Delicious Tomato

Delicious is the first and only tomato plant that I have grown from seed. This variety us the best tasting tomato I have ever put in my mouth. The size of the fruit is a definite show stopper. Except for a couple of cherry tomato plants for salads and San Moranzo for sauce, I have no need or desire to ever plant another variety.

First time grown. Tomatoes good size -not huge. I allowed 2 leaders per plant (5 plants) and they are 6ft tall. Velvety texture, well flavored.
Susceptible to sunburned leaves which hang vertically close to the main stalk. Pony poo in water drink twice every 3 weeks. Take a long time to color up; so a latish tomato. One main stem (2 ft long) broke in wind; placed in water bucket; produced roots and is growing strongly after planting out.

great robust plant, very tall, big yield. fruit large, juicy and taste great. will grow again in 2023

I grew four of these plants last summer from seed and also planted several other common types available for our area. The 'Delicious' grew large and with gusto! Outpacing the others. Within a few months my sturdy tomato cages were bent over and crushed from the lush growth. The tomatoes were large and DEEElicious! My family's official favorite tomato. Tastes like tomatoes tasted when I was a kid in the 60's. Full bodied and satisfying. No other tomato I've grown has compared to the great flavor of 'Delicious'. Lots of meat, few seed pockets. In the heat of summer I had to keep early blight under control and found that diluted household peroxide sprayed on the plants every few days, although didn't eliminate it, REALLY kept it from spreading ... (Google the many benefits of Peroxide in the garden.) My plants continued producing into fall, and the blight disappeared with the cooler weather. I will defiantly be replanting these every year!

I have 22 of these set out, I have not suckered them at all and they are well over 6' tall bushes (beginning of August). Don't be misled these are huge plants and heavy feeders. I'm having to side dress them every other week with 20-20-20 just to keep them happy. The tomatoes on the bottom of the plants are just starting to turn red and are huge (did I say HUGE? - I think I did). I have not picked any tomatoes yet so I have not weighed them but I would venture to say most of the lower ones are well in excess of 2 lbs and a few have got to be upwards of 3 lbs. Don't bother with stakes they have broken my 2x2 oak stakes off at the ground. I had to go and get fence and make cages for all 22 of them.

Prolific and huge, great for canning