Tomato 'Harvard square'

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PACKAGING: Sachet Zip lock 12 - 15 SEEDS


It is a multicolored and sweet tomato being a real catch!

1. Original Name: Harvard Square.

2. History: First offered for the Seed Savers 2007 Yearbook by Martin Longseth of Sun Prairie (Wisconsin, USA) who received the seeds from Pat Yourell of Old Webster Farm (Sparta, Wisconsin, USA). Later Martin described it in the 2014 SSE Yearbook: “This was sort of Green Copia.”

3. Plant Specifications: Mid-season. A good choice for growing both in a greenhouse and outdoors. Indeterminate, tall bush, growing 6-6.5 feet (180-200 cm) tall. Thick stem. Regular leaf. Regular truss with 3-5 large fruits per truss as a rule.

4. Training Instructions: It is recommended to train the bush to one, two or three main stems. If you train the bush to more stems, the plant will produce small fruits. Staking and pruning are a must. Staking may also be necessary for the first trusses of fruits.

5. Shape and Weight: Beefsteak fruits. Sometimes large fruits may have small ribs near the stem end. Weight: 10.6-14.1 oz. (300-400 g) (or a little less for the upper clusters).

6. Color: The fruits are of a very beautiful color! They are rather green with pale green, dark green, olive-green and bronze stripes near the stem end.  The stripes are red, pink and crimson in the upper part. The flesh is even more beautiful in a cut. Most of the flesh is green being yellowish close to the center and bright pink in the middle. The seed cavities are pale green. Ripe tomatoes are more beautiful in a cut.

7. Flavor Profile: The taste is excellent! Very sweet and flavorful. Many tomato breeders love it. The flesh is buttery. The fruits are fairly meaty and juicy.

8. Culinary Use: Perfect for eating fresh in salads, snacks or juices. Fruits of a smaller size will be a good choice for canning. A perfect variety for canning juices. Fruits do not keep well as this is a salad-type variety. If you pick them when they are a little unripe, they will keep for a week at most.

It is a stable variety but the color of the fruits may become rather blurry than multicolored in the scalding sun. The fruits turn light pink. No lycopene or carotene is produced in tomatoes at the temperature of +30˚C and the color becomes not so bright. If you want your tomatoes to be of a bright color, you can use some shading when it is really hot.

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