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

Cold Set Tomato Plants

Sow Seed Directly into Your Garden

(5 customer reviews)

Gurney's Choice Cold Set Open-Pollinated Tomato Plants are the easiest tomatoes you can grow. Cold Set Open-Pollinated Tomatoes tolerate 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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- Sunday, February 03, 2008
good stuff
Reviewed By: greg (harrodsburg, ky)
Over the past years this has been the most consistent type of plant I've grown. And last year was about as bad a drought as there has been around here in a while.

- Saturday, April 19, 2008
Best for short growing season
Reviewed By: Kari (Bozeman, MT)
I grew 6 of these plants two summers ago and we had tomatoes galore! Very nice, easy to grow, tasty! But, best of all we were able to have tomatoes in Bozeman MT where winter can arrive early. I have given up on other tomato types since they were still green when we usually get our first frost. I regretted not getting any of these last year and am ordering them again this year. Can hardly wait for our August crop!!!

- Sunday, January 28, 2007
Cold Set Tomato
Reviewed By: Cusson (Manchester, NH)
These plants produced uniformly, nice and tasty, tennis ball sized fruits that was easy to grow. We were also amazed at how long these plants kept growing when all our other tomato varieties failed in our colder temperatures. The plants and fruits survived light frosts, without any cover. We harvested the green fruit the night before a killing frost moved in, hoping they would ripen on their own, but they didn't. We are trying a second season with this variety again. These plants love Miracle Gro fertilizer and direct sun light.

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