They say that May 10 is the time to plant tomatoes – with little or no chance for frost after then – so lots of tomato plants will be hitting the soil this weekend. If you have not yet selected your plants, and if they are available, consider a vine or two of Abraham Lincoln tomatoes.
I stumbled across this hybrid variety a few years back. I was at Snow’s Garden Center and needed a couple plants and the best looking ones on the counter happened to be Abraham Lincoln tomatoes. So I bought them and I have never before or since had better luck raising tomatoes than from those two plants. In a long growing season, I picked over a bushel of beautiful, near-perfect tomatoes.
These are among the heirloom tomatoes that produce large crops of nice sized, meaty fruit that resists foliage diseases, making it ideal for organic growers. It also produces heavily right up to the first killing frost. The flavor is outstanding and – even in rainy seasons – these hybrids resist splitting. Abraham Lincoln tomatoes were introduced back in 1923 by the W.H. Huckabee Seed Company in Illinois. The variety was named for Illinois’ favorite son, Old Abe himself.
Try them if you find them. If not, order a pack of seeds for next spring and plant then. They are outstanding and highly productive tomato plants.
