Tomato 'Virginia Sweets'

Huge, beautiful tomatoes and plenty on each plant. More delicate than some of our other varieties, but our favorite for sandwiches. No pr...Read Moreoblems with cracking or disease etc.... We did grow basil and marigolds in between the plants and they were all well fertilized with manure and then mulched with either decomposing wood chips, fall-bagged leaves or grass cuttings when we set them out in cages. Mulching helped a lot with disease, we think, with water conservation and with weeding. We grow several varieties of tomato every year, but we always try to make sure we have at least half a dozen Virginia Sweets plants.

Makes big, lovely, sweet tasting tomatoes. Taste is good. The plant seems to be resistant to the various problems other plants are havi...Read Moreng this year, but I have it in shade for half of the day unlike them, so it doesn't get as much intense heat and sun.
Not the most productive in number of fruit I got.

I grew this in the summer of 2011, along with Big Rainbow, Lucky Cross, and Old German. This was the winner for production, size and tast...Read Moree hands down!

It produced a healthy crop (25-30 per plant) of medium to large tomatoes with vibrant color, and excellent flavor and texture. The largest that year was 1.7 pounds. Most fruit were between 12 to 16 ounces. It set decently in the heat too, but it wasn't a brutally hot summer. Overall, this proved to be a winner for my So-Cal garden.

Good - for a bicolor. Slightly better tasting than Burrackers Favorite, IMO.