Tomatoes

If you love grape tomatoes, but don't have the space for supports to grow tall plants, Sprite offers a wonderful alternative. There is no sacrifice in fruit quality, size, productivity, or flavor - just shorter plants for smaller gardens. The small red oval grape tomatoes are borne in amazingly large numbers on more compact, determinate plants. Their taste is refreshingly sweet and skins are thin and crisp, just like the original Grape tomatoes. Determinate. 60 days.

Jolene is more than just a beautiful tomato with smooth shoulders and a pretty petite blossom scar. She offers large, 8-10 ounce fruit, that have excellent flavor, and beautiful deep red color. She also has a hidden strength - resistance to Fusarium Crown Rot, Verticillium wilt, and intermediate resistance to Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl virus. Trialing in a dozen states has proven the productivity potential of this new tomato, and particularly in the South Eastern US. Roadside farmers will appreciate the marketable yield potential. Determinate. 73 days.

This Russian heirloom variety is aptly named as it bears fruit as pretty as a rose. The tomatoes are large rose-pink globes with excellent, sweet, full tomato flavor. The average size is usually about 12 ozs. with meaty flesh. Expect a good sized crop of these top-quality tomatoes. Indeterminate. 78 days.

This Russian heirloom variety is well loved for its unusual appearance and outstanding, rich flavor. Pear-shaped, blemish-free fruit weigh 4 to 6 ozs. and are beautiful deep mahogany-brown with green shoulders. Highly productive plants have potato-leaved foliage, which seems to contribute to excellent flavor. Recent research shows that green shoulders are also an indicator of superior flavor, so it's no wonder that this tomato is famous for its incredible taste. Indeterminate. 75 days.

Stunning golden color and a sugar content of 10% are what make this hybrid from Taiwan outstanding. Small cherry tomatoes are round to globe-shaped and crack-resistant, an important trait for cherry tomatoes. Fruit appears on tall plants capable of producing enormous harvests with up to 50 fruit per cluster. These tomatoes have a very special taste that is sweet, yet rich and fruity. Indeterminate. 65 days.

Seed of this heirloom variety was supposedly discovered in a pile of debris after the Great Flood of 1884. It has survived to this day because of the huge, superbly flavored fruit it produces in generous numbers. Dark pink tomatoes are at least 1 pound, and usually more toward 2 pounds, and juicy, brimming with delicious, old-fashioned taste. Indeterminate. 85 days.

A young plant breeder named Jason Cavatorta started his own research company, motivated by his passion for delicious food. He wanted to make a better-tasting tomato, and his efforts won the prestigious All-America Award in his first attempt. Judges called the Galahad tomato delicious, juicy, and meaty, with large 8 to 12-ounce, crack-tolerant fruit. The strong 4-foot plant boasts excellent productivity and holding ability and is packed with disease resistances including V, F1, F2, F3, Nematodes, Gray leaf spot, Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, and Late Blight. Also, intermediate resistance to Early Blight. Determinate. 73 days.

Huge crops of red fruits with clearly defined yellow-orange stripes. 1-1/2 to 2 inch tomatoes have a rich, tangy flavor and are a beautiful novelty for adding whole or cutting into salads. Indeterminate. 56 days.

This high-yielding beefsteak has a bush growth habit and can be grown in a container. A sister of Better Bush, the dense foliage helps protect fruit from sunburn. Flavor is excellent with the right balance of sugars and acids. Fruit set is somewhat concentrated, weighing 10 ounces on average. Plants benefit from support. Disease package F1,F2,Ss,TMV, V, S. Determinate. 68 days.

Heirloom. Bicolored beefsteak tomato with unique coloring weighs 2 lbs. and more. Ripe fruit has light yellow shoulders atop a golden-orange tomato with ruby red radiating from the blossom end. Some red streaks appear through the meaty flesh. A beautiful variety that also has good, sweet flavor. Indeterminate. 90-100 days.

Very large production of meaty, 8 to 12 oz. tomatoes with good flavor and solid structure tolerant to cracking. Especially popular in the Northeast. Vigorous vines grow best with some means of support. Indeterminate. 79 days.

Like the previous hybrid La Roma tomato, number IV will make your day. You can count on a productive plant with disease resistance and fruit that is perfect for canning, making sauces, or paste. The roma-shaped fruit weighs 4 to 6 ounces and has full flavor. Determinate. 70-75 days.