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'Chianti Rose' Tomatoes
 
Sub-Category: Standard
Main-Season
 
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Description: Main-season standard beefsteak type. (Cross of Brandywine and unnamed Italian variety.) Indeterminate, potato-leaved vines bear large, thin-skinned, rosy-red, crack-resistant fruit. Tolerates cool summer weather.
Days To Maturity: 80
Seed Sources:
 
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Reviewed on 07/24/2014 by edeven - A novice gardener

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Porter, Indiana, 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

Planted a number of these last summer, thinking they were what I'd gotten in my CSA box the year before. Not planting again this year. The plants did well, set plenty of fruit. Were decently flavored but more prone to bottom end rot than my other tomatoes, and also more susceptible to cracking. Fine flavor, but not amazing, and the texture seemed mealy or something compared to some of my other tomatoes.
 




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