This place carries more heirloom tomato (and other) seeds than you can imagine and their prices are reasonable. They have at least a couple kinds of oxhearts. You do have to plan ahead with them - make sure to order early and you have to mail in your order. They don't do internet ordering although they do have their catalog online now. They also sell heritage turkeys, sweet potato slips, etc.
So many of the farm stands aren't really selling locally grown stuff but boxes of the same old red baseballs that grocery stores sell, only at twice the price. I found one stand that had real heirlooms but they had obviously been refrigerated, which makes the tomatoes mealy and tasteless.
tis
I hope I can continue gardening for a long time.
Howls...you and me both fren...
Thanks for the wonderful tips, Lord willing, next year I will try Ox hearts...
The Amish here once grew lots of heirlooms, but this younger generation is really into truck patch garbage....
All this tomato talk has inspired me to fry up some bacon and have a good ol' BLT for lunch with the last of my treasures...
Keep that "green thumb" dirty harkk!!!
This place carries more heirloom tomato (and other) seeds than you can imagine and their prices are reasonable. They have at least a couple kinds of oxhearts. You do have to plan ahead with them - make sure to order early and you have to mail in your order. They don't do internet ordering although they do have their catalog online now. They also sell heritage turkeys, sweet potato slips, etc.
https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/
So many of the farm stands aren't really selling locally grown stuff but boxes of the same old red baseballs that grocery stores sell, only at twice the price. I found one stand that had real heirlooms but they had obviously been refrigerated, which makes the tomatoes mealy and tasteless. tis I hope I can continue gardening for a long time.
"old red baseballs"...howls....
Absolute truth....
Thanks for the link for the seeds...
We generally have used "Totally Tomatoes" or "Vermont Bean Seed Co".....