HORTICULTURE — 2019 vegetable All-America Selections winners

Tomato ‘Red Torch’ (Photo courtesy All-America Selections)
Tomato ‘Red Torch’ (Photo courtesy All-America Selections)

TOMATO ‘RED TORCH’
Red Torch is a striped, oblong tomato with 1.5-inch long fruits. This hybrid is a very prolific early-season producer. The combination of excellent flavor, great texture and high yields make this hybrid better than other varieties in the trendy niche market of striped tomatoes. Plants have been bred with excellent tolerance to environmental stresses like heat and harsh growing conditions. Fruits are borne on indeterminate vines that grow 5–6 feet tall and ripen 60–70 days from transplanting. Judges were pleased with both the earliness and yield of this variety in addition to the unique skin coloration.

TOMATO ‘FIRE FLY’
The fruits produced on this tomato plant are super sweet, pale white to pale yellow. They are round and less than 1 inch in size. Delicate, translucent skins offer a mild acid flavor that enhances the sweet taste. They are small, juicy fruits exploding with flavor, perfect for snacking and in salads. Indeterminate plants must be staked or caged as they grow upward to 5–6 feet tall and have good disease resistance.

PEPPER ‘JUST SWEET’
A unique snacking pepper with four lobes like a larger bell pepper, only smaller. Not only are the 3-inch fruits deliciously sweet with nice thick walls, but the plants are vigorous growers that are up to 36 inches tall and 15 inches wide. They do not need to be staked because they have been bred to have a strong, bushy habit. Many judges conduct consumer taste tests and reported back that this pepper won those tests, hands down. These peppers are a bright, shiny and a vivid yellow color.

Source: All-America Selections