Nebraska Wedding Tomato

Nebraska Wedding

90 days, indeterminate — The regular-leaf plants of 'Nebraska Wedding' reach about five feet tall by the end of the season here on the farm in Oregon and produce beautiful, four-inch diameter, range from eight to twenty ounces each, smooth skinned, apricot-orange fruit that have an excellent, slightly tart flavor.

First listed in the 1983 Seed Savers Exchange Yearbook by Dorothy Beiswenger of Crookston, Minnesota. She described how she had received the seeds from a Mrs. Englert of Sandpoint, Idaho, who was seventy-two years old at that time. Mrs. Englert told a story that her pioneer ancestors from Minnesota had brought the seeds with them when they settled in western Nebraska in the late 1800's. It was Mrs. Englert's claim that the seeds of this tomato were given to Nebraska brides as wedding gifts. Each packet contains at least 20 seeds.