Lewis Greenscape Tomato Information 2017
Kind
Variety
Name/Pot Size
BEEFSTEAK:
Description
Size
Type**
Days
Disease
Resistance***
GOOD FOR FLAVORFUL SLICES AND JUICING.
Beefsteak
Beef Master/
4-pack and single
Mouthwatering, extremely large, bright red tomato with outstanding
taste. Good tolerance to cracking and splitting.
10-12 oz
Indeterminate
80
VFFNT
Beefsteak
Better Boy/
4-pack and single
Standard, large fruited hybrid. Extremely flavorful with scarlet skin
that's juicy yet firm. Heavy foliage protects fruits from sunscald.
16 oz.
Indeterminate
75
VFN
Beefsteak
Big Beef/
4-pack and single
Old fashioned rich flavored fruits that are globe-shaped and smooth.
Extra large, extra meaty, extra tasty beefsteak flavor.
10-12 oz
Indeterminate
73
VFFNT
Beefsteak
Goliath/
4-pack and single
10-15 oz
Indeterminate
65
VFFNTASt
Beefsteak
Whopper, Parks
Imp/.
4-pack and single
Smooth, bright red, deep oblate fruits are sweet with a luscious flavor
that lives up to its blemish free looks. Tall vigorous plants will produce
yield after yield of these beauties.
Vigorous, stocky plants with red fruit that is crack resistant. Uniform in
size and taste.
4"
Indeterminate
65
VFFNT
This plant's strong stem supports its 48" height with very little need for
staking. Fruits are mouthwatering, sweet and meaty. Great for
container gardening.
Developed specifically for home gardeners. Its sugar-like flavor ranks
about the sweetest of all mid-sized tomatoes. Very disease resistant.
4"
Determinate
68
VFN
4-6 oz.
Determinate
70
VFFASt
Perfect for container gardening or limited space. Vines are extremely
compact, yet produce medium-sized, deep oblate fruits that are
smooth, firm and flavorful.
2”+4 oz.
Determinate
70
FASt
VFA
BUSH:
GOOD FOR GROWING IN CONTAINERS.
Bush
Better Bush/
4 pack and single
Bush
Homesweet/
single
Bush
Patio Hybrid/
single
CHERRY:
Cherry
GOOD FOR EATING FRESH, SWEETEN PARTY TRAYS,
TREATS FOR KIDS, AS A SNACK AND IN SALADS.
Husky Cherry
Red/
single
Large Red Cherry/
single
Dwarf plant habit makes it perfect for small spaces and containers.
Season long production of great tasting fruit.
1"
Dwarf
Indeterminate
65
Excellent salad tomato with clusters of 5 on spreading, hearty vines.
A full season plant with high yields of deep scarlet flavorful fruits
1"
Indeterminate
72
Cherry
Sunsugar/
single
½ oz
Indeterminate
62
Cherry
Super Sweet 100/
Sweeter than Sungold. The ultimate in cherry tomatoes, this golden
yellow beauty is sugary-sweet with a superb texture, and true tomato
taste.
The sweetest and most popular cherry tomato of them all. Heavy
yields of sweet fruit and high in Vitamin C
1"
Indeterminate
65
Cherry
single
VF
GRAPE:
GOOD FOR EATING FRESH, SWEETEN PARTY TRAYS,
TREATS FOR KIDS, AS A SNACK AND IN SALADS.
Grape
Juliet/
single
Elongated grape-like fruits that don’t crack. Clusters of unusual, sweet
fruits cling to the vine longer than other cherry tomatoes.
1 oz
Indeterminate
60
Grape
Red Grape/
single
1 ½” x1”
Indeterminate
60
Grape
Sweet Hearts/
single
Yellow Pear/
single
Oval to oblong tiny red grape shaped fruits are firm meaty, and sweet.
They have few seeds with a delicious chewy texture and skins that
don’t crack.
One of the best on the market. Sweet, irresistible, delicious. Vigorous
plant bears early with clusters of fruit. Crack resistant. Good shelf life.
Pear shaped small yellow fruit. This is an old variety that we have
sold for years.
¼ oz
Indeterminate
60
2”
Indeterminate
78
Heirloom
Anna Russian
Single
TIME TESTED, HONEST-TO-GOODNESS,
OLD FASHIOINED FLAVORS.
Large, juicy pinkish red heart shaped tomatoes. Small foliage
and wispy vines. Juicy outstanding taste.
1lb.
Indeterminate
65-70
Heirloom
Black Krim/
single
10 oz.
Indeterminate
69
Heirloom
Brandywine
single
10 oz
Indeterminate
95
Heirloom
Cherokee Purple/
single
8-12 oz
Indeterminate
85
Heirloom
Golden Jubilee/
single
An unusual, novelty tomato. Fruits are a dark, deep red (almost black)
with heavy green shoulders. Interior is a deep reddish-green color.
Sweet and tasty, matures extremely early.
Rosy-pink, Amish Heirloom that is generally considered to be the
world’s best flavored tomato. Fruits are large with potato shaped
leaves.
A reliable producer of unusual, medium pink-purple fruits that are
brown in color. Fruits are round to oblate with no cracking. Exhibits
tolerance to mild drought as well as common diseases.
Mild flavor makes this one of the best varieties for tomato juice. Bright
golden fruits have thick, meaty walls. Fruits are solid with few seeds.
6-7 oz.
Indeterminate
72
Heirloom
Kellogg’s
Breakfast/
single
Mortgage Lifter/
single
Lovely, pale-orange fruits are solid and meaty throughout, packed with
mild, superb tasting flesh. A long-season producer of large beefsteaktype fruits with solid centers with few seeds.
An old pink variety still in demand by gardeners. Very meaty with few
seeds. Disease resistant. Lots of fruit.
16 oz
Indeterminate
80
2 lbs.+
Indeterminate
85
VFN
Rutgers Select/
4-pack and single
Old-time favorite, ideal for canning. Ripens evenly from the inside out.
Bright red fruits with heavy walls. Full-bodied flavor.
5 oz
Determinate
82
VFASt
Grape
HEIRLOOM:
Heirloom
Heirloom
F
PASTE:
GOOD FOR MAKING SAUCES, SALSA AND TOMATO
PASTE.
Paste/
Heirloom
Paste
Amish Paste/
single
Big Mama/
single
Deep red fruits best for sauces and canning. Real tomato flavor.
6-10 oz.
Indeterminate
74
6 oz.
Indeterminate
80
Roma/
4-pack and single
Enormous meaty fruits up to 5” long and 3” across. Practically
seedless. A new standard in paste tomatoes with great flavor for
sauces and salsas
Most well-known paste-type tomato. Perfect for sauces, pastes and
ketchup. Bright red, pear-shaped fruits with very few seeds.
Paste
2 oz
Determinate
76
Paste/
Heirloom
San Marzano/
single
Early, large, plum-shaped Roma tomato is a sweet, classic Italian
paste variety. Very productive and high yielding.
5-8 oz
Indeterminate
70-80
Paste
SuperSauce/
single
Produces gallons of luscious, seedless sauce from a single plant
harvest. One tomato fills an entire sauce jar.
10-12 oz.
Indeterminate
70
Paste
Viva Italia/
4-pack and single
The very first of all hybrid paste types. Very adaptable, with the
classic, blocky pear shape. Exceptionally high yielder.
2-3 oz
Determinate
72
VFFNASt
SLICER:
VFN
GOOD FOR SANDWICHES, SALADS, SALSA AND
SAUCES
Slicer
Celebrity/
4-pack and single
Firm, flavorful, globe-shaped fruits which are crack-resistant. A strong
plant structure and on old favorite
8 oz
Determinate
72
VFFNT
Slicer
Champion/
4-pack and single
The earliest full sized tomato with round red fruits that are solid, meaty
and sweet
6-8 oz.
Indeterminate
62
VFNT
Slicer
Early Girl/
4-pack and single
Early slicing tomato with meaty, firm textured fruits. Vigorous plants
yields globe shaped fruits all summer. Resistant to cracking.
4-6 oz.
Indeterminate
60
VFF
Slicer
Jet Star
4-pack and single
“Real tomato” flavorful fruits that are smooth, juicy, flattened globes
with consistently huge yields and good disease resistance.
8 oz
Indeterminate
64
VFFNASt
Slicer
Lemon Boy
single
Scarlet Red/
single
Mild flavor and aptly named- it is a bright lemon yellow tomato.
6 oz
Indeterminate
72
10-13 oz.
Determinate
73
6-8 oz
Semideterminate
70
8-10 oz.
Indeterminate
68
Slicer
Slicer
Super Sioux/
4-pack and single
Extra large fruits have a deep red color with a scarlet red interior and
have excellent firmness and shelf life. Works well for mature green or
vine ripe harvest. Vigorous plant, high yield.
Sets fruit well in spite of the heat and dry conditions. Thick walled,
crack free, red fruits are abundant with an acidic flavor.
Slicer/
Seedless
Sweet Seedless
Hybrid/
single
World’s first seedless tomato! The lack of seeds gives an immediate
sweeter taste than other tomatoes. Its disease resistance ensures
healthy yields.
VFSt
**DETERMINATE: Tomatoes that reach a certain plant height and then stop growing,
with most fruit borne during a four to six week period.
**INDETERMINATE: Tomatoes continue to grow and flower throughout the season but have less mature fruits at any one time.
***DISEASE CODES:
V - Verticillium
F - Fusarium Wilt
St - Stemphylium Gray Leaf Spot
N - Nematodes
T - Tobacco Mosaic Virus
FF - Fusarium Races 1 & 2
A - Alternaria stem canker
FIVE AVOIDABLE TOMATO PROBLEMS
Here are some common tomato fruit problems not caused by insects or disease. Tomato experts call the stresses physiological
problems, meaning the cause has to do with functioning of the plant itself, not with any outside agent.
Blossom-End Rot: Brown-black sunken areas appear on the blossom end of green or ripening fruit. Causes: Insufficient calcium
levels in the developing fruit cause the cells in the blossom end to break down. Though insufficient levels of calcium in the soil may
be the cause, it is more likely it is caused by fluctuating moisture levels. You generally see this early in the season. This is why it is
important to apply a mulch which helps retain water in the soil. What to do: Pick and destroy rotten fruits, keep soil evenly moist
throughout the rest of the season, apply a complete fertilizer and add mulch.
Blotchy Ripening (Graywall): Light green or clear blotches on green fruit that gradually turn yellow and uneven ripening. Often
the tomato is rotten inside. Causes: Graywall is most often caused by shade and cool temperatures followed by bright, sunny
weather. Excessive foliage growth also causes it, so the most vigorous indeterminate tomato varieties are the most susceptible. It
occurs more often in plants growing in soggy soils. What to do: Plant determinate bush varieties or stake or cage plants to allow
sufficient light to reach the fruit.
Fruit Cracks: When ripening, fruits crack around the stem end and along the side, and the fruits rot. Causes: Abruptly alternating
wet and dry periods cause cracking. When the plant takes up deep drinks of moisture after a dry spell, the fruit cells expand too fast
and burst, and the skin cracks. What to do: Keep the soil evenly moist, especially during ripening, mulch and don’t over fertilize.
Green Shoulders: The ”shoulder” on the tomato’s stem end stay green and hard as the rest of the fruit ripens. Cause: Normally
chlorophyll breaks down as the fruit ripens. However, in some varieties, during periods of high temperatures and direct sun
exposure, the chlorophyll does not break down, or does so too slowly. What to do: This problem is most common in heirloom
varieties that happen to lack the gene for uniform ripening. Most modern hybrids have this gene and rarely develop green
shoulders.
Sunscald: Fruit has lighter-colored leathery patches and it usually rots. Cause: This discoloration is like a sunburn. Fruits
exposed either suddenly or continually to hot sun develop sunscald, which is most likely to occur on varieties that don’t produce
enough leaves. What to do: Avoid pruning leaves or stems while the fruit is ripening and consider shading the fruit. A small
section of shade cloth or row cover would suffice. Finally, try to reduce the severity of leaf diseases such as early and late blight,
common fungal diseases.