This is a very heavy producer for us each year. The fruits are also huge. We harvested one that weighed nearly 3 lbs. this past season an...Read Mored most all of the fruits weighted over 1 lb. each. They have a great taste as well. Very meaty and great on a sandwich! This is a variety that we make sure to grow each year.
Charlevoix, MI (Zone 4b) | October 2008 | positive
This was a very prolific producer, "true" tomato taste and a very meaty tomato. We had many cool nights in August this year so I ended up...Read More with a lot of green tomatoes that I had to pick before the frost hit.
I only planted two of these and I picked at least 40 lbs of tomatoes. They were about 6 ft tall and needed a significant stake. They thrived in my organic garden, pests were not a problem, neither was disease.
My other tomatoes in a bed about 350 ft away had blight while these did not.
This one will grow here, but not well. It is already showing signs of Fusarium. The good news is that it did not succumb to Southern Blig...Read Moreht which wipes out many non-commercial open pollinated varieties. Seeds were a bonus pack, so I am given them a trial. Up grade 2023 Found the pack of 2008 seeds (Totally Tomatoes) and planted again this year. Plants are humongous. Slow to set as it is a late variety, but it seems to be fending off diseases and progressing nicely. It is a potato leaf pink beefsteak type with growth habits similar to Burgess Trip-L -Crop.
This is a very heavy producer for us each year. The fruits are also huge. We harvested one that weighed nearly 3 lbs. this past season an...Read More
This was a very prolific producer, "true" tomato taste and a very meaty tomato. We had many cool nights in August this year so I ended up...Read More
This one will grow here, but not well. It is already showing signs of Fusarium. The good news is that it did not succumb to Southern Blig...Read More