New Yorker Tomato | Solanum lycopersicum | Certified Organic
An early producer, excellent for canning and processing.
New Yorkers don't have time to wait around. This cold-tolerant, early season tomato produces some of the first fruits in your garden. And, just like a new musical on Broadway, after a sensational start and well-attended short run, this tomato will cede the spotlight to the newer, brighter tomatoes ripening in the next block of your garden. Consider the New Yorker a tasty and versatile opening act.
This reliable early-crop tomato is terrific for salads, canning, sauces, and slicing. Produces tons of small, attractive, orangey-red fruit that come earlier than nearly any other variety.
Determinate. Sow indoors 3-8 weeks before last frost, then transplant after frost into good garden soil. Pruning not necessary; harvest is condensed for about 3 or 4 weeks at the very beginning of tomato season. When few tomatoes remain, pull up plants and shelf-ripen the fruit.
Days to Germination 3-10 days
Days to Maturity 63 days from transplant
Planting Depth ¼"
Spacing in Row 24"
Spacing Between Rows 36"
Height at Maturity 60"
Sun Preference Full Sun
Growth Habit Determinate
Artwork by Rachelle Cohen. Rachelle makes drawings, paintings, and collages about place using the language of maps. Here, she envisions verdant community gardens and urban farms all over the five boroughs overflowing with a bounty of tomatoes.
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.