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Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. The current batch features landrace gardening.

Land-Race Tomatoes

I grow my own variety of genetically diverse open pollinated land-race tomatoes on my farm in Paradise, Utah.

The foundation of my land-race was DX52-12, the famous Hamson's tomato. This great tomato was developed specifically for Northern Utah by Dr. Alvin Hampson of the Utah State University Extension Service. DX52-12 is the standard by which I judge every other tomato grown in my garden.

Read more of this article.

This article includes lengthy lists of tomato varieties and goals for gardening in Utah, along with links to sources of seeds suitable for developing landrace tomatoes.

See last week's post for my list of recommended tomato seeds.

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goatgodschild

I thought you were in Illinois, for some reason. Different soil and rain types, I expect.

More importantly, have you tried growing parsnips? I find them delicious.

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ysabetwordsmith

>> I thought you were in Illinois, for some reason. Different soil and rain types, I expect.<<

I am in Illinois. The author of the articles is in Utah. Yes, the environments are completely different. But a landrace has high genetic diversity, so it can usually adapt to other locations.

>> More importantly, have you tried growing parsnips? I find them delicious.<<

No, because I can't stand the taste. :P I don't like turnips either. I grow sunchokes. Those I like.