I mean, if i like the variety, sure, but otherwise I doubt I can send them off for varietal analysis…
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I bet some of the gardening Reddit groups or other chat boards could help, if you decide you care enough to find out!
I really liked an early Czech tomato (mid-sized) called Stupice, that I haven’t seen sold as a plant lately. I know I could buy seeds. I only grew them once, and they were ready in Ontario on July 1.
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I will have to get some of those seeds for next year. Both the varieties I’m growing are late and I’m still waiting impatiently.
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Oh, geez. My folks grew Stupice for decades. They went on and on about them, and wouldn’t grow anything else. As a result, we grew them for several years - both for ourselves, and then for them when they could no longer garden (my mother had saved two life-times worth of seeds), but I never understood the attraction. For us they ran small, and were slow to come in (compared to some other, locally popular varieties). We’ve been growing Oregon Spring for the last several years, and are happy with the results.
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Carolyn Male ( Author “100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden”) used to rave about ‘stupice’ on the old Garden Web Growing Tomatoes furum. There’s probably some stuff about it on Tomatoville.
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oh my actual god. tomatoville. must not click. must not join. MUST NOT
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Today was our final corn harvest. It lasted 8 days this year. Its finality marks “the beginning of the end” of summer in these parts. Still picking cukes, zuccs and tomatoes, although blueberries are (finally!) on the wane. We were out thinning pumpkins and squash today, and feeling fall on the horizon. Everyone is working hard but the cat.
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Oh, wow! Well, you seem to be having a good run!
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I haven’t had a single tomato yet!
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We grew Oregon Spring when we first moved here in the 80s. I remember it as a small compact plant with a lot of tomatoes, but it was one and done. Is my memory correct? I should probably try them again as a way to avoid powdery mildew later in the season.
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Looks good! I planted corn in about 6 separate plantings, and haven’t harvested any yet. Hope some will be ready soon. Local corn season, when the corn farms start running stalls at the farmers’ markets, started around 2 weeks ago. The season usually lasts throughout August.
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Small and compact is correct. The fruit can really get jammed on there.
The season for O. Spring may be shorter than many, but we’ve been harvesting for close to a month, with probably another month to go.
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I have blossoms on my San Marzanos! Woo hoo!
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whereabouts are you located?
all my plants are drooping with fruit, but still green.
My tomatoes should start ripening, but we’ve had wild crazy thunderstorms last week from the humid weather and it’s destroyed some of my tomato branches (the weight of the tomatoes didn’t help). I hope this doesn’t mean I lose those tomatoes. Any hope of salvaging them if they have not even had a blush of red/color yet? This is also the 2nd time it’s happened already; already had this happen to a 3rd plant 2 weeks ago, but a whole branch with tomatoes was a lost cause since it was almost entirely shorn off. 
I would most definately bring those inside and hope for the best. In the fall, we’ll take in everything that’s left on the plants before the first big rain - green or blush or whatever - and most of them tend to ripen.
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Rocky Mountain West, 1 hour from BC, in the forest, 65 day growing seasdon, if we’re lucky.
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That’s a lot of leeks. How do you store/preserve?
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Fried green tomatoes?
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