Tomato, 'Matina'

(Lycopersicon esculentum) We don’t want to make crazy, bold proclamations after so short a time of getting to know a new variety (which, as you can tell from the intro, means we are going to anyway), but Matina might be our best all-around slicing tomato. It’s nice to be a small family company where we can write something like that and not break down into staff fistfights. It just checks all the boxes for us and exceptionally so: sets very early but with sustained harvests through fall, strong, vigorous growth, beautifully organized and prolific trussing, perfect blemish-free and very uniform fruit, and an outstanding flavor balance of sweet and acid. I reckon we harvested about 400+ lbs of fruit from 30 field-grown plants in the summer of 2016! At 4-6 oz, the fruits are a little larger than Stupice, slightly flattened, and just the flawless ideal of a tomato in appearance. One of Carolyn Male's “100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden” it hails from Germany, where our seed was originally sourced. This should be a nursery standard in the PNW. (Crowned taste test winner at two Organic Seed Alliance trial events of early red slicers in 2017) 
Indeterminate/Potato Leaf. 65-70 days. UO

Packet: 30-35 seeds