Tomato Plant Reservation Form
Please fill out the form below to reserve your heirloom tomato plants. Payment is not required until you pick up your plants in May. You can cancel at any time.
The plants will be available for local pick up in Lafayette on the weekend of May 13th. If that weekend does not work for you, we will be happy to coordinate an alternate time for you to pick up your plants. Shipping is not available for tomato plants.
Amish Paste
Amish Paste tomatoes are an acorn-shaped, deep-red, paste-type fruit. The vines produce medium-sized, 8-12 ounce fruit. This Amish heirloom has thick flesh and few seeds. It performs better when staked.
Aunt Ginny’s Purple
This heirloom beefsteak variety has flavor so excellent and rich that some folks claim it is equal to or better than Brandywine. Deep pink tomatoes weigh 12 to 16 ounces and are mostly smooth with very little cracking. Potato-leaved plants are vigorous and give good yields of these juicy and delicious tomatoes. Indeterminate.
Beefsteak
An old-time favorite that has been popular for many years due to it’s excellent productivity and wonderful taste. 4 to 5-inch bright-red tomatoes that have delicious, sweet flavors. This tomato’s excellent taste and meaty flesh make it an ideal tomato for eating fresh or cooking, for slicing into sandwiches, using in salads or for canning!
Big Rainbow
These spectacular tomatoes are large 1-2 lb. rib-shouldered bi-colored beefsteak tomatoes with gold flesh with beautiful red streaks running throughout. As fruits ripen they have a rainbow appearance: greens on the shoulder, yellow, orange, gold in the middle, and red on the blossom end. Very juicy and fruity sweet.
Black Cherry
One of Matt’s favorite cherry tomato! A must have. The 1” fruits are irresistibly delicious with sweet, rich, complex, full tomato flavors that burst in your mouth, characteristic of the best flavorful black tomatoes. Beautiful to mix with other colored cherry tomatoes. A must have tomato in any garden. You will love these cherry tomatoes!
Black Krim
A high yielding heirloom with unique looking, large fruit. Dark red-purple fruit, rich sweet flavor. One of the best. It always places high in tomato taste trials. It’s very juicy. Combines bold, smoky flavor and good texture with an unusual appearance.
Blondkofchen
Easily one of the finest tasting cherry tomato in existence. The big leafy plant produces thousands of ½” grape-size sparkling yellow-gold cherry tomatoes in phenomenal clusters of 30 fruits per bunch! Delightfully sweet with a citrusy finish. No cracking, with great disease resistance, this little sweetie grows anywhere.
Brandywine
One of the most popular heirlooms with complex rich flavors. The large fruits, often over 1 lb., have a deep pink skin and smooth, red flesh. An outstanding tomato for your garden; it also sets fruit very well during high temperatures and bears all season. Highly recommend.
Chef’s Choice Orange
A hybrid derived from the popular heirloom Amana Orange. Has a wonderfully bright, almost neon, internal color and superior flesh taste and texture. Excellent for soups and sauces because the intense color does not fade or discolor when cooked. Home chefs are love cooking with this variety as well as eating it fresh.
Cherokee Chocolate
Excellent flavor and flesh texture. Sweet, slightly tart, firm but very juicy flesh. An excellent slicing variety. A stabilized version of Cherokee Purple, this 10 to 16 oz. mahogany-colored variety has beautiful large fruit. Very productive plants are vigorous and yield a large harvest of these chocolate-colored tomatoes.
Cherokee Purple
Heirloom from Tennessee cultivated by Native American Cherokee tribe. Very productive plants producing loads of dusky rose to purple colored beefsteak tomatoes with deep red colors to the interior flesh and dark shoulders. A very popular variety because of it’s rich, complex and sweet flavors. One of the best tasting heirloom tomatoes.
Indigo Cherry Drops
Excellent sweet flavor and incredibly large yields are the hallmarks of this delightful cherry tomato. As part of the Indigo series, these one-inch fruits are purple/black due to high anthocyanin levels, with rosy undersides and deep red flesh. Has a striking, dark blue anthocyanin coloration and red flesh.
Japanese Black Trifle
A medium sized, juicy 3 to 4″ inch long 6 -8 ounce pear-shaped, deep purple-black tomato with pretty green shoulders. Growing on a short potato-leafed plant, it’s the size and shape of a Bartlett pear and among the darkest hued and finest flavored of the black tomatoes.
Jasper Cherry
An AAS(All-American Selection) winner! Excellent taste, a long harvest window and outstanding performance in the trials contributes to this tomato’s success. These round fruits are crack resistant, borne on small trusses, and store on the plant well, resisting cracking and rot. The texture is pleasantly chewy, and the flavor is sweet and rich.
Matt’s Wild Cherry
An outstanding cherry tomato. You will not believe how flavorful these ½” cherry tomatoes are. Genetically linked to wild Mexican tomatoes from the state of Hidago. Fruits have a very sweet, delicious taste. Like snacking on candy. Great for sprinkling these “jewels” into a salad.
Paul Robeson
Matt’s favorite tomato! It is a gorgeous, dark and dusky-hued fruit with intensely sweet earthy taste with a hint of tanginess, a luscious velvety smooth texture, beautiful skin, rich with juice and high production. This beefsteak tomato is slightly flattened, round, and grows to 4-inches. It’s deep, rich colors stand it apart from others.
Pink Berkley Tie Dye
Compact plants produce beautiful 8-12 ounce fruit with a very sweet, rich, dark tomato flavor. Fruits are dark pink with green striping, and the flesh is pink with yellow streaks. The flavor is outstanding, sweet and complex like the finest heirlooms.
San Marzano
Large indeterminate vines produce elongated fruit. The fruit grow to about 4″ long and 2″ in diameter and are borne in clusters. Holds well on vine or in storage, crack resistant, excellent for paste, puree, or canning. Processor favorite due to high solids; the standard Italian pear tomato, aka the Italian Canner.
Speckled Roman
A gorgeous elongated plum tomato with bright red skin with jagged orange and yellow stripes. Meaty red flesh with few seeds, is good for fresh eating, and cooks quickly into sauce. Excellent flavor. Great tomato taste, ideal for processing and fresh eating. Very productive.
Striped German
A flat, medium-to-large tomatoes with variable shoulder ribbing are shaded yellow and red. The marbled interior looks beautiful sliced. Complex, fruity flavor and smooth texture.
Sungold Orange
Lisa’s favorite! Sungold’s rich-tasting, juicy cherries are borne on long trusses for seasons long harvests of exceptional quality, superb orange color and the sweetest tomato flavor. Harvest them in baskets to show off on the kitchen counter for “bet you can’t just eat one” snacks of eye-catching beauty.