Mortgage Lifter

 So I planted some Mortgage Lifter tomatoes this year. The plants grew
very well, were most prolific in flowering, setting and ripening of
fruit.

The only problem is that the tomatoes are not wonderful. They look
fabulous. They would make ideal magazine shots or state fair entries,
but they are, at least to me, underweight for their size and have no
depth of flavor whatsoever.

I have only two full size varieties growing this year (many cherry,
pear, patios, etc, as they bear and ripen earlier here), the MLs and
some identified only as "heirloom tomato" on the labeling, that latter
having been bought as a lark from a reduced rack at the local grocery
store.

I wish I knew what the "heirloom tomato" really was as it has produced
fruit that is everything that exemplifies a home grown tomato with
indescribably delicious complexity of taste.

It's fun gardening.

Boron

 

Northern NJ.

 Boron Elgar wrote:


  aw!

  thanks for saying.  we've always been happy
with the beefsteaks.  the past few years we
added the sweet 100s cherry tomatoes and they
are very good.  two plants take up about 60sq
ft and keep producing so many we have plenty
to give away.  i'd rather give away a half a
pint of cherry tomatoes instead of a three
pound beefsteak.



  the seeds should be reusable.



  :)  sure is, i have been working on thinning out
the strawberries and planting the runners in a spare
spot.  five gallon bucket packed full.  i have another
two sides to finish yet.  they will go in another
place to fill in that garden.  :)


  songbird

 songbird wrote:

Really?  You must have that Harry Potter wand and magic word that turns
plants back into seeds ....  "Reverso tomaticus!"

D

 

I think maybe "resuable" wasn't quite the word.  But if the plant really
is an heirloom tomato then the seeds can be planted and the fruit should
be true to the parent plant.

That's the beauty of heirloom produce, you can save the seeds and plant
them instead of buying seeds.

marcella