PlantFiles: Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Early Swedish'

I first acquired the seeds from "Ed Hume" Seeds of Kent, Wa. In 1987 I grew this tomato in Gig Harbor, Wa. I planted saved seeds the following year in Cedar Springs, Michigan with a great crop. At that time I moved around a lot and in 1989 planted saved seeds in Poulsbo, Wa. I now live in Ephrata, Wa. and have great crops from seeds that I save from year to year. I have sent seeds to people in the frost free Sacramento Valley area of California and they report they cut them back in the fall and they grow and produce for an extra year with steer manure added at the base in the spring. I have given away so many seeds in this area that people call them "Lynnie Specials". In short, I think they wiil do well under almost any conditions. The seeds are easily saved, the plants are prolific and the fruits have excellent taste. They should be available anywhere "Ed Hume" seeds are sold. I have a friend that lives on a high plateau with a very early freeze date. He says they are the only crop he grows now and uses them for canning as they are dependable to ripen before frost in early September. Where I live we put them out in early June, usually have fruit by early August and they fruit until first Frost about the first week in October. I will grow 14 kinds of tomatoes this year and "Early Swedish" will probably, once again, be my favorite. Lynnie Barger

Washington State University notes this as "Open-pollinated. Very early, smallish, red fruits on prolific "potato-leafed" vines. A Washington State University release, prized for its earliness"