🍅 Quick take: Guker’s Special is an indeterminate, mid-season Potato Leaf variety that produces medium to large pink beefsteaks. Growers praise its incredibly well-balanced, meaty flavor that combines a nice sweetness with a pleasant tang. It performs well outdoors, consistently setting fruit, though extreme summer heat can temporarily slow down production. Full summary ↓
Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4-6 Experience)
Indeterminate mid-season variety, potato leaf. The fruits are medium to large pink beefsteaks, very meaty, with a perfectly balanced flavor, nice sweetness, and a little tang.
Grew this one outdoors and the vine reached about 4 feet (1.2 m) tall. It set every single truss, usually with about 3 to 4 tomatoes per cluster. Really liked this variety.
Loved the taste, sweet with a light tangy kick. My yield was just average though, the hot summer definitely took a toll on it.
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Storage
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate, mid-season with Potato Leaf (PL) foliage. Very manageable height outdoors, stopping around 4 feet (1.2 m) for ElenaN in Zone 4.
- 📈 Yield: Generally very reliable, setting 3-4 fruits per cluster without dropping blossoms under normal conditions. However, prolonged intense heat can lower the overall yield.
- 👅 Taste: Highly praised for being complex and well-balanced. It offers a great meaty texture with a classic old-fashioned flavor profile—sweet with just the right amount of tang.
- 📦 Storage: Produces medium to large pink beefsteaks.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Two growers shared their results, gardening in Zones 4 and 6.
🍅 Have you grown Guker’s Special? Leave a comment below! Let us know how it handled the summer heat in your area and if you got the potato leaf foliage too.
