St Pierre Tomato

We ordered seeds for this variety one time about five years ago.We save seeds from most everything we grow for replanting next season (sorry Baker Creek!). The first spring after planting they were coming up all over the back yard on their own. Now we just let them grow outside our garden, we get 40-100 volunteer plants annually and they are very productive, so yields are enough to share with the whole block. in addition to the high yields, they are by far the best tasting tomato we have ever grown, a good balance of sweet/acid flavor. Not a great canner, the wall thickness isn't much and they tend to break down during processing, just for fresh eating they are great! If you are a true canner and like to preserve different recipes for eating during the winter months try the Jersey Giant, (if you can find them.)

Bought one plant from a vendor at our farmers market, wish I had a dozen of these outstanding plants. This is by far the best flavored tomato I have tasted in many years. Most definitely will grow for years to come!

In the Finger Lakes region, St. Pierre takes the role of ending the season, coming into its heaviest production just after the mid-season slicers are beginning to taper off from their July flush. This is a very fine tomato, good plant health, needs good trellis. Break O'Day another similar and excellent variety. I would include this and Stupice as my go-to tomatoes to start and end the season, and choose 3-4 other varieties, including a paste like San Martino's Roma to fill in the middle: Kellogg's Breakfast X has done well, Cherokee Purple, Big Beef, and many others.

I sowed a couple of these and gave one to my mom. Mine was in the garden and I got a few tomatoes into December. However, my mom planted hers in the ground of her greenhouse and it is seven feet tall! From just one plant, she has gotten over two dozen wonderful tasting tomatoes this January and there are lots more coming. She lives north of Houston so she gets a few freezes, but one heat lamp has helped her get these awesome tomatoes in the dead of winter. For Southerners, I would recommend starting this tomato for a fall garden.

I have a windy garden in the foothills of Colorado and this tomato took its time to fruit and I needed every day of the 92 day season I had this year. But, it was worth it as this was the best tasting eating tomato I have ever grown. I am going to grow them again this year with a wall of waters to help buffer the wind.