'Florida Wild Everglades' Tomato

Solanum pimpinellifolium x  Solanum lycopersicum Origin: Florida Everglades Improvement status: Cultivated wild material Seeds per packet: ~10 Germination tested 11/2022: 94% Life cycle: Annual These seeds are the result of about a decade of selection for cold tolerance, late blight resistance, and dry-farming conditions in both Oregon and Washington by our dear friend Chris Homanics of Head, Hands, Heart Nursery and Seed in Washington. We'll let him tell its story: ‘Florida Wild Everglades’ is one of the few ironclad varieties amongst nearly one thousand cultivars and selections I've grown over the years here in the Pacific Northwest. It is also one of the few tomatoes to thrive in the heavy disease pressure of tropical climates like Florida, where it was first discovered. At first, you might think Florida and the Pacific Northwest have nothing in common, and while it is true that climatically they are quite opposite, fungal and other disease pressures are severe in both places — here