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SMALL TOMATOES

 

Brown Berry – The first truly brown cherry available to gardeners. Warm, earthy fruits are a great color addition. Excellent sweet juicy flavor. Indeterminate 75 days.

 

 Isis – This delightful variety produces yellow-gold cherry tomatoes with red marbling. Marbling varies from just a red blush to extensive streaking inside and out. What is consistent, however, is the sweet taste that is rich, fruity and very delicious. Tomatoes are about ¾ inch across and are round to oblate in shape. Indeterminate 67 days.

 

Red Pear – Miniature pear-shaped tomatoes are 1 ¾ to 2 inches long and bright red. Flavorful and sweet, they are great for salads and as a companion to “Yellow Pear”. Indeterminate 78 days

Snow White – Delightful ivory-colored cherry tomatoes ripen to pale yellow and are deliciously sweet without being sugary. This is one you'll find yourself snacking on in the garden because it tastes so good. Indeterminate 75 days.

 

Sun Cherry – Small fruit borne in long, 20-fruit, grape-like trusses. Compared to other “Sweet 100” types, the fruits are sweeter and ripen earlier. Indeterminate. 58 days.

 

Sun Gold – Exceptionally sweet, bright tangerine-orange cherry tomatoes leave customers begging for more. Vigorous plants start yielding early and bear right through the season. The taste can't be beat. Indeterminate 57 days.

 

Sweet Million – An improved version of Sweet 100, this variety offers the same wonderful flavor and yields, but much better disease resistance and tolerance to cracking. Incredibly long clusters of 1 inch dark red fruit grow on tall, vigorous plants. Indeterminate 65 days.

 

Wild Cherry – Tiny cherry tomatoes, only about ½ inch diameter, are packed with an amazingly large tomato flavor. When you bite into these delightful morsels, they literally burst with intense, rich tomato flavor perfectly balanced with sweetness. It is quite a wonderful taste sensation. Bright, deep red fruit load up on long trusses and are just right for snacking or tossing into salads.

Indeterminate 60 days.

 

Yellow Pear – These miniature pear shaped tomatoes are 1 ¾ to 2 inches long and clear yellow in color. They are delightfully sweet, considered by many as “garden candy”. Indeterminate 78 days


RED TOMATOES

 

Early Girl – Comes in first as an early slicing tomato and our customers' favorite early variety. Dependable large harvest of flavorful, solid 4-6 oz fruit. Disease resistance is good, contributing to its excellent performance in almost any climate. A proven variety for delicious, early tomatoes. Indeterminate 52 days.

 

Patio – This dwarf variety is one of America's most popular varieties ever for growing on patios, decks, courtyards, or wherever garden space is limited. Plants only become about 2 ft tall, but produce large harvest of bright red tomatoes. Outstanding for growing in containers – one that measures at least 12 inches wide works best. Determinate 70 days.

 

Rose – A large leafy heirloom that produces deep, rose-pink, 3 inch, meaty globes with a taste that rivals those varieties heralded most for their luscious taste.

 

Rutgers – Gardeners throughout the country are rediscovering this old fashioned classic for its terrific flavor and productivity. This strain has some disease resistance, which ensures large crops of crack-free, bright red 6-8 oz tomatoes with delicious old-time taste. For many years, this was a favorite for canning because of its abundance, juiciness and deep red color through and through. Developed in the 1920's, but just right for today's gardens too. Determinate 75 days.

 

San Marzano – Delicious Roma style tomato with balanced acidic flavor and meaty flesh makes for good sauce. Fruits average 5-6 oz. High quality for our most demanding “paste” customers. Indeterminate 78 days.



BLACK TOMATOES

 

Black from Tula – Deep reddish-brown beefsteak tomatoes have a rich, sweet flavor that is delicious. Fruit is smooth in texture and weighs from 8 to 12 oz. This outstanding variety is very productive and seems to set well even when weather turns hot. Indeterminate 75-80 days.

 

Black Krim – This tomato variety is a medium large sized maroon beefsteak with green shoulders and an intense, unique taste. Ideal for slicing, salads and more, Due to their natural salty taste, slices require no salt and only a hint of pepper. Indeterminate 75-90 days.

 

Black Trifele – Russian origin. In Russia the Trifele varieties of tomatoes are highly prized and command high prices. This short potato leaf plant yields prolific quantities of 6 oz fruit that looks like a beautiful mahogany colored Bartlett pear with greenish shoulders. Very tasty flesh with a meaty core that produces luscious fruit all summer long. A work of art sliced out on a plate and a wonderful flavor that possesses an extraordinary richly and complex flavors. One of the blackest varieties around and resistant to cracking.

 

Carbon – This is among the darkest of the “black” tomatoes that we've seen and one of the very best tasting tomatoes of any kind that we've sampled. It flavor is exceptionally rich yet sweet and the essence of delicious summer tomato flavor. Medium to large 8 to 12 oz tomatoes are dark purplish-brown on the outside with a deep brick-red interior. Indeterminate 80 days.

 

Cherokee Purple – Unique dusty rose color. Flavor rivals Brandywine, extremely sweet. Productive plants produce large crops of 12 oz fruits. Indeterminate, 80 days from transplant.


ORANGE TOMATOES

 

Orange Russian – This is truly a WOW tomato which was a standout in tomato trials. It is a bi color heart-shaped tomato with golden flesh marbled on the inside with streaks of red. A cross between Russian 117 and Georgia Streak. 1 to 2 lb yellow-orange color with a pink blush, very meaty with flavor that is well balanced, delicious and sweet, somewhat fruity flavor and has very few seeds. Indeterminate

 

Persimmon – Beautiful, golden-orange tomatoes have one of the best flavors of all orange tomatoes. Average 5 in. diameter and between 1 – 2 lb, quite meaty with few seeds. Indeterminate 80 days.


YELLOW TOMATOES

 

Lemon Boy – The first lemon yellow, not golden, tomato variety and still one of the best. Vigorous plants are easy to grow and produce large harvest of attractive and delicious fruit that weighs 8 oz. The sweet yet tangy flavor is outstanding. Indeterminate 72 days


BI COLORED TOMATOES

 

Striped German – These flat, medium to large, variable ribbed-shoulder tomatoes are shaded yellow and red. The marbled interior looks beautiful sliced. Complex, fruity flavor and smooth texture. Medium-tall vines. Indeterminate 78 days.

 

Virgina Sweets – This heirloom variety is simply one of the best tasting, best producing gold-red bi colors. On top of that, the tomatoes are stunningly beautiful and enormous, weighing at least 1 lb each. Golden yellow beefsteaks are colored with red stripes that turn into a ruby blush. Flavor is sweet and rich. Indeterminate 80 days


Copia – These very beautiful tomatoes are a stunning combination of fine-lined golden yellow and red stripes. White visually exciting, the real treat comes when you cut them open. Their gold flesh is streaked with red and is very juicy, flavorful and sweet. A stabilized cross between Green Zebra and Marvel Stripe, these tomatoes weigh about one pound. Indeterminate

 

GREEN TOMATOES

 

Big Zebra – A tomato that is red and green-striped is so unusual that it's safe to say that you've probably never seen anything like it before. Although deep red and green outside, its interior is green with pink extending up into the middle. Fruit is medium to large with a mild, sweet flavor. Indeterminate 85 days.

 

Green Zebra – A unique and delicious salad tomato. 3 oz green fruit ripens to amber-green with darker green stripes. The light green flesh is very flavorful, sweet yet zingy. This one is a real taste treat. Indeterminate.