Tomato Plant Varieties
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.
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 spectacularly 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
This spectacular heirloom tomato was created in 1990. These 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. Fruit often has dynamic red splotches inside and on bottom. Very juicy and fruity sweet. Good disease resistance. A late producer. Great for slicing thick into sandwiches or salads.
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.
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.
Cherokee Purple
Heirloom from Tennessee cultivated by Native American Cherokee tribe. Very productive plants producing loads of dusky rose to purple colored, 12 oz.-1 lb., beefsteak tomatoes with deep red colors to the interior flesh and dark shoulders. A very popular market variety because of it’s rich, complex and sweet flavors. One of the best tasting heirloom tomatoes.
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.
Pineapple
The yellow fruit has red marbling through the flesh and is one of the most beautiful tomatoes. The flavor is very sweet and fruity; good yields! Very large, up to 2 lbs each.
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
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.