Size: #4
Description: Jubilee tomatoes are higher in vitamin C and less acidic than most other tomatoes. They are orange with sweet, meaty flesh and grow on indeterminate plants that can be short-stemmed and stiff. They were chosen as an All American Selection winner in 1943.
Spacing: Plant 18″ apart.
Height: Grows 4′ to 5′ tall.
How To Grow: Plant in full sun.
Outstanding Features: Fruit is ready about mid-season.
Tips: Tomatoes will grow in any good garden soil that is properly drained. Good drainage is necessary to prevent “blossom-end rot”. The ground should be tilled deeply before the tomatoes are planted. The soil should also be enriched with compost, leaf mold, peat moss or commercial humus. Manure can be used, if at all, with caution. Set plants out after danger from frost has passed and plant them a bit deeper than what they were growing in their containers. If your plants are a bit spindly, plant them on their sides and cover with dirt up to their first leaves. Roots will grow along the buried stem and produce sturdier plants. To avoid wilts and other serious problems, rotate tomatoes and other related vegetables (peppers, tomatoes, eggplants) with non-related vegetables such as legumes and cucurbits (squash, cucumbers). Check out plant tags to see what a tomato variety is resistant to. Look for the designations V (resists verticillium wilt), F or FF (fusarium wilt), N (nematodes), T (tobacco mosaic virus) and A (alternaria). In addition, look for number of days until harvest (DTH) and the terms determinate and indeterminate. Determinate types (D) grow to a certain height and stop. Indeterminate types (I) continue to grow and bear fruit over a longer period of time.
Uses: Garden Vegetable/Fruit
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