Stupice Tomato Insta-Garden

Name: Stupice Tomato Insta-Garden
Brand: Alchemy Gardens
Price: 30.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Old-world flavor your grandmother would recognize — rich, tangy, sweet in the way tomatoes used to taste before supermarkets got hold of them. Bred in Czechoslovakia, prized for old-fashioned depth, and about to ripen in your garden.

Indeterminate Open-Pollinated Heirloom (Czechoslovakia) · Seeded February 17 · Some plants already carrying green fruit, first ripe tomato in 1–3 weeks · Full sun

Pronounced "stoo-PEACH-ka."

📦 What's Included

This isn't a tomato start. It's an Alchemy Garden — seeded in February, fed on the farm, flowering and fruiting now, delivered ready to harvest from. You skip the hardest eight weeks of tomato growing and go straight to the table.

Every Insta-Garden comes with:

Established 2-ft tomato plant in a 3-gallon soft pot, seeded February 17 and grown out on-farm
2.5 ft support stake installed (indeterminate varieties will outgrow this — plan to upsize by July)
0.5 lb of Alchemy Gardens weekly feed — the same Mittleider-based formula I use on all 246 tomato plants across my farm, tomato/pepper optimized at 50/50 nitrate/ammonium
Pre-measured weekly scoop — no guessing, no math
One-page growing and feeding instructions — written for Tulsa conditions

You water. You feed once a week. You harvest.

📖 The story

Stupice was bred by Czech tomato breeder Jaroslav Homola from a cross of Mikado × Sláva Porýni × Solanum racemigerum at a state-owned farm in the village of Stupice near Prague. It reached America by an unlikely path: in 1976, a 70-year-old Czech gardener named Milan Sodomka read about Abundant Life Seed Foundation in a copy of Rodale's Organic Gardening Magazine and mailed them four varieties of Czechoslovak tomato seeds, including Stupice. Abundant Life introduced it commercially in the United States in 1977, and it's been one of the best-loved early tomatoes in North America ever since. Grown by gardeners who want flavor that feels like it came from a different era.

🍴 What you're getting

Small-to-medium red fruits, 1–4 oz, in clusters on distinctive potato-leaf plants. Mainly sweet with a slight, nice tang underneath — wonderful flavor considering the abundant fruit set, earliness, and size. The flavor is a delightful balance of sweetness and tang, with that classic, old-fashioned tomato flavor that's hard to find in modern hybrids.

📅 What to expect

Unlike 42 Day, Stupice is indeterminate — a big early flush, a summer slowdown during peak heat, and another flush in the fall. One plant, two seasons of harvest.

💧 Care in Tulsa

Water 2x per week, consistently. Mulch thick. One scoop of feed per week. Prune suckers below the first flower cluster for airflow. This plant will outgrow the 2.5 ft stake — plan for a taller stake or cage by July. Open-pollinated, so you can save seeds true to type.

☀️ Heat mitigation

Stupice is specifically noted for performing consistently through unusually high heat where other varieties fail — but production still slows during 100°F+ stretches. Shade cloth and consistent watering help it cruise through the peak and come back strong in September.