TM275-10
57 days. Solanum lycopersicum. Open Pollinated. Sasha Altai Tomato. This early-maturing plant produces good yields of 4 to 6 oz bright red tomatoes. It is a popular heirloom tomato variety prized for its earliness, cold hardiness, solid yields of medium-sized fruit, and excellent flavor. They are very sweet, meaty, juicy, and flavorful, with an award-winning complex flavor. Perfect for salads, slicing, sandwiches, canning, and making tomato juice. Sets well even during cold evenings. A local gardener named Sasha offered seedsman Bill McDorman seeds of what he called the best tomato in all of Siberia. Sasha lived about 22 miles away in the Altai Mountains and walked home (an all-day trip), rested, and walked back the next day to deliver a small package of seeds wrapped in newspaper. McDorman introduced it in his 1990 Seeds Trust High Altitude Gardens catalog. It became one of their best-selling tomatoes and was later selected by Organic Gardening magazine as one of the 10 best early tomatoes in the world. Cold Tolerant. Suitable for cooler coastal climates and high altitudes. Excellent choice for home gardens. An heirloom variety from Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia. Determinate.