Details Open-Pollinated: yes Type: indeterminate Shape: baby plum, beaked Color: golden yellow Maturity: 75-80 days Size: 1″ Yield: “enormous yields” Taste: “excellent sweet taste” Disease or Environmental Tolerance: rarely a cracked fruit susceptible to Fusarium & Verticillium Notes: aka: Little Blonde Girl East German heirloom obtained by SSE from Gatersleben Seed Bank Amy Goldman loves using […]
Details Open-Pollinated: yes Type: indeterminate Shape: round cherry Color: red Maturity: 75-80 days Size: 1.5-2″ Yield: “extremely productive” Taste: “great full flavor” Disease Resistance: ? Notes: “originally from the Ben Quisenberry collection” “a very old type, tried & true” “Ben preferred this variety for canning whole” “a favorite for salads and fresh eating” Sources: (where to […]
Details Lycopersicon esulentum Open-Pollinated: yes Type: indeterminate Shape: typical tomato shape; labeled as a slicing tomato, but each year mine are no bigger than a large cherry tomato Color: pale yellow with a pink blush; matte finish, so it looks like peach fuzz Maturity: 80-90 days Size: 3-5 oz tomatoes, per seed packet 1/2 oz in […]
General traits for Early Girl Tomatoes: Hybrid or Heirloom? Hybrid Type Indeterminate (vine), although I’ve seen seeds & plants from other vendors that were determinate (bush) varieties. I obtained my seed for the indeterminate variety from Gurney’s. Maturity 52; very early variety; good for short and cool growing seasons; very fast set & ripening […]
Determinate Tomatoes, also referred to as Bush Varieties, have no leading shoot, but many side-branches, and act more like a shrub, with lots of spreading or trailing side branches. They form a more compact plant than the indeterminate varieties. This is the most common form of tomato, and is the primary type you will find […]
General traits for Costoluto Genovese: Hybrid or Heirloom? Rare Italian heirloom Type Compact Indeterminate vine Maturity 85 days Fruit Color Dark, vibrant red Fruit Shape Squat, slightly flattened deep ribbing Fruit Size Taste According to several sources, this is a favorite for taste. Another source says it has a hearty tomato taste; a […]
General Traits of Gurney’s Burgermaster Hybrid Tomato: Heavy set (highly productive) Indeterminate Disease Resistance: VFFNT Asc St Fruit traits: Color: red size: 9 – 11 oz shape: oblate Results from my garden: I don’t think I got very many tomatoes from these plants Once of the tomatoes turned out to be grey and rotted looking, […]
Details Lycopersicon lycopersicum Open-Pollinated Type: indeterminate Shape: paste or plum shaped oval (CCN) Color: dark green shoulders, dark red on the rest of the tomato deep-mahogany to brown skin (SoC website) Maturity: 75-80 (SoC) Late Season (CCN) Size: 2-4 ounce fruits (SoC seed packet) 1-2 oz (SoC website) small (CCN) Yield: very productive (here in Redding, CA) […]
General traits for Better Boy Slicing Tomato: Hybrid or Heirloom? Hybrid Type Indeterminate Maturity 70 days from planting out Fruit Color Red Fruit Shape Round, slightly squat Fruit Size large fruits – 10 oz, or more Taste fine tasting tomatoes (NCG) Productivity huge crops (NCG) Disease Resistance Verticillium Wilt Fusarium Wilt Race 1 Nematodes […]
General Traits of Arkansas Traveler Pink Slicing Tomatoes: Heirloom Indeterminate Fruit traits: color: Pink Tomato 6-8 oz fruits does well in high humidity crack resistant disease resistant heat tolerant Results from my own garden: No tomatoes set until October, probably because of our low humidity all of these late tomatoes are currently ripening off of the […]