Determinate medium-sized tomato that turns bright yellow (thus the name) when ripe. I call it “fire engine” yellow because when it's ripe it looks like it's polished. When it ripens the color seems to change by the hour.
Delicious lemony tomato, but you have to eat them right away as they don't last long. That's okay, eating three or four of these tomatoes in one sitting is no problem.
I don't have much memory of this one. I do remember that there were a couple days I really liked it, but that's all. We are growing this one in the ground this year.
A tomato that seemed to duplicate what we got from Husky Cherry Red. At one time, we decided not to get this for this year, but we did and we've even put it in the same pot. Go figure.
This was a rather fun tomato. The tomatoes are real small, roughly pea sized, about 3/8 inches in diameter. The taste kind of reminds me of the candy SweeTarts – a tomato taste with a bite at the end. Great for salads.
This plant produced well in the early summer, then had a second wind and had hundreds of tomatoes that hung on for months and didn't turn red. I think the plant got too warm in the container and couldn't quite get over the hump with the second batch. This year we've planted it in the ground and it's already taken off.
We thought we planted Snow White, but the tomatoes sure looked and tasted like Garden Peach. Garden Peach needs more room than what this container provided. For that matter, this would have been true for Snow White as well...
This was a rather nice looking tomato but the taste was only so-so for us. This plant may have been hurt by the late start growing from seed.
The tomatoes are about 1 ¼ inches in diameter, round, with red and yellow streaking.
A good, but not memorable, tomato. What was remarkable about this tomato was it produced 8 to 12 ounce tomatoes on a Husky Cherry Red sized tomato plant. This plant, though is determinate so once it's done, it's done.
Another winner.
This (and the next two) plants were grown from seed from a friend of ours and later transplanted in our garden. I think this is my wife's second favorite tomato of last year, just behind Show White Cherry. It has a great, smooth, smoky tomato taste. It looks like we'll grow two of them this year.
My favorite tomato plant of 2007. Not my favorite tomato, but it was up there. My favorite plant.
I picked this up at Tomatomania as an afterthought. Based on the name I assumed someone simply named a new strain after themselves (Wrong – it's named after our only confederate president). It has leaves that look like fronds.
The plant looked dramatic as it grew strong, tall and seemingly proud. You could see the tomatoes would be good sized (but not too big), firm and juicy.
The only downside was that all the tomatoes were growing and ripening at once. If I didn't secure it, the cage would definitely collapse! We used a metal stake and some twine to keep it from falling over.
At one point I estimated that there was 70 pounds of tomatoes on this plant. Now of course I could be wrong, but even if it was 50, that's a lot for one plant. The big leaves helped protect the growing tomatoes in the hot summer.
The plant was great, the tomatoes felt and looked great. I was slightly disappointed that the tomato was merely very good and not fantastic.
For the most part the harvest came in all at once, so we were inundated with one pound (sometimes a pound and a half) Jeff Davis tomatoes. Most were brought down to sauces and frozen.
Good tomato, bordering on very good, and what a plant!
Well, make that two plants. We purchased our Garden Peach at Green Thumb, and it clearly had two plants in it. We planted it and gave it a small 2.5 foot cage.
At some point, I called this plant(s) “Mr. Five by Five” as in it's five feet tall and five feet wide. And it kept on going. At some point it was in essence “Six by Six”. And the plant kept growing, looking like it was devouring nearby rose bushes.
And it was prolific. I remember one day picking over 90 tomatoes (I think it was 94) on this plant, only to pick the exact same number the next day. The plant was so wide that I simply couldn't reach some of them, even if I crawled. It was a mini-jungle, which protected the growing tomatoes.
Everyone likes this yellow fuzzy tomato, and is an absolute favorite for a friend of mine.
A good tomato, and quite prolific – I believe we got over a thousand of these. Good...but not good enough to make it memorable.
A very good buttery tasting tomato. At it's best, it was spectacular, I couldn't get enough.
I can still remember one of the tomatoes. The first half second strongly reminded me of a caramel Sees Candy, then the tomato kicked in.
It got a little wobbly toward the end, but when it was good it was fabulous.
I picked this plant at the 2007 Tomatomania event because I hadn't heard of this tomato before. Trolling the Internet turned up nothing and I still haven't heard a thing about it.
Unfortunately, someone fell on this tomato on Mother's Day, breaking the main stem. It soldiered on the best it could, producing some tomatoes that tasted vaguely like watermelon.
We grew this in 2006 and was the best looking plant of the year (I called it “Studley”) -- straight and tall, but not much production.
Our 2007 version didn't get as tall as the year before but it was much more productive. This plant kept knocking out good sized tomatoes over a pound.
However, I have to agree with my wife in that we're probably not going to grow this one any time soon, at least in the front yard. The first batches were good, bordering on very good. But the heat of the summer caused problems for the rest.
Once you pick it, you have to use it, else it may go bad pretty quickly. Another problem was having the west facing side too ripe while the east facing side wasn't ripe enough. It bruised rather easily. It became wobbly – you didn't know what to expect.
If I were to grow this again, I'd grow it in the back yard underneath the lemon tree. But not this year.
A standard, hybrid cherry tomato on a squat, stiff plant.
We both loved it!
Basically, this plant was “the little engine that could”.
The plant was squat and dense. The stems were inflexible. It reminded me of a small Christmas tree, only you couldn't see inside the outer leaves.
One day, I decided to lie down on the ground and look underneath. Not only did I see ripe tomatoes that I couldn't see standing up, but there were signs of tomatoes that had ripened and withered away. Behind the leaves were hundreds of tomatoes. I had no idea.
I nicknamed this tomato plant “Derek Fisher”. Derek Fisher is a professional basketball player, former Los Angeles Laker playing for the Utah Jazz at the time (later to become a Laker again). Derek Fisher isn't the most gifted by any stretch, nor the most talented...but he gave you everything he had without complaining. A true team player and a professional.
Husky Cherry certainly wasn't all that pretty to look at – it's squat, small and stiff. The cherry tomatoes were nickel to quarter sized, standard red, tomato taste.
But the production! This three foot plant that inched to a bit over four feet cranked out about 1100 tomatoes, perfect sliced in half for salads or just plop in your mouth. A great “supporting role” tomato. Densest tomato plant by far.
This was the last tomato plant pulled for the 2007 batch, getting pulled in January of this year. The plant had long since collapsed. We had propped two “arms” above two round tomato cages lying supine the ground. The sun had finally penetrated the leaves and now the cold was hammering it...but it was still producing. It kept on going. We simply had to start preparing for the 2008 season, so we pulled it.
In short, it looks like the dense foliage protects the tomatoes from the blazing summer sun.
