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This page is specifically designed for seed savers interested in Kenosha Heirloom Tomato variety. The seed to start your own seedlings of this variety is available through SSE (Seed Saver Exchange). | |||||||||
| Learn how I have saved seed for the heirloom variety Kenosha Paste in 2008. | ||||||||||
| You may have found this page linked to my chronical pages on bottom-rot. If not, on those pages you can review more info on the history of this cultivar and the challanges that I have encountered. Click here to go to those pages | ||||||||||
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Two of the five tomatoes selected for seed saving in 2007 produced seed that did not germinate well, therefore I'm not saving seed off those vines. I'm very happy to report "zero" bottom rot on all vines K1 and K5, while K3 produced a few tomatoes with bottom rot ... but very few compared to years ago. I also look for tomato with minimal cracking ... therefore I select my fruit for seed saving from vines that show consistently little or no shoulder cracking PLUS of course "zero" bottom rot. |
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| This is a sample of the fruit size and shape that I personally like best. I get some fruit that is much larger - this is about 3.5 inches long and 2.5 wide. This particular fruit was picked from a strong K5 vine - I'm labeling this seed as K52 for 2009.
The picture below shows the same fruit cut. The seed pockets are very small. They are placed at the bottom of the fruit - greatest feature of this cultivar is the dense flesh and little amount of fluids in the small seed pockets. |
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| Share your seed
Once you are satisfied with the quality of your plants and keep saving seeds for several years, the time comes to start sharing seeds. Become a member of Seed Savers Exchange. www.seedsavers.org/membership By becoming a member ($35 per year membership fee) you can order seed from 700 plus sources. Unfortunately there are only 35 seed savers in Wisconsin and 33 in Illinois ... but none in Kenosha and Racine Counties. We need to change that and have more local gardeners listed in Seed Savers Year Books to make seed available to other local gardeners. This page lists all cultivars that I save - some are available to all (HAS), most are reserved to "listed" SSE members - click here to review the list of cultivars. Please call Seed Savers, become a "non-listed" member (support this no-profit organization) and eventually join me in offering seed as a listed member. Call (563) 382-5990 |
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