Cold Set Tomato | Tomato Seed from Gurney's Seed and Nursery

Cold Set Tomato Seeds

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Gurney's Choice Cold Set Open-Pollinated Tomato is the easiest tomato you can grow. Tolerates light frost (withstood 18 degree temperatures in Canadian trials.) Direct seed it, then sit back and wait--but you won't wait for long! Ripens 2 weeks earlier than most. Firm 3- to 4-inch fruits are big on flavor. You won't find a better salad tomato. Determinate vines. 65 DAYS.

Tomatoes offer so many delicious possibilities-slice them, sauce them, can them, or turn them into salsa!

Selection Tip: when choosing varieties, keep in mind that “determinates” ripen over 3-4 weeks on bushy vines that usually need no staking. “Indeterminate” vines continue to grow and produce fruit all season until frost. The large vines need support.

Product Details

Zones: 3 - 9 annual
Height: 2.5 feet
Spacing: 18-24 inches between plants, 3-5 feet between rows
Depth: 1/4 inch
Spread: see comments
Sun/Shade: full sunlight, insufficient light will cause for vines to be tall and spindly.
Germination: 8-10 days
Pollinator: self. Both male and female flowers are present on each plant.
Days To Maturity: 65 days from transplant
Yield: 100 lbs/100 foot row

Fruit: Round, firm, deep red, meaty, cold resistant. Size 3 inches, 4-6 ozs.
Comments: Determinate. Cold-resistant. Can sow seed directly into garden, seed will germinate in cool soils and cool weather but it will not tolerate continuous wet weather. Plants are self-pruning. 3 foot vines, tend to be upright.
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- Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Surprisingly good short-season tomato
Reviewed By: Atash (Seattle, WA)
I'm in a cool northerly coastal climate. We've been having a series of cold Springs in recent years, so I tried this one because I was worried about the possibility of tomatoes not ripening before the autumn rains hit. As expected, it had no trouble ripening. Unlike many short-season tomatoes, this one has interior walls like a beefsteak type (or in other words it's not all gelatinous seed-chambers). It has a fairly typical "old-fashioned" flavor, a bit tart with slightly sweet overtones. The tomatoes vary in size and shape, but not too much. They are serviceable for sandwiches. Less trouble with blossom end rot or splitting than most of the other tomatoes I grew. Although it is a determinate, thankfully the fruit doesn't ripen all at once as happens on some determinate types; it's actually been spaced out fairly well making harvesting easier. The "vines" are fairly open, too, also making it easier to harvest.

- Sunday, October 04, 2009
not very cold hardy
Reviewed By: Jonas (Ogilvie , mn )
Wasn't to impressed with these lost some to spring frost and an early 28 degrees did the rest in tasted good but fruit was small other variteys performed better for me this year

- Friday, April 03, 2009
Told it couldn't be done
Reviewed By: Travis Miller (Ely , NV)
I live at 6,400 ft elevation with a very short growing season begining about mid June and ending about mid September. Nights throughout the summer are cool and I have had little success getting other types of tomatoes to mature before the the first frost. I decided to give Cold Set a try and to my amazement I had mature tomatoes by mid August and produced enough to make salsa, give to friends, and just enjoy eating a ripe tomatoe picked right from the garden.

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