Fresh Look: Tomato

Camaro

Camaro produces early maturing, extra-large and firm, red, globe-shaped fruit, on mid-compact determinate plants. Setting and size is good through the plant with final yield potential being high. Due to the plant habit, pruning is either unnecessary or should be low. The deep red fruit have smooth shoulders and perform well for both vine-ripe or for mature green gassing.

Cherry Bomb (Organic [F1] Tomato Seed)

Cherry Bomb is perfect for the organic grower who needs strong late blight protection. Vigorous plants produce high yields of uniform, vivid red fruits with ideal cherry size (15 to 20 gm) for harvest and snacking. Classic cherry tomato flavor — firm, sweet, and well-balanced. Unique calyx makes an attractive display when left attached to fruit. High resistance to late blight. Indeterminate. Organically grown. Avg. 16,600 seeds/oz.

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Candyland Red

This 2016 All-America Selections National Winner puts a new spin on currant tomatoes. With its compact, tidy and manageable habit, Candyland Red won’t take over like the other sprawling varieties do. Gardeners get an easy-to-grow, earlier and easy-to-harvest variety compared to other currants. Its branched trusses are accessible for more usable fruit with less damage while picking. Candyland Red is indeterminate with very high yields of tiny, red fruit that deliver bursts of very sweet flavor. The entire truss can be harvested with ripe fruit on it for a beautiful display of tiny tomatoes. Best in-ground. Days from transplant to ripe fruit: 55 to 60.

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French Heritage Collection ([F1] Tomato Seed)

Bred in the Provence region of France. Dramatically improved yields and more marketable fruit than the old-world varieties they imitate. With proper management, flavor can match the heirlooms. Plants are very vigorous in early stages, and quickly become very generative when fully loaded with fruit. It is best to wait a bit before selecting leaders. Prune the first fruit cluster for a longer harvest season. Collection includes one packet each of Marnero, Margold and Marbonne. Indeterminate.

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Grand Marshall

Grand Marshall is a vigorous, hot set variety with, extra-large and large fruit that are firm, deep oblate shaped, on medium strong to strong vigorous determinate plants. Yield potential is high. Pruning is beneficial and at a low to medium level. The deep red fruit have smooth shoulders and perform well for both vine-ripe or for mature green gassing. Grand Marshall has good performance under hot conditions and often when bacterial pressure is present.

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Cloudy Day

Bred in England, this slicer tomato performs well even under cloudy, cool weather — a great choice for Northern states. It offers a high yield of 5-oz. (141-g) tasty slicer fruit. Offers early and late blight resistance as well. Days to harvest: 70.

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Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (Organic Tomato Seed)

Fruits are dark pink with green striping, and the flesh is pink with yellow streaks. The flavor is outstanding — sweet and complex like the finest heirlooms. The compact, indeterminate plants performed much better than average under disease pressure in our Albion trials. Avg. 167,400 seeds/lb.

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Stellar

Stellar produces lots of round, red, slicing tomatoes perfect for all culinary uses. It also has intermediate resistance to Early Blight. Highest level of disease resistance occurs when planted apart from other tomatoes. Best in-ground for home gardens; it benefits from a trellis for support. Transplant to ripe fruit in 70 to 75 days with 5- to 7-oz. (140- to 200-g) fruit.

For more: www.panamseed.com/vegetables.aspx