Easy Girl Tomato is the name of one of the tomato hybrids that is popular in the tomato business. This tomato is the F1 hybrid. It is popular among the home gardeners especially those who are living in the areas with shorter frost free seasons because it does not need a lot of time to mature and ripe. This variant will need 50 to 62 days to mature. This plant may be reliable as well as prolific, but it is not cold tolerant. It has indeterminate vines. When fully grown, the plant may reach 9 feet tall. In this height, the tomato needs tomato cage as a support, otherwise it would not be able to developed on it maximum size. It has regular shaped leaves.
The fruit itself can weight 8 oz in average. This means that the fruit may be at the size of a tennis ball. Well, this is the size of most of the tomato varieties. The color of the fruit is red and the shape is globe. The taste of the fruit is good and refreshing. However, some people are not satisfied with the flavor and develop a newer version of this tomato which is considered to be better in term of taste. The later hybrids include Sasha’s Altai, Matina, Stupice and Silvery Fir Tree. The Early Girl hybrid is known to be resistant to fusarium wilt (strain 1) and verticillium. The other hybrids of the VFF hybrids are resistant to two strains of fusarium wilt.
The best farming technique for the early Easy Girl hybrid is dry farming. This technique is defined by the researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz. They studied the dry farming and later defined the technique as not giving the tomatoes water after the transplantation process. This will force the tomato roots to grow better as they will dig deeper underground to try and find the water they need. The dry farming can also result in more flavor concentration. Another benefit of the dry farming is the water saving.
The Easy Girl tomato was first developed in France where the seasons are shorter. It was then distributed in the United States with the help of PetoSeed Co. one of the biggest seed supplier available in the market. The tomato hybrid is called Easy Girl because one of the board members at the PetoSeed Co would like to compete with the popularity of Better Boy Tomato from the Burpee Seeds.
