Czech Tomato

Beefsteak tomato. Flattened pink fruit have strong green coloring near the top. Fruit measure 2-3 inches long, 3.8-4.7 inches wide, and weigh just over 1 pound. Fruit found in clusters of 1-3. BRIX reading 5.6. Indeterminate plants with potato leaf and inserted styles. Early maturing and average productivity when grown in 2016 at Heritage Farm. Tough skin, but flavorful with a great classic tomato taste. Donated to SSE in 1996 by Jeff Nekola (WI NE K) who obtained it from Walter Bumgarner (NE BU W) of Arcadia, Nebraska. Bumgarner shared this variety in the SSE Yearbook and Exchange community during the 1990s. He stated at the time that this variety was from Czechoslovakia and had been maintained "in a Czech family in eastern NE for decades, maybe 100 years." (SSE estimates since at least the early half of the 20th century.) The tomato came to Walter without a name, so he named it 'Czech Tomato.' SSE Accession # 125595