'Supersonic' Tomatoes

I ran out to the local garden nursery at lunch today and pickup a 6-pack of Supersonic tomatoes. This will be our first year growing tomatoes with any purpose. We have had a few plants here and there in the past but never cared one way or another how they did. My dad is the tomato grower in the family.

The nursery had several varieties to choose from: Supersonic, BetterBoy and a couple cherry varieties.

Description: Big, red fruits with flavor, size and quality! Mid-season beauties are firm, meaty, very large and slightly oblate in shape - smooth, with excellent resistance to cracking. Especially popular in the Northeast. Vigorous vines grow best with some means of support

Days to harvest: 79 - typical mid-season tomato harvest dates (65 to 80 days)

Size: 8 to 12 oz. tomatoes

Resistants: Plants are vigorous and disease resistant, as well as fusarium and verticillium resistant.

Tomato Variety: Indeterminate

Determinate vs. Indeterminate:

• Determinate varieties produce many short branches with flowers and fruit on the ends. They are usually early varieties and produce their harvest all at once.
• Indeterminate varieties will continue to grow and produce flowers and fruit all season until killed by frost, and are most common in gardens. Semi-determinate plants are more compact than indeterminate, but keep producing until frost.

Tomato TIPS:

• Don't crowd tomato plants. They get quite large, and need some good air circulation to get a bountiful crop. Crowding actually reduces the number of tomatoes that will set on.
• Plant more than one variety. They set on at different night time temperatures, so a mix is better.
• Plant some basil plants near tomatoes, it will improve their flavor.

Guide to Abbreviations often found on tomato tags:
A=Alternaria, F=Fusarium, N=nematodes, T=Tobacco mosaic virus,V=Verticillium, OP=Open Pollinated and AAS=All America Selection

Note - The supersonic is listed as VFN.