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I've never seen Lime Green Salad in a nursery or store, but some of the on-line companies that sell/ship tomato plants might have it. The problem is that it is so late in the growing season that many of them are sold out or have their shipping booked solid through at least May. I don't know if you'd want to wait until June to get a plant. If you want to grow your own, you could order seed from Tomato Growers Supply (www.tomatogrowers.com) and start seed in May, transplant it into the garden in late June to early July, and have ripe tomatoes by September, and maybe even earlier. A couple of the online retailers who might have it include Laurel at www.heirloomtomatoplants.com or Darryl Jones at www.selectedplants.com. I've grown Lime Green Salad a couple of times and it really wasn't that wonderful. The flavor was good but the plants stay very small and aren't terribly productive. This is an odd plant in that it produces huge sprays of blossoms (similar to Riesentraube, but Riesentraube is bigger and its' flowers actually set fruit) but most of them do not set fruit and you don't get many fruit per plant. There are several other green-when-ripe tomatoes that we like more than Lime Green Salad, including Cherokee Green, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Green Giant and Green Grape. And, if you grow a green-when-ripe type, remember that most of them turn an amber-green or mostly amber streaked with green when they are actually ripe. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: TGSC--Green Tomato Page

Bill, where do you get that kind of information? I was looking at Lime Green Salad earlier this year as an "oh what the heck" variety. In the end, I bought Malakhitovaya Shkatulka instead but I do not recall seeing that kind of specification for either one of them, certainly not from the suppliers. **** I'm not speaking for Bill, who will speak for himself, but many of us have grown Lime Green Salad and quite a few of us are SSE members and have access to the backgrounds and reports of those who list varieties in the Yearbook. And we've also seen online reports that others have made. I've been posting online about tomatoes since 1989 and have seen lots of feedback on varieties over the years, for instance. But personal experience is best. Here, for instance, is more info about Mala________ can't spell it without going backwards or looking it up. LOL Bred by Rissian Farm Svetlana in Siberia, offered by the Russian Co Siberskiy Sad, Novosibirsk, Siberia, name means Malachite Casket or Malachite Box, depending on individual translation, and a number of listers for this variety go on to decribe the plant habit, size/shape of fruits they get, and their impressions of taste and where they got their seed from and when. I'll be growing it this year as well and then and only then will I be able to describe it according to my experience with it. THere are varying opinions about Lime Green Salad as well, and I'd much rather grow a larger fruited Green When Ripe and didn't bond that well with LGSalad myself. LOL Suppliers have limited space to describe varieties and some of them know their toamtoes b'c they've grown them and some don't. So commercial blurbs are almost always hard to decipher, especially b'c they make everything sound so wonderful. The only seed Co owner I know of who was as up front as they come about varieties and told both the positives, and the negatives when they existed was Dr. Jeff McCormack when he owned SESE ( Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Glenn Drowns also makes negative comments about some varieties, based on his experience with them, and he grows all he offers with just a few exceptions when some of his varieties don't make it in a particular year. Since many seed Co owners are or have been SSE members many of them get/got their starts from other SSE members, and those owners who don't grow ALL their own varieties for seed production often use parts of the SSE members blurbs in their catalogs/websites. I know b'c I've traced a few words from some of my SSE listings, as well as some from that book, and find them popping up here and there. Carolyn, and it's clear to me that Bill was giving you info from his own experience with Lime Green Salad, a variety bred by Tom Wagner. I love green when ripes and have grown maybe 15 different ones and to date Cherokee Green is my absolute fave. So I'll see how this one stacvks up against CG.

I've grown Green Zebra several times and have never seen one turn a bronzy red where I grow tomatoes. But then I don't really like the taste and Tom Wagner who bred it, knows that. LOL GZ does cross easily with other varieties and both Red Zebra and Black Zebra are known, both stable. I once trialed an Orange Zebra that Tom bred and sent seeds to me that were included with 21 other varieties, and it was a disaster, splits all over the place, and he abandoned that one. Carolyn