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'Goliath' Tomatoes |
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Standard
Early-Season
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Hybrid. Early standard tomato with beefsteak-type, 10- to 15-ounce, 3- to 4-inch, deeply oblate-shaped, dark bright-red fruit with high sugar content. Indeterminate plants with bushy habit. Good for containers.
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| Days To Maturity: |
65-68
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| Seed Sources: |
Totally Tomato - updated in 2011
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (4.4 Stars)
Taste: (4.4 Stars)
Yield: (4.1 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (4.7 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 12
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 12/26/2013 by
Luther
- An experienced gardener
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Moody, South Dakota, 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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| Goliath has proven itself most reliable through the recent years of unusual weather. All things considered this variety remains our main crop, producing consistently large and blemish free fruit, abundant yields and balanced tomato flavor. |
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Reviewed on 11/14/2010 by
Oregon
- An experienced gardener
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Lane, Oregon, 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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| This tomato did poorly planted in a pot. It produced very little and finally died from disease.
However a friend of mine planted the plant I gave her on an old manure pile in her garden and it got very large and produced bushels of beautiful tomatoes. It was unbelievable! So I would advise planting it in the ground with plenty of fertilizer. |
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Reviewed on 10/14/2010 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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| Wonderful tomato. Heavy producer of large tomatoes averaging about ten ounces but many in the 12 ounce to one pound range. The plant is tall but manageable. Towards the end of the season the average size did get smaller more around 5-8 ounces but still nice tomatoes. In previous years I would average about forty tomatoes per plant but this year spraying with liquid worm castings was unbelievable with an average of sixty-two tomatoes for my six plants. The flavor is very good and there is very little if any cracking or blemishes. Goliath truly is a great main crop tomato. |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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Reviewed on 11/16/2009 by
Tedln
- An experienced gardener
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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
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| This was my first year growing this tomato. It is a bush type tomato, but I grew it staked as a fall crop. It has very heavy production of large fruit.. I planted the tomato in the hottest part of a hot summer. It didn't grow at all until cooler weather arrived, but it really took off after the high temps were gone. A few fruit showed a tendency to cat face. No cracks even when fully ripe. No blossom end rot. It has a very firm solid flesh making it a good slicing tomato. The taste is very tangy to sweet. It tastes the way a tomato should taste. I will grow it again. |
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Reviewed on 05/14/2009 by
VT gardener
- An experienced gardener
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Chittenden, Vermont, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 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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| Wonderful flavor. a must have in your garden. However now it is hard to find in nurseries so you might want to buy seeds. Large fruits on productive plants |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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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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| Seed from Shumways 2007. Large, perfectly shaped, unblemished, red, all purpose. Very uniform. Tartish, pleasant tom taste. Sweet/tart taste, normal tom flavor, not too intense. I have to admit, these were the ones I most often grabbed off the table amongst the assorted colors and shapes. Beautiful to look at. Fairly productive. Keeps extraordinarly well, but will lose flavor after a couple months. |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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Reviewed on 10/04/2006 by
fugi11
- An experienced gardener
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Douglas, Washington, 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: More than 8 hours per day
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| I have raised this tomatoe for over 10 years for a small roadside stand. Nothing compares. |
| | | 2 of 2 gardeners found this review helpful.
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Reviewed on 02/04/2006 by
plainsman
- An experienced gardener
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Washington, Nebraska, 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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| Good flavor for a tough easy to grow hybrid. Not an early variety, but these took the heat pretty well, my crop was fairly abundant, and plants were sturdy and well covered in foliage. The fruit was large and well formed and had little problem with defects. These were vigourous right up to killing freeze, and the blush fruit ripened well and had good flavor for this harvest time. this may be due to rather thick skin for type, which allowed quality to stay high in storage. |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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Reviewed on 12/22/2005 by
dgtucker1417
- An intermediate gardener
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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
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| This variety has a great taste, but the fruit was slow in coming and it wasn't a big producer for me. The ones I got were the best tasting variety I grew last season. They are worth the trouble! |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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Reviewed on 11/13/2005 by
jimbo
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Anderson, South Carolina, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 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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| Great tasting, grew easily, 8-10 foot plants, yield from mid June to Nov. frost. Green tomatoes ripened nicely in the house after frost. |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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Reviewed on 02/02/2005 by
Tricia11
- An experienced gardener
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Maryland, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 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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| Goliath was the star tomato variety in my garden during the summer of 04. The plants produced heavy yields of very juicy tomatoes. This was my 5 th year gardening in Maryland (I am a NY transplant) and I must say this tomato has been the healthiest and tastiest of the 20 or so varieties I have tried here thus far. |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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Reviewed on 09/27/2004 by
E Mancini
- An experienced gardener
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Jefferson, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 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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| Large size tomato with good flavor. Some disease resistance. |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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