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No. 059 · open-pollinated

New Yorker

New Yorker is a determinate open-pollinated slicer with scarlet red, smooth slightly flattened globe fruit. It ripens in about 65 days.

Typeslicer
Habitdeterminate
Days to maturity65
Fruit size4 to 6 oz
Colorscarlet red, smooth slightly flattened globe
Difficultyeasy

Flavor

Described as a meaty, well-balanced early red tomato, dependable rather than complex. This is the recurring catalog and grower description, not a measured claim.

Origin

An early determinate red slicer associated with the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, bred for northern, cool, short-season conditions.

What it does well

  • Sets fruit reliably in cool, short-season conditions
  • Compact determinate bush around 3 feet
  • Reported resistance to verticillium wilt and some tolerance to early disease

Where it frustrates

  • Determinate habit gives a concentrated harvest
  • Mild flavor compared with later heirlooms

Like New Yorker, but...

Sold out, or after a change? The closest alternatives, and how they differ.

Manitobabut a New York variety rather than a Canadian prairie oneMoskvichbut a determinate bush rather than an indeterminate vine

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