Hagan Little Yellow

Yellow cherry tomato. Fruit are slightly flattened. Very sweet; medium-low acid. Average skin thickness; juicy. Indeterminate, regular leaves. Early maturing. Average productivity when grown in 2013 at Heritage Farm. In 2002, Bernice (Hagan) Mobley of Athens, Alabama wrote to SSE saying, “I have a story to tell and send you a few seeds that I consider heirloom. My papa and mama were married in 1892 and started housekeeping and gardening. They planted a garden in 1893 and planted a little yellow tomato seed about the size of a marble. Planted seed every year. Mama died in 1960 thinking she had lost seed of the little yellow tomatoes. My sister and I were in the pantry going through things and found this little tin can with seeds in it marked "Little Yellow Tomato 1943". I brought them with me and planted them in spring 1961 and they came up. They do come up volunteer but I plant some in case they don't. They are delicious. Keep and bowl on your counter.” Bernice’s parents, Jonathan and Malissa (Jackson) Hagan, lived in a community called Stella, Tennessee near the Tennessee/Alabama border. After finding the seeds in their pantry, Bernice planted the tomatoes each year until her death in 2007. Bernice and Roy Mobley’s daughter Patricia Counts, continues to grow them in Alabama. SSE Accession # 127401