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Thread #77074   Message #1371088
Posted By: MMario
04-Jan-05 - 01:41 PM
Thread Name: Slow Food - tomatoes
Subject: RE: Slow Food - tomatoes
If you can find a produce dealer with a ripe 'San Marzano' tomatoe - chances are the seeds would be viable - though not necessarily true to type as you won't know if the plants were grown in isolation from other tomato varieties. (tomatoes are pretty much self-pollinated but not comletly - they should be raised seperately if saving seed to keep varieties true to type)

There are sources for 'San Marzano' open pollinated seeds in both the US and Canada - though I don't find any listed for the UK - if they say 'F1' or 'HYBRID' anywhere in the description they are NOT the variety you want.