Donna's Bulletin Board

E-mail: info@heirloomtomatoes.net

All varieties are for sale at $2.00 per packet. Multiple orders of the same variety are put in the same pack unless otherwise requested. 
There is an additional cost of $3.00 per order for postage and handling

Check orders will be shipped when payment is received. Orders only held 2 months.

 Return check fee is $20.00 for all returned checks. No Catalog offered.  I do not substitute varieties.


 Please send postal orders to:
Heirloom Tomatoes
5423 Princess Drive
Rosedale, MD 21237

 Let me introduce myself. As I stated on the front page I lived next to Chuck for 18 years before he passed. I was his aide in filling the orders for 4 years. I had not yet begun to learn about the different varieties. I knew there was a lot to learn. Such as how to save seeds, what is the difference between potato leaf and regular leaf and much more. It also takes a long time to research one variety. I continue to get different descriptions everywhere I look. This is why I still do not offer recommendations on varieties. Even after 2 1/2 years I still feel that I do not know much more than when I started. I have and always will be honest with you. I am not trying to fill Chuck's shoes. I may never know as much as he did about the varieties. I just want to make him proud.                       

     When Chuck was ill he may have mixed some varieties by mistake. I am trying to make sure that all the varieties are true. This to takes time and the information comes directly from the customers. Once a variety is discovered I put it on a watch list. (After about 2-3 complaints about the same variety). I take it off the list until I can find reputable bulk suppliers. They are very hard to find. I have only found a few and they do not carry everything I need.

I have had the best help from Carolyn Male a friend of Chuck's. She has helped me greatly even though we haven't talked very much recently. Without her help I do not think I would have gotten this far.

The following is from a customer of mine.

 Yes, Donna, I saw that 'possible bad seeds' list. I thought it was shameful. Someone even made an Excel database as if it were some kind of scientific report.  Where I come from, a database is factual, not hearsay. Some of the 'data' was from other seed sellers, for goodness sake.
 
You must understand that on some of those chatty websites, powerless people long to be seen as powerful and important.  
 
Truly responsible, ethical business owners do not participate in such nonsense. 
 
There is always silly pettiness in Tomato Land, as in all businesses where competition exists.  However, the data compiled there was unscientifically gleaned and irresponsibly published.
 
I ordered my seeds from you a week or so after I saw all that crap. One time, last year, you replaced some seeds for me that were showing the wrong kind of foliage.  You remember?  I just emailed you, told you the facts and you were wonderfully professional, sending me replacement seeds within a day or two. I was very impressed.
 
Gossip, and those who gossip, will never find quarter in my world, because, as you know, if they'll tell it to you; they'll tell it about VA.  I've know that all my life.
 
I fear you may have lost customers because of it, as other seed sellers did, and was pleased to see the newly placed note at your site asking customers to please go to the source and not allow gossip to lead their way. Have you written to your customers about it in a newsletter or anything like that? 
 
I admire your integrity and courage, Donna. I'm happy to call you Friend.