Good Early Varieties?

[Mudman]

I have always grown mid and late season tomatoes with the exception of cherry tomatoes and I was thinking about finding room for an early variety or maybe putting some in containers. I would love to hear your opinions on good early varieties.

[Douglas14]

Moravsky Div is a very good PL early variety IMO.

[rxkeith]

azoychka is a good earlier yellow one
matina is a smaller red one
gregoris altai is pink i think
mcclintock got this one from craig several years ago, but lost it in a move. sandhill had pink mcclintock listed last year. not sure if its the same or not.
these all did pretty well when i lived in the U.P.

in the early mid season category i have grown
zolotoe serdtse an orange
pervaya lyubov a pink one
both are from russia and set fruit very well for me.

keith

[333.okh]

• Stupice
• Boody Butcher
• Matina
• Imur Prior Beta
• Deutsche Fleiss
• Galina's Yellow
• Medovaya Kaplya

[simmran1]

333. Pretty much has it covered, but I'd like to add Glacier & Mountain Princess. Glacier for an easy to grow PL that can be container grown, Mtn Princess for larger tomatoes and not that much later to pick.

I wasn't impressed with my early Stupice variety last year, so I was growing Early Wonder from seed as well as a few other early varieties. My seedlings were killed in a late frost so I purchased a few "Fourth Of July" seedlings. This is how they looked this morning. They are supposed to produce through the summer into fall as an indeterminate hybrid. I ate my first tomato of the season this morning and while it wasn't as good as some mid season varieties, it sure beats store bought.







You will probably need to grow from seed because I only found one vendor who sells them.

Sorry, I thought the middle photo was also of the Fourth Of July variety. Sometimes it is hard to tell from the small icons. It is actually the "homestead" variety.

Ted

[Mudman]

I actually just saw Fourth of July at a garden center the other day. Thanks for all the suggestions. There is a great place nearby that has a lot of heirloom plants. I do not have time to start any more from seed so I will try that option.