![]() ![]() Heirloom Tomato Varieties-‘Brandywine Pink’ Unlike any real tomato, these will last for months after harvest. They’re harvested just as they’re turning pink, and gassed with ethylene gas to give them a reddish color. These “tomatoes” were bred to withstand the impact of the mechanical tomato harvester (12 miles per hour). The most egregious example is the “12-mile-an-hour” tomato. That meant determinate tomatoes, which are easier and more predictable to harvest, but they went a step further and selected for tomatoes with thick skins and less moisture. Hybrid tomato varieties are crosses between different cultivars, and there’s little chance they’ll produce true to form from saved seeds-they usually revert to one of the parents, or some random combination of traits instead of the ones selected to increase yield and performance.įor decades, plant breeders and seed companies focused on producing tomatoes that work with large-scale, mechanized production. Hybrid Tomato Varieties are bred for higher yields, disease resistance, ease of harvesting, or-in the worst case-extended shelf life. Hybrid Tomato- ‘Sweet Cluster’ © Steve Masley …Click IMAGE to Enlarge If you like thick, rich tomato sauces, be sure to include some paste tomatoes in the mix. Plant determinate or early indeterminate tomato varieties for early summer tomatoes, and salad or beefsteak tomatoes for mid- and- late-summer harvest. If trained to a single or double leader and given support, many indeterminate tomato varieties can reach 8-10’ (1.5-3m) tall.įor the home gardener, mixing types of tomatoes spreads the fresh tomato harvest over the longest possible season. ![]() Indeterminate tomatoes set flowers on lateral shoots off the main stems. They’re generally later than determinate tomatoes, and produce larger crops over a longer period. Indeterminate Tomatoes are vining types that need caging or staking for support, but will continue to grow and set fruit until frost kills them. They flower all at once, set and ripen fruit, then die. Growing Tomatoes in Cool-Summer Gardensĭeterminate Tomatoes are bush types that grow 2-3 feet (60-90cm) tall, then the buds at the ends of all the branches form flowers instead of leaves. ![]()
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