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    Wickenburg - Prescott Heirloom

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      • Solanum lycopersicum. An Arizona heirloom tomato adapted to desert and high-desert growing conditions, the Wickenburg-Prescott Heirloom produces small, plum-type fruits with rich, balanced flavor. Plants mature quickly and tolerate arid conditions well.

      Excellent for fresh eating and sauce-making, these tomatoes have dense flesh and a mellow, "fulsome delicious" flavor, according to Chef Molly Beverly, our partner farmer who grew them in 2021 and helped preserve and research this regional variety.

      Chef Beverly also uncovered the history of this tomato in Prescott and beyond, linking it to former State Senator John Upton Hays who grew it in Prescott for years and shared the seed widely ... as well as to Dr. Floyd Burton Bralliar who likely developed the variety in Wickenburg, AZ  Read the full story here.  From our Seed Bank Collection

      • Origin: low desert about 2000' elevation, but also thrives in Prescott at 5300' elevation
      • Indeterminate (flowers continuously), bears until frost. 
      • This tomato needs trellising or some form of support
      • 75 days to maturity in Chino Valley AZ
      • Approx. 0.1g/25 seeds per packet.
      • Limit 3 packets

         

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      • $4.50
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      Michele Bashaw
      Growing these for 18 years!

      Always vigorous, productive, excellent for sauces, out of hand eating, and drying. I started with seed I originally bought from NSS in 2007 and have easily saved seed and grown Prescotts every year since. Our hot, dry summers and mild fall weather in Southern Oregon are perfect for this tomato.

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      Julie Etra

      Don't know yet

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      Kurt Magdic
      Just came up at 6 inch now.

      Germinations at 90 plus,Will not know until two months from now.

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      Laurie Smith
      I have found it!

      This is proving to be THE tomato I've been searching for. It has been the easiest tomato I have eve]er grown. Fast germination, sturdy, attractive vines that sailed through our Chihuahuan pre-monsoon June heat without a flinch, setting and ripening fruit the whole time. I just wish the fruits were a bit larger, but that certainly isn't a deal breaker. It sends out suckers so vigorously I can barely keep up with them and I'm rotting the big ones I snap off to make even more plants to get in during the monsoon season. And it TASTES GOOD! I've been recommending it to everyone here in Las Cruces.

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      Mary Nelson

      Too early to tell. Dog Stepped on the plant but it's coming back lots of small green tomatoes.

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