Special Tomato Varieties For Truckee

 

This is the third year that we have had our tomato plants contract grown so that we could offer our customers a great selection of short season, cold setting varieties. Most of these have been tested in Truckee and all were tested by Sarah’s brother Dave in Michigan. They will be available in 4” , 51/2” and 2 gallon sizes in mid-May. Here are some of the special varieties we will be offering:

 
Baxter Early Bush 1” red cherry fruits, heavy producer  
Bush Early girl huge yields of the old favorite on small plants  
Better Bush Hybrid 3” red fruits on compact plants  
Classica heavy cropper of large roma type fruits  
Celebrity Bush Hybrid 4” fruit, compact variety of  
Celebrity Giant Paste 6 oz. paste type fruits  
Glacier very early , 2-3oz. red fruits, sweet, cold setting  
Grape elongated cherry tomato,very sweet, highly productive  
Ildi oval yellow cherry tomato, highly productive and sweet  
Italian Red Pear a new variety for eating and cooking  
Jolly and Juliet very sweet red grape tomatoes prolific  
Jubilee 3-4” sweet yellow fruits, midsummer
Oregon Spring heavy producer of nearly seedless 4oz.fruits  

Polar Baby

small plants with red fruits, very early  
San Marzano Redorta huge heirloom, plum tomato  
Sausage red paste tomato, prolific, my fruits were 4-5 in.  
Sun Cherry red cherry sweet and prolific  
Sun Sugar 1” very sweet yellow cherry resists splitting
Sun Gold-yellow delicious cherry, sister of Sun Sugar  
Sweet Baby Girl red super sweet cherry, 1 oz.  
 
 

 

We will also offer old favorites such as Early Girl, Yellow Pear, Red Cherry, Champion, Celebrity and La Roma.

For moreinformation on growing tomatoes in Truckee come to our Cold Climate Tomato Growing Class