Need Help Finding

Looking for the orginal "Jersey" tomato seeds.
"Jersey" tomato seeds are not commercially available, only by pass-a-long.
Will buy, trade,or postage.
Thanks.

Sorry, I live in Jersey but no Jersey tomato seeds. There has to be someone out there.

Jersey tomatoes? From Trenton, but I never heard of that except as a generic term "Jersey" or local tomatoes from the farm stand or your personal garden, whatever variety they were. Didn't know there was a specific variety.
Just googled "jersey tomato" and several articles refer to the taste of tomatoes grown in New Jersey being a product of their cultural conditions and one article concerning Rutgers University and its project to bring back the Ramapo tomato into production once again. My first ever screen name was "I'm a Jersey Tomato". LOL
Martha

This message was edited Sep 15, 2009 8:31 PM

here are some

http://www.thefind.com/food/info-rutgers-tomato

I will have to see.. I might have some left over rutgers ...but here is another link

http://njfarmfresh.rutgers.edu/JerseyTomato.html

Rutgers is another older variety. A medium sized tomato.
Some of my family went to Rutgers, but none ever studied tomatoes
My granddad used to grow some great big ones, probably a beefsteak variety which we would serve sliced. Nothing like em!!
Martha

I actually planted what was suppose to be a medium tomato but with all the rain in july they got huge and taste amazing very sweet for slicing

onewish,if you have any extra seeds, I would love a few.
I would love to try to grow any of the Jersey tomatoes, if anyone has a few extra seeds to share-just let me know what you want for them.
Thanks so much & thanks for the links.

I will see what I can find

http://njmonthly.com/blogs/njmyway/2008/5/14/the-jersey-tomato-is-back.html

read this it may give you the seeds you are looking for and I was right about it being originally an italian tomato which makes since since most of the seeds came with them two hundred years ago when they started to immigrate to ny and nj

They are talking about the Ramapos in that article. People grew them at home, but they weren't successful as a commercial variety. A lot of the flavor depends on the weather and cultural conditions. I tell my kids that eating a fresh picked tomato is like eating sunshine. You can taste it. The commercial varieties grown for the supermarket had all that ability to produce flavor bred out.
Martha

I grew this year what was suppose to be an early medium tomato but with all the rain in july they kept growing when august came around and around the 10 the heat and sunshine hit they now have turned and they are huge and so sweet its amazing
this shows that yes the growing condition do affect what kind of tomato you will produce and the supermarkets carry determinates that are very early so the grower can produce more crops on more compact plants
I am keeping seeds from the largest tomato I grew this year to see if it will repeat the growing process and come out again as a two pounder or if it will go back to what it was suppose to be which was a halp pound tomato

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