Red Varieties

Beefsteak Bloody Butcher Cour di Bue Oxheart Days: 85 Days: 60 Days: 85 Days: 70 Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Color: Red Color: Red Color: Red/Pink Color: Red Season: Late-Season Season: Early-Season Season: Late-Season Season: Mid-Season 4 to 5-inch, slightly ribbed, bright- Rich flavor and a deep red color. Prolific potato leaf plant producing A favorite in Italy for many years. red tomatoes that have spectacu- If it’s hard for you to wait for 1-2 lb. large, red/pink fruit. 12-oz, heart-shaped fruit has a larly delicious, sweet flavors. ordinary tomatoes to ripen, Excellent flavor! delicious sweet taste. Great for try these. fresh eating or cooking.

Dester Earliana Kanner Hoell Matina Days: 75 Days: 70 Days: 80-90 Days: 60 Plant Size: Determinate Plant Size: Determinate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Color: Pink-Red Color: Red Color: Red Color: Red Season: Mid Season Season: Early-Season Season: Late-Season Season: Late-Season A large pink beefsteak variety that Clusters of 4-6 beautiful, uniformly Beautiful, red heirloom beefsteak Heavy producer of smooth, round reaches 1 to 1 1/2 pounds. Its rich round, red-pink tomatoes. A good fruits average 4 to 5” in diameter to slightly flattened, rich red fruit sweet flavor makes it an excellent salad and canning . Prolific and weigh up to 1-1/2 pounds. full of sweet, tangy flavor. Large slicer. tomato for cooler growing regions. Fruits have good flavor, are low in clusters of 2-6 ounce fruits ripen acid and are moderately sweet. early in the season, and production continues well into the fall. Red Varieties

Mortgage Lifter Napa Giant Oxheart Rutgers Days: 80-85 Days: 80-85 Days: 85 Days: 80 Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Color: Pink-red Color: Pink-red Color: Pink-red Color: Red Season: Late-Season Season: Late-Season Season: Late-Season Season: Mid-Season The large, slightly flattened, pink/ Very Large Pink Beefsteak, 1-3 Deep pink heart-shaped fruits have Originally created by the red fruits that range from 1-2 pound tomatoes. Great flavor a sweet, rich, complex flavor and Campbell”s Soup Co. in the 1920’s pounds, are meaty, very flavorful with meaty flesh. VERY prolific are very meaty while still being and then perfected by Rutgers and have few tomato seeds. plant! juicy. 12 to 14 oz. fruit. Universitiy a few decades later. Arguably the finest canning tomato.

Siberian Days: 60 Trucker’s Favorite Days: 60 Plant Size: Indeterminate Days: 75 Plant Size: Indeterminate Color: Red Plant Size: Indeterminate Color: Red Season: Early-Season Color: Pink-red Season: Early-Season Cold-tolerant tomato that bears an Season: Mid-Season Great Russian tomato perfect for abundance of very sweet, flavorful A classic heirloom, favored for cooler/shorter growing regions. 2 to 3-inch, deep red fruit. Sweet/ home gardens for more than a Clusters of 4-oz., bright-red, round acid, flavor and high production. century. Easy-to-grow, with top juicy fruit that is surprizingly fla- Grows fine in containers too. shelf production that sets loads of vorful for a cooler ripening variety- uniform, smooth-skinned 3 inch Stupice globes. deep pink to golden-red. Purple Varieties

Black from Tula Japanese Black Trifele Days: 75-80 Days: 75 Days: 80 Days: 75 Size: Indeterminate Size: Indeterminate Size: Indeterminate Size: Indeterminate Color: Purple-Black Color: Purple-Black Color: Purple-Black Color: Bergundy Season: Mid to Late-Season Season: Mid-Season Season: Late-Season Season: Mid to Late-Season Deep reddish-brown beefsteak Yields 3-4” slightly flattened A Tennessee cultivated by Native Unusual pear-shaped fruit and has a rich, sweet flavor that is mahogany-colored tomatoes with American Cherokee tribe. Very burgundy color. Good yields of 4-6 delicious. Fruit is smooth in texture deep green shoulders. Green gel productive plants produce loads oz. fruit with excellent, rich flavor. and weighs from 8 to 12 ozs. This around seeds. Intense, slightly of dusky rose to purple colored, 12 Harvest when shoulders are still outstanding variety is very pro- salty taste. Black Krim is one of my oz.-1 lb. beefsteak tomatoes with green for best flavor. Potato-leaf ductive and seems to set well even favorite tomatoes. Perfect choice deep red colors to the interior flesh plants. when weather turns hot. Russian for slicing, salads and cooking. and dark shoulders. Rich, complex heirloom. and sweet flavors.

Nyagous Days: 76 Size: Indeterminate Color: Purple-Black Season: Mid-Season Beautiful, smooth, round tomatoes that are dark mahogany with dark grey-green shoulders. Wonderfully firm and blemish-free 6 oz. tomato with lots of sweet, complex fruit flavors and a clean acidic finish. Up to 6 fruits to a cluster. Yellow/Orange/Green Varieties

Amana Orange Aunt Ruby’s German Green Golden Jubilee Kellogg’s Breakfast Days: 90 Days: 80 Days: 72 Days: 90 Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Color: Orange Color: Green Color: Yellow-Orange Color: Yellow-Orange Season: Late-Season Season: Mid-late Season Season: Early-mid Season Season: Late-Season Takes its name from Iowa’s Amana Green beefsteak with sweet flavor Mild flavor and low acidity. Bright, This beefsteak has few seeds and Colonies, where it has been a long- that’s enhanced by a spicy un- golden-orange fruits, 2-1/2 to 3” in a fantastic sweet, tangy flavor. time favorite. With a mild, sweet, dertone. Globe-shaped fruits are diameter average 6 to 7 oz. apiece Delicious rich flavor with a good tropical flavor, this beefsteak smooth skinned, 12-16 oz., with and have meaty, thick walls. Fruits acid/sugar balance. Very variety’s fruits are light orange and light green skins at maturity and are solid, with few seeds. productive. fluted, growing up to 1-2 lb. just a hint of yellow. Flesh is green blushed with pink, meaty, and flavorful.

Paste Varieties Roma San Marzano Days: 78 Days: 75 Plant Size: Determinate Plant Size: Determinate Color: Red Color: Red Season: Mid-Season Season: Mid-Season The classic Italian plum shaped Thick and meaty flesh that’s tomato. Meaty with few seeds. perfect for sauces and pastes. Great for paste, canning and Great candidate for oven-drying. sauce. Multi-Colored and Striped Varieties

Ananas Noire Berkeley Tie Dye Green Cousin Opal Hillbilly (Potato Leaf) Days: 85 Days: 75-80 Days: 75-85 Days: 85 Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Color: Green/Red/Yellow/Purple Color: Green/Red Color: Yellow w/ Interior Red Blush Color: Tye-Dyed Yellow/Red Season: Late-Season Season: Mid-Season Season: Mid to Late-Season Season: Late-Season Also known as Black Pineapple, The stripes have an iridescent This variety was given to me and Absolutely gorgeous bi-color the skin has shades of green, look, and the interior is a rainbow the fruit was delicious, but alas, I beefsteak tomato, great for slicing. purple, orange, red and yellow. of colors. The flavor is a combina- have no photo of it. It looked and Beautiful yellow 1 pound fruits are Bright green flesh has bursts of red tion of spicy, sweet and tart. tasted very similar to a Hillbilly. streaked with red on the blossom streaks The flavor starts out sweet end. Sweet and juicy. and ends with the perfect amount of tang. Yields a tremendous amount of 1 1/2 pound fruits.

Pineapple Wagner Blue Green Days: 80-95 Days: 80 Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Color: Red/Yellow Color: Yellow-Orange Season: Mid to Late-Season Season: Mid to Late-Season Very large, up to 2 lbs. each. I love this tomato, and that’s The yellow fruit has red saying a lot, since I’ve never really marbling through the flesh and been a big fan of green varieties is one of the most beautiful until I met this one! The round tomatoes in the multi-colored fruits are around 3 inches in di- category. The flavor is very ameter, and are very smooth and sweet and fruity; good yields! blemish-free. Cherry Varieties

Black Cherry Black Vernissage Blondkopfchen Chocolate Cherry Gardener’s Delight Days: 70 Days: 75 Days: 75 Days: 70 Days: 70-80 Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Size: Indeterminate Size: Indeterminate Size: Indeterminate Color: Purple Color: Purple w/bronze/ Color: Yellow-Orange Color: Purple Color: Red Season: Early to Mid-Season green striping Season: Early to Mid-Season Season: Early to Mid-Season Season: Early to Mid-Season The only true black cherry. Season: Early to Mid-Season An heirloom tomato from 1-in. brick red with deep This old German heirloom Clusters of 1” round, purple/ A beautiful variety with eastern Germany. The name chocolate shading. Perfect boasts many clusters of mahogany cherries. Fruits artistic flare. The size is larger of this adorable heirloom for salads, slicing or canning 6 - 12 all have sweet, rich, complex than the average cherry cherry tomato means “little with fresh flavor that is rich summer long. Tops for flavors. tomato. blonde girl”. and complex. performance and flavor.

Gold Nugget Sun Gold Cherry Sweetie Tommy Toe White Currant Days: 55 Days: 55 Days: 60-70 Days: 75 Days: 60-65 Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Plant Size: Indeterminate Color: Orange Color: Orange Color: Red Color: Red Color: Yellow Season: Early-Season Season: Early-Season Season: Early-Season Season: Early to Mid-Season Season: Early-Season Early, prolific, golden cherry Ripens to a golden orange, Super sweet red cherry Loads of uniform 1” cherry A tiny gourmet tomato that tomato. Round to slightly with a very sweet flavor. tomato with high sugar tomatoes with a strong initially ripens to a creamy oval w/ deep-yellow color. Produces in warm and cold content for eating right off earthy sweet tomato like white, its sweet taste is hard Well-balanced flavor, deli- conditions. Fruit matures the vine! Masses of 1-1.5” flavor not found in today’s to beat. At full maturity the cious, and a majority of the quickly, heavy producing round cherries in long hybrids. fruits attain a cream-yellow early fruits are seedless. plant. clusters. color. Heavy bearing. Eggplants

Black Beauty Listada de Gandia Little Prince Long Purple Days: 80 Days: 75 Days: 65 Days: 80 Tender, tasty purplish-black fruits This egg-shaped Italian beauty Great for container growing or Long Purple should be harvested are great in a variety of dishes. has 5 to 6” long fruits, purple with small space gardens! This compact when the fruit is 8”–10” long and Excellent breaded or fried. Plants irregular white stripes. Mature plant produces abundant 3”-4” the skin is still shiny. If you are in produce 4 to 6 large fruit, or more plants set well under high heat fruits. It’s beautiful lavendar blos- doubt about maturity level, note if kept harvested and well watered. and tolerate drought well. Thin soms and velvety leaves make this that it’s better to harvest egg- Fruit makes a good “boat” for stuff- skin does not need to be peeled an “edible landscaping dynamo” as plants a little young (6”) rather ing. For best quality, harvest before for cooking. well. Delicious succulent flesh and than wait until they are overly its glossy, dark skin begins fading no bitter skin or seeds, this plant mature with dull skin, plenti- to dull purple. will reward you heavily throughout ful dark seeds, and bitter taste. the season.

Rosa Bianca Pingtung Long Days: 70 Days: 80 A wonderful eggplant from Colorful, light pink-lavender Ping Tung, Taiwan. Fruit is fruit with white shading. Rich, purple, up to 18” long and mild flesh is very popular with 2” in diameter. This variety is chefs and gardeners alike! No sweet and tender. bitterness.