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'Sweet Chelsea' Tomatoes |
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Early-Season
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Hybrid. Early cherry tomato with red, round, 1 3/4-inch, 3/4- to 1-ounce fruit. Indeterminate plants. Disease resistant variety. Resistance to Fusarium wilt and tobacco mosaic virus.About 67 to 68 days to maturity.
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67-68
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (4.7 Stars)
Taste: (4.7 Stars)
Yield: (4.6 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (4.7 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 9
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 05/30/2021 by
NowAPatioGrower
- An experienced gardener
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Los Angeles, California, United States
Frost Free Season: More than 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| A great tomato! This has big tomato taste in a ping pong ball size package. Just barely small enough to eat whole, but big tomato taste.\\r\\n\\r\\nIn Southeastern NY, zone 6a I grew this every year for about 10 years, and it was reliable, and very productive.\\r\\nThe vines are indeterminate, and I used 7 foot concrete wire cages to good success. |
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Reviewed on 01/07/2010 by
SueG-ME
- An experienced gardener
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Kennebec, Maine, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Grew well for me in cages and cranked out large cherries, but I just wasn't impressed with the flavor. These did well at market, however. I will keep looking for the perfect red cherry tomato for me. |
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Reviewed on 03/07/2009 by
tom jr
- An intermediate gardener
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Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| this is one of the best cherry tomatos for a home garden I have grown this tomato for the past 10 years and it has not let me down in a good or bad summer |
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Reviewed on 01/09/2009 by
Keeper
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Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I was never a huge fan of Cherry Tomatoes until I tried Chelsea. Not only are they are good mouthful they are incredibly sweet and thin skinned. Easy to grow too with a great yield. Just a delectable treat. Great for snacking or salad and even on sandwiches when larger ones are not available. I would highly recommend them to any tomato lover. |
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Reviewed on 01/20/2008 by
esperanto41
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Nova Scotia, Canada
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| I’ve grown several kinds of cherry tomatoes, preferring Sweet 100 or Sweet Million, but in 2007 I had terrific luck with Sweet Chelsea on my first try. They were far more prolific than the Sungold and Sweet Million that year; averaged ping-pong ball size or larger; sweet and tasty; and, most notably kept very well in the post-season: I’d picked about 2 buckets of green ones on the eve of the final frost on Oct. 28, and not only did virtually all of them ripen, but very few went bad. Most remained edible (kept in the refrigerator) until we finished them on Dec. 31, 2007. |
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Reviewed on 12/12/2007 by
Shane
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Nassau, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| This has been one of my favorite cherry tomatoes for years. The tomatoes are larger than the average cherry tomato and form in symmetrical clusters. The flavor is old-style: A nice balance of sweetness and acidity.
The plants can grow quite tall and are very strong. They also have very good disease resistance.
You're not going to harvest hundreds of tomatoes off these plants - as with other cherry tomato varieties. But the yield will not disappoint at all.
Sweet Chelsea is one cherry tomato that will always be grown in my garden. I can't say enough good things about it. |
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Reviewed on 08/09/2007 by
Gman71
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Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Fantastic tasting cherry tomato. Sweet and complex flavor. Large for a cherry but pruduces well. It is prone to cracking after rain late in the season but it's still my favorite cherry. |
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Reviewed on 01/20/2005 by
ABQ John
- An experienced gardener
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New Mexico, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I have grown Sweet Chelseas for many years in both Atlanta and Albuquerque (last 2 years). Great flavor (more like a standard tomato than a sweet cherry tomato). Large size reduces picking time. Fruits would split in Atlanta when had lots of rain (not a problem in Albuquerque). Appears resistant to curly top virus, as do other cherry varieties. |
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Reviewed on 01/02/2005 by
Bob B
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Chemung, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I've grown Sweet Chelsea in both my garden and the Master gardener demostration garden. The fruits are very sweet, but thick skinned and prone to splitting in a wet summer like we had last year. The yield is great except for the splitting. We had early blight in plants at both gardens last year, but the plants survived and continued to produce after we pruned the infected areas. |
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