Tomato 'Manitoba'

This was my experience in 2013. This tomato is fast maturing for a short season, medium to small tomato, many tomatoes in a small bush de...Read Moreterminate type.

Nothing special about the taste, my best tasting were Roma, also very meaty, but not that many fruits as a manitoba.

The reason for the negative is that this manitoba tomato was severely attacked by the flea beetle at the middle end of season, my other plants were not that that bothered.

I had flea beetle problems again with the Romas this year, I may plant the manitoba again as a sacrificial crop, radish also can be used.

here in manitoba you either love it or hate it !!!
my experience has been that the slightest blight will strip
the plant of...Read More leaves in a matter of days. other short season hybrids to try for mid sized red tomatos are ' starfire' also developed at morden research, 'siberia', applause' or 'first lady'.

Germination of the seed is poor if the potting soil is too rich. Manitoba is a sprawling plant, difficult to stake. The fruit is round ...Read Moreand smooth, no “Turk’s-turban.” Size of the fruit and yield of the plant are on par with Rutgers. Half of the fruits produced are a uniform red. The other half have green streaks, not quite green shoulders. It produced red fruit two weeks ahead of Rutgers. For me, Manitoba was resistant/tolerant to both Early Blight and Late Blight in 2009 (a cold, wet year when blight went wild).

I grew this tomato in 2006 and 2007. It is an early variety; however, the tomato lacks taste - it tastes like a store bought one. Hence...Read More, I have to give this tomato a NEGATIVE rating. I have some seeds available if you want them - I don't plan on growing this tomato ever again.