📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vedernitsa
- 🌍 Origin: A highly productive Russian variety. The name “Vedernitsa” is derived from the Russian word vedro (bucket), implying that this is a plant meant to fill buckets with tomatoes.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate/Semi-determinate. Out in the open ground, it reaches a very manageable height of about 5.2 feet (1.6 m) with standard Regular Leaf (RL) foliage.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Classic red, round-to-oblate tomatoes. They are on the larger side—many growers find them just a bit too bulky to fit nicely into standard canning jars.
- 👅 Flavor & Yield: Produces a massive crop. The taste is a standard, classic red tomato flavor.
- 💡 Editor’s Note: Do not confuse this variety with another popular Russian tomato named Vedro s kusta (A Bucket per Bush). While both names reference bucket-filling yields, they are completely different varieties with different fruit shapes.
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Grew Vedernitsa last year, if I’m not mistaken, the seeds were from Sveta (Fotinia). Very heavy-yielding mater. Taste is normal/average, but honestly, I’m just not a big fan of eating red tomatoes fresh. The bush grew to about 5.2 ft (1.6 m) out in the open dirt, regular leaf, red color. I didn’t try canning or pickling them, they seemed a bit too chunky for my 1.5-quart (1.5 L) jars. In the photos, these are far from the first flush of fruits, they are already running a bit smaller…
Are the varieties Vedernitsa and Vedro s kusta (A Bucket per Bush) the same thing?
sel4anka wrote:
Are the varieties Vedernitsa and Vedro s kusta (A Bucket per Bush) the same thing?
No.
