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'Juliet' Tomatoes

Sub-Category:	Grape Early-Season

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	F1 Hybrid. Early season large grape or small Roma type. Vigorous indeterminate plants bear pink, 1 1/2 to 2 ounce, 2 1/4 by 1 1/4 inch, elongated, slightly flattened, crack resistant fruit in clusters of 10 to 18. Disease resistant variety. Resistance to early blight. About 60 days to maturity. All American Selection 1999.
	AAS Winner in the year 1999
Days To Maturity:	60-62
Seed Sources:	Totally Tomato - updated in 2014 Johnny's Selected Seeds - updated in 2014

Rating Summary

Overall: (3.7 Stars) Taste: (3.4 Stars) Yield: (4.6 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (4.4 Stars)

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Number of Reviews: 27

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Reviewed on 04/17/2017 by lizmom - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Franklin, Ohio, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
Actually a small plum advertised as a grape tomato. Terrible taste. DON\'T BOTHER!

Reviewed on 03/21/2015 by NancyMA - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This is a mini Roma type paste tomato, with ok flavor for fresh eating but better flavor for dried or sauce although if you prefer to remove seeds and skin it wouldn't be worth the trouble for sauce because of its small size. Yield is very high. I have found it moderately resistant to late blight as well as other diseases. Yields fairly early in the season and keeps going into fall.

Reviewed on 01/23/2015 by Debbie L - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Orange, 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: More than 8 hours per day
Very prolific. No diseases present.

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Reviewed on 01/02/2012 by bsdad - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Litchfield, Connecticut, United States Frost Free Season: Fewer than 103 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
I grew this in a pot in Milford and West Cornwall CT. Very prolific and produced until the frost killed the plant, which was 3 weeks later along the coast of CT. Will grow it again.

Reviewed on 08/25/2011 by sadie - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	All Counties, Ontario, Canada 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
There are tastier small tomatoes out there. I agree with others that this is more like a mini paste tomato as it is rather dry. I just picked up one plant at the nursery in the spring to try. I think I\'ll go back to sweet 100 or something like that. It was the first tomato ready.

Reviewed on 08/17/2010 by GaetanoL - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Westchester, New York, United States Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
Not for the home gardener. Very productive and crack resistant yes, but I didn't care because the taste was so poor. I kept trying to like them because of their high yield. If you're a home gardener looking for a small sized tomato with great flavor, look elsewhere. I'd point you to Sungold, Brown Berry, Black Cherry, or Husky Cherry...all of which I have grown, but who give far superior flavor.

0 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.

Reviewed on 06/19/2010 by jjgardens - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Travis, Texas, United States Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: Less than 6 hours per day
Highly productive and reliable. Even in the Texas heat, it sometimes continues setting fruit all summer and into the fall, as long as it gets regular water and fertilizer. Very easy plant to grow, but give it some space. While the flavor is better than most supermarket tomatoes, Juliet isn't of the quality of many heirlooms.

Reviewed on 01/07/2010 by SueG-ME - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	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
Juliet held down the early end of the season in the dismal 2009, and kept going longer than any of my other early varieties. (And unlike the other reviewer, my source did not describe it as a grape tomato- that it is not.) Plants kept cranking out very good amounts of small but cosmetically perfect fruit (no splitting for me) with decent thought not outstanding taste. They can be used for sauce or salad and did very well at market. Definitely will grow again.

Reviewed on 01/05/2010 by DrFood - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Dane, Wisconsin, United States Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
I love this tomato and it's the only hybrid I grow every year. It is so vigorous--the vine gets to be over 6 feet tall and I let it grow 4 main verticals. It starts early with these small romas (not really a cherry tomato) and just keeps going and going until cut down by frost. I find them very nice for drying--they just have to be cut in half--and also nice for making sauce.

Reviewed on 11/16/2009 by Tedln - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Cooke, Texas, United States Frost Free Season: More than 203 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
I was sold this tomato by mistake. It was a wonderful mistake. I'm not really a fan of cherry tomatoes. This tomato had great, early, full season production. It doesn't crack even when fully ripe. It doesn't drop unless touched while picking. Eaten fully red ripe, I think it is a little bland. Others say it is very sweet. I prefer to eat this tomato when bright orange. It has a great taste before it turns red ripe.

Reviewed on 05/27/2009 by AnnaCanna, zone 5B - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Cook, Illinois, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Not Sure Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
I grew this last year in a container. It was a last minute purchase because the plant I was growing was crushed in an accident on the porch. I had few hopes for it. But, it did remarkably well. I didn't start it until early June, but I had a reasonable season of these. As others have noted, this is not a paste tomato, but a super-sized grape tomato. The taste is average (but beats a supermarket tomato by a mile), it produces well, it handles being in a container. The fruits are a bit thick skinned, though, and as another person mentioned, I did have a lot of fruits fall off, even before they were ripe.

Reviewed on 09/01/2008 by dabido - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Multnomah, Oregon, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
A very reliable little tomato. Looks like a miniature roma, somewhat larger than a cherry tomato. The fruit is beautiful-- mine are red (not pink), shiny, and blemish-free. The walls are thick so they hold up much better than cherry tomatoes. No mushiness as I find with Sungold, for example. Mine don't split even after rains. The taste is good but no "wow" factor. Vigorous and early.

Reviewed on 08/27/2008 by Carolynp - A novice gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Marion, Oregon, 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
If you were to look at grape tomatoes in the store, these would not be the same. They are easily as large as regular romas in the store for me. I would agree that they don't have awesome taste, but they are easy to grow and enormously prolific for me. I got 200 or more off each plant. They are about 3" long. If someone had sold them to me as a paste tomato, I'd be disappointed, also. They sold them to me as a grape tomato and I was pleasantly surprised.

Reviewed on 01/07/2008 by scaffnet - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	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: 6 to 8 hours per day
This tomato is often called a 'paste' tomato in catalogs. Don't be fooled! It's a large cherry tomato, with decent flavor, but if you want a big yield of paste tomatoes for canning, you'd be better off planting a different variety. It takes a lot of time to pick, wash and process what are essentially cherry tomatoes for saucing. It's not worth it. We're moving on from this variety.

Reviewed on 01/07/2008 by GoAgs72 - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	San Benito, California, United States Frost Free Season: More than 203 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This is the most reliable variety that I have grown in the Central Coast region of California. It ripens early and continues all season, often into December or January with a little frost protection. It is very resistant to fall rains after the large-fruited varieties have turned to a watery mush. It is firm with a thick skin and only moderate flavor but is worth growing every year for the fall crop. I use it whole on salads. It has tremendous yields on vigorous vines. Other varieties are better for slicing or paste.

Reviewed on 12/11/2007 by BPippin - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Ontario, New York, 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
I was disappointed in juliet because they dropped very easily and had thick skins. They were productive, but I couldn't understand the AAS rating. Will try again next year and see if they win me over.

0 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.

Reviewed on 01/13/2007 by Best Chance - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Oakland, Michigan, United States Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
Pretty good flavor- not super tasty. It has good production and reliability. I'm a flavor person though, so I'm still searching for a good grape tomato for flavor.

Reviewed on 12/01/2006 by Ernest Jutras - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
I have grown Juliet tomatos for 4 years and have had great yields each year. The taste is semi sweet and can be grown with ease. Only problem I have had is when it rains to much during the ripening season. Tend to split as will any tomato.

Reviewed on 11/30/2006 by DD - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Linn, Iowa, 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
I personally liked these, they taste like a tomato, some cherries have a sour taste, not this one. A little bland but pleasent. I could eat a bowl.

Reviewed on 11/24/2006 by Digit - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Spokane, Washington, United States Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days Soil Texture: Sand Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This one is not a favorite. Taste is very similar to store-bought, picked-green tomatoes. Plants hugely productive but fruit drops off plants easily. Even green fruit drops. Grew for 2 seasons because of the productivity but there was no other reason. Do not understand the AAS Award win.

Reviewed on 09/26/2006 by Sahale - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Seneca, New York, 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
Very easy to grow, highly productive. Less Early Blight than Celebrity. I love to eat them right in the garden. Bigger than a cherry tomato, you can still pop them in your mouth. The flesh is fairly thin but dense, which makes a nice fresh eating texture. I like to contrast it with the soft and juicy slicers. They are easy to dry, just split in half lengthwise. The skin may be a thick for some tastes. The thick skin helps reduce cracking. I had no cracking in August rains, but by mid-September all the fruit cracked before ripening.

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Reviewed on 05/21/2006 by peppergirl - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
Huge crops of plum-shaped fruits; good flavor and disease resistant, too.

Reviewed on 12/27/2005 by tom -
Overall Taste Yield Ease	3, King, Washington Frost Free Season: Soil Texture: Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
What I love about this Tom is it lasts after picking and is an amazing sauce tom for a grape or cherry type. I canned mine whole in a pressure cooker and they still held their shape. Easy as pie to grow and even in wet climates don't seem to split after summer rains.


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Reviewed on 12/22/2005 by dgtucker1417 - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Jefferson, Kentucky, 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
This has to be the biggest producer that I have grown as it produced tomatoes constantly all season long!! It taste great and the only drawback is picking all those tomatoes at least every day, but well worth it!! Gotta try this one.

Reviewed on 12/12/2005 by remyo - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Erie, New York, 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
Though easy to grow and having very high yield, the tomatoes themselves could of been better. Juliet is advertised as crack free. That is because the skin is incredibly thick and tough.

0 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.

Reviewed on 01/21/2005 by tomatopest - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Pennsylvania, 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
The best tasting little tomato, I have ever tried, exclusing cherry types.

Reviewed on 12/31/2004 by roxroe - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Virginia, United States Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
this was soid in the catalogs as a grape tomatoe but it was way too big. It yielded a lot of 1 1/2 inch fruits that had ok flavor -

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