Sleeping Lady Dwarf Tomato Review

A variety from the “Dwarf Tomato Project” series — for growing plants in limited spaces (pots, planters, containers, balconies).

Sleeping Lady is a compact plant with rugose, large leaves. I grew it in a 12-liter (3.2 gallon) bucket. It’s very convenient — you can move it anywhere on the property. During rain or sharp cold snaps, I brought it into the greenhouse.

The fruits have a beautiful burgundy-chocolate color, not small — 100-150g (3.5-5.3 oz) and more. The flesh is dense, with a balanced taste.

Edited October 17, 2015 by Drosera

Natasha, what a beauty!! Is the period from sprouting to ripening long??

Natashenka, very beautiful tomatoes! 👍 And how many bushes are growing in that bucket? Does SL require pruning (suckering)?

I also grew Sleeping Lady this year from Kolyakov’s seeds (grew it in open ground without any shelters). Yes, the yield is above average, but the taste is very mediocre, the skin is thick. The tomato is only for processing or long-term storage. Actually, I had quite a lot of seeds from Kolyakov. And they all seem to be selected for the same traits… thick-skinned, transportable, quite productive, with an ordinary or sour tomato taste. Almost all of them — both determinates and indeterminates, large and small — had these characteristics… with rare exceptions..

Quote by Marisha:

Natasha, what a beauty!! Is the period from sprouting to ripening long??

Marisha 🌺

Quote by Galina P.:

Natashenka, very beautiful tomatoes! 👍 And how many bushes are growing in that bucket? Does SL require pruning (suckering)?

Galochka 🌺

I’m looking at my notes. I sowed at the end of February, on the 26th (even the temperature was noted that day, +5°C / 41°F..). I took all the seedlings to the dacha in mid-April, and that’s when I planted 3 plants into the bucket. They stayed there overnight, and all the planted seedlings were under my vigilant supervision… At first, of course, all the containers with seedlings lived in the greenhouses, I only took them outside for a “walk” on warm days.

I only removed the lower suckers that came from the roots, and thinned out the inside of the bush moderately, just to prevent it from getting too dense. The plant doesn’t particularly strive to grow suckers, I noticed… It is quite resistant to temperature drops — it grew outdoors all summer. We only brought it into the greenhouse during severe cold snaps or to protect it from heavy rains.

Edited October 16, 2015 by Yaroslavna

Quote by Garmoniya:

I also grew Sleeping Lady this year from Kolyakov’s seeds… Yes, the yield is above average, but the taste is very mediocre, the skin is thick…

Ira 🌺 My seeds were from our Natasha (Nar). Thank you so much to her (she hasn’t visited the forum at all lately for some reason) 🤷‍♀️

I also want to add — our Alexander Ivanovich (Aleksander) helped me a lot with high-quality translations of many varieties. 👍 For which I am very grateful to him! 🌺🌺🌺

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…then I planted 3 plants into the bucket.

Looks beautiful 🌺 But if you planted just one plant per bucket, would the fruit size increase? What do you think? What were the roots like at the end of the season, big or small? Did they fill the entire area of the bucket?

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But if you planted just one plant per bucket, would the fruit size increase? What do you think?

Thank you! 🌺 I think it would be wasteful on my part to grow just one plant in a 12-liter (3.2 gallon) volume 😞 The soil was fertile enough to grow them… In the autumn, when I was removing the plants from the bucket, the roots were visible even through the drainage hole at the bottom… the soil ball was completely intertwined with roots — I just pulled it out entirely like that…

My Sleeping Lady grew in open ground, covered with film since mid-July to protect it from endless rains. I don’t know about a “Lady”, and especially a “Sleeping” one, but I can tell you for sure this variety is a “Woman” (hard worker) 🌺 She completely won me over with yield, pleasant taste, beauty, and resilience. A hard worker and at the same time a beauty. I grew her out to three stems, fruits were 100-120g (3.5-4.2 oz), she didn’t skip a single truss, she set fruit and ripened until September 21st (and this was outdoors in open ground!).

I can’t take such beautiful photos as Natalia Pavlovna, unfortunately, but here is a photo from 25.06.

What is the height of this variety? And has anyone grown it indoors during the autumn-winter period?

Planted Sleeping Lady for the first year in open ground, pruned it to three stems — maybe I shouldn’t have? The bush is beautiful, not tall (it’s a dwarf after all…), the leaves are leathery, the tomatoes are flat, the color is not clear yet as they are still hanging green. But there is no yield, alas. Just average… right next to it stands Milzhinoy, no comparison, completely loaded, while the Lady is not so great. Maybe she is lacking something? Beautiful, yes, but if the taste turns out ordinary, I probably won’t plant it again.

Yes, not productive at all, and the fruits are rather small. I won’t plant it anymore. In general, the dwarfs didn’t impress me.

For me, it’s the exact opposite, out of all the dwarfs, Sleeping Lady performs the best. It’s the earliest, I’ve already picked 3 tomatoes, the trusses are dense, though there are only three trusses in total. Haven’t tasted them yet, they are resting indoors, finishing ripening. The color is brick-red.

The Sleeping Lady variety in the greenhouse reached a height of up to 1.2 meters (4 feet). Productive, mid-season ripening. The fruits were medium-sized, oblate, burgundy-colored, juicy, and tender. The taste is excellent, sweet.

Outdoors in open ground, it was also 1.20m (4 feet) tall, the fruits hide very well inside the foliage. Regarding the skin — I know a person who peels any tomato before eating) As for the taste… here is what I wrote under the photo:

Honest tomato taste, a tomatoey tomato)) salt is welcome.

This year the Lady was very tasty and sweet.