🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Saucy Mary is a mid-season, green-when-ripe dwarf variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project, bred by Craig LeHoullier (from the Kiwi family). It produces small, striped green plum tomatoes on compact rugose plants. Growers highlight its versatility for both fresh eating and canning, as well as its impressive resistance to leaf mold in greenhouse conditions. Full summary ↓
Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zone 4 Experience)
Dwarf Saucy Mary. Seeds from Batatovye Kuschi. Grew 2 bushes – 1 in the greenhouse and 1 outside in the dirt. Both produced a great crop, but the outdoor ones were smaller and sometimes had a little beak on the blossom end. It’s a green-when-ripe tomato, plum-shaped, and gets faint stripes when it ripens. Nice for fresh eating, but I mostly use them for pickling and canning.
Stayed healthy in the greenhouse for a really long time, even while other varieties were getting hit by leaf mold.
Full Summary: Yield, Use and Disease Resistance
- 🌿 Plant: A compact dwarf that performs well both in greenhouses and outdoors. The outdoor plants tend to produce slightly smaller fruits that occasionally show a pointed blossom end. The fruits are green-when-ripe plums with faint striping.
- 📈 Yield: Excellent. Maria reported heavy crops in both growing environments.
- 👅 Use: A highly versatile tomato. While it tastes pleasant fresh, its firm plum shape makes it primarily a great choice for pickling and canning.
- 🛡️ Disease Resistance: Very high against leaf mold (Cladosporium). The plant remained healthy in the greenhouse long after surrounding varieties succumbed to the fungus.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: One grower from USDA Zone 4.
🍅 Have you grown Dwarf Saucy Mary? Drop a comment below! Did you experience the same strong resistance to leaf mold in your garden?
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