Tomatoes

This wonderful heirloom beefsteak was handed down from an Amish family living in Minnesota and has big, luscious dark pink tomatoes that slice into pure heaven on a plate. The flavor is rich, yet sweet and just lovely, and the tomato interior is almost as meaty as an oxheart type. You will have plenty of these treats to pick throughout the season also as their productivity is excellent. Indeterminate. 75 to 80 days.

Large crops of 1 to 2 lb. pink, meaty beefsteak tomatoes with a sweet and exceptional flavor. The variety is a family heirloom from David Pendergrass of Tennessee, whose family has been growing this tomato since at least the 1920's. Indeterminate. 80 days.

These black tomatoes appear in clusters of round, smooth fruit that is 6 to 8 ozs. each. Their flavor is excellent, sweet yet full of that special black tomato richness. Production is very good and fruit is reliably blemish-free. Indeterminate. 80 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.

Round to slightly elongated striped green cherry tomatoes look like miniature Green Zebras with the same striping and green color ripening with a hint of amber. Their flavor, while excellent, is a little different, with more delicious sweetness in its profile than that of Green Zebra. This variety was discovered in a box of mixed cherry tomatoes that a gardener bought in Germany. Indeterminate. 75 days.

This is a wonderful ivory-colored cherry tomato that originally appeared as a variation of Galina's. Dr. Carolyn Male first saved the seed, and so the variety was named in her honor. Round fruit are about 1 inch in diameter and ivory-white deepening to pale yellow. The flavor is not just sweet, but also complex and nicely balanced with acid. Very productive vines. Indeterminate. 75 days.

These great tasting cherry tomatoes offer a unique new color that is a mix of brown and red with golden highlights. They are not just deep red nor are they black, but a rich burnished shade of bronze. As pretty as they are to look at, what makes them truly special is their taste--sweet with a good measure of acid and a richness that fills your mouth with fabulous, earthy flavor. Vigorous, tall vines put on a very heavy set of these 1-inch, crack-resistant fruits. Indeterminate. 75 days.

This All America winner is a patio type tomato that produces delicious and sweet crack-resistant fruit in containers or hanging baskets. They are easy to pick, with high yield potential – up to 12 pounds of fruit per plant. Plants are 12 to 15 inches tall and spreading in the open garden. A baby plum tomato with ½ ounce fruit. Late Blight tolerant. Determinate. 50 days.

Lady Sophia is destined to be queen of the pink tomato, once you have discovered the old fashioned flavor of its sweet and luscious flesh that people love. 10 to 12-ounce fruit are produced on large indeterminate plants. 79 days.

This early maturing bite-sized tomato has high sugars and produces heavy clusters of up to 25 fruit per cluster. Plants are indeterminate, and have a good disease resistance package. Better tolerance to cracking than others in this class. 68 days

A tomato like you've probably never seen before, these small, ruffled red fruit are unique in appearance, but distinctive in flavor also. Their taste is rich and assertive, slightly sweet with a bit of zing added in. Only about 2 inches across, these flattened scalloped tomatoes appear in great profusion, perfect for cutting into halves for a salad or using on plates as a garnish. Indeterminate. 72 days.