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'Lillian's Yellow' Tomatoes |
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Standard
Main-Season
Heirloom
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Open-pollinated, main-season, heirloom, standard tomato with light-yellow, 1-pound, bilobed, lopsided oblate-shaped fruit in clusters of 3. Indeterminate plants.
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88
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Totally Tomato - updated in 2011
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (3.0 Stars)
Taste: (3.5 Stars)
Yield: (2.5 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (2.5 Stars) |
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| Reviews |
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Number of Reviews: 4
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 01/07/2008 by
MATERGIRL
- An intermediate gardener
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York, Pennsylvania, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 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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| This is a very late tomato and the taste much improves as the season progresses. Very good flavor, but in south central PA the growing season ends before a good crop can be harvested. Still, a good hierloom to try. |
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Reviewed on 01/01/2007 by
celeste
- An intermediate gardener
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Ada, Idaho, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Lillian's Yellow Heirloom is my favorite tomato for flavor (tied in first place w/ Black Krim--also reviewed.) However, it's my least favorite for ease/reliability/yield. Had the worst crop of all my tomatoes. I might have got 2 tomatoes of the plant all summer long. Doesn't matter though, I will grow it again until I get it figured out. |
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Reviewed on 12/12/2005 by
Paani
- An experienced gardener
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St. Louis City, Missouri, 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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| Reliable grower, but just as reliably crack on the vine - every single one (cracking not a problem in my garden otherwise, or with any other seed from same source, so I take it to be a characteristic of the variety - or at least the strain I got). Taste is tart and refreshing eaten at just the right moment. Gets mushy fairly quickly after ripening though. Would not grow again.
Grown in MO. |
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Reviewed on 01/21/2005 by
tomatokc
- An experienced gardener
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Missouri, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| A true pale yellow rather than "gold" yellow. Tried it several times from good seed sources and I do NOT see what others do in this variety. Also, every picture or time I have seen this fruit it is multilocular.
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