Growing Tomatoes From Tomato Slices

If using grafted plants, take care to ensure the graft union is not touching soil. For earliest crops, set plants out around the last frost date under floating row covers, which will protect from frost to about 28°F (-2°C).

For prevention, use young, healthy transplants, avoid overhead irrigation, plow in tomato plant refuse in the fall, rotate crops, and do not handle tobacco or smoke before handling plants.

Water only enough to keep the mix from drying. Select resistant varieties. Too much nitrogen causes rampant growth and soft fruits susceptible to rot.Learn the common tomato diseases in your area.

Great, sweet flavor with a better balance of acid and sweetness than most orange tomatoes. Once fruit begins to set, lower night temperature to 62-66°F (17-19°C) and keep a daytime temperature of 68-72°F (20-22°C).Fully vine-ripen fruit only for local...

High resistance to fusarium wilt races 1, 2 and verticillium wilt. 8,540 seeds/1 oz., to produce 1 acre of transplants, 18" between plants in rows 4' apart (7,260 plants needed).If anything you purchase from us proves unsatisfactory, we will either replace...

If using grafted plants, take care to ensure the graft union is not touching soil. For earliest crops, set plants out around the last frost date under floating row covers, which will protect from frost to about 28°F (-2°C).

785 seeds/667 plants to produce 1,000 ft. Packet: 15 seeds.http://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/tomatoes/slicing-tomatoes/defiant-phr-organic-f1-tomato-seed-2525G.11.htmlVarieties do not need pruning and may be grown with or without support; fruit ripens...

Sow 1/4" deep in flats, using a soilless peat-based mix (not potting soil), 5-6 weeks before plants can be transplanted out after frost danger. If using grafted plants, take care to ensure the graft union is not touching soil.

Grow plants at 66-68°F (19-20°C) day and night temperature. When transplanting into the greenhouse, maintain 73-77°F (23-25°C) day and night temperature for a few days after transplanting to promote rapid vegetative growth and root establishment.

Urban Farmer grown Better Boy tomato plants. An overall great tomato. Better Boy Hybrid is an All American Selections winner. Arrive ready to plant. Big, meaty, red fruits, 8 ounces and higher.

Cherokee Purple has beautiful purple skin with a slight pinkish-red hue. This tomato dates back to pre-1890 and is recognized as an old Cherokee Indian heirloom that originated in Tennessee.

Good things can grow in small spaces! Patio hybrid produces delicious, approximately 4 oz. Easy to grow, Patio thrives in pots, containers and small gardens. Fruit with attractive dark green rugose foliage.

A favorite heirloom with yellow-orange skin and flesh. A customer favorite for it's sweet taste, few seeds and meaty flesh! The indeterminate tomato fruits will ripen later than most but will produces 10-20 ounce tomatoes until the first frost of fall.

Offers some of the best flavor with an earthy-sweet, rich taste that is delicious eaten raw. This plant produces large vines and large beefsteak fruits that average 8-20 ounces. High yielding with excellent flavor.

Extra large, meaty fruit. These are a delicious entree to any sandwich. Solid, meaty and juicy tomatoes, an excellent slicer. Beefsteaks are not grown commercially as often as smaller types.

Black Sea Man is a small plant that produces good yields of medium-sized brownish-pink fruits with olive green shading. A fantastic tasting Russian heirloom tomato plant. The marbled flesh is beautiful when blanched and peeled.

One of the all time Southern favorites. Suitable for Southern regions but can grow most places. Tomatoes ripen at the same time making it a great variety for canning and freezing. Bradley tomato plants are a reliable, productive plant that has fairly...

Our favorite heirloom beefsteak for home gardens. A customer favorite for it's sweet taste, few seeds and meaty flesh! The indeterminate tomato fruits will ripen later than most but will produces 10-20 ounce tomatoes until the first frost of fall.

Indeterminate, vigorous and one of our best sellers. Heirloom tomato plant that has best yields for beefsteak type varieties.Large, pink smooth fruits that reach 1 pound! Developed by M.C. Byles “Radiator Charlie”, who had no formal plant breeding...

A great greenhouse tomato! Large red, VFN, firm, disease tolerant in hot humid climates.

You get the same number of tasty, big red tomatoes (10 to 11 oz. But the compact plants are only half the size! The classic Burpee's Big Boy has been made better, especially for small-space gardeners.

Meaty and juicy with few seeds. This tomato will brighten up your day! The Kellogg's Beefsteak tomato is an heirloom variety that produces bright orange fruits that weight 1 pound or more with thin skin and a sweet tangy flavor.

Green flesh heirloom with strong and sweet flavor. A very productive, medium-sized beefsteak that grows well throughout the United States. Produces a continual harvest throughout the season.

Juicy Russian heirloom! 2″ oval, deep red color, with a rich distinctive flavor.

Early maturing bright red tomato! Bright red color, 4 ounce fruits, extra tasty saladette type, clusters of 5-8 fruits and very productive.

Sweet flavored baseball size yellow tomatoes. Low acid tomato. Grows great throughout the United States. Taxi has a meaty flesh with vibrant lemon-yellow color. Produces smooth, blemish-free globes that are perfect for market growers.