Stone Ridge Tomato | Solanum lycopersicum
Use for fresh eating, roasting, or saucing.
Larry Fuchser of Stone Ridge, New York, gave us the original seeds of this variety, along with this memorable description: "Mine have a rich, bulbous, deeply creased full-bodied sensuosity," wrote Larry in the G-rated part of his email. "May her sexy hips live long and flourish." If you find any that are, in his words, "pathetically acuminated," please don't save seed from those. Rather, help us keep Stone Ridge curvaceous by selecting the wider, rounder, and more deeply lobed fruit.
Indeterminate. Start indoors 6-10 weeks before last frost. Transplant after all threat of frost has passed. Begin pruning and staking when plants reach 12-18" high. Can reach heights up to 8'. Requires full sun, moderate soil, and infrequent watering. Harvest when fruits begin to soften, when coloured red with yellow-green shoulders.
Days to Germination 3-10 days
Days to Maturity 90 days from transplant
Planting Depth ¼"
Spacing in Row 18-24"
Spacing Between Rows 36"
Height at Maturity 78"
Sun Preference Full Sun
Growth Habit Indeterminate
Artwork by Josephine Bloodgood. Josephine is an artist and curator living in New York's Hudson Valley. She has exhibited paintings at galleries and small museums across the United States.
About Hudson Valley Seed Company
They are a values-driven seed company that practices and celebrates responsible seed production and stewardship. Hudson Valley are best known for their beautiful artist-design seed packs (Art Packs) that appeal to gardeners, gift buyers, and lovers of art and nature.
These Art Packs, most fundamentally, tell stories. Hudson Valley challenges artists to convey in a manner that is fully their own, the history and meaning of the seed variety contained in each pack. These stories were once integral to traditional societies-stories of seeds were often origin stories for entire communities and peoples, and the lore and beliefs that accumulated around seed varieties reflected the nearly familial way in which gardeners and farmers regarded their crops. Our society is, by and large, no longer connected to plants this way. But we like to think these Art Packs help to stitch our fragmented world back together: useful seeds, evocative art, both equally valuable to our experience of being human.