Rusty’s Heirloom Tomatoes – 2021 Plants for Sale Ken Cook, [email protected], 240 Stark Highway North, Dunbarton, NH 03046, 603-774-7775

Ambrosia Rose (New for 2021!) Can be grown in a large pot Ambrosia Rose, a deep pink .5 to 1 oz. slightly oval of exceptional taste and flavor. The fruit is not only very high in soluble solids (primarily sugars) but has a complex sweet-tangy flavor like super-sweet grapes. The plant is big, healthy and not bothered by damp weather, pests or disease. Production is massive and continuous throughout the long season. Very high sugar levels with Brix level 10+ in ordinary field grown conditions – moderate temps., very good soil fertility and regular (but not excessive) watering. A great flavorful lip-smacking cherry for snacking,

salads and drying. Indeterminate, regular-leaf plants bears in 70 days

Ananas Zebra A cross between Tom Wagner’s “Green Zebra” and Pineapple. A real stunner! This gorgeous port wine colored beefsteak with metallic green stripes is a beautiful, tasty, exotic tomato with rich flavor. Excellent sweet, 8-10 oz. dark tomato with spectacular streaks and swirls of green, yellow, red and orange dappling inside and out. The lip smacking flavor is special - starts out with an abundance of rich, delicious, full- bodied, sweet and smokey flavors and ends with a whollop of acidity and tang. Regular-leaf, indeterminate. 75 – 80 days

Bronze Torch Can be grown in a large pot Gorgeous brick red fruits with bronze striping, exceptional flavor ratings and texture. Fruits have a beautiful dark red interior. Extremely prolific, plants produce high yields of stunning cherries that are off the charts sugar bombs! If you like very rich sweet tomatoes this is the one for you. Average Brix score (sugar rating) of 8.0. Oblong julienne –type fruits weigh about 1 ½ - 2 oz. and measure 1.25″ wide and 2.5″ long. The fruits will hold onto the vine for an extended growing period without cracking and a long-shelf life in the kitchen. Indeterminate regular-leaf vines produce ripe fruit 70 days. Developed by Mark McCaslin, Frogsleap Farm, MI.

Chocolate Cherry Can be grown in a large pot Extremely flavorful, uniform, 1 oz. deep brown-purple-black, meaty textured sweet fruits that grow in trusses of 6-8. Fruits hold stems very well, don't crack, disease resistant and can be picked several days before completely mature and allowed to ripen off the vine without sacrificing quality. Fruits are irresistibly delicious that will burst in your mouth with sweet and tangy rich complex lip-smacking earthy overtones. Ideal for snacking or appetizers, salads or eating fresh off the vine. Indeterminate, regular-leaf. 70 -75 days.

Brandywine, Cowlick’s Indeterminate large potato-leaf plant is more productive, earlier, and tastier and produces larger smoother prettier fruits than just about all other Brandywines. The dark pink oblate 10 – 20 oz. beefsteak fruits have fabulous sweet flavor. Mike Henry bought the plant from a local Pennsylvania Nursery called Cowlick, thus its’ name. Subsequent grow-outs / comparison tests with 2 dozen other strains consistently out-performed all others – earlier, more productive, sweeter, meatier with much smaller seed cavities. A Winner! 80 – 85 days

Early Wonder Can be grown in large pots. This extra-early maturing, compact variety makes an impressive crop of round, dark pink tomatoes with an average weight of 3-6 oz. They have excellent, full tomato flavor, and earn their name as it’s a wonder an early variety tastes so good. It has the bold rich old-fashioned tomato flavor. Perfect for sandwiches, salads, processing and slicing. Perfect for gardeners in short-season areas. Round dark pink sweet tomatoes are meaty, small core, almost seedless with excellent taste. Triple bonus - early, great taste, super productive. Semi-indeterminate, regular-leaf. 70 - 75 days

Fruit Punch (Cherry) Can be grown in large pots. The ultimate in cherry tomatoes. This pinkish-red beauty achieves a new level of sugar-sweetness and flavor, superb texture, and a tangy "true tomato" taste. Regular leaf plant produces loads of 1 oz. round excellent cherry fruit, high yields, super sweet fruity taste, and possess thin skins - remarkable, considering its wonderful crack resistance, even in heavy rains. Heavy early cropper. Indeterminate 70 days

Great White (New for 2021!) Great White is the best of the large whites, 12 – 16 oz. globe-shaped with succulent creamy white fruit. The flesh is so good and deliciously fruity, it’ll remind you of a mixture of fresh-cut pineapple, melon and guava. One of our favorite fresh-eating tomatoes! Fruit is smoother than most large beefsteak types, and yields can be very high. Fruit is meaty with few seeds with mild non-acid flavor and great texture. Introduced by Gleckler’s Seedsmen in the 1950’s. Indeterminate, regular-leaf plant is hardy, drought and crack resistant with good leaf cover to protect from sunscald, and earlier than most whites maturing in about 80 days.

Large Pink Bulgarian (New for 2021!) Brilliant pink luscious fruits weighing 10-16 oz. are firm, meaty, solid flesh —great for fresh eating, canning, sandwiches, paste, or making fresh roasted tomato sauce. The crack-resistant fruits have few seeds and very little cores - superb rich tasting, sweet, excellent flavor and solid flesh across each hefty slice! Fruits are firm, dense, and meaty. Indeterminate regular leaf plants bear heavily all season long. Heirloom from the Kurtovo Konare village in the fertile Thracian valley in Bulgaria. Reputedly brought by Alexander Dimitrov to Bulgaria from Tzarigrad (Istanbul) around 1894, hidden in his walking stick. “Slow Food Presidium” recognition. 80 - 85 days.

Liften Yellow An exceptionally beautiful, large 16 – 24 oz. beefsteak, with interior shades of orange, pink and red with a delicious sweet flavor and a hint of citrus. Plants did very well in the hot weather and diseases were never a threat to them. Golden yellow beefsteaks’ exterior are colored with red stripes that turn into a ruby blush on the bottom of the golden fruit. Flavor is sweet and rich and harvests are abundant. Perfect for fresh eating, sauces, BLT sandwiches, caprese salads, great for cooking and sweet orange sauce. Indeterminate, Regular leaf, 80 Days

Lucid Gem Can be grown in a large pot An absolute visual masterpiece! Slicing-type fruits are stunning, inside and out! Plant yields loads of 5-ounce, beefsteak-type fruits, being very meaty, containing very few seeds. First they ripen yellow, then more toward orange when very ripe. Incredibly attractive with the black anthocyanin splashes really contrasting with the lighter colored skin. The sweet, juicy flesh is marbled yellow to red, and the flavor is fruity and superb. Long vine hang time, great keepers in the kitchen. Great tasting! Plants are regular–leaf and Semi-indeterminate. 75 days

Lucky Tiger Can be grown in a large pot This tomato is the BOMB! Fruits are very versatile - perfect for salsas, jams, jellies, drying and no better way to have them freshly picked and eaten! Indeterminate, tall, regular-leaf vines are very productive and bushy. Fruits are 1 ½ - 2 oz. & about 2” long, greenish pink, bi color - a subtle orange / green striped color with orange flesh inside. The fruits have excellent sweet flavor and taste with complex tropical notes. The fruits will hold onto the vine for an extended growing period without cracking and a long-shelf life in the kitchen. You will snack on these all day long. 70 days

Magnum Beefsteak The large dark red 12 – 20 Oz. meaty beefsteak fruits have luscious, creamy, dense sugary full tomato flavor that rivals Brandywine. Overall, its flavors are exceptionally rich, Incredible complex luscious flavor, very sweet and succulent, making them perfect for slicing / fresh eating, outstanding for processing, canning, juicing, sauces, soups and fabulous BLTs. Old heirloom variety that was preserved, grown and distributed by the late Chuck Wyatt. Highly productive and good disease resistance. Indeterminate, Regular-leaf. 80+ Days

Matina Can be grown in a large pot Vigorous, potato-leaved indeterminate plants put on numerous of 3 - 5 oz. round red golf-ball size fruits and superb flavor rivals that of the large beefsteak types. Huge prolific plant with abundant foliage is resistant to diseases and protects the fruits from sunscald. Perfect, blemish-free and very uniform fruit, prolific trussing in clusters of 4 – 6 with great flavor. Delicate balance of sweet and slightly tart flavors. Early producer, does well in cool nights and continues to bear throughout summer. Taste test winner at two Organic Seed Alliance trials of early red slicers. Flawless, great all- purpose tomato - fresh, canned, stewed, salsa. 70 days

Mikado Rosvoyi (“Pink Mikado”) Very early Russian from Krasnodar Region. Indeterminate potato- leaf plants are very resistant to disease and perfect for cooler climates. Scrumptious large rosy-pink juicy fruits with smooth, thin skin and small amount of seeds have excellent well balanced sweet flavor and old-fashioned tomato aroma. Fruits weigh 9–12 oz. and contain lots of lycopene, carotene and selenium. A delicious great- tasting all-purpose tomato for salads, sandwiches, canning, sauces that won’t disappoint. 70 Days

Miracle of the Earth (New for 2021!) Miracle of the Earth is the result of the famous Siberian breeder Vladimir Nikolaevich Dederko in Novosibirsk, located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River. The delicious raspberry-pink heart-shaped fruits weigh 9 – 13 oz. The fruits are fleshy, juicy and dense, very sweet and aromatic. Having many of the characteristics of Siberian-breed tomatoes, they are relatively early, determinate (4 – 5 feet), tolerant to various weather conditions, super productive, pests and disease resistant with superb texture, taste and flavor. Generally, fruits grow in clusters, non- cracking, having long vine-hang time and long kitchen-self life. Great taste, beautiful, multi-use, just an absolutely outstanding old-fashioned flavor bomb. 75 days.

Orange Berry Can be grown in a large pot Orange Berry is a dense, orange-skinned cherry tomato with a high sugar content and a distinctive flavor when fully ripe. Flavor is bold, rich, sweet having the intense flavor of a full-size tomato, packed into a small, beautiful oval deep-golden ¾ - 1 oz. size fruits, growing in bountiful clusters. Produces continuously throughout the summer on vigorous, sturdy indeterminate regular-leaf plants. Unlike the hybrid Sun Gold, Orange Berry does not crack due to heavy rains or over-watering. A superb choice! You will be snacking on these gems while working in the garden. 70 days

Orange Brandywine (New for 2021!) Orange Brandywine is the best pure orange-gold beefsteak available from the original seed stock of famous breeder Tom Wagner. The big vigorous indeterminate potato-leafed plants produce large amounts of12 – 16 oz., 3 to 5 inch brilliant gold flattened, slightly ribbed shoulders beefsteak tomatoes with delicious, intense sweet flavors balanced with slight tartness finish. Superb taste and flavor, nice smooth texture having an excellent fruity-sweetness and good acidic balance resulting in lots of robust, complex flavors that linger on your tongue. Great for fresh eating, caprese salads, sandwiches, cooking in sauces and canning. 80- 85 days

Pink Climber (New for 2021!) Pink Climber is an indeterminate potato-leafed plant producing beautiful slightly flattened deep, rose-pink, 3 inch, meaty, 12 - 16 oz. luscious sweet tomatoes. In taste tests, many assert it rivals the vaulted taste of the famous Brandywine but is smoother, more crack resistant and most importantly matures about 5 – 7 days earlier: which is advantageous in our short growing season. Great versatility as a slicer, salad, sandwiches, canner, sauce and paste. A fabulous tomato! Great productivity of consistently large tomatoes all season long. Indeterminate. 80 days

Rosa de Zarautz (New for 2021!) Rosa de Zarautz tomato comes from an old fishing village of Zarautz located on the Cantabrian Sea Coast in northern Spain. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plants produce light rosy-pink, heart-shaped, and conical / elongated fruits weighing 6 to 9 oz. Fruits have fleshy, meaty, dense meat, great texture and thin skins but won’t crack. Vines are very productive but wispy like all ox-hearts. The taste is sweet, concentrated, aromatic and complex. Plant is very productive, disease resistant yielding fruits with low seed count resulting in a top perfect paste tomato for sauces, canning and salsa. An old heirloom Basque variety. 75 – 80 days

Sandul Moldovan Outstanding large 10 – 16 oz. pink sweet beefsteak with slightly flattened (oblate) fruit and some shoulder ribbing. What makes Sandul Moldovan so special is exceptional complex flavor, high sugar - low acid balance, its dense, meaty and creamy flesh with exquisite sweet wine flavor and the intense aroma of old-fashioned tomatoes. Heirloom variety from Moldova brought by the Sandul family when they immigrated to US in early 1990’s. Regular-leaf, indeterminate plants are very productive into late summer. A fabulous multi-purpose tasty tomato! 75 - 80 days

Sarnowski Polish Paste Super productive indeterminate regular-leaf plants have droopy foliage, 6 - 10 oz. fruit - dense, meaty, solid almost seedless flesh and sometimes variable in shape (large plum, double plum, long sausages) with a nipple end. If you like process tomatoes, make sauces or can lots of tomatoes, this would be a great variety to grow. Flavor is superior to other paste / processing types - intense, sweet and rich. Great for fresh eating also. Polish heirloom from Sarnow River area brought to

Schenectady, NY in the1890’s. 75 days.

Snow White (New for 2021!) Can be grown in a large pot Large sprawling, extremely productive plant produces fantastic round, ½-1 inch, 1 oz. cherry tomatoes, borne in clusters, deepens to a pale ivory or yellow color upon ripening (depending on leaf cover). Delicious sweet flavors that are perfectly balanced with enough acid to make the flavor sing. Lots of character and complexity. This is one you'll find yourself snacking on in the garden because it tastes so good. A real winner! Regular leaf, indeterminate plant. 70 days

True Colors (New for 2021!) True colors was created by Karen Oliver of Ladysmith, Canada from a cross of Ludmilla’s Pink Heart and Captain Lucky. True colors will blow you away with its taste and beauty that almost seems surreal. Strong and prolific indeterminate, wispy potato-leaf plants produce 8 to 14 oz. beautiful ox-heart fruits with very attractive yellow, green and pink marbling inside and yellow-green-purple coloring outside. Excellent, rich, very meaty tomato with few seeds. When fully ripened, they are sweet, fruity, firm and juicy. It’s a home-run whether used for fresh eating, caprese salads, sandwiches, sauces and soups. This is a masterpiece and a must grow, resist cracking and cat-facing. 75 days.