I certainly agree thatJuliette is quite bullet proof and extremely productive. Gave a friend of mine plants and he accidently ran over one with a lawnmower. It grew back and cranked out those little elongated fruits like crazy. Certainly not the type of tomato I am fond of for food, but it can't be beat as a performer and it is as good in flavor as most salad types..

Juliet performs well in the north, too -- the plants are tall, and the tomatoes are large enough that I use the excess to make "roasted tomato sauce." http://cubits.org/recipedujour...

Does it have more of a sweet or savory flavor?
Candy-sweet tomatoes are just yucky! (to me, anyway )

No, not sweet in my opinion at all. Thing is this is a great plant for the first time tomato grower. Or for a person that doesn't have a green thumb. Plant Juliets and you are pretty much guaranteed of success. And lots of tomatoes!!

Plants are vigorous, hardy, very resistant to diseases and crank out fruit like crazy. Never prone to Blossom End Rot or to cracking. Pretty much foolproof.

For best flavor harvest and let them get nice and ripe on your counter or windowstill.

Not super sweet to my taste, Danita -- I prefer more "tomatoey" tasting tomatoes, too.

These tomatoes sound really good so I went shopping for seeds, found them at Johnny's and ordered myself a packet... Thank you, Newyorkrita, for writing about them..
Sam

SamBigDeer said:These tomatoes sound really good so I went shopping for seeds, found them at Johnny's and ordered myself a packet... Thank you, Newyorkrita, for writing about them..
Sam

Thanks! I didn't get my tomato seeds started so I may pick up one of these plants locally. I like to roast small tomatoes to put on salads, sandwiches, etc.

Do they have a thick skin? I may get my grandmother one, too, but she turns her nose up at both cracked tomatoes and tomatoes with thick skin.

It does have thickish skin. Not bad though. I don't mind it at all. The skin is what helps it to keep from cracking.

The plants are common in my local nursery. I see them in 6 packs each year and that I what I have been buying. A six pack.

They are perfect size to put on skewers with other veggies when you make bobs on the grill. They also make great salad tomatoes although I cut mine in half to put it in salads.

I have been planting Juliet tomatoes for years in a large cedar rectangular box planter my husband made, he also added built in support for the plants. I use the them in salads, on sandwiches, kabobs with meat and veggies and even make tomato sauce from all the extras these plants produce. To me the taste is very much like a regular tomato, not overly sweet just right for our taste.

All the grape tomatoes in your favorite grocery store, breed true to the naked eye, even though hybrids. I have been saving seeds for years and even traded same for grape vines from all over the World, before anyone else had "grape" tomatoes, even the Italians! If they are allowed to fully ripen, the bix (sweetness) is exceptional. Cheers! I know, old post!

My row of Juliet tomatoes on June 22, 2018.