Cool Season - Early Maturing Varieties
| Variety | Information |
|---|---|
| Alaskan Fancy | 55 days - Excellent for short-season summers and one of the earliest plum tomatoes available in today’s market. Pear-shaped, bright red fruits produce abundant yields to satisfy your salad and canning needs for the season. Its earliness does not detract one bit from its juicy flavor! Fruits are 2" by 1-1/2" and weigh about 2 ounces each. Determinate. |
| Siberian | 57-60 days – Bright red, egg-shaped, 2 to 3” fruits have an excellent flavor. Very early. Plants are dwarf with a spreading habit. Determinate. |
Average Season Early Maturing Varieties
| Variety | Information |
|---|---|
| Bush Early Girl | 54 days - This "determinate sister" to popular Early Girl delivers the same desirable qualities in a compact, patio-sized variety: an extreme earliness and huge yields of firm, meaty, flavorful fruits that are larger than Early Girl - a full 4" in diameter. Determinate. |
| Early Girl | 57 days – It’s hard to find tasty, full-sized fruits like this extra-early in the season! Meaty, ripe, red fruits, 4 to 6 oz., are slightly flattened and bright crimson throughout. Very appealing, with firm texture and blemish-resistant skin. Heavy yields on hardy vines. Indeterminate. |
| Ultimate Opener | 57 days – More often than not, early-ripening tomatoes are under-sized, have marginal flavor and color with way too many blemishes. This tomato, developed by the same breeder of Early Girl and Better Boy Hybrids, produces blemish-free fruits about 33% larger than Early Girl with marvelous flavor that’s sweet and juicy. Strong, vigorous plants are capable of tremendous yields. Strong disease resistance. Indeterminate. |
Mid to Late Season Large Tomatoes
| Variety | Information |
|---|---|
| Ball’s Beefsteak | 72 days – Very short internodes make the compact plants easy to manage in the garden. The 10 to 14 oz. fruit has a uniform shoulder color and consistently good taste. Grow staked, caged or as bush type. Indeterminate. |
| Better Boy | 75 days – A spectacular, midseason variety with plump, juicy, deep red tomatoes that often weigh more than 1 lb. Once they arrive they just keep on coming! Fruits are extremely flavorful, with flesh that’s juicy, yet firm. Heavy foliage protects fruits from sunscald. A highly adaptable variety that thrives in nearly any climate. Demonstrates excellent disease resistance. Indeterminate. |
| Bonny Best(Heirloom) | 72 days - An old-time favorite producing 8 to 10 oz. globed fruits that are solid and meaty. Highly adaptable, and performs especially well in the North. Indeterminate. |
| Celebrity | 70 days – This AAS Award Winner established a new standard for main-crop hybrids requiring multiple disease resistance. Highly adaptable from Canada to the South, Medium-sized, globe-shaped fruits are crack resistant and average 7 oz. Semi-determinate. |
| Champion | 62 days – One of the earliest full-sized tomatoes bred for those luscious tomato sandwiches. Flavorful and prolific, the 6 to 8 oz., round fruits are solid, meaty and very sweet. Indeterminate. |
| Heartland | 68 days – Earned its outstanding reputation in the Family Circle “Name That Tomato Contest” in the mid-1980’s. Dark green foliage protects sweet, 6 to 8 oz oblate fruits. Frequently called a dwarf tomato because of its compact habit – just the right size for large pots and tubs in small-space gardens. Best staked. Semi-indeterminate. |
| Husky Red | 68 days - The unlimited production potential of an indeterminate and the controlled growth of a determinate combine for season long production! Compact plants are only 4 to 4-1/2 ft., with dark green, rugose foliage and strong, thick central stems. Attractive fruits typically weigh 5 to 7 oz. Ideal for small spaces, patios, planters and even larger pots. Dwarf indeterminate. |
| LaRoma (Roma) | 75 days – Roma is considered to be the most well-known paste-type tomato, perfect for sauces, pastes and ketchup. Its heavy crops of bright red, pear-shaped fruits are nice and meaty, with very few seeds. Determinate |
| Rutgers Select(Heirloom) | 75 days - All-purpose variety, ideal for canning. Ripens evenly from the inside out. Bright red fruits with heavy walls average about 7 oz. An attractive, old-time favorite. Full-bodied flavor and disease resistant. Indeterminate. |
| Super Fantastic | 70 days – Here’s an improvement on the ever-popular Fantastic, with stronger disease resistance. Heavy yields of solid, meaty, smooth fruits weigh an average of 10 oz. each. Indeterminate. |
| Supersonic | 75 days – Big, red fruits with flavor, size and quality! Midseason and firm, meaty, very large and slightly oblate in shape – smooth, with excellent resistance to cracking. Sturdy plants are vigorous and disease resistant. Indeterminate. |
Salad or Cherry Tomatoes
| Variety | Information |
|---|---|
| Sweet 100 | 65 days – Staked plants produce long strands of 100 or more super-sweet cherry tomatoes, weighing about 1 oz. each and measuring 1” in diameter. Extra-high in Vitamin C. Plants bear fruits throughout the season. Requires staking or caging. Indeterminate. |
| Sugar Snack | 63 days – Aptly named for its cherry red, bite-sized fruits that are juicy and sweet enough to snack on all by themselves. Heavy trusses support lush clusters of round, ¾” fruits that average just 1 oz. each. Plants perform best when staked. Indeterminate. |
| Sungold Hybrid | 57 days - A positively luscious, bite-size golden beauty overflowing with an abundance of fruits - thin-skinned, with a juicy flesh that holds its oh-so-sweet, fresh-from-the-vine flavor. Very early, and a heavy cropper both outdoors and in greenhouses. Cascading trusses are smothered in fruits that remain ripe and ready for picking over long periods of time. Indeterminate |
Yellow Tomatoes
| Variety | Information |
|---|---|
| Golden Jublilee Hybrid | 71 days. Resistant to gray wall, a common problem with many varieties. Extra-large fruits, with yellow-gold, deep oblate fruits. Vigorous, medium-tall plants should be staked. Determinate. |
| Yellow Pear(Heirloom) | 78 days – Vigorous vines produce high yields of 2”, yellow-skinned, pear-shaped fruits with few seeds. Slightly later than Red Pear, but with the same prolific yields and dependable performance. Indeterminate. |
Tomatillo
| Variety | Information |
|---|---|
| Green Husk | 70 days – Unusual 2” fruits are harvested green – the husks are removed before cooking. A staple ingredient in Mexican Salsa Verde (green sauce). Tart, yellow-green fruits can also be used to add a distinctive taste to salads. Determinate. |
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