Notes
Determinate slicing hybrid with late blight resistance. Stake, do not over-prune. Florida weave on 30-inch beds. Set 1–2 weeks after last frost.
Cultivars / Solanaceous
Mountain Merit
Tomato · Solanum lycopersicum
DTM
75 d
164 d occupancy · tender
Rows
1
18 in in-row
Density
0.67
plants / bed-ft
Yield
6.7
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$17.69
$3.00 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 49 d
- Germination
- 7 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 90°F (opt 78°F)
- Seed spacing
- 18 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 1
- In-row
- 18 in
- Seed spacing
- 18 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 0.67
- Plants / 50 ft
- 34
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 75 d
- Holding
- 45 d
- Occupancy
- 164 d
- Multicut
- yes · 12 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 6.7
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 6.7 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.60 / $3.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 1
- Emitter spacing
- 12 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.5 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 25
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 116.9
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2.6 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.85 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 3.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1.3 / 0.4 / 1.9 lb
- Family
- Solanaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-27
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-25
- First harvest
- 2026-06-29
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 9 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 40 seeds · 34 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $471.68 / $884.40
Companions
basil · carrot
Avoid
fennel · potato