Box Car Willie Tomato
Boxcar willie tomatoes are about 8 12 ounces and very clean.
Box car willie tomato. Even my friends out in texas reported to have better luck with these than many others. We grow our boxcar willie tomato plants organically and guarantee them to arrive alive and thriving. Good choice for a canning tomato sauce tomato salad tomato or tomato juice. This prolific heirloom is better than most of today s hybrids and its round red fruits are 12 18 oz.
Here is a tomato that would work well in hotter conditions. Box car willie kentucky beefstake etc. 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. Boxcar willie tomato plants are prolific producers of smooth reddish orange fruits with that wonderful old fashioned tomato flavor.
Box car willie is a great choice if you re looking for good old fashioned flavor. About box car willie named for the singer boxcar willie of the grand ole opry who s real name was lecil travis martin. The indeterminate vines produce excellent crack free disease tolerant tomatoes with a sweet yet tart flavor. Takes the heat well.
They have a great old fashioned flavor that could stand up with any slicer. What this variety offers is a very heavy crop of good sized smooth red tomatoes with delicious flavor ranging from 6 to 10 ounces. 12 16 ounce tomatoes are great for slicing canning or freezing. Vines are hard working and produce well all season long.
Because of their abundance and medium to large size they could well be a mainstay of your crop providing excellent tasting fruit for a variety of uses throughout a long season. Regular leaf vines are also great with diseases. Excellent tasting tomatoes and very juicy. Box car willie tomato.
Boxcar willie is a slightly flattened new jersey tomato variety by joe bratka s father. Slightly flattened produces 10 16 oz smooth fruits bright red orange tinged. If grown in containers box car willie overwinters extremely well even in a 50f area with only a small amount of light. Quick service and excellent product boxcar willie started slow but really turned out great seems the july heat here in florida slowed them down but they are great taste and firm.
While some tomatoes do poorly in wet conditions it seems to grow best in mud and an inch or so of standing water. New jersey variety by joe bratka s father probably named for box car willie. A good all season tomato that produces until frost arrives. Plants grown in very wet conditions often grow well over 10 feet long.