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'Box Car Willie' Tomatoes
 
Sub-Category: Standard
Main-Season
Heirloom
 
Sub-Category 2:
Description: Main-season, standard tomato with reddish-orange, 10- to 16-ounce smooth fruit. Indeterminate plants. Tolerant to cracking.
Days To Maturity: 80
Seed Sources: Totally Tomato - updated in 2011

 
Rating Summary
 
Overall: (3.8 Stars)Overall
Taste: (3.8 Stars)Taste
Yield: (3.0 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (3.5 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 11/22/2023 by LennisFergus - A novice gardener

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Shelby, Alabama, 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

Delicious and beautiful, bright red tomato. Tastes sweet and tangy with a smooth texture.
 

Reviewed on 05/07/2006 by farmerdill - An experienced gardener

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Richmond, Georgia, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 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 cultivar is so susceptible to southern blight (Sclerotium rolfsii ) that it almost never lives long enoght to bear a tomato.
 
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Reviewed on 03/27/2006 by Cowpoke - An experienced gardener

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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

Large fruits. Reliable with outstanding tomato flavor. Productive with high yields in most years. Not affected by drought as much as other tomatoes. Unless you plan to follow them on a long vine it helps to stake them.
 
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Reviewed on 08/20/2005 by swiftyfromclifty - An experienced gardener

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Ohio, 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

My first year to grow this tomato and I am very well pleased with it and I plan on growing more next year. a very solid and blemish free tomato with good size.
 
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