Seattle Tilth Plant Sale

Yesterday, The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I headed over to the Seattle Tilth’s Edible Plant Sale.  We all know I have more plants than I need at this point, but they were advertising they had over 50 types of tomatoes plants for sale. 50!  Many of them heirloom tomatoes.  Who cares about the fact that I already have about 100 or so tomato plants sitting in the greenhouse waiting to be planted. It doesn’t mean I couldn’t use a few more.  Right?

About 7 years ago, I ordered some tomato seeds online and ended up growing some gorgeous according shaped tomatoes.  The tomatoes weighed about a pound each and had beautiful fanned edges to them.  Over the years I have searched online, and at plant sales for them, but have not been able to locate the seed or the plant since.  So when I heard about the Seattle Tilth’s Plant sale, I knew I had to go.  Just in case.

But no such luck.  My mysterious red accordion like tomato wasn’t there.  The search continues.  But hey, I went home with a few new varieties anyway.

• Indigo Rose
• Black From Tula
• Purple Calabash
• Japanese Black Trifele
• Soldacki

Will you be growing any heirloom tomatoes this summer?  Do you have a favorite?

If you would like to read {and see} more about heirloom tomatoes, check out The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World’s Most Beautiful Fruit By Amy Goldman.  She is quite the tomato grower, and grows 500 varieties of tomatoes on her farm in New York.  Geez… It kind of makes my 31 varieties look pretty pathetic. Ha Ha Ha.