Fri, 2009/05/08 - 9:47pm
Hi All,
So, since I'm on a roll with pix tonite - here's a few more. I love my heirloom tomatoes, but I have a confirmed case of Fusarium in my soil (actually the whole neighborhood). So to grow some of my favorites, I need to either grow them in pots, or graft the tops onto hardy, disease resistant rootstock (Maxifort from Johnny's seeds). Here are a few pix of this year's succesful grafts. Marianna's Peace x Maxifort and Anna Russian x Maxifort. Good news is that my favorite tomato Eva Purple Ball and Cherokee Purple are tolerant to the disease. All Cherry toms do well, too.
Interesting, Beth. That must be really difficult to do - you're skilled!
There's that dratted engineering mentality again. I'm sitting here wondering why else one might want to graft a tomato like this.
I suppose one could make a multi-type tomato vine...