Sweet Adelaide Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Price: $2.95
SKU: 340343190 days, dwarf - A mid to late season, rugose, regular leaf dwarf, producing medium (average about eight ounces), oblate shaped, pink colored fruit with a balanced, delicious flavor. It is a vigorous and productive variety that makes a wonderful slicing tomato.
Developed by members of the "Dwarf Tomato Project" as a selection out of the "Happy family" ('New Big Dwarf' and 'Paul Robeson'), 'Sweet Adelaide' is the collaborative work of Patrina Nuske Small (who named it), Jeff Casey, Craig LeHoullier, David Lockwood, Lurley Hernandez, Ted Maiden, Doug Frank, Damon Huck,Tanya Kucak, and Bill Minkey. Introduced in 2014.
Developed by members of the "Dwarf Tomato Project" as a selection out of the "Happy family" ('New Big Dwarf' and 'Paul Robeson'), 'Sweet Adelaide' is the collaborative work of Patrina Nuske Small (who named it), Jeff Casey, Craig LeHoullier, David Lockwood, Lurley Hernandez, Ted Maiden, Doug Frank, Damon Huck,Tanya Kucak, and Bill Minkey. Introduced in 2014.
Fruit Color: Pink
Fruit Color: Purple
Special Groups: Container Friendly
Special Groups: Dwarf Tomato Project
Harvest Timing: Main Crop / Mid-Season
Harvest Timing: Late Season
Fruit Color: Purple
Special Groups: Container Friendly
Special Groups: Dwarf Tomato Project
Harvest Timing: Main Crop / Mid-Season
Harvest Timing: Late Season
Sow seeds indoors (do not direct sow into the garden), using sterile seed starting mix, 6 to 8 weeks before your last expected frost date. Plant 1/4" deep, water lightly but keep moist until emergence.
Full light and cooler temps (60° to 70°) will help to prevent the seedlings from becoming too leggy. If plants become rootbound before you can safely set them into the ground, transplant them into larger pots.
Harden off plants before planting outside. Young plants are very susceptible to frost and sunburn damage. Avoid too much nitrogen. Water evenly but not in excess.
Click here to view our full tomato growing guide.
Full light and cooler temps (60° to 70°) will help to prevent the seedlings from becoming too leggy. If plants become rootbound before you can safely set them into the ground, transplant them into larger pots.
Harden off plants before planting outside. Young plants are very susceptible to frost and sunburn damage. Avoid too much nitrogen. Water evenly but not in excess.
Click here to view our full tomato growing guide.
In an effort to keep this variety available to home gardeners, 'Sweet Adelaide' has been released by "The Dwarf Tomato Project" (the breeder) to the public under the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI). You have the freedom to use these OSSI-Pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, if you save seeds or use 'Sweet Adelaide' to breed a new variety, you pledge not to restrict others' use of these seeds or their derivatives by patents or other means, and to include this pledge with any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives. To learn more about this program, click here.
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★★★★☆ Another lovely pink tomato to try - a fine slicing type
By Craig LeHoullier on February 9, 2022
By Craig LeHoullier on February 9, 2022
What is nice about Sweet Adelaide is that it isn't as flashy as some of our releases. It is delicious, reliable and productive. It looks like a German Johnson type but is smoother, and the flavor doesn't have the musky off putting element that many indeterminate pink heirlooms possess. This can be a real workhorse of the tomato garden - simply a really good, attractive tomato with the useful compact, dwarf growing habit.
