Vegetables
Heredity: Open Pollinated
Country of Origin: USA

Data specific to Tomatoes (Edit)
Heredity: Open Pollinated
Skin Color: White
Flesh Color: White
Fruit Shape: Round
Fruit Size: Medium
Fruit Weight: 6-8 ounces
Leaf Type: Regular-Leaf
Tomato Plant Height: 8 feet
Best Uses: Slicing
Salad
Snacking
Growth Mode: Indeterminate
Earliness: Mid-season
Days to Maturity: 85

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 11 +4.4 °C (40 °F) to +7.2 °C (50 °F)
Plant Height: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Plant Spread: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Leaves: Other: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Fruiting Time: Other: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Other: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Uses: Vegetable
Suitable as Annual
Edible Parts: Fruit
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Resistances: Rabbit Resistant
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Days to germinate: 7-21
Depth to plant seed: 0.25 inch
Other info: Direct sowing into the garden not recommended. Sow seeds into sterile seed starting mix, 1/8"-1/4" deep, indoors, 6-8 weeks prior to last expected frost date. Optimal germination occurs in 7-14 days with constant moisture and soil temperatures of 75-90F.
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Self
Various insects
Containers: Preferred depth: Some tomato varieties, primarily dwarf and determinate varieties, are suitable for container gardening. Large, vining, indeterminate types can be grown in 5 gallon or larger containers but may require extra attention.

Common names
  • Tomato

Comments:
  • Posted by farmerdill (Augusta Georgia - Zone 8a) on Jun 30, 2017 9:20 AM concerning plant:
    My mother grew Snowballs in the 40's from seed from Shumway. In the late 90's, I revisited them here in Georgia. Original Shumway had been sold and the new version was just across the river from me in South Carolina. I still like to occasionally grow old varieties from my childhood. It is a novelty with not much taste. Pretty baseball-size, off-white, globe-shaped fruit. In the early days it was just called Snowball. White Snowball seems very redundant.

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