Tomato 'VR Moscow'

This is a great tomato. Wonderful flavor. I live in northern Utah, too. A family in a nearby town would plant a huge field of these, w...Read Morehich I picked and canned every year. They are great for canning as another poster said. They are more acidic than contemporary tomatoes. So when canning one doesn't have to add vinegar or lemon juice, which just seems wrong.

My neighbor gave me three of them this spring, so I will come back to this thread and let you all know how they did.

This variety is not from Russia! It was developed in the 50's for commercial production in Utah. It's name likely comes from Moscow, ID...Read More. VR stands for Verticillium Resistant. There are also just 'Moscow' tomatoes. Some of these are also from the Intermountain West, but others may be from Russia - so the name has become rather ambiguous.

Moscow tomato is available commercially in nurseries in Utah. I am not sure if this tomato is the same as V.R. Moscow. My family has grow...Read Moren it for years as their best canning tomato because of its abundant crop of 2-3 inch tomatoes. They fit perfectly into the narrow mouth bottles. The plants I grew last year seemed to be semi-determinant as most fruit seemed to come ripe at once, but it still had some tomatoes coming ripe later in the season. My 4 moscow plants got so loaded with fruit that they bent over and smashed my large sized wire tomato cages. My family values this tomato for its flavor as well. It does very well in the Northern Utah climate.

A late season round red.