83 Fast-Growing Tomato Varieties for Short Seasons

Think you can't grow tomatoes because you have a short season or live in a cold climate?

Good news: It's entirely possible to grow tomatoes (even indeterminate types) and pick your first ripe fruit in as little as 40 days! The secret is knowing what kind of tomato will thrive in your garden.

Here are 83 short-season tomato varieties that won't make you wait around all summer AND don't mind a bit of chilly weather.

– Amber (60 days) – 2-ounce yellow-     orange salad tomatoes, heirloom – Aurora (59 days) – 4- to 6-ounce red      slicing tomatoes, heirloom – Beaverlodge (54 days) – 2- to 3-     ounce red slicing tomatoes, heirloom – Bison (70 days) – 2- to 3-ounce red      slicing tomatoes, heirloom

– Bush Beefsteak (62 days) * – 8- to      10-ounce red slicing tomatoes,      heirloom – Coldset (65 days) – 3- to 4-ounce red      slicing tomatoes, heirloom (can      tolerate very light frost) – Early Annie (60 days) – 4-ounce red      slicing tomatoes, heirloom

– Early Boy (60 days) – 5-ounce red      slicing tomatoes, hybrid – Early Doll (59 days) – 4- to 5-ounce      red slicing tomatoes, hybrid – Early Wonder (54 days) – 6-ounce      red slicing tomatoes, heirloom – Floramerica (70 days) * – 7-ounce      red tomatoes, hybrid

– Gold Dust (62 days) – 8-ounce      yellow-orange slicing tomatoes,      heirloom – Gold Nugget (60 days, from OSU) * –      1-ounce yellow-orange cherry      tomatoes, heirloom – Grushovka (65 days) – 3-ounce dark      pink plum tomatoes, heirloom

– Koralik (61 days) – 1-ounce red      cherry tomatoes, heirloom – Latah (55 days) – 2- to 3-ounce red      slicing tomatoes, heirloom – Legend (68 days, from OSU) * – 6- to      9-ounce slicing red tomatoes,      heirloom – Manitoba (58 days) – 6-ounce red      slicing tomatoes, heirloom

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