| Country
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Greece +
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| Description
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Indet., regular leaf. Red round and oblate fruits, some with ruffled shoulders. Very good full and rich tomato flavor. 6-13 oz.
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| Fruit color
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red +
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| Fruit shape
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beefsteak +
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| Fruit size
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large +
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| Fruit type
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slicer +
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| Growth habit
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indet. +
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| History
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* Heirloom tomato from Greece, introduced … * Heirloom tomato from Greece, introduced by [[Gleckler Seedmen]] in 1958.
* Description from the 1958 Gleckler Seed Catalog:
: ''"A selected strain of this variety obtained from Greece. Mid-season maturity. Medium size vines, dense foliage and semi-sprawling in growth. Fruits average very large, heavy, solid-fleshed and without a core. Athens is the only extra large fruited variety we have ever seen having a notable absence of rough fruits, yet maturing a heavy yield of extra large, smooth, red fruits in mid-season. Flavor is mild and semi-acid. A most valuable strain for local markets or home gardeners who desire very large quality tomatoes."''
* United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), [[USDA link::http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1227985|PI 303706]]. Donated to the USDA in 1965.
* First offered in the Seed Savers 1989 Yearbook by Gary Staley of Brandon, Florida (FL ST G) and Thane H. Earle of Whitewater, Wisconsin (WI EA T), seeds from USDA 1983 via Will Bonsall, Scatterseed Project, Farmington, Maine (ME BO W).
* It is now very rare and endangered. W).
* It is now very rare and endangered.
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| Leaf
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regular +
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| Maturity
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midseason +
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| Member code
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Category:B.C KO T +
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| Seed source
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Dave Thompson, Southeast Michigan 09
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| USDA
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PI 303706 +
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| USDA link
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http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1227985 +
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| Variety type
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heirloom +
, open-pollinated +
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| Vendor
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Gleckler Seedmen +
, Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds +
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| Year grown
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2015 +
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| Categories |
Tomato Variety List +
, Tomato Seeds +
, Regular Leaf Tomatoes +
, Indeterminate Tomatoes +
, Red Tomatoes +
, Beefsteak Tomatoes +
, Greek Tomatoes +
, USDA Tomatoes +
, Heirloom Tomatoes +
, B.C KO T +
, Tatiana's 2015 Growout List +
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| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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14 November 2015 06:38:25 +
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