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'Austin's Red Pear' Tomatoes
 
Sub-Category: Pear
Main-Season
 
Sub-Category 2:
Description: Main-season pear variety. Indeterminate plants bear 2-inch, red, pear-shaped fruit.
Days To Maturity: 80
Seed Sources: Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014

 
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Yield: (4.0 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (4.0 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 07/02/2019 by WLC - An intermediate gardener

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St. Clair, Illinois, 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

Disease-resistant, bears early and well, but the taste is bland. there are dozens of better-tasting small heirloom tomatoes (black cherry springs to mind) and hybrids (sungold).
 




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