table Talk.
I do not like most people, places or things and I refrain from things, but if I could invest my summers, I would love to be in Iowa, not that I like Iowa, but I would volunteer and beg, to let one Glenn Drowns, allow me to weed a section of his preservation farm as it would be heaven to me, to be able to stroll around thousands of plants and just look at the diversity of each one and be delighted to be in all that God blessed life forms.
I will post the link to the site, because Mr. Drowns is really the seed saver host of all this world. His seed stores are immense and somehow, he and his dedicated wife, raise poultry, raise all these seed crops, work at education and then.....put up with a myriad of know it alls who want things done yesterday, because they were too busy propping up the regime which is now America.
Sand Hill Preservation Center: Catalog of Heirloom Seeds and Rare ...
www.sandhillpreservation.com/
Catalog of heirloom vegetable seeds, herb seeds, flower seed, and rare breeds of poultry.Everything Mr. Drowns does is slow as in snail mail. As he rightly states, if you do not use the post office, it will not be there when you do need it.
I personally read his catalogue over and over, as that is what I love doing and would be doing if I could most of the time. His dream has allowed me and others to grow things we never could. For that I support his work and if I was a millionaire, I would make certain something was funded for Sand Hill to keep it always in the hands of the people as it is where it should be.
Table Talk is a generation ago sport of Marglobe, which was the tomatoe which most successful tomatoes bred from in a Globe and Marvel cross.
I really enjoy the forensic work in vegetables as the names start repeating of the Americans who changed the world in Luther Burbank to Fred Pritchard.
History
- Developed in 1917 by Fred J. Pritchard of the United States Dept. of Agriculture by crossing Globe and Marvel, the latter being a European development. Released to the public in 1925.
- PI 270198. Donated to USDA in December 1960.
- PI 647194. Donated to USDA in April 1954.
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It amazes me that one person from 100 years ago, just pollinating plants could change the entire world. People are too jaded now in not realizing that foods are supposed to taste good and that they are supposed to rot, as most Americans think that food tastes like plastic and stays on the counter for a month without it decomposing.
That is what the USDA came up with and in Monsanto, America now has a tomatoe like Super Fantastic which I was observing in a garden awhile back in it was deep red, huge tomatoes, which to me tasted like nothing, but those things hung on that plant and did not rot for over 2 months.
It is an amazing thing, but the reason most people are getting sick as food is engineered and not natural. It also tastes horrid.
The Eurasians though still produce food for taste first, and then market it back for shipping and storage durability.
It can be done on both fronts as I have some Agria potatoes from the European lowlands that I honestly kept in a plastic bucket in my porch until the end of July from an October harvest. It is high sugar content in these which allows this, but they do not make me ill as some varieties do.
I know this is about Table Talk, but my plans this year are to plant Russet Norkotah, Agria, Purple Viking and Yukon Gold. Viking made me ill previously, but I thought I would try again as the yields are immense.
I grew Irish Cobblers last year and for some reason that particular seed variety made me ill too.......never do quite figure out that starch gene and chromosomes why some varieties make me feel horrid like I was eating Nightshade and others are just fine.
I was though pleased to find that 1943 catalogue cover, as every listing of Table Talk mentions it as part of the selling point. I'm disappointed in it being a Marglobe sport, but then so is Big Boy which I will be growing, and as I appreciate that variety, I will see how my baby tomatoes sitting in my porch window turn out in my separated seed beds as yes I do save seeds as it is the worst type of thing in this world to want to taste something you remember and then find out all the seed companies no longer carry it or you need a membership from some group that has Obama as a speaker to just get access to the baby seeds.
I would that I had time to grow all of these vegetables, but that is something that probably will never be as Glenn Drowns will have other things going on when Jesus comes back I assume.
As an experiment point, when I took snow water, that apparently was full of Chinese pollutions in that brown snow with nitrogen, and mixed it with my fish emulsion, it literally burned my baby sprouts off. Thank God the Holy Ghost moved me to bury them deeper and they recovered as they were wilting to death.
Today I took a small syringe and sucked up the super fertilizer and squirted it on top of the soil around the plants......I hope satan is not going to try and murder the children again.
Just a thing to assist in your growing as fish emulsion is expensive for mass use, but in seedling watering it lasts forever and is what babies need.
On my table where I eat God's food, I have a plastic cup, that contains two silver spoons as they are old that I use to dig seedling out, one tweezer to birth seed hulls off of leaves and my syringe. That is my baby seed medical kit.
Actually that is something I should look into marketing as people should have a kit of things to nurse the baby veggies.
Oh well some ass will probably steal that idea now too.
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