Anyone planted Garden Peach?

mecktom · March 30, 2011

Was given some seeds today and started them in the greenhouse. I have read about it and it seems interesting.

strax · March 30, 2011

i've grown garden peach. it produced lots of small tomatoes. the tomatoes were really cute and did in fact look a lot like small peaches. the flavor was mild and mediocre.

ddsack · March 30, 2011

Have to agree with Strax. I only grew them one year. They were way too mild and flavorless for me. But if you like typical white or yellow tomatoes, you may think they are ok.

Granite26 · March 31, 2011

I have seen two main varieties. Garden Peach and Wapsicon(sp?) Garden Peach. I liked the first but not the second. The Garden Peach grew between a golfball and baseball in size. While milder I did like it.

Farmette · March 31, 2011

I grew it last year and it was a mild tomato for me, but truly had the coloring and blush of a peach.

**carolyn137** · March 31, 2011

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Originally Posted by Farmette

I grew it last year and it was a mild tomato for me, but truly had the coloring and blush of a peach.

If you really want to see a fruit that looks like a peach I suggest growing Peach Blow Sutton or Nectarine.

That being said yes, I've grown Garden Peach and the two above and I can't remember which other of the ones I call the fuzzy ones b'c they all have a matte surface.

Honestly I don't think much of any of them. Not only is the taste so mild as to be almost not there but for me they perform somewhat like the gold/red bicolors, and that means acceptable taste one season and the same variety the next season can be mealy and not good at all.

And I think it's b'c both clasees of varieties, if you will, are very susceptible to the weather in any one season.

mecktom · March 31, 2011

Thanks for the comments. Kind of what I expected to hear. May try one as a novelty. Thanks again.

OneoftheEarls · March 31, 2011

I grew Garden Peach the year I first set up a tasting stand at the Garden Show...kids kept coming back to the Garden Peach samples until they disappeared.....so some absolutely love them...they were fuzzy and good

**carolyn137** · March 31, 2011

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Originally Posted by OneoftheEarls

I grew Garden Peach the year I first set up a tasting stand at the Garden Show...kids kept coming back to the Garden Peach samples until they disappeared.....so some absolutely love them...they were fuzzy and good

Was that b'c the kids were taken with the fuzzies while most adults aren't fuzzy-prone?

Wi-sunflower · March 31, 2011

Garden Peach is one of the varieties I'm giving out as an extra in many of my orders as I have a lot of older seed. It will get about golf ball sized and will be too soft very easily so isn't a good market variety. But I have a few customers that absolutely love them.

It is slightly fuzzy like a peach but I've never noticed a blush on this one. I also have a variety called "Red Garden Peach" that is really a pink and to me has better flavor. Both were originally from Totally Tomatoes.

I have another one that I'm going to call "Snowy Peach" that I believe has the blush. It is one that several customers got by accident from me and wanted to know "what was that striped little fuzzy variety, I really loved it?". It turns out that it was seed I had gotten from Territorial many years ago labeled Snow White Cherry that wasn't SWC at all. There is another thread here somewhere that explains that Territorial never did figure out what the seed really was.

Carol

**carolyn137** · March 31, 2011

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Originally Posted by Wi-sunflower

Garden Peach is one of the varieties I'm giving out as an extra in many of my orders as I have a lot of older seed. It will get about golf ball sized and will be too soft very easily so isn't a good market variety. But I have a few customers that absolutely love them.

It is slightly fuzzy like a peach but I've never noticed a blush on this one. I also have a variety called "Red Garden Peach" that is really a pink and to me has better flavor. Both were originally from Totally Tomatoes.

I have another one that I'm going to call "Snowy Peach" that I believe has the blush. It is one that several customers got by accident from me and wanted to know "what was that striped little fuzzy variety, I really loved it?". It turns out that it was seed I had gotten from Territorial many years ago labeled Snow White Cherry that wasn't SWC at all. There is another thread here somewhere that explains that Territorial never did figure out what the seed really was.

Carol

Carol, I was never aware that Territorial sent out wrong seed but I was very aware that when they first introduced both Snow White and Isis Candy that the histories for both of them were crazy wrong. And I said so in a thread at Garden Web at that time.

next thing I know I'm contacted by Tom Johns who owns Territorial asking me for the correct info about the backgrounds and making some comment to the effect that the person who came up with those histories was no longer with the company, and asking if he sent me seed for both varieties would I please grow them out and tell him if they were correct for the variety.

he sent me two packs of Snow White and two packs of Isis Candy and I grew out several plants of each and they were absolutely correct for the variety and I knew that b'c I'd grown both before, seeds initially from Joe Bratka who bred both of them.

And I think anything I said here at Tville would refer to what I just said, b'c I was never aware that Territorial was sending out wrong seed for Snow White or for Isis Candy.

So if you do find that thread here at Tville and it was from me it wasn't about any wrong varieties, it was about wrong histories, etc.

puttgirl · March 31, 2011

Snowy peach! Sounds like an interesting one, Carol.

lurley · March 31, 2011

Last year was the first year I grew garden peach and wapsipinicon peach. Both did really well for me, but it was an off year, with lots of dry, extremely hot weather. I had bicolors that were fabulous tasting also and a gorgeous pink beefsteak that was so bland I had to remove it from my sandwich. Like I said, a weird year around here. The peaches, once peeled, do make a really great looking tomato jam with the red and yellow colors (my wapsipinicon had some red to it but not the garden peach. I am trying red garden peach this year thanks to Carol)

March 30, 2011	#1
mecktom Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southern Virginia Posts: 342	Anyone planted Garden Peach? Was given some seeds today and started them in the greenhouse. I have read about it and it seems interesting.

March 30, 2011	#3
ddsack Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Northern Minnesota - zone 3 Posts: 3,231	Have to agree with Strax. I only grew them one year. They were way too mild and flavorless for me. But if you like typical white or yellow tomatoes, you may think they are ok. __________________ Dee **************

March 30, 2011	#2
strax Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: z5 Posts: 146	i've grown garden peach. it produced lots of small tomatoes. the tomatoes were really cute and did in fact look a lot like small peaches. the flavor was mild and mediocre.

March 31, 2011	#4
Granite26 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: Western WI Posts: 359	I have seen two main varieties. Garden Peach and Wapsicon(sp?) Garden Peach. I liked the first but not the second. The Garden Peach grew between a golfball and baseball in size. While milder I did like it.

March 31, 2011	#5
Farmette Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 985	I grew it last year and it was a mild tomato for me, but truly had the coloring and blush of a peach.

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OneoftheEarls Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Up North Posts: 660	I grew Garden Peach the year I first set up a tasting stand at the Garden Show...kids kept coming back to the Garden Peach samples until they disappeared.....so some absolutely love them...they were fuzzy and good

March 31, 2011	#10
Wi-sunflower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,591	Garden Peach is one of the varieties I'm giving out as an extra in many of my orders as I have a lot of older seed. It will get about golf ball sized and will be too soft very easily so isn't a good market variety. But I have a few customers that absolutely love them. It is slightly fuzzy like a peach but I've never noticed a blush on this one. I also have a variety called "Red Garden Peach" that is really a pink and to me has better flavor. Both were originally from Totally Tomatoes. I have another one that I'm going to call "Snowy Peach" that I believe has the blush. It is one that several customers got by accident from me and wanted to know "what was that striped little fuzzy variety, I really loved it?". It turns out that it was seed I had gotten from Territorial many years ago labeled Snow White Cherry that wasn't SWC at all. There is another thread here somewhere that explains that Territorial never did figure out what the seed really was. Carol

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puttgirl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: SW PA Posts: 281	Snowy peach! Sounds like an interesting one, Carol.

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lurley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Central Ohio Posts: 741	Last year was the first year I grew garden peach and wapsipinicon peach. Both did really well for me, but it was an off year, with lots of dry, extremely hot weather. I had bicolors that were fabulous tasting also and a gorgeous pink beefsteak that was so bland I had to remove it from my sandwich. Like I said, a weird year around here. The peaches, once peeled, do make a really great looking tomato jam with the red and yellow colors (my wapsipinicon had some red to it but not the garden peach. I am trying red garden peach this year thanks to Carol)