I usually don’t start looking at seed catalogs until the new ones come after Christmas, but my neighbor and I were talking about tomatoes and I need to look up what I think is called Amish paste tomatoes. She saw some this summer that looked like Romas but were much larger. I think this is probably what she is talking about.
Also, I need to do more research on sweet potatoes. We have trouble growing them here, and I think it’s because of the clay soil. I remember my mother buying sweet potatoes that were actually sweet - not the cardboard tasting things you buy now that you have to add sugar to make them edible.
I have forgotten what I know about the different old varieties of the tomatoes, check out Sandhill Preservation link that I sent, they should have it.
Sweet potatoes do not grow here, but they did in San Diego.
As a kid, we had them, a giant plant, it was watered by the water from the kitchen sink, where it ran out on the ground and when we wanted a mess of them for dinner, we [I] went out and lifted the vine, dug up the potatoes, tramped the ground in tight and laid the vine back over the spot.
Next time, I dug over a little bit, as I recall, maybe 2 foot and simply kept going around the outside edges of the patch.
Since this was our families first home with a real water faucet in the house [kitchen], we were not at all worried about using kitchen water on growing food.
LOL, Even here, all these years later, my bathtub drains on a huge Male Mulberry tree in the front yard and the kitchen waters a cluster of desert trees, with a pretty bloom.
When I could still use a washer, it watered a bed of bamboo.
All that is needed, is a hose connected to the drain, where it is cut and a hose connection patched in.
I don’t think that I would want to use it for food growing.