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2009 Growing Journal: Early Girl Tomato vs. Jetsetter Tomato

2010 Growing Journal Start Page:

- Siberian Tomato vs Stupice Tomato

- Bloody Butcher vs Gregori's Altai Tomato

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Early Girl vs Jetsetter
Comparison of Two Early Season Tomato Varieties

Disclaimer: The following Growing Journal is just one way to grow a Early Season tomato plant. There are many different methods, tips and do's and dont's on growing tomatoes. The following method is right for our climate zone, requirements, and situation. We hope that it will be helpful to readers. Also, tomatoes grown in containers larger than 5 gallons, (10 to 25 gallons) will produce more and larger fruit, but 5 gallon is what we have to work with this year.

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August 10, 2009

It's been awhile since the last update. July Temperatures were cool to mildly hot, and now we are back to hot in August and it has had some effect on the tomatoes. The tomatoes are getting cracked, pitted and Sun spotted easier. They are also ripening much faster. Even so, the production still is good and we are still getting good tomatoes to eat and sauce.

In the picture above, the Early Girl is on the left, the Jetsetter is on the right. The Early Girl has already completed it's first crop of tomatoes and is coming in with new, young fruit. The Jetsetter is ripe for picking with the last tomatoes from her first crop. Many of these tomatoes on both varities were smaller than earlier fruit that came in during early July.

During this time, I have been picking off a lot of yellow and dead, brown branches at the bottom of the tomato plants. I am not too worried about this and see it as normal. I just prune them off. The plant keeps producing tomatoes.

There is not much to report on. The tomatoes are doing their job and so am I. Still watering once a day. Next year, I'll be looking to grow early season tomatoes in larger containers. Ten to 20 gallon. We've purchased our dream home with 2.5 acres and have lots of ground for a garden and a green house. The property comes with a well so we'll have access to good ground water. We'll be moved in by the end of this tomato season.

End of Season Summary:

The season went on until early September, but had to end abruptly as we prepared to move all our belongings to our new dream home which features 2.5 acres (1 hectare) for gardening. Besides many other nice and convenient features offered, the property also has a well. Nice. Now we can get free water supply for our garden.

My experience with both of these hybird earl season tomatoes, Early Girl Tomato and Jetsetter Tomato was very, very positive and I would grow them again. The Early Girl's were more productive but smaller in size. The Jetsetter had decent production and offered some beautiful, perfectly shaped red round tomatoes that were larger than the Early Girls. Both tomatoes held up ok to the heat and resisted all major diseases without incidence. Hybrid tomatoes some time get a bad rap, imo, but bulk seed orders are inexpensive.

Anyway, we'll be seeding our 2010 crop soon. Be sure to check out our growing journal as we grow and report on two other famous early season tomatoes, the Stupice Tomato and the Siberian Tomato. It's the Czech's vs the Russians in this race to tomato glory!

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