Yes, I’m going to write about another tomato. It is July, so if we had had a normal June, we would be harvesting our first tomatoes! But we suffered through a dreary and damp June, so maybe August will bring ripe tomatoes! Either way, if you plant Juliet, she will provide you with an abundance of delicious grape tomatoes. My Juliet plant is loaded with fruit and will stay loaded into frost!
Juliet is an indeterminate tomato plant, which means she will fruit and grow continuously through the summer. A determinate plant will fruit all at once and be a stockier, denser plant. A Roma or paste tomato is usually determinate so you have all the fruit at once in order to make sauces. So, Juliet will be tall and lanky, requiring staking, but well worth any extra work. At the Barn, we had a Juliet plant reseed from the year before. Since she came back from seed, she was a bit behind our other plants, but quickly made up for it! She fruited and fruited into the first frost! The later fruit was a bit mealier and not as flavorful, but if I can eat a tomato right from the vine in late September, I’m not going to complain! Juliet’s fruit is sweet, juicy and delicious. The tomatoes are a large grape size, so suitable to cut in half for salads or perfect for putting the whole thing in your mouth, which is my preferred method! Juliet takes 60 days to fruit, which is why you get such a long season of tomatoes from this plant. Next year, when you are choosing your tomato plants, remember to pick Juliet. You’ll be picking her till frost!
