10 Tomato Varieties You Need To Know

For this Variety Specs feature with a focus on tomatoes, we’ve gathered information on the latest varieties with high yields, good resistance packages, and more — all in a very reader friendly format.

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Key information including days to maturity, yield potential, weight, etc., will be right at your fingertips.

Stay tuned–next month we’ll be featuring sweet corn.

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  • Company: Seeds By Design
  • Type: Beefsteak
  • Weight: 9 to 12 ounces
  • Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
  • Disease resistance/tolerance: Tomato mosaic virus, Anthracnose, Fusarium wilt
  • Days to maturity: 75 from transplant
  • Other attributes: Bright orange with almost neon internal color, excellent firmness, cracking resistant

Seedsbydesign.com


Clementine

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  • Company: Johnny’s Selected Seeds
  • Type: Cocktail-sized tomato
  • Weight: 2 ounces
  • Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
  • Days to maturity: 68
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Widely adapted for North America
  • Brix level: High
  • Other attributes: Organic variety, bred by Johnny’s Selected Seeds

Johnnyseeds.com


Raceway

Raceway

  • Company: Sakata Seed America
  • Type: Determinate red-salad/round
  • Weight: 8 to 9.5 ounces
  • Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
  • Disease resistance/tolerance: High resistance: Fusarium wilt races 1 and 2, Fusarium crown and root rot, Verticillium wilt race 1. Intermediate resistance: gray leaf spot
  • Days to maturity: Mid-season
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Adaptable for Southeastern U.S. Performs well in hot and cool seasons
  • Other attributes: Great color, firmness, and shelf life

Sakatavegetables.com


Rally

Rally

  • Company: Rupp Seeds
  • Type: Determinate round
  • Weight: 9 to 10 ounces
  • Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
  • Disease resistance/tolerance: Alternaria stem canker, Fusarium crown rot, tomato mosaic virus, tomato yellow leaf curl
  • Days to maturity: 72
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Midwest, Northeast
  • Brix level: Medium-high
  • Other attributes: Great eating quality, excellent interior color and firmness

Ruppseeds.com


Dixie Red

Dixie Red

  • Company: Siegers Seed Company
  • Type: Hybrid round-red tomato
  • Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
  • Disease resistance/tolerance: High resistance: Alternaria, Fusarium wilt races 1-3, gray leaf spot, tomato spotted wilt virus. Intermediate resistance: root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne arenaria, M. incognita, and M. javanica)
  • Days to maturity: 85
  • Yield potential: Excellent
  • Other attributes: Dixie Red is a deep-oblate, determinate tomato. It produces large fruit with the potential to perform well in the hot-set slot, and it’s ideal for the vine ripe market

Siegers.com


Jolly Girl

Jolly Girl

  • Company: Stokes Seeds
  • Type: Determinate grape
  • Weight: .35 to .45 ounces
  • Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
  • Days to maturity: 90 from seed
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: North America
  • Brix level: High
  • Other attributes: Crack resistant, sweet flavor and good acid content

Stokesseeds.com


Mountain Merit

Mountain Merit

  • Company: Seedway
  • Type: Determinate beefsteak
  • Weight: 8 to 11 ounces
  • Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
  • Disease Resistance: Fusarium races 1-3, nematode, Verticillium, late blight, early blight, tomato spotted wilt virus
  • Days to maturity: 77
  • Yield potential: Good
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Northeast, Mid-South, Midwest
  • Other attributes: Offers high performance, good flavor, strong plant for extended picks

Seedway.com


Red Mountain

Red Mountain

  • Company: Harris Seeds
  • Type: Large red-round
  • Weight: 10 to 12 ounces
  • Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
  • Disease resistance/tolerance: Fusarium wilt races 1-3, Verticillium wilt, root knot nematode, tomato spotted
  • wilt virus
  • Days to maturity: 73
  • Yield potential: Excellent
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Eastern U.S.
  • Other attributes: Very uniform fruit with smooth shoulders, works well for protected culture

Harrisseeds.com


Rendidor F1 Hybrid

Rendidor F1 Hybrid

  • Company: Golden Valley Seed
  • Type: Determinate saladette
  • Weight: 4 to 4.5 ounces
  • Fresh market or processing: Both
  • Disease resistance/tolerance: Tobacco mosaic virus, Verticilium wilt, Fusarium races 1,2, tomato yellow leaf curl virus, nematodes, Alternaria
  • Days to maturity: 110 from transplant
  • Yield potential: High to very high
  • Region(s) best suited for production: All of U.S.
  • Brix level: Medium to high
  • Other attributes: Suitable for hand and machine harvesting, excellent for high yields, good variety for long distance shipping

Goldenvalleyseed.com


SummerPick

Syngenta produce at Naples, Florida production facility. Tomato Summer Pick

  • Company: Syngenta
  • Type: Vine ripe
  • Weight: 11 ounces
  • Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
  • Disease resistance/tolerance: Tomato spotted wilt virus, Fusarium wilt races 0-2, gray leaf spot, Verticillium
  • Days to maturity: Early
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Ideal for Eastern growers

Syngenta-us.com/seeds/vegetables

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