Details

• Lycopersicon esulentum
• Open-Pollinated: yes
• Type: indeterminate
• Shape: typical tomato shape; labeled as a slicing tomato, but each year mine are no bigger than a large cherry tomato
• Color: pale yellow with a pink blush; matte finish, so it looks like peach fuzz
  

  Garden Peach Tomatoes (2014)

• Maturity: 80-90 days
• Size: 
  • 3-5 oz tomatoes, per seed packet
  • 1/2 oz in my garden
• Yield: I get about 1/2 lb from each plant
• Taste:
  • “memorably sweet with a bit of tartness”
  • good flavor
  • sweet tasting
• Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance:
  • susceptible to fusarium & verticillium wilts*
  • thin skin cracks easily with too much water or rain

Notes:

• *grafted on Supernatural rootstock made it resistant to the fungal wilts present in my garden soil, and it had the best production that I’ve ever seen in 5 years of growing this variety
• sprawling plant with 6-8 tomatoes per tress
• abundant phosphorous needed for early yields
• harvest mature tomatoes while still firm

Sources: (where to buy)

• Seeds of Change (no longer carried)
• Cross Country Nurseries
• may be the same as “Wapsipinicon” sold by Seed Savers Exchange

Results from My Garden:

• 2009: Notes: good production; loved the color and texture – almost translucent and slightly peach-colored; much smaller than expected, but good flavor
• 2011: flourished early-on, but wilted in July, then again in September (probably Verticillium), then died in October
• 2012: took off earlier than the other plants and grew massive; mid- to late-July it started wilting; was mostly dead by August
• 2014: grafting was definitely a success with this cultivar. Used Supernatural rootstock from Territorial Seed Co.

SEASON	SOURCE	DATES	SPACING	MATURITY	PLANTS	YIELD PER PLANT		AVG SIZE	DISEASE
2009	SoC seeds	early May	12″x18″	?	2	?	?	?	?
2010	SoC seeds	early May	18″x20″	90 days	2	17	8	0.5 oz
2011	SoC seeds	mid-Apr	12″x24″	98 days	1	15	7	0.5 oz	wilt (prob. V)
2012	SoC seeds	late May	18″x24″	63 days	1	14	5.2	0.4 oz	wilt (dead byAug)
2013	CCN seedling	mid-May	20″x20″	56 days	1	18	7.3	0.4 oz
2014	SoC seeds	mid-May	18″x24″	64 days	1	7	3.3	0.5 oz	wilt (dead by Aug)
2014 – grafted	SoC seeds & TSC rootstock seeds	early May	21″x21″	75 days	1	54	28.3	0.5 oz	None!!!