Looking for a few seeds of any of the above tomatoes for postage. Or other heirloom tomatos email me at crabbett@aol.com Thanks!!!..... San Marzano Redorta Elmers Old German Italian Tree

Here is a previous thread with pics that may help. IME with them they are like dickie said - BIG and TALL. Google Images has many different pics of them. Dave Here is a link that might be useful: San Marzano Redorta

THose are beautiful!!! I'm so jealous. In zone 5, i've not even started yet!!! I'm green with envy. I'll be starting my toms in a few weeks. Those are beautiful. I'm still smack dab in the middle of having to reluctantly pine over the painted rocks that are in the grocery stores. SOOOOO jealous!!

It's nothing to do with the age of the seed which is good for several years, and your eggshells wouldn't help this year, but will be available (broken down by worms/microbes) for your plants next year - if you plant in the same place. Paste tomatoes are very prone to BER unfortunately! I have had the same problem this year. A long drought, and I thought that my watering had been consistent, even if I wasn't giving them a whole lot, but I've seen BER on a few of my plants, and particularly badly on Costoluto Genovese (another paste tomato). At least my CG was very productive and gave me lots of perfect tomatoes as well rotten ones. Could it be that your plants needed more nutrition? Did you add nutrients at plant-out time? Did you amend your soil at all? Do you use mulch to keep that precious moisture in? I shouldn't think there's much to be done now because it's already getting a bit late for new tomatoes to form in time to produce edible fruit before the first frost, so all that can be done is to research for a better growing season next year. Linda