Tomatoes

Henderson's Pink Ponderosa Tomato 87 days. Huge size, some over 2 lbs., a meaty pink-red beefsteak introduced by Peter Henderson & Co. in 1891, and the most famous of their varieties. Their 1903 catalog said "Quality Beyond Praise, Rich and meaty-sliced. Thick and delicious canned." Still popular with gardeners.

Yoder's German Yellow Tomato 80-90 days. This regular-leafed variety produces large yellow/pale orange beefsteak type fruit. Fairly crack resistant and can grow as large as 1 pound. Good flavor. From Amish lady Mrs. Yoder, whose family grew this tomato for over half a century in Tennessee and Kentucky

Costoluto Genovese Tomato The fluted, old Italian favorite that has been around since the early 19th century. Fruit are rather flattened and quite attractive with their deep ribbing. This variety is a standard in Italy for both fresh eating and preserving; known for its intensely flavorful, deep red flesh. This variety has also became very popular with chefs in this country.

Douchoua Pepper Tomato Graceful bell-pepper-shaped fruits, about the size of large plums, have a lovely cream white to yellow color. Flavor is good with just the right amount of acid, but fruit is not super juicy, being firm and quite crunchy, refreshing and delicious. Fruit very free of imperfections. The overall yield is strong. It would make an attractive and unique specialty market variety.

Golden Jubilee Tomato 70-80 days. A very popular orange variety; fine, sweet, mild flavor; good size and yield. An old standard.

Indigo Apple Tomato 75 days. Immature fruits show deep purple, almost black coloration, which is caused by high anthocyanin (an anti-oxidant). The 2- to 4- ounce, cherry-type fruit turn red when ripe, have a good, complex yet sweet tomato flavor. A descendant of the famed OSU Blue Fruit tomato. The pendant clusters of immature black fruit present a striking appearance in the garden! Resists sun-scald and cracking, lasting long into cool autumn weather when others have quit. Shows disease tolerance and great shelf-life. A classic is born!

True Black Brandywine 80-90 days. Potato leaf. This fine variety was sent to us by our friend, famed seed collector and food writer, William Woys Weaver, of Pennsylvania. It was passed down to him from his Quaker grandfather’s collection dating back to the 1920s.

Lucky Tiger Tomato This is an elongated, green when ripe tomato that will mature to dark green with red striping. This tomato gets high marks for flavor: tangy, sweet and complex with tropical notes and balanced acidity. Lucky Tiger has great market gardening potential, they stand out in the market display and is well suited for both greenhouse and field growing.

Snow White Cherry Tomato Small, ivory-colored cherry tomato that has a delicious taste. One of the few white cherries! Wonderful when mixed with red and orange varieties in a salad. Developed by Joe Bratka.

Fox Cherry Tomato Delicious large, red heirloom cherry tomatoes that seem to be one of the best-tasting large cherries around. The vining plants are very reliable; even in years when the wilt kills about everything else, these seem to do great. The fruit weigh about 1 oz each and are perfect for salads.

Barry’s Crazy Cherry Tomato 75 days. Pale yellow cherries are delicious, and grow on some of the largest clusters known! Sweet fruits are oval, each with a tiny “beak” at the blossom end. Flavor is good, the fruits keep well, and the sight of the 40- to 60-fruit trusses on the large plants is positively mind-boggling

Sunrise Bumblebee Cherry 70 days. Chefs love the luminous swirls of reds and oranges, inside the fruits and out! Everyone loves the sweet, fruity taste, too! Oblong little fruits weigh barely an ounce, sometimes show a pronounced beak at the blossom end.

Mary Robinson’s Bi-Color

80-90 days. Large fruit are yellow with lots of red shading and streaks, much more red than many bicolor types. Fruit is very sweet and mild, great for a slicing tomato. Large, vigorous vines produce heavy yields. Given to a collector in 1994 by G. Fitzgerald. Pretty and delicious.

Chadwick Red Cherry 80 days. Delicious, sweet flavor makes this 1-ounce cherry popular with home gardeners. Large vines set huge yields and are disease resistant. Developed by the late horticultural expert Alan Chadwick

Amish Paste (Roma) 80 days. Many seed savers believe this is the ultimate paste tomato. Giant, blocky, Roma type tomatoes have delicious red flesh that is perfect for paste and canning. It has world- class flavor and comes from an Amish community in Wisconsin.

Cream Sausage 70-75 days. Determinate. Here is a new and stunning tomato; an elongated paste tomato that is creamy white to pale yellow in color. The sweet flavor should be a hit with gourmet chefs. Bushy plants are quite productive. Think of the new sauce colors this beauty will create!

Jersey Devil 90 days. Pendulant, pointed, pepper-like fruits are slow to set on but yield very heavily. 5-6- inch, ruby-red, paste-type fruits are very meaty and have but few seeds. Incredible flavor. This variety was another pillar of the New Jersey tomato industry, and is an ancestor to “Jersey Giant.”

Orange Strawberry 75 days. Brilliant orange, oxheart fruits have a pronounced point at the blossom end, giving them one of the most perfect heart shapes of any tomato variety known. The fruits sometimes reach a pound in weight. The flavor of the meaty fruits is robust, complex and surprisingly tart for an orange variety. Few seeds and solid flesh make this variety good for canning or sauce. Introduced by Dr. Carolyn Male via Seed Savers in 1995.

Blue Berries 75 days. Here’s a small cherry variety from Brad Gates, Wild Boar Farms. Very dark purple color, which means it’s super-rich in anthocyanins. Unripe, the fruits are a glowing amethyst purple. At maturity they turn deep red where the fruit was shaded; the areas that received intense sunshine are a purple so deep it’s almost black! The flavor is intensely fruity and sugar-sweet! Plants are very productive, yielding all season in elongated clusters that look so beautiful.via Seed Savers in 1995.

Ivory Pear 75 days. Medium to small white pear. Very prolific.

Yellow Mortgage Lifter Tomato 90 days. A beautiful yellow version of the regular Mortgage Lifter. It has the same great size and taste except this variety is bright yellow in color. Always popular with attendees at the Heirloom Garden Show, this big heirloom is richly flavored and quite rare. A favorite!

Yellow Pear Tomato 78 days. Very sweet, 1 1/2" yellow, pear-shaped fruit have a mild flavor, and are great for fresh eating or for making tomato preserves. Very productive plants are easy to grow. One of the first tomatoes I grew as a child.

Sungold Select II This is a selection from the regular Sungold tomato, sent to us by Reinhard Kraft of Germany. This is one of the tastiest orange cherry tomatoes out there! This little cherry was the favorite of many of our staff last summer; we love the sweet tangy taste! This variety is not completely stable and a few plants still produced red fruit.

White Currant A favorite variety in our own garden! The fruits are tiny, barely an inch across, and creamy white, with skins having a pale yellow tint. One of the sweetest tomatoes we have ever grown, with superb flavor. The fruits grow in clusters, and the yield is huge! We have more than we can pick, right up to frost. Large vining plants. A perfect cherry for home and market gardeners. A wild type.

Wagner Blue-Green This great “Blue” tomato comes from renowned heirloom/OP breeder Tom Wagner. Color is an incredible blue, with green flesh! We were impressed with its beauty and great flavor! The round fruits are around 3 inches in diameter, and are very smooth and blemish-free.

Tlacalula Pink 75-85 days. A unique tomato collected by a friend in Tlacolula, Mexico. These pear-shaped fruits have deep ribs and ruffles that give them a distinctive look. They have a mild, sweet pink flesh and pink skin with gold-splotched shoulders. A rare tomato grown in Mexico for several generations.

Rutgers Tomato 60-100 days. Determinate. Good for canning, also excellent fresh; large red 8-oz globes. Good yields and flavor, large vines. A fine N.J. heirloom.

Chocolate Cherry Tomato

70 days. Chocolate Cherry is so much more than a pretty face! These 1- inch beauties boast the most flavorful tomato tang in the family, from their delicious thin skins to their combinations of gels and solids, sweets and meats, in every bite.

Orange Banana Tomato 80-85 days. Unique, orange, banana-shaped paste tomatoes that are bursting with fruity sweetness. Perfect for drying, canning, and paste. Also delicious fresh and great for specialty markets. Orange color is rare in paste tomatoes.

Riesentraube Tomato 75-85 days. This old German heirloom was offered in Philadelphia by the mid-1800s. The sweet, red 1-oz fruit grow in large clusters; the name means “Giant Bunch of Grapes” in German. This is likely the most popular small tomato with seed collectors, as many favor the rich, full tomato flavor that is missing in today’s cherry types. Large plants produce massive yields.

Striped Roman Tomato 80-90 days. Stunning and unique, these long, pointed, red fruits have wavy orange stripes! People were really excited about this one at our Heirloom Garden Show. It’s a specialty grower’s dream; just what chefs and today’s buyers are looking for. A perfect midsize beauty with brilliant color, meaty flesh, and excellent flavor. This variety was developed by John Swenson.

Black Cherry Tomato 75 days. Beautiful black cherries look like large, dusky purple-brown grapes; they have that rich flavor that makes black tomatoes famous. Large vines yield very well; very unique and delicious.

Emerald Evergreen Tomato 80 days. Medium-large fruit that stay “evergreen.” This heirloom variety was introduced by Glecklers Seedsmen around 1950. The large plants set heavy yields of these beauties, which have a lovely lime-green color. The flavor is rich and superbly sweet. It’s one of the best. A popular market variety, now being sold in many upscale stores. This should be the official tomato for the Green Party.

Bonny Best Tomato The famous old canning tomato that was selected out of Chalk’s Early Jewel by one George W. Middleton and introduced in 1908 by Walter P. Stokes seed house. It became one of the most respected canning varieties in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Medium-sized fruits are round, red, meaty and loaded with flavor. A good producer that makes a fine slicer too. Becoming hard to find due to modern, flavorless hybrids.

Amana Orange Tomato 75-80 days. Big, 1-lb., glowing orange beefsteaks have an intense full flavor that most tomatoes don't match! This very attractive tomato was discovered by Florida grower Gary Staley in the 1980's, as a chance cross in a sample of seed he received in a seed trade. Gary was so impressed that he named it after Amana, Iowa, town he was fond of.

Napa Chardonnay Blush Tomato 65-70 days. Yellow mutation from Napa Rosé Blush, Brad says this one has “a super-amazing flavor,” with many who tasted it for the first time proclaiming it the very best cherry type they had ever tasted. Also, this variety is very easy to grow, and does especially well in containers.

Al Kuffa Tomato – Cherry

Very Compact sweet cherry size tomatoes that just don't die or stop producing all year long. Great for patio tomatoes.

Golden King of Siberia Tomato 85-95 days. This tomato is one of the real favorites here. Big, lemon-yellow fruit are a delightful heart shape. The flesh is smooth, creamy and has a nicely balanced sweet taste. I always find myself “snacking” on these one- pound beauties. Plants are very productive and seem to have some disease resistance. Thanks to Russia for this really great yellow type.

Beefsteak Tomato 80-96 days. Cook's Garden Favorite. Large, ribbed fruits, 1-2 lbs. each, are produced on indeterminate vines. Solid, meaty and juicy tomatoes, an excellent slicer.

Berkeley Tie-Dye Green Tomato 75-80 days. Incredibly colorful and delicious large-fruited slicing variety! Fruits run 8 to 16 ounces. Exterior color is green with stripes in red and yellow. But the flesh is truly tri-color! Creamy green flesh infused with various shades of red and yellow. Each of these colors has a different flavor resulting in a spicy, sweet, tart tomato with good acid all in one fruit. Discovered in a planting of Beauty King. Fair to good production. A truly incredible new open-pollinated variety, and a new favorite of many chefs.

Black Beauty Tomato World’s Darkest Tomato-- the darkest tomato we know of! A dark, meaty, very rich-fleshed tomato with extreme anthocyanin expression (same antioxidant in blueberries and blackberries). So dark that some tomatoes turn solid blue-black on the skin. Deep red flesh is among the best tasting of all tomatoes. Rich, smooth and savory with earthy tones. Hangs well on the vine and stores very well, and the flavor improves with room- temperature storage. Our own Dave Kaiser tasted it at the 2015 National Heirloom Exposition and proclaimed it as the BEST tomato he had ever eaten.

Black Icicle Tomato Stunning, perfectly shaped, deep purplish-brown fruit that are almost black. A great variety for both home gardeners and chefs. This tomato has the incredible rich taste that is in many of the large, dark beefsteak types: sweet, rich with earthy overtones. This variety has so much potential for introduction commercially and was among our best tasting varieties last season. Another variety we are introducing from the Ukraine along with its other jewel-toned icicle sisters.

Black Prince Tomato 70 days. An heirloom from Irkutsk, Siberia. The 5 oz tomatoes are round and very uniform; the color is a wonderful deep blackish-chocolate brown. The flavor is as deep, sweet and rich as the color. A unique salad tomato, the plants produce a large and early crop. A good tomato for fine markets.

Black Vernissage Tomato Here is a lovely “black” tomato that is loaded with flavor as well as production. This 2 oz. tomato, along with its other Vernissage cousins, is sure to make a big splash in the garden as well as the kitchen. These are perfect for rich tasting sauces.

Blush Tomato 60-70 days. Stunning “Blushed” in red and gold combine with a translucent quality to give these elongated cherries serious visual appeal! The fruits, similar in size and shape to large olives, score high in taste tests. Blush was selected by eight-year-old Alex Hempel from two of his favorite tomatoes, and is an ancestor of the Bumble Bee series! Outstanding!

Brandywine Tomato The most popular heirloom vegetable! A favorite of many gardeners; large fruit with superb flavor. A great potato-leafed variety from 1885! Beautiful pink fruit up to 1-1/2 lbs. each!

Martino's Roma Tomato 70-80 days. Determinate. Fantastic yields of richly flavorful plum-shaped tomatoes on compact plants that require very little staking! Resistant to early blight, reliable for home or market gardens! The paste-type fruits weigh in at 2-3 ounces, dry-fleshed and very meaty with few seeds. Great for sauces, salsas and pastes.

Pink Boar Tomato 80 days. This 4 ounce gem is pinkish-wine colored with metallic green stripes. A great producer and is a definite winner if you want a smaller, juicy, sweet tomato.

Yellow Mortgage Lifter Tomato 90 days. A beautiful yellow version of the regular Mortgage Lifter. It has the same great size and taste except this variety is bright yellow in color. Always popular with attendees at the Heirloom Garden Show, this big heirloom is richly flavored and quite rare. A favorite!

Pearly Pink Tomato 75 days. Crisp, incredibly flavorful cherry tomatoes that are bright pink, perfect for snacking. The vines produce very well, making them great for marketing. One of the prettiest tomatoes we carry. Mmmm, so good!

Blue Cream Berries Tomato A super-sweet cherry tomato, cream berries are super prolific. These boast a delicate but complex flavor and a beautiful cream color with purple-blue splashes on the shoulder. A Wild Boar variety.

Chocolate Pear Tomato 70 days. Expect huge crops of “black,” pearshaped tomatoes over a very long season. Chocolate Pear has the rich tomato flavor that has made heirlooms so popular! A great variety for CSAs and market growers. Light red in color, overlaid with swirls of varying hues of green or brown. Very unusual and decidedly one of the best!

Carbon Tomato 90 days. Winner of the 2005 “Heirloom Garden Show” best-tasting tomato award. These have won taste awards coast to coast in the last few years, so we were proud to locate a small supply of seed. The fruit is smooth, large, and beautiful, being one of the darkest and prettiest of the purple types we have seen. It seems to have an extra dose of the complex flavor that makes dark tomatoes famous.

Green Vernissage Indeterminate, regular leaf plant produces small green striped tomatoes with light green flesh that is loaded with sublime lemon/lime sweetness & taste. A perfect addition to salads, salsas and sauces. Productive over a long season.

Pink Bumble Bee 60-70 days. A stunning cherry tomato, of recent breeding from Artisan Seeds. The fruit has a bright, sweet flavor, and the color is vibrant fire- engine-red with golden orange striping. Vigorous vines yield crack resistant fruit over a very long season. Tolerates cool nighttime temps and hot days. Salad will never be the same!

Sub-Arctic Plenty 50 days. Determinate. One of the very earliest tomatoes, the compact plants produce lots of 2-oz red fruit. One of the best for cool conditions and will set fruit in lower temperatures than most. It has even been grown in the Southern Yukon. Developed by Dr. Harris, Beaverlodge Research Station, Alberta, Canada.

Dark Galaxy A Delicious Galactic Beauty--With mottled skin resembling a scene from deep space, each fascinating fruit depicts the depth and beauty of the night sky. Dark Galaxy bears 2-8 ounce fruit that is flattened, with red and orange stripes covered in random speckles, and layered by deep blue. The vines themselves display a purple blush and grow 5-6 feet tall while producing good amounts of the stunning tomatoes that begin to ripen in about 75 days. The taste is a perfect balance of tangy-sweetness--so juicy and refreshing! Each fruit is a unique work of art, sure to be a garden and tabletop centerpiece! Another stunning tomato from Brad Gates.

Minibel 65 days. Determinate. Bite-sized fruit is sweet and flavorsome. Tiny ornamental plants reach only to about a foot in height and require no support. Covered in tasty little tomatoes. Excellent choice for containers, pots or hanging baskets; pretty enough for the patio or deck. So cute!

Purple Russian 80 Days (AKA Ukrainian Purple) Original stock of this variety came from Irma Henkel in the Ukraine. Meaty, plum-shaped, 6 oz. fruits are 3 to 4" long. Tomatoes are sweet and flavorful making them a good choice for eating fresh, salsa and sauces. High yielding plants produce purplish- black, smooth skinned fruits that are crack resistant. Indeterminate.

Roman Candle 80 days It's rare to find a pure-yellow, banana-shaped tomato, and even more difficult to find one with superior flavor. Roman Candle satisfies on both counts. Paste-type fruits, 4 to 6" long, are very meaty and flavorful with brilliant yellow skin and white flesh. An excellent choice for salsas and sauces. Indeterminate

Pink Elephant 80 days. A Siberian pink productive tomato. Its name means in russian "Malinovyi Slon". Vigorous plants with high tolerance to disease and cold weather grow up to 160-170 cm. Juicy, deep-pink fruits with well-balanced sweet.

JUJUBE CHERRY

75 days. Here is a wonderful red grape tomato from our friend, Reinard Kraft, of Germany. Fruit is produced in long clusters, each one being about the size and shape of a jumbo olive. The crisp fruit is delightfully refreshing and is perfect for snacking.

ISIS CANDY CHERRY

65 days. Delightful, round, one-inch fruit may vary in shades and blush patterns of reds to yellows, usually with golden flesh. Typically carries an intriguing “cat’s eye” or star in yellow on the blossom end. The flavor is outstandingly sweet and fruity. Kids adore them.

NAPA CHARDONNAY BLUSH

65-70 days. Yellow mutation from Napa Rosé Blush, Brad says this one has “a super-amazing flavor,” with many who tasted it for the first time proclaiming it the very best cherry type they had ever tasted. Also, this variety is very easy to grow and does especially well in containers.

PINK BUMBLE BEE

60-70 days. A stunning cherry tomato, of recent breeding from Artisan Seeds. The fruit has a bright, sweet flavor, and the color is vibrant fire-engine-red with golden orange striping. Vigorous vines yield crack resistant fruit over a very long season. Tolerates cool nighttime temps and hot days. Salad will never be the same!

DR. WYCHE'S YELLOW

80 days. This heirloom was introduced to Seed Savers Exchange by the late Dr. John Wyche, who at one time owned the Cole Brothers Circus and used the manure of elephants to fertilize his heritage gardens. 1-lb fruit is solid and smooth; color is a glowing tangerine-orange that always stands out in the kitchen or on the vine. One of the best heirloom orange types for market, its smooth texture and tropical, sweet taste. Heavy yields.

Yellow Brandywine

90 days. Superbly rich and delicious-tasting large fruit, the golden variety gives good yields and, in our opinion, the fruit is better tasting than Pink Brandywine. Large potato-leaf plants are very sturdy and deep green. This heirloom is delicious any way you eat it!

HUNGARIAN HEART

80 days. Brilliant reddish-pink oxheart type fruit is large—frequently exceeding one pound! The fruit of this heirloom is firm and meaty like all oxheart types—great for paste, canning or fresh use. The crack-resistant fruit contains very few seeds and shows very little tendency to develop cores—just rich tasting, solid flesh across each hefty slice! Heavy production all season long. Originated outside of Budapest, Hungary, around 1900.

CHEROKEE PURPLE

80 days. An old Cherokee Indian heirloom, pre-1890 variety; beautiful, deep, dusky purple-pink color, superb sweet flavor, and very-large-sized fruit. Try this one for real old-time tomato flavor. Our favorite dark tomato and one of our best-selling varieties.

PORK CHOP

75-85 days. While most “yellow” tomatoes are actually orange, this is a true yellow with vibrant golden stripes. The medium sized, slightly flattened beefsteaks have sweet tomato flavor with hints of citrus. Wild Boar farmer Brad Gates says it is the “best yellow I have ever had.” This is a premium tomato by all accounts.

SNOWBALL

80 days. Parchment-white tomatoes are extra smooth and beautiful. Renowned for their sweet, citrus taste that is richer and more complex than many white types. This variety is perfect for making a delicious white sauce or for eating fresh out of hand. In 1927 Isbell’s Seed Co., of Jackson, Michigan, said that this was the best white variety that they had ever grown. Some sources say it may have been introduced as early as 1850. This eight-ounce variety is a wonderful piece of American history that is just too great to be lost. Chefs and market gardeners, take notice!

HARTMAN'S YELLOW GOOSEBERRY

Believed to be the same yellow cherry as listed by seedsmen since pre- 1830s, this was reintroduced by the John Hartman Seed Company. The very long vines bear clusters of 1-inch “Gooseberries” that are sweet, mild, tasty and light golden-yellow in color. One of the largest yielding tomatoes we have ever grown! GREEN DOCTORS

A favorite green cherry variety, having a good sweetness and yet still has lots of tart flavor. Named after Dr. Amy Goldman and Dr. Carolyn Male, who have both written great tomato books. Fruit is yellowish-lime green with kiwi- green colored flesh. Large vines produce huge yields of these little cherries. Some plants produce bright green fruit; others produce “frosted” fruit, which is lighter in color and even sweeter.

Janet’s Jewel

Large, bright orange striped, beefsteak fruits - many weighing over 1 pound each! Very meaty and sweet tasting with fruity undertones. Late but worth the wait - it's a real 'jewel'. Indeterminate

Orange Jazz

These beautiful beefsteaks are fruity in flavor, juicy and even crunchy in texture, justly earning top marks in our tomato tasting trials. We noted sugary sweet and complex flavor with a hint of peach. Plants require sturdy staking, as they are large and wildly productive. A real favorite and wonderful variety for home and market gardens. From Fred Hempel of Artisan Seeds.

Bush

If you're looking for an old-fashioned-flavored tomato with the juiciness and distinctive "tang" you remember from vine-fresh tomatoes of the past. These big, luscious, 4-inch fruits grow very densely on indeterminate 4-foot plants, thanks to shorter internodes.

Red Furry Boar

Mid-season (80 days) Indeterminate. Pink with yellow-green stripes. Medium sized round fruits. Ripen will off the vine. Mild flavor.

Big White Pink Stripe

Pale peach colored 4 inch globe slicer with pinkish blush on blossom end and peach-cream colored flesh inside. Meat fruits with tropical flavor similar to melon but slight sweet-tart tang.

Crimson Rose

Smoother than Brandywine, just as flavorful, lots of foliage. Indeterminate. 78 days.

Amy’s Apricot

This is a family heirloom given to Dustin Swanland by his Italian Aunt. Huge yields of ¾ inch golden cherry tomatoes that are bursting with flavor. Similar to Sungold.

Mortgage Lifter Bi-Colored

A bi-colored version of the old favorite heirloom Mortgage Lifter, Radiator Charlie's. Tall, indeterminate, regular leaf plant produces beautiful, large (1 to 2 lb.) beefsteak tomatoes with golden-yellow with red marbling and lots of rich, delicious, fruity flavors.

Ananas Noir

A.K.A. Black Pineapple tomato. The name of this Belgian tomato, introduced by Pascal Moreau in 2005, is French for black pineapple. TomatoFest organic tomato seeds produce a large, sprawling, regular leaf plant that yields heavy crop of 1 to 1 1/2 lb., round, dark-purple, fruit with green shoulders. Interior color is a tie-dye like mix of pink, red, green yellow colors. Loaded with an abundance of rich and delicious, full-bodied, sweet & smoky flavors with a good amount of acidity. A great new addition to the list of splendid black tomatoes. Try this tomato in a salad with other colors. Makes a delicious rich tomato sauce.

Pink Beefsteak

75 days. Delicious, dark pink fruits are meaty with a mild, but tasty, classic fresh tomato flavor. Fruits average 16 to 20 ounces but can weigh up to 3 pounds and have thin skins. vigorous plants produce heavy yields. Indeterminate.

Thornburn’s Terra Cotta From the outside, it resembles Elser Farm’s Brown Derby. But when sliced, the beautiful pink (I think there may be beta-carotene in this one) blends with the ochre/orange and green seed gel to create tomato art. The texture is plump and smooth, while the flavor is full-bodied.

Micheal Pollen

Very unique plum/pear shaped tomato variety developed by Brad Gates at ‘Wild Boar Farms’ from an odd-shaped mutant of Green Zebra. It was named after writer, journalist and teacher, Michael Pollan – a man who has contributed greatly to our understanding and appreciation of plants, and by virtue of his contribution has enhanced the quality of all of our lives. Renamed and re-branded by one of a seed companies as ‘Mint Julep’ in 2014, and since ten offered by several seed resellers in their 2014 catalogs. Indeterminate, regular leaf plants produce 3-4″ long, pear-shaped fruit with slight pointy end that grow in loose clusters. Fruit color is green with vertical yellow stripes. Taste similar to green zebra, milder, sweeter and without the citrusy tang of Green Zebra. The odd branching of this variety makes it more difficult to tie/stake. Extremely high yields with one plant often producing as much as 5 gallons of fruit! Indeterminate, regular leaf plant. Midseason, 75 days to maturity.

Amathyst Jewel

Gorgeous pink with purple amethyst splashes. Large trusses load up with great tasting exotic looking fruit. 1-3 0z. Large production, hang on the vine ability with real tomato flavor. All around crowd pleaser.

Large Barred Boar

65-70 days. This regular leaf tomato grows fairly stocky and not as tall as most indeterminate varieties. Flattened beefsteak fruit is pink-brown with metallic green stripes and weighs 8-12 ounces. Very meaty pink flesh is very flavorful.

Candy Sweet Icicle

Dated to 1807. Candy Sweet Icicle. 70 days. Very pretty, very tasty and very productive. Red with yellow stripes mini roma. A real stand- out! Bright, shiny pointed fruit has top notch sweet fruity flavor.

Persuasion

Recent creation from Brad Gates (US), released in 2015. Pink-orange- purple with green and golden stripes with changing anthocyanin influences. Juicy and sweet pink beefsteak flesh with a very good taste. Indeterminate with high yields from mid-season until first frost. Strongly recommended! Tasty taste + incredible colors.

Chestnut Chocolate Mid-season (80 days for transplant) US variety. Indeterminate tomato, plant grows 180cm (70in.) tall. Slightly ribbed, dark brown, round tomatoes with a juicy, dark red flesh and an excellent taste.

Bosque Blue Bumblebee

A rare eye-catching tomato that is bright yellow, with dark blue marbled shoulders. They develop the blue- purple color as they grow, and the more sun that each tomato receives, the deeper that color becomes. Bosque Bumblebee is a small salad-type tomato, though still larger than a cherry tomato at about two inches in size, and it has a mild, almost citrusy flavor with an appealing juicy texture.

Waimea Wild Cherry

David Oshiro of Kawamata Farms in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii introduced Gary Ibsen and Dagma Lacey to a cherry tomato that he coveted, that appeared wild for many years on the farm. "I want to show you this mystery tomato." He gave Gary and Dagma the one tomato remaining fruit on the plant to harvest seeds. Extremely vigorous and sprawling plants that yield an enormous amount of small, 1/2", scarlet-red cherry tomatoes with a bold, very fruity, entertaining taste. This is a winner for flavor.

Kanner Hoell

Donated by SSE member Reverend C Frank Morrow of Minnesota who claims the seed originated in Germany and has been in his family since the early 1900's. Beautiful, red heirloom beefsteak fruits average 4 to 5" in diameter and weigh up to 1-1/2 pounds. Fruits have good flavor, are low in acid and are moderately sweet. Excellent for fresh eating and canning. Indeterminate.

Sheboygan

Grown since the early 1900s by Lithuanian immigrants in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Pink paste type 4-6 ounce fruits. Excellent flavor. Heavy yields, great for canning. Indeterminate.

Green Zebra

Developed in 1985 by tomato breeder Tom Wagner, this is an unusual and exquisite green tomato chosen by Alice Waters for her restaurant, Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, California. The 2-inch round fruit ripens to a yellow-gold with dark-green zebra-like stripes. The flesh is lime-emerald in color that has an invigorating lemon-lime flavor. A great green tomato for brightening up salads and other tomato dishes. Try our Green Zebra Tomato Seeds for your tomato garden and enjoy a wonderful addition of color to your salads and sauces.

Afternoon Delight

Medium to large-sized bi-color (red and yellow) beefsteak tomato with a nice purple splash of anthocyanin on the shoulders. It is an accidental cross between Big Rainbow and an unknown anthocyanin line found and developed by Brad Gates, Wild Boar Farms of Napa Valley, California, USA. Very beautiful, and also very tasty fruits. Sweet, juicy, firm and somewhat fruity flesh. Midseason, 80 days from transplant.

Atomic Fusion

A selection of the ‘Brad’s Atomic Grape’ tomato bred by Brad gates of ‘Wild Boar Farms’. Indeterminate, regular leaf plants that produces a very good yield of beautifully colored (green, red and brown), striped, elongated irregular salad-type tomato with antho shoulders and multicolored interior. Very sweet and juicy tomato with good shelf life. Midseason, about 75 days from transplant.

Bleeding Heart Juicy bicolour meat with very tasty beefsteak kind of texture. Sweet and fruity balanced taste. Good mid-season production. Indeterminate plants.

Yellow Brandywine Large golden-yellow beefsteak type tomato that can weigh up to two pounds. Its juicy, apricot-colored flesh has a robust flavor that is both sweet and satisfyingly acidic, more so than other orange or yellow-colored tomatoes, though not as tart.

Carbon

Delicious, highly productive black heirloom. Resists cracking and cat-facing better than other large, black heirlooms, producing a higher proportion of marketable fruit. Blocky-round, 10-14 oz. fruit with dark olive shoulders fading into a very dark, brick red. Boasts the signature rich flavor and meaty texture of a classic black tomato. Excellent yields and fruit quality for an heirloom. Productive over a longer period than similar types. Well-balanced plant habit. Indeterminate.

Cosmos

It is hard to find examples of a more exotic-looking tomato than Cosmos. Deep indigo anthocyanin stand out over extremely unusual layered spots that give this tomato a unique and even futuristic quality. Underneath its colorful and otherworldly appearance Cosmos is a round, red variety that usually weighs in between 2-4 oz. It is noteworthy that this breed is very productive and the fruit features great hang time on the vine, as well as good post- harvest life. Accentuating its other amazing traits, Cosmos possesses a classically sweet flavor that is very balanced in its acidity. Indeterminate.

Kryptonite

The newest very rare, exotic tomato from Brad Gates. Productive plants grow fairly tall. Medium fruits with well-balanced and slightly tangy flavor are covered deep-blue and green-yellow striping.

Blue Gold

Amazing 2-3 oz. fruit, Blue and gold bright yellow tomato with tops that turn black with anthocyanin. Interior is red-yellow bi-color that is sweet and fruity.High production plant

Wine Jug

Plump pear shaped, Cabernet colored, with light spots. Sweet, rich flavor. Fruits are crack resistant and have great hang time ability.

Pineapple Pig

Large and plump, weighing up to 1 or 2 pounds, with a somewhat rounded, bumpy shape. The fruits ripen to a creamy yellow color with light green stripes or specks and a pale pink blush. The flesh is also yellow in color, often with a rosy tint or marbling, and offers a thick, meaty, and juicy texture. The flavor is mild and sweet with very low acidity and fruity undertones. Although Pineapple Pig tomato plants are late to set fruit, they are a prolific indeterminate variety that will continue to grow and produce up until a frost. The plants are tall, often reaching 5 to 7 feet high, hence staking or caging is recommended to help prevent garden sprawl and support the heavy fruits.

Green Cherokee

80 days indeterminate. Grows to 6-12oz. Lime green and chartreuse flesh is very meaty and great assertive tomato flavor. Fruits turn a slight amber when ripe. This is an outstanding color mutation from Cherokee Purple. Discovered by Craig Lehoulier.

Missouri Pink Love Apple

This heirloom has been grown since the Civil war by Grandpa Barnes, who grew it as an ornamental, believing (as many people did at the time) that tomatoes or "love apples" were poisonous. Big, pink beefsteak-type fruits are slightly sweet with a juicy, meaty texture. Potato leaved plants are heavy yielders. Indeterminate

Indigo Rose These intriguing deep purple-black tomatoes are a gorgeous addition to farmers' market, CSA, and wholesale offerings. The 1-1/2 to 2 oz. round fruit take on remarkably dark black color where exposed to sun, while the undersides of ripe tomatoes show a rich red blush. Smooth, rosy purple interior flesh offers excellent depth of flavor, balancing pleasant acidity with a hint of sweetness. The prolific fruit grow on compact indeterminate vines and resist cracking well.

Big Boy Hybrid 78 days Indeterminate and strong vines, producing large yields of 1-pound tomatoes. Big crack- resistant fruits are bright red, round. Perfect slicer and for canning.

Atomic Sunset

Atomic Sunset is a cross containing genetics of the well-received Brad’s Atomic Grape. Among Orange Roma’s many praiseworthy traits is its durability. This strain can hang on the vine for weeks at a time while fully ripened, making it one of the hardiest tomatoes we’ve ever seen. In addition to its hangtime, it can also last for several weeks even after being harvested while kept at room temperature. The production can be excellent, and each fruit from the 4-6 ft. plants have the sweet and fruity notes characteristic of the other great orange varieties out there. Averaging at about 2 oz., the ripened product resembles extra large cherry tomatoes and are great for fluffing mixed cherry tomato baskets.

Red Robin Hybrid This super-compact tomato plant can be as small as just 8 inches tall, making it perfect for growing in a pot on the patio, by the door, or even on a fire escape. Each plant produces round, red cherry tomatoes by the handful, perfectly sized for salads and snacking. You’ll be impressed by the yield from such a small plant. No need for a cage, but you may want to add a small stake for support.

Chili Verde

Unique to the world of paste tomatoes - this green variety is a must-have for the home gardener! Developed by Tom Wagner who also bred our popular Green Zebra (pg30). Pepper shaped fruits, with very few seeds, ripen to green with gold blush and have a good strong flavor. Perfect for canning or making a truly green ketchup. Vigorous plants produce excellent yields. Indeterminate

Jujube Cherry

75 days. Here is a wonderful red grape tomato from our friend, Reinard Kraft, of Germany. Fruit is produced in long clusters, each one being about the size and shape of a jumbo olive. The crisp fruit is delightfully refreshing and is perfect for snacking.