A main season tomato is the one you get in the dead of summer, somewhere around 70 – 84 days or more. Some can be heirlooms and some are hybrids. Hybrids simply are to two tomatoes who get together and have babies exhibiting desirable characteristics chosen from both parents. Perfect for salads and hamburgers.
Mountain Fresh Plus (can be grown in a large pot) and Blue Ribbon are fabulous tomatoes with good flavor and lovely juicy flesh. Mister E is a tomato we saved out of a Big Zac which is a hybrid. Because of this, we knew we wouldn’t get a Big Zac, instead we developed a really nice, large, pink tomato, one slice per sandwich. Yummm. Last year we had a Jetstar, it was wonderful and sweet, consistent size and I wondered why we waited so long to try it. Park’s Whopper could be called an heirloom, it has been around for quite a while but I chose to put it in main season tomatoes.
Of course, we would be remiss if we didn’t mention the Chef’s Choice series. I offer several different colors; red, orange, black, purple, yellow, pink, striped, and bicolor. They are hybrid varieties that provide heirloom flavor with hybrid production and disease-resistance.
Remember that ripening times are from the time of transplanting into the garden.
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