Tomatoes

Amish Paste

80 days. Heirloom from the Amish in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Heavy fruit are considered paste tomatoes due to few seeds and meaty flesh but we find they are juicy enough to eat out of hand. The large fruit are somewhat variable in shape, from teardrop to heart-shaped and are sweeter than most paste tomatoes we have tried. Listed on the USA Slow Food Ark of Taste.

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Beaver Lodge Slicer

55 days. These red slicers are the first tomatoes to ripen in our gardens. They have the wonderful tomatoey taste normally associated with beefsteak tomatoes, unusual for such an early tomato. Determinate plants are so loaded with smooth, blemish free fruit that you can barely see the leaves. Perfect for containers or hanging baskets.

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Black Cherry

65 days. All the sweet, complex taste of a black tomato in a perfect little cherry. Prolific indeterminate plants produce loads of these dusky, juicy little tomatoes. Easy to pick and no cracking make these a favorite of market gardeners. Pkt, Bulk A, Bulk B.

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pkt: 50 seeds $3.00 Bulk A: 250 seeds $7.25 Bulk B: 500 seeds $10.75

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Black Krim

75 days. One of the best black tomatoes. Rich, sweet complex taste with a hint of saltiness. These beefsteak tomatos are mahogany coloured with green shoulders and green gel around the seeds. The slices are beautiful in a tomato salad. Yield is high. Water evenly to reduce concentric cracking. Indeterminate.

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Black Pineapple

75 days. These 1-1/2 pound beauties have an outstanding flavour that is described as being both sweet and smokey with a hint of citrus. The indeterminate plants are loaded with smooth, multicolored (green, yellow, purple) fruit. The flesh is bright green with deep red streaks. Slices are beautiful arranged on a plate and sprinkled with basil.

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Black Plum

78 days. Sweet, fruity and juicy, these little black plum tomatoes are one of our favorites for sauce. They are also great in salads and for snacking right in the field. The indeterminate plants are just loaded with fruit, right up to frost. This heirloom was once the star of the Russian canning industry. Prolific and tasty. Pkt, Bulk A, Bulk B.

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pkt: 50 seeds $3.00 Bulk A: 250 seeds $7.25 Bulk B: 500 seeds $10.75

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Black Zebra

75 days. A recent addition to the line of zebra tomatoes. This is a stabilized cross between green zebra and a black tomato. Medium sized round fruits are red with dark black-green stripes and the taste is sweet and smoky. Try them sliced in a tomato salad with green zebra for a visual treat. Indeterminate and productive.

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Blondkopfchen

75 days. Masses of little yellow cherry tomatoes. Indeterminate plants are loaded with fruit clusters of 20-30 extremely tasty, tiny yellow (2 cm.) tomatoes. Very little cracking for a cherry. Visitors to the gardens always want more of this one. We like to dry them, like raisins, and spinkle them in winter salads. Visitors to the gardens always want more of this one. Highly recommended. Pkt, Bulk A, Bulk B.

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pkt: 50 seeds $3.00 Bulk A: 250 seeds $7.25 Bulk B: 500 seeds $10.75

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Boxcar Willie

75 days. Named after the legendary country singer, these gorgeous tomatoes are a great choice for market gardeners. The indeterminate plants yield as well as, if not better than, most hybrids. Extremely juicy fruits grow in clusters of three to four and can reach ½ kg or so. The colour is a striking bright red with orange undertones and the flavour is that wonderful old fashioned tomato taste. Plants are disease resistant and fruits are uniform and blemish free.

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Break O' Day

75 days. This bright red heirloom tomato is the result of a cross between Margobe and Marvana made in 1923 and released in 1931. It has very high yields that rival many hybrids. Tomato expert Dr. Carolyn Male calls it "a workhorse of a tomato" and we agree with her. Smooth, round, blemish free fruit have that tangy old fashioned tomato flavour that is so lacking in many modern tomatoes. Great for canning or slicing.

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Chadwick Cherry

80 days. Our favorite red cherry. This juicy cherry tomato was selected by the late horticultural genius, Alan Chadwick. The 3.5 cm fruits are borne in clusters of 6, have a sweet delicious tomato flavour and few seeds. Fruits are large for a cherry tomato and are perfect for snacking or in salad. The indeterminate vines are vigorous, highly productive and disease resistant. Says Graeme Koetsveld in his blog "Our Tuscan Garden" (on Blogger): "I've grown most of the well-known cherry varieties over the years and I keep coming back to Camp Joy (aka Chadwick's Cherry) for their genuine flavour, reliability and huge crops."

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Cherokee Purple

80 days. A contender for one of the tastiest tomatoes. These large, dusky-pink tomatoes have a complex sweet, smoky taste. They are said to have been grown by the Cherokee people of the USA and rediscovered by Craig LeHoullier, then released in 1993 in partnership with Southern Exposure Seeds Exchange. This is not a tomato to grow for bushels and bushels of fruit but one to have on hand for the incredible taste. For best taste, pick when slightly underripe, shoulders will still be green. Can get mushy if left to ripen too long. This tomato is on the US Slow Food Ark of Taste. Indeterminate.

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Cosmonaut Volkov

75 days. This Ukrainian tomato is the hands down taste test winner in our trials. The large, deep red globes have a complex sweet/tart flavour and a wonderful aftertaste that leaves you wanting more. It is comparable to many of the large and tasty heirlooms but with very little cracking or yellow shoulders. This is our favorite sandwich tomato and we add it to all our sauces. The large indeterminate plants produce early and continue until frost.

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Djeena Lee's Golden Girl

80 days. For ten years in a row, this heirloom was the first place winner at the Chicago World Fair in the 1930s. Medium-large golden orange fruit have that perfect balance of acid and sugar that results in a sweet and tangy tomato taste. Indeterminate plants produce heavy yields of blemish free tomatoes.

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Druzba

75 days. Bulgarian heirloom has exquisite taste and is an easy to grow main crop tomato. 10 cm. juicy fruits are deep red, uniformly round and blemish free. Market gardeners will appreciate the high yields of perfectly formed fruit. Indeterminate plants are tolerant of foliage diseases.

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Earl of Edgecombe

73 days. This heirloom from New Zealand is one of the best tasting full size orange tomatoes we've grown. The flavour is rich, sweet and tart all at once. The texture is smooth and meaty. Fruits are uniformly round, blemish free and resistant to cracking and blossom end rot. This is an English heirloom dating back to the seventh earl of Edgecombe. When the 6th earl of Edgecombe died the next in line was a sheep farmer in New Zealand. When he returned to claim the title, this tomato traveled with him. Indeterminate.

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Eva Purple Ball

74 days. Blemish free, perfectly uniform, sweet, luscious, juicy and produces high yields no matter what the weather conditions. Resistant to foliar diseases and cracking. Unlike many other crack resistant varieties, the texture is soft and tender. Fruits are pinkish purple and ripen evenly. A market gardener couldn't ask for a better tomato. Indeterminate.

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Galina's Yellow

57 days. Our neighbours were eating these tasty little yellow cherry tomatoes in mid July. The 2.5 cm. fruits are borne on heavy clusters and indeterminate plants produce until frost. The flavour is very sweet but balanced with the right amount of acidity. Fruit doesn't drop from the vine when ripe. Siberian origin.

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Golden Cherry

63 days. Sweet and addictive. These little yellow tomatoes probably wouldn’t make it in from the garden except for the fact that there are so many of them you can't eat them all at once. Sprinkle them on salads or pasta, pile in baskets for market or dry partially dry them like raisins for prolonged snacking pleasure. A new favorite. Indeterminate.

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Green Zebra

72 days. Bright, tangy taste and emerald green, fruit with dark green striping make this tomato a show stopper on the plate. The taste is perfect in salads, bright, zingy, almost tart. Not what you expect in a tomato. Developed by breeder Tom Wagner in 1985 and selected by Alice Waters for her restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley California. Plants are semi-determinate and bear heavy yields of blemish free, tennis ball sized fruit.

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Japanese Black Trifele

75 days. Beautiful dark pear-shaped tomatoes with rich complex flavour. Trifele tomatoes come in all colours but black is one of the best tasting. Medium-sized dark fruits taste best harvested when shoulders are still green. Beautiful fanned out on a plate and drizzled with olive oil and a little basil. Little to no cracking in our zone 5 fields. Short plants have potato leaf foliage and bear all season long. Indeterminate.

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Jaune Flammee

75 days. This French heirloom produces masses of little orange tomatoes about the size of large apricots. Cutting into one is a treat as the orange skin covers red-streaked flesh and the contrast is very beautiful on a salad plate. As delightful as these are fresh you have got to try them dry. They retain their colour and the flavour intensifies. Try them in foccacia to get a hit of tomato taste in mid-winter. Indeterminate.

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Market Miracle

65 days. Perfect, round, red, blemish-free tomatoes that come from the markets of Siberia. These productive, determinate plants produce buckets of juicy, 8 cm. tomatoes that have that wonderful, balanced, old-fashioned tomato taste. Pkt., Bulk A, Bulk B

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pkt: 50 seeds $3.00 Bulk A: 250 seeds $7.25 Bulk B: 500 seeds $10.75

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Matina

65 days. This early fruiting German heirloom is full of flavour. It bursts with that perfect balance of sweetness and tartness usually associated with beefsteak tomatoes. You can count on Matina to ripen early and continue producing right through until frost even when the summer nights are cool. The apple shaped fruits are blemish free and of market quality. Indeterminate. Pkt., Bulk A, Bulk B

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pkt: 50 seeds $3.00 Bulk A: 250 seeds $7.25 Bulk B: 500 seeds $10.75

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Polish Linguisa

73 days. The best tasting paste tomato we have grown. Paste tomatoes rarely score high in the taste department but this one is an exception. It has a good balance of juice to flesh and can be used for sauce or eaten fresh. The flavour is rich and sweet and makes great sauce. Bright red fruit are long and narrow with a pronounced tip at the end, somewhat pepper-like in shape.

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Principe Borghese

78 days. Italian heirloom tomato is used for sun dried tomatoes. Can be crushed for flakes or ground into powder to add rich tomato flavour to soups, salad dressings etc. Semi-determinate plants produce an abundance of 5 cm. red, oval tomatoes with a little point on the end. Dry in a low oven if the sun doesn't cooperate.

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Red Pear

70 days. Little red pears have more tomato flavour than yellow pear and look great in salads. The indeterminate plants are productive and require staking.

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Reisentraube

80 days. German heirloom grown in North America by the Pennsylvania Dutch as early as 1856.Reisentraube translate as bunch of grapes and that is pretty much what these little tomatoes look like on the plant. Flavourful 2.5 cm. red cherries have a point on the blossom end and ripen in clusters of 30-50. Extremely productive.

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Rose

78 days. Deep pink, meaty slicers that rival the popular Brandywine for flavour. 1/2 kg. fruits are smooth with very little cracking for a large heirloom tomato. Indeterminate, normal leaved plants are vigorous and productive. Rose is always up there in the top three when we conduct taste tests.

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San Marzano

78 days. This Italian heirloom is the classic paste tomato. Fruits are long with a pointed tip and thick meaty flesh with very few seeds. Said to be the best tasting paste tomato and we agree—if it gets lots of heat. Compact plants are very productive. Indeterminate. Pkt, Bulk A, Bulk B

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pkt: 50 seeds $3.00 Bulk A: 250 seeds $7.25 Bulk B: 500 seeds $10.75

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Sasha's Altai

59 days. Voted one of the ten best early tomatoes by Organic Magazine. Extremely early for a full sized slicer, this slightly flattened bright red tomato comes from Sasha, who grows them in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Extraordinarily sweet and juicy and blemish free. Pkt. Bulk A, Bulk B.

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pkt: 50 seeds $3.00 Bulk A: 250 seeds $7.25 Bulk B: 500 seeds $10.75

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Siberian Red

70 days. This Russian heirloom sets fruit even in cool weather. It produces early in the season and continues late into the fall when many other tomatoes have given up. Sturdy, semi-determinate plants produce heavy yields of brilliant red tomatoes that have excellent flavour. We plant this one every year because it is so reliable.

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Stupice

60 days. You can count on Stupice (pronounced "stoo-peech-ka") to be one of the first tomatoes to ripen in your garden each year. Indeterminate plants produce clusters of 6 - 8, juicy 5 cm. tomatoes. They are the perfect size for salads. The taste is sweet-tart like old fashioned tomatoes. Czechoslovakian origin. Indeterminate. Pkt, Bulk A, Bulk B

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pkt: 50 seeds $3.00 Bulk A: 250 seeds $7.25 Bulk B: 500 seeds $10.75

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Tigerella

62 days. Little 4 oz. perfectly round red fruit with yellow-orange stripes make this tomato a standout in a basket of tomatoes. Plants are extremely productive and pump out 5 cm. fruit with rich tangy flavour over a long season. Does well in a greenhouse as well as outdoors. Very showy. Indeterminate.

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Washington Cherry

60 days. Very early red cherry developed by Washington State University for its keeping and shipping qualities. Round, meaty fruits are thick walled and tasty. They hold well on or off the vine with little to no cracking. Ideal for market.

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Yellow Pear

70 days. These pretty little pear shaped tomatoes are very mildly flavoured and beautiful in salads. Children love them. The indeterminate plants will grow to 2m tall and bear hundreds of fruit until frost. Pkt., Bulk A, Bulk B

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pkt: 50 seeds $3.00 Bulk A: 250 seeds $7.25 Bulk B: 500 seeds $10.75

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Yellow Perfection

70 days. Early yellow salad tomato. You just can't beat the flavour of this little yellow tomato. Many yellow tomatoes are rather bland but this English heirloom wins taste test after taste test. Salad-sized tomatoes are 5 cm. with a thin skin and can be prone to cracking if watering is uneven. Indeterminate plants start producing early and continue until frost. This is one of those tomatoes that won't make it to the store but is a treat fresh from the garden.

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