FREE: 30 Rutger Tomato Seeds

The listing, 30 Rutger Tomato Seeds has ended.

This auction is for 30 Rutger tomato seeds.

The Rutger tomato was developed to cultivate the following attributes:

- Pleasing flavor and taste of the juice;
- More uniform sparkling red internal color ripening from center of the tomato outward;
- Smooth skin;
- Freedom from fruit cracking;
- 'Second early' maturity;
- Handsome flattened globe shape;
- Vigorous healthy foliage to ripen more fruit and reduce sunscald;
- Firm thick fleshy fruit walls for its time, though considered extremely soft by today's definition of tomato firmness;
- Uniformity true to type in the field.

From: http://www.njfarmfresh.rutgers.edu/WhatabouttheRutgersTomato.htm

These are supposed to be one of the easiest tomato varieties to grow. Produces a tasty, meaty tomato for eating fresh or for -cooking and canning.

Sow seed indoors in warm, well-lit area six to ten weeks before last frost, or sow directly outdoors in warm areas. Keep moist.

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