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To: MtnClimber

I’m in South Alabama so just a bit colder but more similar to you than up North.

I’ve had problems with some heirlooms in the heat and humidity.

Here’s a list I plant that really do well, even in the 90s (many tomatoes drop flowers after 92 or so degrees—and that the temperature IN your garden, not from weather station):

Cherry: Sungold, Juliet, Black Cherry
Paste: San Marzeno
Regular from small to large: Creole, Australian, Aunt Ruby’s Green, Cherrokee Purple, Jeff Davis, Arkansas Traveler, Sioux (NOT Super Sioux), Floradel.

I’ve been planting these for many years (almost 30!) and every year when it gets too hot these keep going.


37 posted on 03/01/2025 9:23:10 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Thanks, I saved your list. I have grown Cherokee Purple and have seeds. Will look at the others.


49 posted on 03/01/2025 9:40:22 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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