PlantFiles: Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Fourth of July'

Very prolific and tasty. The skins did have a tendancy to split, but not too badly. Will grow again.

I've grown this type for three years. Tremendous yields, better than 40 lbs per plant. The first year I had ripe tomatoes the first week in July - in upstate NY. No problems with the plants or fruits.

Of the dozen or so varieties we've tried since moving to hot Arizona (60 mi northeast of Phoenix), this variety is a must-have for us. It bears early and prolifically and is my wife's favorite for taste (motivation!). In mid-July night temps get so high that fruit won't set, and I prune it back to above the first healthy side branch. By early October it is bearing well again.

very prolific, flavorful tomato, mostly plum size, some a little larger.

It produced 35 days after transplant on June the 29th. Had no tomatoes on it when planted. And produced till frost on October 21st. Taste was average. Was better late. It was one of the few who produced all summer during the heat and drought. Sure a dependable one and easy to grow.

Got my first tomato on 6/24, a day before my first Stupice, and my friends aren't getting any Early Girls yet.
Very tasty - both acidic and sweet, but tough skin! Easily split.

Purchased a healthy transplant at the local Kmart in spring and by the Fourth of July I harvested delicious tomatoes and continued to harvest until well into fall.

My surprise tomato for 2005. It was early and had clusters of 20 or 30 tomatoes at a time. Reliable in Ohio from late June right through to mid-October. Very impressive. Far and away best producer of really good, under rated tomatoes. Want to see if we are successful de-hybridizing the Fourth of July this year.

I wasn't particularly impressed with 'Fourth of July'; I prefer a sweeter tomato.

I grew this tomato for the first time this year. It was quite early, but not by the Fourth of July, although that could be obtainable if it were started early enough and frost protected. The taste was quite good although the skin was slightly thick, particularly late in the season. It also tended to crack very easily after heavy rain.

My favorite early. Better flavor, slightly smaller and 7 - 10 days earlier than Early Girl. Indeterminate season long producer. Likely to split after heavy rains, so keep an even watering routine. The skin is a bit tougher than most and it is VERY juicy. A 'must have' in my garden every year.
Andy P

This is a great early tomato. Not the earliest, but better than most, and the flavor is outstanding. And the tomatoes keep coming all season (though we neglect them when the big heirlooms finally arrive). These sometimes have cracking, and more often the tomatoes crack after harvest on the way to the kitchen.

Great variety for me. Fruits ripened early - had the first one on June 28! Great for zone 5a! Good flavour and nice colour too. I will grow this one again. It is still producing very well in mid July. Great for salad, pizza topping, and sauce.

This lived up to its name -- in 2004 I picked the first one on the 3rd of July. Good early salad tomato. However, as the weather warmed up -- and the Sacramento area has very intense, dry heat late July and through August -- the fruit started exploding as it ripened. If I were to grow this again, I'd pick them early during the hot weeks and let them finish ripening indoors.

Came on strong as an early season tomato. Taste was decent, but fizzled on me due to early blight (2004 was very wet here in the middle of Michigan).

I have grown it this fall. haven't had any ripe fruit yet, but a 65 day rating would probably be about right. way behind 'Early Wonder' and 'Matina', for example.

Michael

I had a wonderful experience for two years with this variety in the Detroit metro area. While the real date is more like July 20, I stopped counting when I had over 500 tomatoes from 8 plants. The plants kept producing fruit through the whole season until the first frost. They ripened in my basement until early Febraury. I don't have any this year because my plant vendor sold them out at 5:30 am to a retail vendor. I plan to buy seeds for next year. Use a search on Google's Froogel to find the seed vendor.

Grew this tomato in 2003. Small-medium sized fruit with a slightly above average flavor. Very prolific. It took 2 frosts to stop this puppy. Fruits ripened more like the 20th of July.

This plant is excellent for the hot deserts of Tucson Arizona. I haven't had it produce in 55 days as it says, but it's still one of my earliest tomatoes. It's good insurance if the season turns out to be shorter than it takes for the medium sized varities. The fruit is small, like Stupice, but a nice balance of sweetness and tart. It is a salad tomato, too small to use in anything more than a salad, really.