Garden Peach

[mensplace]

Of all of my varieties this year I have found Garden Peach to be the most delicious, sweet, and delightfully tart tomatoes with the most consistent and heavy production of beautiful fruit and excellent disease resistance. If only it were available or bred into a larger size!

[Paul R]

I'm with you on this tomato. Loved the look on peoples face when they rubbed the fuzz. Why it is not in the garden again this year is beyond me.

[jcr1709]

Is the garden peach similar to the Wapsipinicon "peach tomato"? I'm sad to say of the 22 heirloom varieties I started from seed this past March, that was the only seedling not to make it into the ground this year....too weak. It's mother I saved the seed from was indeed very tasty!

[matertoo]

Garden Peach is indeed a delightful variety. I've enjoyed growing it this year.

Happy Matering,

Paul

[beefyboy]

I grew out garden peach for the first time this year and did trials along with peche Blanche and Wapsipinicon peach and found the Wapsi to beat them both hands down. The other two were very comparable in taste! This Aug my seeds are started in Fl. and am comparing about 12 different yellow and orange types. In Fl. it is very hard to get character out of a tomato but the wapsi does very well every year here. I also love Early girl improved and am trialing it against the PSR - 37 that Carolyn sent me!. Sadly said the eraly girl improved was my best flavored tomato and beat out every heirloom I grew which was about 20.

[Granite26]

I really enjoy Garden Peach. They are a bit softer so do dont handle well for market unless treated with care. As much as I enjoyed them I had a difficult time selling them as well...really dont know why as I talked them up! I did grow out Wapsipinicon Peach one year and only remember I dint like it as well and it wasnt nearly as prolific. Garden Peach was a very heavy producer!

[Granite26]

LOL! I guess we both had different results! Isnt that the way growing these out goes!

[beefyboy]

You are so correct! I even had a friend grow out the same ones 30 miles away and same thing. Wapsi was much sweeter to the four people we sampled them out to at my restaurant. Hard to believe early girl improved wins for the last two years here. People always comment it is the best one when I never even ask there opinion! lol

[OneoftheEarls]

I grew some two years ago and put it out on the tasting plate...the teens ate every slice of Garden Peach I put out. I must say I liked it too. I have some this year growing out as well. It is behind the early varieties.

[Alpinejs]

A late opinion. I had already put Garden Peach on my "never grow again" list as I didn't
like it one bit. It was sort of novel in that if you try it before it is actually ripe, it had the
taste of a lemon. Based on all the above raves (and no real negatives) and the standard
advice to try all tomatoes at least twice, I will give GP a 2nd chance next year. Now, I
just hope I don't run across a board with raves about Big Yellow so I have to resurrect
that one also. Big Yellow always left me with a yearning for a produce dept. tomato.

[NewWestGardener]

Hi Beefyboy, I was looking for Early Girl Improved seed. Where did you find yours?

[mecktom]

Garden Peach was a dud for me.....but good to hear some have success with it.

[tgplp]

Hey Guys, Is Peche Jaune the same as Garden Peach? It looks and sounds the same! Here is the link to where I got my seeds... from Tomato Fest.

http://store.tomatofest.com/SearchRe...ch=peche+juane

Thanks everyone!!

Taryn

[beefyboy]

Sorry NewWestGardener. I did not know you asked me a question on where I got my seed. I got Earlygirl Improved from Pinetree seeds. It is not similar at all too the standard Early girl. This one is firmer, sweeter, and a bit later to ripen. I have them growing in earthboxes and also 5 gal. buckets and both are pumping out tomatoes now.

[Too Tall Toms]

Does this fuzzy stuff on the Garden peach rub off like a regular peach? Or do you just eat it?