Garden Peach Yellow Slicing Tomato

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

    Garden Peach Tomatoes (2014)

    Garden Peach Tomatoes (2014)

  • Maturity: 80-90 days
  • Size: 
    • 3-5 oz tomatoes, per seed packet
    • 1/2 oz in my garden
  • Yield: I get about 1/2 lb from each plant
  • Taste:
    • “memorably sweet with a bit of tartness”
    • good flavor
    • sweet tasting
  • Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance:

Notes:

  • *grafted on Supernatural rootstock made it resistant to the fungal wilts present in my garden soil, and it had the best production that I’ve ever seen in 5 years of growing this variety
  • sprawling plant with 6-8 tomatoes per tress
  • abundant phosphorous needed for early yields
  • harvest mature tomatoes while still firm

Sources: (where to buy)

Results from My Garden:

  • 2009: Notes: good production; loved the color and texture – almost translucent and slightly peach-colored; much smaller than expected, but good flavor
  • 2011: flourished early-on, but wilted in July, then again in September (probably Verticillium), then died in October
  • 2012: took off earlier than the other plants and grew massive; mid- to late-July it started wilting; was mostly dead by August
  • 2014: grafting was definitely a success with this cultivar. Used Supernatural rootstock from Territorial Seed Co.
 SEASON SOURCE DATES SPACING MATURITY PLANTS  YIELD PER PLANT AVG SIZE DISEASE
2009 SoC seeds early May 12″x18″ ? 2 ? ? ? ?
2010 SoC seeds early May 18″x20″ 90 days 2 17 8 0.5 oz  
2011 SoC seeds mid-Apr 12″x24″ 98 days 1 15 7 0.5 oz wilt (prob. V)
2012 SoC seeds late May 18″x24″ 63 days 1 14 5.2 0.4 oz wilt (dead byAug)
2013 CCN seedling mid-May 20″x20″ 56 days 1 18 7.3 0.4 oz  
2014 SoC seeds mid-May 18″x24″ 64 days 1 7 3.3 0.5 oz wilt (dead by Aug)
2014 – grafted SoC seeds & TSC rootstock seeds early May 21″x21″ 75 days 1 54 28.3 0.5 oz None!!!
                   

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