Solanum lycopersicum
Origin: Massachusetts
Improvement status: Cultivar
Seeds per packet: ~25
Germination tested 10/25: 80%
Life cycle: Annual
From our friends at Freed Seed Foundation in southeastern Massachusetts' Farm Coast, 'Petite Dame' is a semi-dwarf pink slicing tomato. Plants grow to between 3 and 4 feet all and are loaded with pink slicers of varying sizes between 8 and 12 ounces. The fruit possess a rare combination of thick skin and excellent flavor, and they're also extremely crack-resistant and keep surprisingly long off the plant. Selected under intense disease pressure in the coastal northeast, where all manner of plant diseases arrive on the wind and with insects from the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest, these are some tough, resilient tomatoes.
Bred by Freed Seed Federation, in collaboration with Crabapple Farm of Chesterfield, Massachusetts, and with support from a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant, these seeds were grown by Freed Seed Federation.
GROWING TIPS: Start indoors a few weeks before last frost and plant out once the soil begins to warm a few weeks after last frost.
