by Reto Zgraggen | Apr 22, 2019
The name “Malakhitovaya Shkatulka” is Russian for “Malachite Box”. In the Ural Mountains the mineral malachite is farmed.The growth pattern of this variety is Indeterminate and is considered an early variety, especially for its size, and ripens in only 70 days. It...
by Reto Zgraggen | Apr 12, 2017
The Green Giant Tomato is the first known green when ripe tomato variety having potato leaf foliage. The seeds were obtained by tomato cultivator Craig LeHoullier from Reinhard Kraft from Germany. The plant is a tall indeterminate variety that produce...
by Reto Zgraggen | Aug 3, 2016
Mid season needing about 80 days for ripe fruit. Plants are indeterminate. What started out as a cross between “Marmande Clause 27” and a variety of American common tomato in 1961 became an important cultivar in tomato breeding because of its resistance to Fusarium....
by Reto Zgraggen | Aug 3, 2016
The history of the Great White tomato starts In 1987, and the seed collection of an elderly woman sent a collection of orange and yellow tomatoes that she offered to Gleckler Seed Company to conduct trial. From these trials emerged an unexpected white beefsteak...
