vegetable variety
Mortgage Lifter
Tomato · Solanum lycopersicum
USDA hardiness range
- Zones
- 5a–8b
- Days to harvest
- 55 to 90
- Sun
- Full
- Water
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- annual
At a glance
Sweet, mild, very low acid; large pink-red beefsteak with few seeds. Fresh slicing, sandwiches. Indeterminate, productive heritage variety from Depression-era Virginia.
Growing Mortgage Lifter
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Flavor, texture, and use
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Growing notes
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Mortgage Lifter by zone
Zone-specific suitability, frost timing, and adjacent-zone notes.
Other tomato varieties
6 sibling cultivars profiled on ZonePlant.
- Brandywine
Rich, complex, full tomato flavor with high sugar and high acid; the heritage standard for fresh slicing and B…
- Cherokee Purple
Smoky-sweet, complex, almost wine-like; dark purple-red beefsteak. Fresh slicing, sandwiches, salads. Indeterm…
- Early Girl
Tart-sweet, classic balanced tomato flavor; medium-size red slicer. Fresh, salads, sandwiches. Determinate, ri…
- Roma
Mild, low-water content, meaty; the workhorse paste tomato. Sauce, canning, drying. Determinate, concentrated …
- San Marzano
Sweet-low-acid, dense flesh with few seeds; the Italian paste tomato standard. Sauce, canning, sun-drying. Ind…
- Sungold
Intensely sweet, candy-like, tropical-fruit notes; small orange cherry tomato. Fresh snacking, salads. Indeter…
Frequently asked questions
- What zones does the Mortgage Lifter tomato grow in?
Mortgage Lifter grows in USDA zones 5a through 8b.
- How does Mortgage Lifter compare to other tomato varieties?
Mortgage Lifter is one of 7 tomato varieties profiled on ZonePlant. See the full tomato variety table for side-by-side comparison.
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Image: "Tomate", by Andrea, via iNaturalist, licensed under CC-BY Source.
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