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

Cold Set Tomato Seeds

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(6 customer reviews)

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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Cold Set Tomato Seeds Ships In Both Spring And Fall
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- Saturday, January 27, 2007
cold set tomato
Reviewed By: joseph ferguson (vancleave, mississippi)
best first spring tomato plant withstands cold freezing temperatures and late frost well; sets fruit before most other tomato plants bloom. large clusters of fruit for slicing and canning. finish barring before summer heat.

- Saturday, December 08, 2007
THIS TOMATO IS GREAT!!!
Reviewed By: Danny Grogg (Aloha, Oregon)
This tamato tastes GREAT! Perfectly Round too! But most of all, IT WITH STOOD TEMPETURES DOWN TO 15 DEGREES! THAT'S FOR BOTH THE PLANT AND THE TOMATOES! Try it your self!

- Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Not just for northern gardners!
Reviewed By: Lee Willis (Surprise, Arizona)
I started my seeds indoors last October. I transplanted them outside in late November. The small plants grew all winter and set fruit. I am now (Mar 09) harvesting the first fruit and am loving this new variety. We only had two light frosts this winter in the Phoenix area. I never covered my two Cold Set plants, yet they grew and set fruit all winter - plus they taste great! I will plant earlier this year. Maybe I'll be harvesting next February! The plants tend to grow sideways so I caged them. They also seem prone to blossom end rot. I did plant them with crushed eggshells in the ground. I'm ordering the spray for that so hopefully that problem will be resolved.

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