Homegrown tomatoes enable a habitation gardener to provide fresh , healthy food for their household , while saving money on their house food market budget . Oklahoma has hot summertime and harsh winter , which makes it unsufferable to farm some varieties of tomato plant . Keeping the Oklahoma climate in mind , there are several tomato varieties that can flourish for home gardeners .

Juliet

The fruit of the Juliet love apple is lowly and oval - shaped . This prolific tomato plant grows to heights of over 6 feet grandiloquent , according to Dave ’s Garden . Juliet Lycopersicon esculentum plants opt well - drained soil and gay conditions , which the Oklahoma gritty soil and summer climate provides . Juliet tomatoes spring up from seed to mature fruit plant in an average of 80 days .

Better Boy (VFN) Tomato

Better Boy ( VFN ) love apple are hybridized tomato plant that were genetically engineer to be hearty , strong plant . The letters " VFN " refer to the plant ’s engineered innate power to resist verticillium wilting , fusarium and nematode disease . They were also engineered to hold up the barbarous sun ( find out in Oklahoma and further south ) without cracking . While most tomato flora produce scandalmongering flower , Better Boy produces yellow and white-hot blossoms . Plants reach fruit - bearing maturity at an norm of 72 days .

Roma (VFN) Tomatoes

Roma ( VFN ) tomato plant plants are more compact and shaggy-coated than most tomato plant life . Their median mature height is 4 groundwork tall . These plant conduct oblong , meaty fruit with low moisture subject matter , which makes these tomato become for sauces and paste . The sandy , clay soil of Oklahoma provides adequate drainage for Romas , but Oklahoma nurseryman should mix in organic compost at a charge per unit of 1:1 to improve the soil ’s acidity .

Yellow Pear Tomatoes

chickenhearted pear tree tomato are a variety of cherry red tomato . As the name imply , the tegument and chassis of yellow Pyrus communis tomatoes are bright yellow . The yellow pear tomato plant grows very big and needs stake or John Cage to keep it maturate upright . The well - enfeeble soil of Oklahoma , along with the undimmed summertime sun , enables this industrial plant to eventually bear hundreds of yellow pear tree Lycopersicon esculentum .

Brandywine Tomatoes

Brandywine tomatoes – and their very snug relatives , Yellow Brandywine tomato – are heirloom tomato plant . " Heirloom " refers to a eccentric of flora that has existed for at least 50 years without any hybridization or genetic engineering . tomato plant enthusiasts assert that heirloom – like the Brandywine – have a deep , more robust tomato tang . Brandywine tomatoes originate up to 7 inches in diameter , on plant that are over 6 feet improbable . Brandywines prefer well - drained , gritty filth , such as that find in Oklahoma , as well as plenty of bright , live sunshine .

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