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Home | Plants | Vegetables | Tomato Starts

Tomato Starts

The list below will include all the varieties we will be carrying this spring. However, we don’t necessarily have all the varieties available at once. If you have your heart set on a certain variety, please call before your visit to make sure it’s in stock.

TERMS:
Days to maturity (days) – the approximate number of days from date of transplanting to date when crop begins to be ready to harvest.

Open Pollinated – A variety from which it is possible to collect and save seed that will produce plants with the same qualities and traits as the ‘mother’ plant.  Care must, of course, be taken to prevent unintended cross-pollination from another variety. All heirloom varieties are open-pollinated. There are varieties that were originally developed as F1 hybrids, but through the patient efforts of gardeners, seed growers and breeders, have been selected and re-selected until a ‘stable’ hybrid has been achieved, transforming the hybrid into an open-pollinated variety.  Some examples are Gypsy pepper, Gold Nugget tomato.

Heirloom – An old variety that owes its present availability to the seed-saving efforts of gardeners (rather than commercial seed growers), often for many generations. All heirloom varieties are open-pollinated.

Hybrid – usually the first-generation offspring of two different varieties, not stabilized and therefore cannot reproduce itself in kind from seed.

Determinate – Bush tomato varieties that spread laterally and should not be pruned, and may be grown with or without staking. Determinate varieties usually ripen their crop within a concentrated time period, so are a good choice for canning or drying. Many are good candidates for container-growing.

Indeterminate – Vining tomato varieties that are customarily staked, trellised or caged, and pruned for largest fruit. Caging/staking without pruning delays ripening, reduces fruit size, but increases production, prevents sunburn, and reduces fruit cracking and rotting. Indeterminate varieties produce and ripen fruit over an extended period until frost.

Cracking – splitting of tomato skin. Large-fruited varieties with low fruit-set and high sugar content are most likely to crack, but even some cherry tomatoes are subject to cracking. To reduce cracking, avoid heavy watering and wide day/night soil temperature fluctuations, and maintain adequate calcium delivery in your soil.

The section below includes all the varieties we will be carrying this spring. However, we don’t necessarily have all the varieties available at once. If you have your heart set on a certain variety, please call us at 303-939-9403 before your visit to make sure it’s in stock.


See our 2023 TOMATO STARTS List Here; descriptions are below.

TIDY TREATS

50-60 days, Hybrid, Dwarf Indeterminate
Bred specifically for container growing, this dwarf vining tomato is quite early, high-yielding and, best of all – the 1” fruits are sweet and tasty. Johnny’s Seeds considers it the best cherry tomato for patio containers. Dwarf plants stay a manageable size, to 3-4’ tall, with healthy green foliage, and are easily tamed with a tomato cage or trellis.

TUMBLING TOM, YELLOW

65-70 days, Hybrid, Indeterminate
Abundant crops of tasty, sweet 1-2 oz. golden-yellow cherry tomatoes are borne on stems that cascade freely from window-boxes, tall containers, or pots on stands, trailing up to 24”. Fruits set continuously through the summer on attractive, healthy, disease-resistant plants. Although one plant can fill a 12” diameter pot, several can be planted together in a larger pot.

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MARCH HOURS
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

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4795 North 26th St
Boulder, CO 80301

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Seasonally, MARCH to OCTOBER.
MARCH HOURS:
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS:
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

The plants we grow are organically grown. All the plants we sell are free of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.