Blackfoot
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Blackfoot | |
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Maturity | midseason |
Growth habit | indet. |
Leaf type | regular |
Fruit color | red |
Fruit shape | heart |
Fruit size | large |
Fruit type | |
Variety type | |
Country |
IL LO N
- 90 days, indet., regular leaf plant with a fair yield of 12-18 oz red oxheart fruit with very good flavor.
- Source
- TX AN S 08 (Susan Anderson of Bastrop, Texas) / KY RO M 07 (Melody Rose of Benton, Kentucky) / Peggy Hazelrigg
Year: 2008
Location: Oblong, Illinois
TX AN S
- 80 days, indet., regular leaf/wispy foliage with high-average yield of 14-24 oz red hearts with excellent flavor, from KY RO M 07, originally from a gentleman of Blackfoot ancestry, hence the name. He passed the seeds along to the Darnell family in Eastern Kentucky, who then shared the seeds with Peggy Hazelrigg, a friend of Melody Rose.
- Source
- KY RO M 07 (Melody Rose of Benton, Kentucky) / Peggy Hazelrigg / Darnell family, Eastern Kentucky / a gentleman of Blackfoot ancestry
Year: 2008
Location: Bastrop, Texas
History
- Heirloom tomato, originally from a gentleman of Blackfoot ancestry, hence the name. He passed the seeds along to the Darnell family in Eastern Kentucky, who then shared the seeds with Peggy Hazelrigg, a friend of Melody Rose of Benton, Kentucky. Melody shared the seed with other tomato gardeners through Tomatoville.
- First appeared in the Seed Savers 2009 Yearbook, offered by three SSE members, KY RO M, IL LO N and TX AN S.
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