Tomatoes

Heirloom variety from Maine offers beautiful, 8 to 10 oz. orange fruit with few seeds. Meaty and delicious, their flavor is sweet yet tangy. Valencia ripens earlier than many other orange tomatoes, making it a good choice for gardeners with shorter seasons. Indeterminate. 76 days.

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. The appearance is so striking and different that we couldn't help noticing it growing in a patch of Copia tomatoes. Fruit is medium to large with a mild, sweet flavor. Indeterminate. 85 days.

This big sister of Green Zebra green is mild and tasty with the same color and shape, but fruit reach 5- 6 inches and 8 to 9 ounces. Plants are very productive. Indeterminate. 80 days.

One of the earliest tomatoes for your garden is also one of the best tasting – mild and sweet with good texture. Golden Nugget offers one inch fruit that are borne on compact plants (20 to 26 inches) and have a concentrated fruit set. Fruit weight 1/2 to 3/4 of an ounce. Developed by James Baggett at Oregon State University, for cooler growing conditions. Determinate. 55 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. Early maturity is a plus. Determinate. 73 days.

Imagine tremendous harvests of pretty pink-red scalloped tomatoes with great flavor and you have the essence of what Big Raspberry offers. Perhaps the name comes from the fruit's rosy pink color or from the way it covers the plant like raspberries on the bush. These meaty sweet tomatoes become 6 to 10 ozs. and really load up on vigorous potato-leaf plants. Heirloom variety. Indeterminate. 75 days.

Huge, 1 1/2 to 2 lb. pink beefsteaks have an excellent, rich flavor that is sweet and delicious. In some gardens, these tomatoes routinely grow to 3 lbs. Vigorous plants offer plenty of these deeply ribbed, luscious fruits that are indeed giant. Heirloom variety. Indeterminate. 85 to 90 days.

OTV Brandywine is a strain of Brandywine that came from a natural cross between Yellow Brandywine and an unknown red tomato. 'OTV' stands for 'Off the Vine,' an heirloom tomato newsletter once published by Carolyn Male and Craig LeHoullier. These tomatoes are red, foliage is potato-leaved, and yield is often greater than that of regular Brandywine, especially since OTV Brandywine sets fruit more easily in warm weather. Fruit weighs about 1 lb. and its flavor is delicious, the perfect blend of sugars and acids. Indeterminate. 85 days.

Large yellow fruit of exceptional quality, creamy texture, and delicious flavor. Fruit size is from 12 to 24 ozs., and tall vines have healthy, potato-leaved foliage. An extremely rich-tasting tomato, this one is also beautiful due to its smooth, not rough, shape. Indeterminate. 90 days.

This variety is lower in acid than most other tomatoes and often recommended to people who are on a low-acid diet. However, the flavor of these bright red fruit includes a good tart tomato flavor nicely complemented by a sweet taste. Tomatoes are medium-sized, round and produced in great abundance. Determinate. 80 days.

A premier greenhouse tomato. Very productive plants bear 8 oz. uniformly red fruit that is resistant to splitting and perfect in appearance. Excellent flavor causes many growers to consider this the best tasting of the greenhouse-grown hybrids. Can be grown as a cluster tomato with 6 to 8 tomatoes per cluster. Indeterminate. 70 days.

This open-pollinated version of Grape Tomato has the same wonderful sweet flavor, size, and shape as the original Grape, but has the advantage of shorter plants. Elfin's clusters of delicious, uniquely-flavored grape-shaped cherry tomatoes have a sweetness that is unmistakably 'grape.' Determinate. 60 days.