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Message: [QUOTE="Martin Mikulcik, post: 303805, member: 25502"] This is a tomato that's been in my family about two decades and to be honest i didn't know it was anything special until i moved a few years ago and didn't have as many seeds as I'd normally so i thought I'd buy a few packs at the store to supplement, a San marzano and some other roma, vf maybe. It was a drier year and the other two... it wasn't even close. The other two had me thinking I'd forgotten how to grow tomatoes but I'd look at that back row and think, no, other tomatoes just aren't bred for here. I don't live in Italy or wherever. I thought maybe it was adapted to dry poor soil because we're notorious at underfertilizing and not watering so the next year i fertilized heavy and i was inundated with so many, crack free, large, pastey, tomatoes hardly any rot growing right on the ground. I don't stake these. These are a workhorse, we might can a couple hundred quarts in a year My brother did all the original breeding, if you're ever in Murray Kentucky he's got a really cool nursery there, Mikulciks Nursery. I think a lot of people overcomplicate gardening with their heat pads and their grow lights and whatever else and i start these tomatoes in the ground outside as seed. My brother has a greenhouse so he gets a jump start but i let them germinate in a clean bed in the ground and then transplant them into the field. I've done flats outside too but i forget to water sometimes. This method takes longer to the first fruit but usually they last later into the season and you still get a great harvest Anyway, i was interested to see how they would do in Texas, I've never noticed heat being detrimental and ky gets pretty hot but not like Texas. I'm thrilled to see they can take it If i could only grow one tomato it would be this one and some years that's literally the case. I think paste tomatoes are overlooked as generic but i see them as a do everything tomato. They are kind of generic. Nothing flashy but they do the job really really well. [/QUOTE]

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