| 80 days from setting out transplants. F1F2VT. Indeterminate. These lovely pear-shaped fruits look like heirlooms and taste like them, too! The skin is ribbed and quite thick, standing up to rough weather nicely. The flavor is a juicy, tangy tomato bite, highly aromatic and really tasty. But the disease resistance and vigor of this plant is entirely modern! An excellent choice for salads, these fruits weigh in at 10 1/2 to 14 ounces, packed with a good blend of solids and gels. The flesh is firm but the bite is succulent -- a delicious fresh-eating tomato! And they ripen very uniformly on the vine, with no green shoulders. You can handle them a bit more roughly then some of the more thin-skinned types, and they won't crack or burst as easily. An Italian variety, Battito Hybrid is a great choice for beginning gardeners and seasoned tomato growers alike. The great disease-resistance package includes races 1 and 2 of Fusarium, plus Verticillium Wilt and Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Easy to grow, heavy-bearing over a long season, and delicious, Battito Hybrid should be front and center of everybody's tomato patch! Start seeds indoors 5 to 6 weeks before the last frost date. Plant outdoors when danger of frost is past and night temperatures consistently remain above 55 degrees F. If an unexpected late frost is forecasted, protect young plants with plastic sheeting or other cover. Set plants 2 to 2 1/2 feet apart. Pkt is 10 seeds. |
