Nebraska Wedding tomato

Shule · #1

Has anyone grown Nebraska Wedding? I've read a lot of great stuff about it. It's a big orange tomato, mid to late season. It sounds like it's semi-determinate. All the reviewers seem to love it. I'm ordering seeds.

Ooh. Reimer Seeds says a northern Idahoan introduced the seed lineage that eventually went commercial.

(But pioneers brought it to Nebraska in the 1800s, before it was officially introduced.) It's said that seeds or plants of Nebraska Wedding were gifted at weddings.

https://www.totallytomato.com/product/T00512/85
https://shop.seedsavers.org/nebraska-we ... nic-tomato
https://victoryseeds.com/products/nebra ... ing-tomato
https://www.reimerseeds.com/nebraska-we ... omato.aspx

Paulf · #2

This is the history from Tatiana: * An old Great Plains heirloom.
It was first introduced by Dorothy Beiswinger of MN (MN BE D) back in 1983, before most of the current commercial seed sources even existed.
Dorothy received the seed from a friend in Nebraska, and the donor said that brides were given this tomato as a gift.

I have grown NW a couple of times and found it to be a medium sized (6 to 10 ounces) orange globe to round indet. with nice sweet flavor. Production in my Nebraska garden is fair. My seed source was Sand Hill Preservation.

rdback · #3

I first grew NW in 2012. Seed source was SSE. Funny, their description hasn't really changed since then. My notes from 2012 were "Light, fruity, low acid, above avg yield, avg disease resistance; 10 oz avg size. Color: Green-Yello-Orange". No idea what I meant by "light" lol. I've grown it sporadically since then, including 2023. Still a very good tomato to me. Unfortunately, not so much for the wife. It's just meh to her. I think I saved some seeds for MMMM this year.