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I can contribute some Green Spindle seeds if this is of interest and will gladly do so.  What I can't give is a purity guarantee.  Both Shimmer and Mila Orange are definitely on the very unusual shape spectrum, lovely additions to our (already very eclectic!) tomato gardens. Thank you Jan.

I'd say not anywhere as unusual a shape as your Green Spindle - I love the name too.

The Artisan Green Tiger reminds me of the shape and striping of one I'm growing this year.i hope to be able to contribute seeds of this one too. It's called Shimmer



I'm also growing a completely different but interestingly shaped one, also hopefully for the Circle, called Mila Orange.



Are you thinking of contributing seeds of Green Spindle, Galina, or are you wanting to stabilise it further? We could have a mini- collection of unusual shapes!

Quote from: JanG on August 23, 2025, 07:09:52Your Green Spindle is certainly unusual and worth trying to stabilise. I would think it's unique. Are you aware of any comparable varieties in circulation?

Spotted this one yesterday in somebody's display of their tomatoes and asked for a name.  It is not quite the same shape as Green Spindle, but a similar looking tomato - Artisan Green Tiger.  Bred by Fred Hempel.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/PREMIER-VEGETABLE-ARTISAN-Artisan-Seeds/dp/B0CZF1QPNP/ref=asc_df_B0CZF1QPNP?mcid=2693315bcb563821b1de4ff6b7aabcc8&hvocijid=16072212756358868238-B0CZF1QPNP-&hvexpln=74&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=696285193871&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16072212756358868238&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9180614&hvtargid=pla-2281435176658&gad_source=1&th=1

Now in print. This was supposed to be the laster one, but I have had a brain thing and  got one more finished and one in the process.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FQCMLG9K/

Then hopefully they will put on a good last flush of beans before frost ends the season,  Peanuts.  Fingers crossed.

No fertiliser, no manure!  The only additional goodness that goes on our veg patch is a thin mulch of leaves from the garden, which we spread on in the autumn.  The soil is underfed, if anything, a light clay. It must be the superb quality of the  water from our well, which is fed by local springs!

No, they clearly got enough water.  Usually lush growth and few fruit is down to soil that is too rich.  Beans don't need a lot of fertiliser.  Could this have been contributing to the problem?

We have had a very hot and dry summer here in SW France.  Some things have done well, despite the heat (salad, tomatoes, sweetcorn best ever, with two full cobs per plant) with almost daily watering.  Thankfully we have a well, that has never dried up, and we pump from that and use a hose to put the water exactly where needed. 
Other veg have been weird.  Runner beans, and our precious, much-loved North Carolina Long Speckled Greasy Cut-Short beans (from Petra), have survived with daily watering. But they have made huge amounts of leaf growth, and very small harvest.  The NC beans, see photo, even now are only showing very few flowers, I can count the growing beans on two hands, but they have a ridiculous amount of leaves.  and that is from just six beans sown round each of these two wigwams!. Shame we can't be content with eating the leaves!
Has anyone else found  growing patterns weird this summer?

These are indeed flower bed 'look at me!' pepper varieties Jan, so pretty.  Looking forward to them.  And Ahuachapau and Lima Market too.