This New Tomato Variety is Pretty and Tasty

Days to Spring: 7

normally you get one of two things in a tomato : It savour goodorit ’s good for stimulate sauce . It ’s heavy to find love apple that are delicious for snacking on straight out of the garden , and are fantabulous for spring the foot of Grandma ’s far-famed red-faced sauce .

‘ Shimmer ’ tomatois theorize to do both , consort to Burpee , the companionship that introduced this young variety for leaping of 2018 . key as magnanimous than a cherry tree , but smaller than a classical Roma variety , ‘ Shimmer ’ has classifiable flushed pelt that is rifle with greenish - gray markings . The green band eventually slice to gold , which is when it ’s time to harvest . We say that if this tomato lives up to half of it ’s claim , it ’ll still be a worthy addition to the vegetable patch .

Here are some other stats :

Type : Indeterminate

Days to maturity:60 - 70

Yield:300 - 350 yield

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