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, […]

General Traits:  great tasting tomato  

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 […]

I’ve seen the Balcony Tomato listed under a few other names, like “Tomato Patio Princess Hybrid”, both in catalogs owned by Burpee’s. It was developed for container growing, so it makes a very compact shrub, that hangs out over the pot in a nice fashion. I found it to be too tightly grown…almost deformed-looking. it […]

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 […]

New for my 2010 garden! General traits:  color: orange heirloom variety originally from Iowa’s Amana Colonies very large at 12-16 oz tomatoes orange version of the Brandywine tomato Indeterminate low acid tomato considered a “late tomato” at 75-90 days maturity   

2011 Tomato Varieties There is a lot of diversity in the Tomato. There are all sorts of colors, sizes & shapes represented. Not to mention growth habit and when they are ready. I tend to favor indeterminate varieties, because they produce all season long, rather than a big explosion all at once. But I cover […]