Red Tomato Varieties Plant & Fruit Descriptions
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6TH ANNUAL TOMATO PLANT SALE & EDUCATION DAY TH • SATURDAY, APRIL 14 - 9AM ‘TIL SOLD OUT • LIST OF 2018 TOMATO VARIETIES e Red Tomato Varieties Resistant Maturity Plant & Fruit Descriptions Container Indeterminat Approx. Days to Determinate/ Disease Hybrid / Heirloom Ball’s Beefsteak Beefsteak - This is a great choice for gardeners who want to grow luscious big tomatoes but need them to mature early and stand up to the challenges of disease VFFT - problems. These 8 to 12 oz. globe-shaped fruit grow on Disease Mid Season Days highly disease-resistant plants, having no cracking, and - Hybrid offer great, old-fashioned flavor. Wonderful as a 76 Indeterminate Highly sandwich tomato. Resistant Plants need to be staked or caged. 76 Day Tomato Grower Seeds Better Boy Beefsteak - Old time favorite. Tasty, red tomatoes, many weighing up to 1 lb. each. Delicious, bright red, high yielding fruits, starting in midseason and continuing to frost. Good foliage protection prevents fruit from Days Mid Season sunscald. - Hybrid Thrives in most climates. Plants need to be staked or 72 Indeterminate caged. Disease Resistant 72 Days Burpee Bloody Butcher Slicing - Sensational general use fruits with a rich heirloom flavor and a dark deep red color, inside and Highly out. If it's hard for you to wait for ordinary tomatoes to adaptable and thrives in most climates and has very good disease resistance.ripen, try these. In less than Plants n 8 weeks, eed the to be staked or y're ready to enjoy. Plants will yield five to nine 3-4 oz. fruits per Early Season caged. - cluster. Heirloom Indeterminate Days Plants require staking and will produce until frost. 55 Burpee Boxcar Willie Beefsteak - What this variety offers is a very heavy crop of good-sized, smooth red tomatoes with delicious flavor, ranging from 6 to 10 ounces. Because of their abundance and medium to large size, they could well be Mid Season Days a mainstay of your crop, providing excellent tasting fruit - 80 for a variety of uses including canning, sauce and salads, Heirloom throughout a long season. Indeterminate Disease Resistant Plants need to be staked or caged. 80 Days Tomato Grower Seeds Clint Eastwood’s Beefsteak - Big tomato flavor wrapped up in a 6 to 10 Rowdy Red ounces, medium-sized round, red tomato is what this variety is all about. Tall, vigorous plants grow very plentiful harvests of these versatile and attractive fruits sistant with an assertive yet delicious taste. Even beginning Mid Season - gardeners will find this one easy to grow. Indeterminate Plants need to be staked or caged. Days Open Pollinated Disease Re 78 Tomato Grower Seeds Crimson Carmello Slicing - Bred in France especially for fresh eating. These plump 4 to 5 inch tomatoes will satisfy all your tomato fantasies. The round red juicy fruits have the perfect sweet to acid balance that translates to exquisite taste. erticilium, Early Season Savor their sun warmed sweet flesh sliced fresh from - Hybrid the garden, in salads, pastas or wherever you crave rich Indeterminate tomato flavor. Fusarium, V 70 Days Renee’s Garden Seeds Plants need to be staked or caged. Nematode and TMV resistant EARLY GIRL Slicing - Comes in first as an early spring slicing tomato VFF and a gardeners’ favorite. Dependable large harvests all - season long of flavorful, solid 4 to 6 oz. fruit. Disease resistance is good. A proven variety for delicious, early Early Season tomatoes. – Highly Hybrid Excellent performance in almost any climate. Indeterminate Plants need to be staked or caged. Disease Resistant 52 Days Tomato Grower Seeds Yes RUTGERS 250 Slicing - An improved version of the classic Rutgers tomato which is what most people think of as the Jersey tomato. Fruit has good red color, fine flavor; large, globular, slightly flattened fruits weigh 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 Mid Season Yes ounces. This new variety has a firmer skin and acid and - erminate Highly sugar balance reminiscent of the original Rutgers Hybrid ease Resistant Det Days tomato. Dis Plants need to be staked or caged. 74 Rohrer Seeds e / Unusual Colors – Tomato Varieties Days to Heirloom Resistant Plant & Fruit Descriptions Maturity Container Indeterminat Approx. Determinate Disease Hybrid / BLACK BEAUTY Slicing - World’s Darkest Tomato- 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 Mid Season among the best tasting of all tomatoes. Rich, smooth and - savory with earthy tones. Hangs well on the vine and stores Hybrid very well, and the flavor improves with room-temperature Indeterminate storage. Plants need to be staked or caged. 80 Days Wild Boar Farm Seeds BLACK KRIM Beefsteak - Russian Heirloom. Black Krim combines bold, smoky flavor and good texture with an unusual appearance. Deep brown/red, 8-16 oz. tomatoes have brown/green shoulders that get darker with more heat and sunlight. High Mid Season yielding. - Plants need to be staked or caged. Days Indeterminate Open Pollinated 80 Rare Seeds CHEROKEE PURPLE Beefsteak - Unusual variety with full flavor. Famously rich flavor and texture make this a colorful favorite among heirloom enthusiasts. Medium-large, flattened globe, 8-12 oz. fruits. Color is dusky pink with dark es Mid Season Y - shoulders. Multilocular interior ranges from purple to brown to green. Relatively short vines. Heirloom Days Indeterminate Open Pollinated Plants need to be staked or caged. 72 Johnny Seeds CHOCOLATE STRIPES Slicing - A beautiful true show stopper, Chocolate Stripes Tomatoes feature mahogany colored flesh with olive green striping. Complex, rich, earthy flavors reward the gardener with plants that yield a plentiful crop of 3” to Mid Season - 6" fruit. An excellent choice for salads and sandwiches, this one Indeterminate Days Open Pollinated just might become your favorite! Plants need to be 80 David’s Garden Seeds staked or caged. GREEN ZEBRA Slicing - Uniquely green with gold-striped salad specialty. A delicious, tangy salad tomato, ripe just as the green fruit develops a yellow blush, accentuating the darker green stripes. The 3 to 4 ounce fruits are the Mid Season Yes irloom ideal size for slicing into wedges for salads. Productive - over a long season. He Indeterminate isease Resistant Days Plants need to be staked or caged. D 72 David’s Garden Seeds JAUNE FLAMME Slicing - This beautiful and especially flavorful heirloom comes to us from France. A perfect, fruity blend of sweet and tart, Jaune Flamme (or Yellow Flame in French) excels, whether dried or roasted, the slices retaining Mid Season es - Y their deep orange color. irloom He Days Determinate An early producer, ample crops of apricot-colored 3-4 80 oz. fruits are borne on elongated trusses. Plants need to - 70 be staked or caged. Burpee Seeds KELLOGG’S BREAKFAST Beefsteak - Lovely pale-orange color beefsteak type fruit weighing up to 1 pound. Tomatoes have very good flavor and are quite meaty with few seeds. Juice has the same bright color as orange juice and is delicious. Mid Season irloom - Plants need to be staked or caged. He Indeterminate 80 Days Tomato Growers Seeds MARVEL STRIPE Beefsteak - This heirloom variety has become one of gardeners' favorite bicolored tomatoes because of its beauty, size, and taste. Large yellow-orange fruits are streaked with ruby red and have a sweet, fruity taste Late Season that is absolutely delicious. irloom - Tomatoes weigh about 1 lb., although they often become He Indeterminate Days 2 lbs. or even more. Large harvests on vigorous vines. Plants need to be staked or caged. 85 Tomato Growers Seeds SUMMER LOVE Beefsteak - This improved Berkeley Tie-Dye produces a larger yield and ripens earlier. It has all the great colors and flavor of the original BTD. A good improvement to an excellent tomato. Mid Season Beautiful, 16 oz. fruit, tasty and now more productive - with an earlier harvest. Hybrid Indeterminate Plants need to be staked or caged. 75 Days Wild Boar Farm Seeds e Paste & Sauce Tomato Varieties Plant & Fruit Description Maturity Container Indeterminat Approx. Days to Determinate/ Disease Resistant Hybrid / Heirloom BIG MAMA Sauce - Mama Mia! Enormous size and flavor. The new standard in homegrown paste tomatoes. These beauties are plum-shaped, incredibly meaty, and enormous-up to 5" long and 3" across, weighing 8 to 10 ounces. Skin peels away easily after par boiling, which means less Mid Season - fuss, less mess and more delicious, thick, creamy sauce! Hybrid Indeterminate Plants need to be staked or caged. Days 80 Burpee GLADIATOR Sauce - Gigantic ‘Gladiator’ is the hands-down champion in the arena of ‘Roma’ tomatoes. With an unbeatable armor of vigor, flavor, aroma and yield, it bears a bounty of oval 8 oz. fruit on the patio or in a small garden. Strong roots conquer enemies such as blossom end rot. brid Early Season Yes - It has dense flesh and a tangy flavor that makes Hy ‘Gladiator’ victorious for imparting rich, robust flavor to Indeterminate isease Resistant Days paste, sauces, soups, salsa, or ketchup. D 72 Plants need to be staked or caged. Burpee P PATIO PASTE Sauce - Bold, full flavor with dense flesh and few seeds. Cook's Garden Favorite. 'Patio Paste' tomatoes work magic in the kitchen: transforming sauces, stews and soups. With bold, full flavor this tomato stands out brid Mid Season with dense flesh and few seeds. Fruit weigh 2-3 ounces. Yes - Bush makes a colorful, flavorful presence in a patio Hy container. Plants grow larger when planted directly into Indeterminate Days the ground. Disease Resistant 72 Burpee Plants need to be staked or caged. ROMA Sauce - The classic sauce and paste tomato. Compact plants produce 2-ounce paste-type tomatoes with meaty interiors and few seeds.