Daily Archives: March 8, 2011

Rumi Banjan Tomato History

Last year I was gifted with 3 seeds , half of the six remaining of a tomato collected in Afghanistan in 1937 and held by GRIN, which had been given to a grower to increase, but there had been a … Continue reading

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Joe Lauerer, The Reason I Became Interested In Heirloom Tomatoes

My father has been an insurance agent since shortly after I was born.  One of the first couples he insured was Joe and Marge Lauerer in Saint Paul Minnesota, near the home where I spent the first 7 years of … Continue reading

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