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'Rio Grande.' Tomatoes |
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Plum
Main-Season
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Main-season, plum/paste tomato. Determinate plants bear roundish, meaty, plum-type fruit.
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70-75
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (4.5 Stars)
Taste: (4.0 Stars)
Yield: (5.0 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (4.5 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 2
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 10/09/2008 by
starflakes
- An experienced gardener
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Roberts, South Dakota, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| The seeds are a little slower to germinate, but if one keeps them damp the seed hull should spring off. If not use a tweezers and a needle to help birth them.
Other than not like cool early conditions as seedlings, these plants are amazing. They take heat, early damp, drought, late wet conditions of the central plains.
They were my best tomatoe in production producing 3 big pickings in a short season area of very firm, easy to seed fruit that in heat ripening is a very flavorful tomatoe in sauce. Not juicy and cooks up rapidly into paste or sauce.
I judge this tomatoe good enough to be my sole sauce tomatoe from now on. The fruits do not crack and there is no waste. They are a little slow to start and need a bit of warmth, but after they are trouble free exceptional plants.
This is the one real paste tomatoe which does well in the plains states that I have grown of numbers.
I purchased my seeds from Groovy Gettle of Missouri. |
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Reviewed on 08/20/2007 by
Nancy Strasser
- An experienced gardener
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Pulaski, Virginia, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 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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| An excellent variety for canning whole: fruits are 2.5"-3” and very meaty. Though this is a Determinate variety, it is not as compact as some. Seedling germination had some problems: Slow to germinate; and once sprouted, the seedlings' cotillion leaves had difficulty breaking free from the seed husks.
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