Patty, I'd be interested in trading, but have none of the tomatoes or peppers you're looking for. If you'd consider trading for flower seeds, please have a look at my list. If not~that's ok, too! Please let me know. Thanks. Janine PS If you're still looking for Egyptian onions I believe I can scare up some bulblets.

I'm no longer looking for tomatoes to exchange. Too bad you can't delete the post once you're done! Thanks, Lakshmi

I'm not going to identify the commercial source because mix ups can and do happen infrequently to most all suppliers. And I have great respect for this supplier in particular. But this story has a great ending, and the mix up ended up being a blessing. Last year I ordered and received a package of what was supposed to be Akers West Virginia. My friend Spike and I planted out our usual 5 seeds in the germination cell and thought no more of the matter than we did for the other 40 or 50 varieties we planted that spring. Evidently, all five of the seeds we planted germinated as my records indicate five positions taken in the many trays of tomatoes we did last year. Spike took two and I took just one for my garden at the lake. What grew was not Akers West Virginia (I am familiar with that variety from several plantings over the years) but something quite different. What we got was a potato leafed mid/early indeterminate which yielded a prolific quantity of somewhat flattened and slightly ribbed deep red fruits, I'd say even with a tint of deep purple in the pigment, absolutely delicious, with a little belly button on the blossom end of all. Fruits were typically 2.5 to 3" diameter. One other friend who obviously got one of the plants raved about "Those Akers plants" and has begged for more this year. This good fellow would not recognize an Akers from a Buick but he does know and enjoy good tomatoes. So I saved seed and this year we grew 10 plants. Oh, how I hope that all 10 will come true! I have scanned the SSE yearbook trying to find a match but have made no conclusion as yet. One of the most impressive things about this variety is how well it stood up through foliage deseases compared to other varieties: it was still producing at first frost last year.

Hey folks, Instead of posting all of the photos of the GRS x CP cross including all my notes here, I'm going to provide a link to that information at my website. If your interested in the process and outcome of of this project, visit the "projects" link at www.txtomatogardener.com The information and photos are not there yet. I've got a ton of information and photos to upload to the website, along with lots of formatting so it may be a couple of weeks before I get this project along with all of the others posted there so you may have to check that link from time to time. Once the information has been posted, I'll provide an update here. Jay Here is a link that might be useful: TxTomatoGardener