I usually grow heirlooms from seed, but due to bad luck with wilt recently I swallowed my pride ordered a set of 4 types of Goliath plant...Read Mores this spring (Early, Regular, Bush and Italian). Italian has actually been the earliest of this group, ripening before Early, even. If left to ripen on the vine, it's nice tasting; rather sweet....firm flesh, medium-sized, round, uniform fruit with less seeds than most...does kind of look like the ones you get in the grocery store, but tastes better. I don't know if I'd order the seeds or plants on their own, but I must say they are prolific, healthy, and loaded with fruit and blossoms as of mid season here on Cape Cod. I have been using them as I would use plum tomatoes, which they resemble in size and texture if not shape. They are lovely roasted in the oven or made into sauce; I expect since they are indeterminate that I'll get a lot more fruit in the long haul than I do from my Roma type determinates, which I also grow.
I usually grow heirlooms from seed, but due to bad luck with wilt recently I swallowed my pride ordered a set of 4 types of Goliath plant...Read More
An 8 ounce round red.