Our 2025 EFN seed catalogue is now live! Featuring over 130 new varieties and over 640 total varieties, sourced from over 50 different growers from across the country. Huge thanks to all of our growers, volunteers, and to our stellar seed-house team in Minnesota! Each of you make this work possible.

Neandermato
Neandermato

Neandermato

Regular price $3.75 Sale

Solanum habrochaites

Origin: Paradise, Utah

Improvement status: Breeding population

Seeds per packet: ~25

Germination tested 10/2024: 81%

Life cycle: Annual

Another exciting addition to the EFN catalogue care of Joseph Lofthouse of Paradise, Utah. From Joseph: "Closely related to domestic tomatoes, 'Neandermato' can act as a pollen donor to them. These are a green-fruited wild progenitor of "The Beautifully Promiscuous and Tasty Tomato Project." Multiple varieties were combined into a single population which was selected for ability to grow in short-season gardens. It has done well in both spring and fall frost/cold tolerance trails. It may contain other important traits that were lost during domestication of tomatoes. The stigmas are exerted for easier cross-pollination. This population seems self-incompatible, so a number of plants should be grown together for proper pollination. Some seeds may have been pollinated by other wild species, or by interspecies hybrids. Indeterminate." If any non-green fruits show up, Joseph would love seeds from them!