Terhune

Terhune is suggested by many to actually be a Pink Brandywine.  It is a great slicing tomato that produces 8-16 oz pink beefsteak shaped fruit.  The plant is potato leaf and is indeterminate.  I grew some last year and had great success.  I can never complain about having too many potato leaf varieties.  The fruit I got from my plants were big, and I thought they were a good tasting meaty beefsteak.

The history behind this one is that a man by the name Tom K.  who had posted on a Seed Savers Forum under the username (darwinslair) that he acquired the seed from a clients new home that he was inspecting. The previous owner was an elderly woman who had an amazing container garden.  What was left behind was frosted out tomato plants.  

Tom had asked what the story was about the abandoned garden and was told that the woman had grown her own tomatoes for years, and would share them with her neighbors.  Tom had asked if he could take some of the frozen fruits home to grow out, and would share them if they took.  Well they took; he shared, and named the tomato after the new homeowner’s last name, Terhune.  Here is the link to that thread on the forum where this was all posted.  http://forums.seedsavers.org/showthread.php?t=657