Sub Arctic Plenty Tomato

This tomato is a trooper! Growing tomatoes in a high mountain desert zone 4a garden has many challenges, one of the most noteworthy being the incredible difference between night and daytime temperatures. It is perfectly normal to have a 69° f day followed by a 15° f night with several inches of snow... In the middle of May. It is not uncommon for us to have snow fall in the last week of June.
With the use of a water wall, this tomato variety survived more than a dozen snow storms! I might have gotten a little trigger happy and started my seedlings in February (don't do that lol)
Come April they were getting a bit big to be kept indoors. We had a nice little warm spell, daytime temperatures of around 50° for almost an entire week! I jumped at the opportunity, planting the tomatoes out under the cover of a water wall and bucket. I will admit, half of them did not survive the transplant. That might have had something to do with the temperatures dropping back down to 29° f during the day. But the other half thrived! I didn't even harden them off, they went from the very cozy temperatures of my home to being thrust into the elements.
They were little troopers, putting up a good fight that many of them survived! I had my first fruits in the beginning of June, but they would rather small. (Again probably because of how stressed the poor little things were) The later formed fruits were a bit bigger, more like what I expected. They had a delicious acidity, and were decently productive considering how little care I gave them. Luckily I saved seed, and with any luck the variety will be even stronger for my local harsh environment next year!

I highly recommend this variety as well as the mountain princess variety. Both performed quite well with my blatant lack of attention and the harsh environment in which I live.

Planted several in some grow bags for my Florida fall garden. 100% germination and my seedlings are growing well. L.ooking forward to November tomatoes!

Seeds arrived in excellent condition and fast.

Great prices and great variety, as always! Planted tomato seeds for fall; 100% germination!

These are the first tomatoes to ripen every year and are very prolific. I live in an area with a short grow season (three months frost free) and these are a definite go to for me.