🌱 Late Tomato Varieties: Benefits, Features, How to Grow.

If you want to harvest an especially rich, tasty, and long-lasting crop of tomatoes, it’s worth paying attention to late-ripening varieties. In the KING seed catalog, you’ll find a variety of late tomatoes — from meaty and aromatic to high-yielding hybrids for open ground and greenhouses.

✅ WHY CHOOSE LATE VARIETIES

Late-ripening tomatoes mature 110–130 days after sowing, but they reward you with especially rich flavor, large size, and high dry matter content. These varieties are often chosen by experienced gardeners who value fruit quality and prolonged harvests. Advantages of late varieties:

  • 🍅 Rich flavor. Late tomatoes ripen slowly, accumulating more sugars and aromatic compounds.
  • 📦 Good shelf life. Many late varieties store and transport well without losing quality.
  • 💪 Strong immunity. Often resistant to heat, drought, and various diseases.
  • 🌿 Prolonged fruiting. Plants continue producing fruit right up until autumn frosts.
  • 🍽️ Ideal for processing. Perfect for ketchup, paste, juice, and pickling.

🌞 HOW TO GROW LATE TOMATOES

  • Start with seedlings. Due to their long vegetation period, late varieties require early sowing (February–March) and growing through seedlings.
  • Provide a sunny location. Late tomatoes need maximum light. Choose well-heated areas with southern exposure.
  • Moderate watering. Water regularly, but not excessively — especially during fruit formation. Avoid waterlogging.
  • Fertilization. Use complex fertilizers containing potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium. This promotes the formation of large, flavorful fruits.
  • Pruning and tying. Many late varieties are indeterminate (tall). Be sure to form the plant into 1–2 stems and tie them for support.

🏆 POPULAR LATE TOMATO VARIETIES

Here are proven late-ripening varieties that have earned recognition from gardeners around the world:

  • Brandywine Pink (USA) – One of the tastiest tomatoes in the world. Large fruits up to 500 g, raspberry-pink, with tender flesh and rich sweet flavor.

  • Black Krim (Crimea/USA) – Dark burgundy fruits with green shoulders. Up to 300 g, dense flesh, sweet and spicy. Very productive and loved by gourmets.

  • San Marzano (Italy) – A legendary variety for pastes and sauces. Elongated fruits, dense flesh, minimal seeds. Long shelf life.

  • Cherokee Purple (USA) – Purple-brown fruits up to 400 g. Intense, complex flavor. Ripens slowly but produces one of the most aromatic harvests.

  • Oxheart (Poland/USA) – Heart-shaped, meaty fruits up to 800 g. Sweet, with minimal seeds. Excellent salad tomato.

  • Mortgage Lifter (USA) – Fruits 400–800 g, red-pink, with pronounced flavor. Tall plant, disease-resistant. Ideal for processing and fresh use.

  • Hillbilly (USA) – Large, bicolor tomato (yellow-orange with pink stripes). Sweet, meaty, up to 500 g. Very decorative and tasty.

  • Green Giant (USA) – Late green variety. Fruits up to 300 g, juicy and sweet. Unique color, great for salads.

  • German Johnson (Germany/USA) – Large-fruited indeterminate. Meaty, pink fruits up to 450 g. Rich, balanced taste.

  • Paul Robeson (USA) – Tomato with African-American heritage and a deep, smoky-sweet flavor. Dark burgundy fruits up to 300 g.

🛒 BUY LATE TOMATO VARIETIES

By choosing late tomatoes, you’re investing in quality, taste, and prolonged harvest. In the KING catalog, you’ll find rare, collectible, and high-yielding late-ripening varieties suitable for greenhouses and open ground. Late tomatoes — for those who want the most out of summer and fall! 🍅🌾