Size: 1204, #4
Description: Parks Whopper tomatoes are 4 inches or more across and ripen uniformly, even when it’s cloudy. They have a lot of meat to them so that you get more tomato flavor in every bite. The indeterminate plants produce large fruit until frost.
Spacing: Plant 18″ apart.
Height: Grows 4′ to 5′ tall.
How To Grow: Plant in full sun.
Outstanding Features: Resistant to Verticillium Wilt, Fusarium Wilt Race 1 and 2, Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Root Knot Nematodes.
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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i bought your plants 2011 and I loved them. They were tasty, large and lasted a long time. I wanted to buy some seeds this year but I can’t seem to find them. I live in falling waters w. Va.
I planted twelve plants five years ago and was the major neighborhood contributor to dinner salads for months. Everyone said they were very tasty. I agree.
Last year I planted four plants and once again gave hundreds away to neighbors, who once again were delighted.
This year I planted just two plants. They are magnificent already with about 16 greenies of about golf ball size. Many more are in blossom stage.
The neighbors may plant their own as I recommend.
My family will certainly devour this year’s harvest.
Raleigh, NC
Parks Whoppers are great tomatoes. Good luck with this year’s crop. I hope you have a lot to share. One of these time’s you should think about teaching someone your secret. The art of growing tomatoes is becoming a rare talent in some areas.