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'Kellogg's Breakfast' Tomatoes

Sub-Category:	Standard Main-Season Heirloom

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	Main-season, heirloom, standard, beefsteak-type tomato with extremely large, 1- to 2-pound, orange fruit. Indeterminate plants.
Days To Maturity:	79-90
Seed Sources:	Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014 Totally Tomato - updated in 2011

Rating Summary

Overall: (3.9 Stars) Taste: (4.1 Stars) Yield: (3.4 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (3.6 Stars)

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Number of Reviews: 25

KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease

Reviewed on 10/06/2022 by SoCalCarol - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Orange, California, United States Frost Free Season: More than 203 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
Tried this in our raised bed for the first time last spring and though it got off to a slow start, it ended up producing some huge, deliciously meaty and sweet tomatoes. These are now on our list of must grow varieties in the future.

Reviewed on 05/13/2016 by AveryD - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Livingston, New York, 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
Delicious huge orange fruit that consistently wins the blind taste test from my garden. Good agronomic traits for an heirloom. Large indeterminate plant.

Reviewed on 12/20/2014 by vnewton - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Hunt, Texas, 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
I only got 2 tomatoes off the plant the entire season. Not pleased at all.

Reviewed on 11/06/2014 by Lily - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Otsego, New York, United States Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days Soil Texture: Not Sure Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
This orange heirloom tomato is huge and delicious. A single slice covers an entire slice of bread making it the perfect tomato with BLT. The fruit is juicy and sweet with a tangy finish. While the fruit is 1 - 2 pounds, the stems are strong and held the tomatoes well. These were planted on June 6 and ready in mid-August in upstate NY and bore throughout September and into October. They showed no sign of late blight. They had some septoria leaf spot yet when the affected leaves were removed, they continued to produce healthy fruit. This is a variety that will be a staple in my garden. My plant came from Landreth Seeds in Sharon Springs.

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Reviewed on 11/14/2010 by TheFluffyOne - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Kane, Illinois, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
Caveat, 2010 was another tough year for tomatoes. This was the biggest overall disappointment in my garden. A mediocre tomato at best. The taste was bland and the yield poor. I have heard about this tomato for years and was anxious to try it. All I can say is the color was not as deep as most descriptions and it was a bit bland and not hint of sweetness. My seed source was PineTree and I would not recommend them as I know the varieties I received have not been accurate. I will grow this again next year and if it is still mediocre I\'ll seek a new seed source as I am not sure if it is my taste, the climate, or the seed. ***************************************************************************** Grew this in 2011 and 2012 and it remained bland. I suspect part of it is the seed source however. KBX definitely beats this in all respects, which is why I suspect the seed source (PineTree). Also Amana Orange was excellent by comparison in 2012.

Reviewed on 02/21/2010 by OhioMG - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Huron, Ohio, 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
A little update post 2009 season -- we grew KB in the very unpromising 2009 summer garden, and it came through for us once again. Although almost every warmth loving crop was slower to ripen due to the colder than normal temps, we did not suffer at all on overall production. The KB's pumped out huge glowing orange fruit -- most needed to be held with two hands for safety's sake. Our KB's LOVE good compost and being mulched with UNtreated grass clippings, so for those of you who are wondering whether to try them, DO but give them their compost and clippings. They'll reward you!

Reviewed on 03/08/2009 by OhioMG - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Huron, Ohio, 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
Picture an increasingly typical southern Maryland near DC summer -- heat in the mid 90's, ditto on humidity, frequent red ozone alert days, and the nearly annual drought opening the door W-I-D-E open for stressed plants. You're miserable, and so are your tomatoes. Add in a 10 day surprise trip out of town that allowed disease to get a foothold before you could act, and... Those were the conditions under which we first grew Kellogg's Breakfast. That summer every other tomato in the garden except for Kellogg's Breakfast and Sungold gave up. Most had to be pulled out. Those two tomatoes were the only ones to keep going and give us any harvest at all. The KB's were meaty, flavorful, and the plants seemed to shrug off the maladies that took the others. While they did not yield as well as they would under better conditions, they impressed us greatly for their production under extreme adversity. They have a yummy sweet flavor balanced with just enough tang that they hold their own in a tomato sandwich, my husband's litmus test. They are also quite a beautiful color and while juicy, do can reasonably well. This year we are going to try them in our OH garden!

Reviewed on 08/30/2008 by flowerbill1952 - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Prince Georges, Maryland, United States Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
Wonderful yellow beefsteak with good flavor but poor yields and health for me.

Reviewed on 12/16/2007 by Oregon - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	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
It is a good tasting tomato but I wish it were more productive.

Reviewed on 09/06/2007 by kristie8888 - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Tarrant, Texas, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
really pumped out tomatoes like a hybrid in my hot area. Other heirlooms just don't compare. Also, skin wasn't too tough from the elements like ALL other tomatoes I grow here. Fruits were a little small and disappointing.

Reviewed on 08/08/2007 by sconticut -
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Frost Free Season: Soil Texture: Garden Size: Sun Exposure:
I have been growing tomatoes for 50 years. Kellogg's Breakfast is the best tasting fruit I have ever grown. The yield could be better, but I have not had serious problems with disease in my raised bed gardens. I give them a bit of extra water and Neptune's Harvest and the TLC is worth the great taste at the table sprinkled with flakey sea salt.

Reviewed on 03/19/2007 by TJD57 - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, 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
In my garden, Kellogg's Breakfast has varied from healthy, prolific and scrumptious to disease-prone, stingy and bland. The plant is typical of many heirloom main-crop varieties -- big and rangy. The fruits are always a beautiful medium to deeper orange color. Fruit production is always on the lower side with individual fruits in the medium to large size. I've had problems with blossom end rot and catfacing in difficult years. I've never seen green shoulders with this variety. In a good year, the plant outperforms many hybrids. Interestingly, it hasn't shown all that much problem with leaf diseases in my garden and when it is attacked, it seems to be able to resist pretty well. In a bad year the flavor is blah, but a good year produces the most amazingly delicious fruit imaginable! Even with its unpredictability in my area, I still grow it - 'cause when it's good, it's VERY good!

Reviewed on 03/19/2007 by GardenMom - A novice gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Albany, New York, 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
I had great luck with this tomato. It wasn't a great producer, but compared to other large beefsteaks, it was downright prolific (this is why I gave it a high yield number). You had to wait to get tomatoes, but what I loved about it was that while my other plants seemed to have petered out, KB kept me in tomatoes late in the season with giant 1- 2 pound fruits. The flavor is amazing, juicy and meaty. My only regret is that they tasted so good that we didn't have enough tomatoes to make sauce. It will definitly be a repeat in my small garden again this year, quite a feat!

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Reviewed on 11/15/2006 by gardengalrn - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Kentucky, United States Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
I have not had problems with disease on this one as others have mentioned. It is not my favorite non-red but pretty close. Nice big meaty orange fruits that taste wonderful. Did especially well for me this year in a container. A few years ago I canned sauce from KB and it was beautiful and tasty. Very attractive sliced, makes for some interesting comments from those who are used to the red types only.

Reviewed on 10/29/2006 by Erma - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Polk, Tennessee, United States Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This was my first year with this one and I will have more next year. I love the large meaty, few seeds, with the best taste I have encountered. It bruised easily but then I ate them so fast, it didn't matter. I just wish it had produced more per plant but the few large juicy one pound or larger tomatoes just made me determined to do better next year.

Reviewed on 04/24/2006 by danceswithferrets - A novice gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Greenville, South Carolina, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
Some people have trouble with disease, especially in seedlings, but I have been lucky in that regard. Mine was healthy, and very productive. Flavor was decent. Above average, but there are many varieties that I consider to be better. It is a nice, very meaty beafsteak tomato, that produces well in hot climates. It a somewhat unusual color - the color of orange juice.

Reviewed on 04/16/2006 by cardshooter - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	West Virginia, 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
Great heirloom tomato! It is large and attractive with it's almost orange color and has REAL tomato taste.

Reviewed on 03/23/2006 by Cowpoke - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Stokes, North Carolina, 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
Inconsistemt is the best word for KB. Some years my yields were high, others virtually non-existent. Fruit tends to be a light orange here.

Reviewed on 01/16/2006 by phil - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Dallas, Texas, United States Frost Free Season: More than 203 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
The orange color " puts off me and other people in my family, the taste overwhelms us this tomato seem to have just the right flavor and I put it at the top of my selection easy to grow not prolific, produced well 8-10 3/4 pound fruits in extreme heat last year dallas

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
I grew this variety 2 years, and did not have the cosmetic problems other reviewers mentioned. The tomatoes were very pretty. They are too mild for my taste. Though I'm sure some people would like that characteristic.

Reviewed on 12/02/2005 by Joachim - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Fairfield, 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
One of the best yellow varieties (others are Brandywine Yellow, Aunt Gertie Gold) with a unique rich Papaya like taste. Yields a large number of 1 lb tomatoes with smaller fruit towards the end of the season. One of the most vigerous heirlooms. Must grow for people who like exotic flavors.

Reviewed on 08/17/2005 by mimi49 - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Virginia, 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: 6 to 8 hours per day
I found this to be a very mild almost bland type. Mine had a lot of catfacing, so it was hard to slice. I used them mostly for sauce, mixed with other varieties.

Reviewed on 01/25/2005 by Deb - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Ohio, 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
Big, meaty, very flavorful slicing tomato, with great persimmon color. Not terribly prolific, subject to some cracking and catfacing, but the flavor is worth the trouble.

Reviewed on 01/21/2005 by lightt - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Virginia, 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
A definite top 10 in my garden. One of the best tasting tomatoes I've grown.

Reviewed on 12/17/2004 by Sal - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Michigan, United States Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
No tomatoes this year (2004). Not a good year for tomatoes, but still!

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