Box Car Willie Tomato History

80 days we predict this old timer might become your main crop variety due to its prolific yields of smooth reddish orange fruits averaging a large 10 to 16 oz.

Box car willie tomato history. Here are a series of reviews i am doing on about 100 verities of peppers an 80 verities of tomatoes i am gro. Boxcar willie was originally a character in a ballad he wrote but he later adopted it as his. 2012 was the first time i grew bcw. Could be named for box car willie a singer with the grand ole opry whose real name is lecil travis martin.

They have a great old fashioned flavor that could stand up with any slicer. On mar 23 2013 zark from elysburg pa zone 5b wrote. Growing the box car willie for the first time here in utah wasatch front. Slightly flattened produces 10 16 oz smooth fruits bright red orange tinged.

We grow our boxcar willie tomato plants organically and guarantee them to arrive alive and thriving. Vines are hard working and produce well all season long. Boxcar willie tomatoes are about 8 12 ounces and very clean. Boxcar willie is a slightly flattened new jersey tomato variety by joe bratka s father.

New jersey variety by joe bratka s father probably named for box car willie. Regular leaf vines are also great with diseases. Good choice for a canning tomato sauce tomato salad tomato or tomato juice. Box car willie tomato 00103.

Even my friends out in texas reported to have better luck with these than many others. 12 16 ounce tomatoes are great for slicing canning or freezing. Boxcar willie tomato seeds produce indeterminate regular leaf tomato plants that yield big crops of 10 16 oz red tomatoes with delicious well balanced sweet tart flavors. I have only 1plant and it s growing very well lots of fruit getting very tall not rippening yet mid august.

Love the name of this tomato. Lecil travis martin september 1 1931 april 12 1999 whose stage name was boxcar willie was an american country music singer songwriter and enlisted united states air force flight engineer who sang in the old time hobo music style complete with dirty face overalls and a floppy hat. Joe found the seeds for this tomato and several others red barn mule team and great divide in a toolshed could not get the seeds to germinate and sent them to carolyn male who succeeded in germinating the seed and shared. About box car willie named for the singer boxcar willie of the grand ole opry who s real name was lecil travis martin.

A good all season tomato that produces until frost arrives. Boxcar willie tomato plants are prolific producers of smooth reddish orange fruits with that wonderful old fashioned tomato flavor.