Lotsa, lotsa Tomatoes From Around The World!
There are lots of tomato varieties - more than I can grow in a lifetime but I am trying pretty hard.
Below is the list of the 135 varieties I grew this year. The descriptions come from the seed sellers - their words - not mine. I am often sucked in by their descriptions, pictures and most of all, names.
I had to grow Stump of the World - I had to grow Sara's Galapagos.
Oh well, at least it's my favorite pastime - growing tomatoes for the mountains - our Holy Grail.
See our tomato houses and covers on the Home Page.
The list is in two parts - viners and bush - or indeterminates and determinates.
Have fun reading the descriptions.
Below is the list of the 135 varieties I grew this year. The descriptions come from the seed sellers - their words - not mine. I am often sucked in by their descriptions, pictures and most of all, names.
I had to grow Stump of the World - I had to grow Sara's Galapagos.
Oh well, at least it's my favorite pastime - growing tomatoes for the mountains - our Holy Grail.
See our tomato houses and covers on the Home Page.
The list is in two parts - viners and bush - or indeterminates and determinates.
Have fun reading the descriptions.
2012 Tomato List
TOMATO CATEGORIES:
Extra-Early and Early
Amateur’s Dream, Aurora, Black Cherry, Black Krim, Clear Pink Early, Coldset, Crimson Sprinter, Early Girl Improved Hybrid, Early Siberian, Early Wonder,
Galina, Gem State, Glacier, Golden King of Siberia, Gold Nugget, Glasnost, Gregori’s Altai, Grushovka, Ida Gold, Market Miracle, Mikarda Sweet, Moscow, Mr. Stripey, New Big Dwarf, Northern Light, Odessa, Olga’s Biggest, Perestroika, Prairie Fire, Red Alert, Red Robin, Sasha’s Altai, Siberian, Siletz, Silvery Fir Tree, Snow Fairy, Sub-Arctic Plenty, Taxi, Tiny Tim, Urbikany, Wayahead Super, Wendy, Whippersnapper, Zaryanka Sunrise
Siberian/Russian
Amateur’s Dream, Aurora, Azoychka, Black Krim, Black From Tula, Black Sea Man, Bread and Salt, Clear Pink Early, De Barrao II, Fakel, Galina, Glasnost, Golden King of Siberia, Gregori’s Altai, Grushovka, Ispolin, Kotlas, Market Miracle, Mikarda Sweet, Mother Russia, Moscow, Olga’s Biggest, Olga’s Yellow Chicken, Orenburg Giant, Otradny, Perestroika, Red Siberian, Sasha’s Altai, Siberian, Silvery Fir Tree, Zaryanka Sunrise
Cold-Tolerant
All Siberians/Russians, Caro Rich, Coldset, Crimson Sprinter, Gem State, Glacier, Mt. Roma, Nepal, Oregon Spring, Rio Grande, Sub-Arctic Plenty
Beefsteaks
Aussie, Beefsteak, Better Boy Hybrid, Caro Rich, Costoluto Fiorentino, Costoluto Genovese, Delicious, Early Siberian, German Giant, Gregori’s Altai, Ispolin, Market Miracle, Mr. Underwood’s Pink German Giant, Nepal, New Big Dwarf, Red Siberian, Santa Clara Canner, Stump of the World, Striped German, Virginia Sweets, Super Beefsteak, Valencia
Paste – Roma & Canning
Amish Paste, Arkansas Traveler, Bellstar, Coldset, De Barrao II, Fakel, Grushovka, Heinz 1439, High Country, Moscow, Mt. Roma, Opalka, Red Pear, Rio Grande, Roma Paste, San Marzano, Santa Clara Canner, VR Moscow
Cherry
Blush, Chadwick Cherry, Ceylon, Fox Cherry, Galina, Ghost Cherry, Gold Nugget, Ildi, Isis Candy, Ninety Wonder, Peacevine Cherry, Red Fig, Red Pear, Sweet 100, Velvet Red, Whippersnapper, White Cherry, Yellow Pear
Grape
Golden Grape, Ildi, Reisenstraube, Yellow Reisenstraube, Topaz, Violet Jasper, Principe Borghese
Currant
Coyote, Honey Pearl, Sara’s Galapagos
Yellow, Orange, White
Azoychka, Blush, Coyote, Galina, Ghost Cherry, Golden Grape, Golden King of Siberia, Gold Nugget, Honey Pearl, Ida Gold, Ildi, Isis Candy, Mr. Stripey, Nebraska Wedding, Olga’s Yellow Chicken, Persimmon, Scotland Yellow, Striped German, Sungold Hybrid, Taxi, Topaz, Valencia, Virginia Sweets, Wendy, White Cherry, White Queen, Yellow Pear
Purple/Black
Black From Tula, Black Krim, Black Pear, Black Sea Man, Cherokee Purple, Gregori’s Altai, Indigo Rose, Violet Jasper
Drying
Arkansas Traveler, Principe Borghese, Red Fig, Red Pear
Dwarf
Gem State, Grushovka, Kotlas, New Big Dwarf, Odessa, Otradny, Red Robin, Silvery Fir Tree, Snow Fairy, Tiny Tim, Urbikany
Greenhouse
Vendor, Floradade
Hybrids
Early Girl, Better Boy, Sungold, Super Beefsteak, Sweet 100
THE 2012 MASTER LIST
INDETERMINATES: - “Vining” Tomatoes
Red: This is the seed I have seed for - and so does Seeds Trust.
Blue: These are the varieties I sold to Seeds Trust - go to them for these varieties.
Black: No seed from me until next year. Check Seeds Trust and other catalogs.
Amateur’s Dream - 65 days Siberia. Round, red, rather large tomatoes with a bright crimson color inside. 5 ft. vines. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seeds
Amish Paste – 80-90 days – Wisconsin – This large, meaty heirloom was discovered in Wisconsin although it hails from the Pennsylvania Amish. It has a superior taste, brilliant with a nice balance of sweet and acid. Excellent fresh or in sauces. Seeds of Change
Arkansas Traveler Red Tomato - 80-90 days Round to ovate fruits vary in size, but are average chicken-egg size. Incredibly delicious. Very tolerant to high heat and humidity, diseases, dry periods and cracking. Excellent for eating fresh, canning, stewing, dehydrating. Fruit stores and ships well, hence the name, “Traveler”. Large, open seed chambers make seed saving easy. Firm, thick-walled flesh. 5-petaled flowers on 5-6’ vines. Killed by freezing. Tender perennial, grown as an annual crop. Open Pollinated Heirloom. ThunderFoot
Aurora – 65 days – Siberia - Five stars for flavor! At a taste test of dozens of tomatoes, someone shouted, “Oh my gosh! This is a tomato!” One of our best sellers. Scarlet round 2-3 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Aussie – 85 days – Australia – Heirloom This is one of those varieties to grow when you want a really big impressive red tomato to show off to your friends. This fruit is huge, at least a pound or two, and borne abundantly on large, vigorous plants. Its flavor is as big as its size, bursting with a blend of sugars and acids – a full old-fashioned tomato taste. Tomato Growers
Azoychka – 70 days – Russia – This is a delightful small yellow beefsteak tomato that matures so early it will be one of the first varieties to ripen in your garden. Beautifully smooth, lemon yellow fruit weighs about 8 ozs. and is very flavorful, rich but pleasantly sweet with a delicious hint of citrus. Heirloom variety from Russia. Our stock seed is from Craig Le Houllier. Tomato Growers
Beefsteak - 70 days - Huge Beefsteak-type tomato with vigor and disease tolerance. Very firm and flavorful. Produced in abundance on strong vines.
Better Boy Hybrid – 75 days Produces a bushel of fruit per plant. Guinness record holder – 342 lbs. of fruit from one plant! Deep red and meaty, up to a pound each. Dense foliage cover, too. Gurney’s
Black From Tula – 70-80 days – Russia A unique, large, 8-12 oz. dark tomato exhibiting a rich, deep purplish brown color. Some seed savers say it is the best tasting of all the dark tomatoes. Very rich, old-fashioned flavor, sweet and spicy. A rare Russian heirloom. Seed Savers Exchange + 1st year saved seed
Black Krim – 69 days - A most unusual novelty. Fruits are a dark, deep red (almost shiny black) with heavy green shoulders. Interior is a deep, reddish-green color. Sweet and tasty. Matures extremely early. Totally Tomatoes
Black Pear – 80 days – Dark brown tomatoes are shaped like miniature pears and flavored with and excellent, rich taste. Potato-leaved plants produce an abundance pf these beautiful, 4-6oz. fruit, perfect for cutting up for salads or using as a unique addition to platters. Heirloom variety. Tomato Growers
Blush – 75-80 days A unique “julienne” cherry tomato from breeder Fred Hempel with an unforgettable tropical sweet flavor reminiscent of pineapple. Widely adapted with heavy fruit set over an extended period. Seeds of Change
Brandywine – 85 days Excellent, full-tomato flavor has kept this Amish heirloom a favorite for generations! Expect delicious 3”, 1 lb. fruits on un-staked, indeterminate vines with potato leaves. Seeds Trust
Bread and Salt – Russia Named for the long held tradition in Russia to give special guests a loaf of bread and salt as they arrive. In Russian culture bread is associated with hospitality and salt has an association with long friendship. Forget bread and just give your guests this tomato, they will love it! Big, sweet fruit are round to slightly wedge shaped and pink in color. Baker Creek
Caro Rich - 75-80 days - A large, orange-yellow beefsteak with 10-12 oz. fruits. The flavor is full, low in acid, sweet and rich. Smooth skin, slightly ribbed and blemish free. No problems with cracking. Excellent salad tomato. The best part about Caro Rich is they have ten times as much beta-carotene than most other tomatoes. A good producer in cooler climates. Sustainable Seed Company 1st year saved seed
Ceylon – 80 days A tomato like you’ve probably ever seed before, these small, ruffled red fruit are unique in appearance. Their taste is rich and assertive, slightly sweet with a bit of a zing added in. Only about 2” across, these flattened scalloped tomatoes appear in great profusion, perfect for salad or as a garnish. Tomato Growers
Chadwick Cherry - 80 days Delicious, sweet flavor makes this 1-oz. cherry popular with home gardeners. Large vines set huge yields and are disease resistant. Developed by the late horticultural expert Alan Chadwick. He sure had a winner with this one! Baker Creek
Cherokee Purple – 80 days – Cherokee is a recently popular heirloom that is known for its multiple disease tolerance and wide adaptability. It’s the perfect home garden tomato. The abundant purple-red, beefsteak shaped fruits are firm with dark flesh and very flavorful. Excellent fruit to use for salads, juices, relishes, canning and cooking. The plant is large with an indeterminate habit that will provide a longer fruit production. BBB Seeds
Costoluto Fiorentino – 80 days – Italy - This Italian heirloom variety from the Tuscany region produces loads of bright red tomatoes with terrific flavor. Tomatoes are typically about 8 ozs, but may be larger, with a smooth shape rather than the heavily ribbed shape typical of Costoluto Genovese. The flavor is high in sugar, but also high in acid, making for outstanding taste that’s wonderful fresh or made into sauces. Tomato Growers
Costoluto Genovese 80 days – Italy – The fluted, old Italian favorite has been around since the early 19th century. Fruit are rather flattened and quite attractive with their deep ribbing. This variety is a standard for Italy for both fresh eating and preserving, known for its intensely flavorful, deep red flesh. This variety has also become very popular with chefs in this country. Baker Creek
Coyote – 50 days – This tiny tomato made its way from Mexico to Pennsylvania and is now cultivated all over. A tiny tomato with a big taste, you just can’t stop popping them into your mouth like candy. They need plenty of room and lots of good support to grow on. The fruits are born in clusters of 6-8 fruits. Sustainable Seed Company
De Barrao II - 67 days Siberia Pretty pear-shaped 3”, 6-8 oz. Roma-type tomatoes named for the hat the Russian cavalry once wore. One of our favorites because it stores so well. Great fresh or cooked in sauce. Seeds Trust
Delicious 77 days – Set the world record for size – over 7 pounds! You may be lucky enough to harvest the tomato that beats the record, but even if not, most of your crop will be plump, meaty fruits that weigh well over a pound. The name describes the taste – flavorful, juicy and just plan delicious. Fruit resists cracking and stores for weeks. Indeterminate plants produce huge yields. Gurney
Early Girl Improved Hybrid – 60 days Ask any greenhouse around here what the best selling tomato is, they will tell you Early Girl. Modest-sized plants mature rapidly and begin to yield 4-6 oz. fruit within a couple of months of transplanting. Yield will continue to be good until frost, so this may be the only one you need. It is a nice juicy tomato with a rich, red color, loose texture, and fine sweet flavor. Pinetree
Early Siberian - 64 days Siberia Small, early beefsteak with “an unusual lemony zest”. Slightly flattened, deeply veined, 4-5oz., reddish-orange fruits. Shorter, bushy indeterminate plants. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Fox Cherry - 80-90 days – Delicious, large, red, heirloom cherry tomatoes that seem to be one of the best-tasting large cherries around. The vining plants are very reliable; even in years when the wilt kills about everything else these seem to do great. The fruit weigh about 1 oz. each and are perfect for salads. Baker Creek
Galina - 59 days Siberia – Arguably our most flavorful tomato. Galina’s was chosen one of the 10 best early tomatoes in Organic Gardening Magazine. Harvest baskets of flavor-packed, round, yellow 1” cherry tomatoes from each vigorous plant. Seeds Trust – 1st year saved
German Giant – 77 days This family heirloom variety produces an abundance of deep pink tomatoes that are just huge and brimming with luscious flavor. The plant’s potato-leaved foliage may remind you of Brandywine, but this one matures fruit that are earlier, larger and more plentiful than those of Brandywine. German Giant tomatoes are smooth in shape, 2 lbs. or more, and full of rich but sweet taste that make a tomato scrumptious. Tomato Growers
German Red Strawberry – 85 days These big red oxheart tomatoes may be shaped like strawberries but are much larger. They average 10 ozs., but can grow to 1 lb. or more. Tomatoes are meaty with an excellent taste that is on the acid side. Tall plants yield an abundance of these wonderful fruits. Heirloom variety. Tomato Growers 1st year saved seed in Canon City by Beki Javernick
Ghost Cherry – 75 days Larger than a typical cherry, this fuzzy ivory-colored tomato is sweet and delicious. Extremely productive plants yield plenty of these 2” beautiful fruit, which are wonderful in salads, but tasty enough to just enjoy by themselves. Tomato Growers
Glasnost – 62 days Siberia A most beautiful tomato. A best seller. Surprisingly large, glorious 3”, 6-10 oz. fruits. Shiny smooth deep red-orange skin with dense meaty flavor. Excellent flavor. Seeds Trust
Golden Grape – Ind. – Oval Yellow Cherry Tomato
Unique, early and very productive. Very suitable for greenhouse or outdoor growing. Bite-size fruits resemble Thompsons Seedless Grapes, but are a sunny yellow color. Killed by freezing. Tender Perennial, usually grown as an annual. Open Pollinates ThunderFoot Earthworks exclusive variety. Authentically grown in Cottonwood, AZ. 1st year saved seed
Golden King of Siberia – Russia – Big, lemon-yellow fruit are a delightful heart shape. The flesh is smooth, creamy and has a nicely balanced sweet taste. I always find myself “snacking” on these one-pound beauties. Plants are very productive and seem to have some disease resistance. Thanks to Russia for this really great yellow type. Baker Creek
Green Zebra – 75 days – One of my favorite tomatoes. Beautiful chartreuse with deep lime-green stripes, very attractive. Flesh is bright green and very rich tasting, sweet with a sharp bite to it (just too good to describe!). A favorite tomato of many high-class chefs, specialty markets, and home gardeners. Yield is excellent. The most striking tomato in our catalog, a real beauty. Around 3 ozs. This is the tomato colored for the Green Bay Packers. Baker Creek 1st year saved seed from Canon City, Co by Beki Javernick
Gregori’s Altai – 67 days – Siberia Another award winner in Organic Gardening Magazine. Smooth, dense meaty interior slices paper-thin. Large, 4”, purple-red, 8-10 oz. fruits with home-picked flavor. Seeds Trust
High Country – 60 days - Montana Each single plant produces over 100 medium size 3-4 oz. fruits with flesh thick enough for use in sauces and pastes. Delicious also fresh-picked. Seeds Trust 1st year savedHoney Pearl – 90 days – Ind. Extremely small and flavorful pearl to marble sized Tomato berries are the perfect size for finger popping and for chickens to eat. Sweet and spicy flavor. Vigorous vines are prolific and early ripening with clusters of small white fruits, which fully ripen, to a pale golden color, ripen quickly and store a long time and don’t weigh down the plants. May return as a volunteer and become established. Killed by freezing. Open Pollinated Tender Perennial, usually grown as an annual. Authentically grown in Page Springs, AZ. ThunderFoot 1st year saved seed
Ildi – 68 days - These lovely oval yellow cherries are about the size of a large grape, with a well-balanced flavor that is a delicious combination of sweet and acid. Vigorous plants are quite prolific, producing large clusters of these yellow morsels of sweetness. Tomato Growers 1st year saved seed
Indigo Rose – 70 days Oregon A new release from the breeding program of Jim Myers, Oregon State University Beautiful eye-catching hues of deep purple where sunshine hits to red/orange where a leaf or stem shields an area from the sun. The saladette-sized fruits; the deep purple colored skins and surrounding tissue are extremely high in anthocyanin. A classically bred tomato like Indigo Rose is the result of ten or more years or more painstaking selection. Nichols
Isis Candy – 67 days - This delightful variety produces yellow-gold cherry tomatoes with red marbling. Marbling varies from just a red blush to extensive streaking inside and out. What is consistent, however, is the sweet taste that is also rich and fruity, and very delicious. Tomatoes are about 1” across and are round to oblate in shape. Very productive plants bear throughout a long season. Tomato Growers
Ispolin – 70 days Siberia Truly a giant from the Siberian need to outdo the neighbor for the largest tomato. Spectacular huge round pink 1-2 lb. fruits can be expected from vines that reach 7’. Seeds Trust
Japanese Oxheart – 90 days – This is an outstanding oxheart variety that distinguishes itself with extra high yields and richer flavor than most other pink oxhearts. Fruit weighs at least 10 oz. and may grow up to a pound or more. Shaped like a heart, these tomatoes are very juicy and flavorful while being meaty with a few seeds. Expect fern-like foliage that is typical of oxheart varieties. Tomato Growers
Mikarda Sweet – 67 days Siberia Sweet flavor with and ever so slight acid bite. Long, pear-shaped, 3-4” 5-7 oz fruits. Seeds Trust
Mother Russia - 72 days- Siberia Fitting for a tomato named Mother Russia, these large, flavorful, pink tomatoes ripen in the shape of a perfect heart. Dense, meaty. 4”, 10-12 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Mr. Underwood’s Pink German Giant – 85-90 days Huge, 1 ½ - 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 a giant. Heirloom variety. Tomato Growers
Mr. Stripey – 56 days (Tigerella) 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. The American Heritage Seed Company Conifer, Co
Nepal – 78 days Nepal Enormous, cold-tolerant beefsteak with intense, rich, tomato flavor. Original strain from Himalayan Mountains in Nepal! Bright-red, smooth, 10-12 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Ninety Wonder – Large Red Cherry Tomato Ping-pong ball sized fruits with sprawling semi-upright vines. Very hardy to light frosts and summertime heat, as well as to very dry conditions. Seed may be direct sown in early spring with a long-growing season, otherwise start seeds in containers in soil in Feb-Mar. Produces many clusters of bright red delicious fruits which keep for a long time and are resistant to cracking and mold. It may become established as a volunteer where seed has spilled from previous seasons. Plant is killed by freezing. Open Pollinated annual/freeze-sensitive perennial. Authentically grown in Cottonwood, Az. ThunderFoot 1st year saved seed
Olga’s Biggest – 65 days – Siberia. Belly-buttoned, bright red, wide-ribbed, 1 ½ lb., 4-8” fruits. Beefsteak flesh. A monster. Seeds Trust
Olga’s Yellow Chicken – 1st year saved seeds – Seeds Trust
Opalka – 83 days A very large tomato that has the appearance of a bull’s horn with massive solid fruit. Definitely a paste tomato with a dry texture and low seed count, it will become one of the more unique plants in your garden. This heirloom tomato is amazing to behold and difficult to find. If you grow tomatoes for paste, this is the one to grow. Pinetree
Orenburg Giant – 75 days - Russia Originally from the European Russia but tested in Siberia by Dr. Andriev. Nearly round beautiful crimson fruit weighs from ¾ -3 lbs. with “wonderful flavor”. Seeds Trust
Peacevine Cherry 70-80 days Prolific tresses of delicious red fruits. Complex flavor begins tart and finishes sweet. Found by independent research to be extremely high in vitamin C and gamma-amino butyric acid, a body sedative that calms jitters. Seeds of Change
Perestroika – 67 days - Siberia Perfect, picture book roundness and smooth skin have conspired to make Perestroika a market garden favorite. Solid 8-10 oz. red-orange fruits with few seeds. Seeds Trust
Pink Brandywine Tomato An Amish Heirloom Tomato with Salmon-pink skin and red flesh with a very meaty heart. Potato-leaf variety with large, simple leaves and double 10-petaled yellow flowers. The thin-skinned fruits may weigh up to a pound each. Voted world over as “The World’s Best Tasting Tomato”. Produces better in cooler climates than in hot regions, but will fare well if given afternoon shade in intense hear. Open Pollinated pure strain. Annual. Authentically grown in, Colorado ThunderFoot
Red Calabash – 80-90 days Delicious, thin-skinned, ruffled fruit may have come from Chiapas State in Mexico. Documented as the variety in a 1793 painting by Raphael Paele in Penn. The small fruits look like miniature beefsteak tomatoes. Seeds of Change – 1st year saved.
Red Fig – 85 days Philadelphia heirloom documented to 1805. Heavy yields of 1 1/2 “ pear-shaped fruits that are great for fresh eating. Used as a substitute for figs years ago by gardeners who would pack crates of dried tomatoes for winter use. Seed Savers Exchange
Red Pear - 78 days Bright red, pear-shaped, 2” long fruit borne in clusters. Excellent for canning, sauce, juicing, and salads. Produced throughout a long season. Tomato Growers 1st year saved seed
Red Siberian – 70 days Siberia - Many fruits weigh over 1 lb. Perfectly shaped, crimson fruits with the characteristically good Siberian tomato flavor. “A glorious tomato.” Seeds Trust
Riesenstraube – 76-80 days - Germany This old German heirloom was offered in Philadelphia by the mid-1800’s. The sweet red 1 oz. fruit grow in large clusters and the name means “Giant Bunch of Grapes” in German. Large plants produce massive yields. Baker Creek
Riesetomate – The most novel tomato we have seen, this tomato is like a big bunch of cherry tomatoes all fused together: an amazing trait that had everyone here asking questions about the alien-looking bumpy tomatoes. Also called “Traveler Tomato” (“reise” is German for travel or “journey”) for the ability to tear it apart a piece at a time, with no need for a knife. This type of tomato traces it’s roots to Central America where the native people would carry traveler tomatoes on trips – to eat as they walked. Bright red tomatoes taste – well, rather sour, strong and acid. The perfect tomato for those who love raw lemons, but who cares? They are still far-out and groovy. Baker Creek
San Marzano - 90 days - Paste Heirloom Highly productive and extensively grown for canning whole, for puree and making tomato paste. Fine if peeled whole for salads. Fruits are intense red, rectangular-shaped, 3 1/2 “ long and 1 ½” across, meaty, free from juicy pulp of very mild flavor. (Thought by some to make the world’s finest sauce.) American Heritage
Santa Clara Canner – 80 days Good yields of 10-12 oz. reddish-orange beefsteaks. This variety was once used in the California canning industry. Westcliffe Seed Lending Library Bob’s Tomatoes
Sara’s Galapagos – 75 days – This special currant tomato is only ½ inch wide, but packed with tons of sweet flavor in its very small size. The seed was originally collected in the wild by Amy Goldman on a trip to the Galapagos with her daughter, Sara. Large plants are prolific, bearing long trusses of tiny red intensely flavored fruit. Tomato Growers
Sasha’s Altai 59 days Siberia. Incredible earliness and extraordinarily sweet and juicy flavor. One of the 10 best tomatoes in Organic Gardening Magazine. 3”, 5-8 oz., slightly flattened, bright-red fruits. Seed Trust – 2nd year saved seed (Read about Sasha’s story at seedstrust.com)
Scotland Yellow – 80 days A very productive plant from Scotland that yields excellent quantities of 2-3 oz. golden yellow tomatoes perfect for salads. Westcliffe Seed Lending Library - Bob’s Tomatoes
Siberian – 59 days – Siberia. The original Siberian tomato that inspired us to go to Siberia in 1989. Red round 3-4 oz. fruits, hand selected for generations for fresh-picked flavor. Seeds Trust
Stump of the World - 80 days Dark pink beefsteak fruit reach about one pound and grow on potato-leaved vines. The variety was part of Ben Quisinberry Collection, which also contributed the variety Brandywine. Stump of the World is a bit smaller and more productive than Brandywine, but, like Brandywine, offers outstandingly rich, complex flavor. Tomato Growers
Stupice – 52 days - Czechoslovakia Our earliest tomato. Produces tasty. 3-6 oz., red-orange fruits. First in earliness and first in flavor at the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners tomato trials. Also one of the 10 best early tomatoes in Organic Gardening Magazine. Vigorous potato-leafed plants yield incredibly early 3-6 oz. fruits, which get larger later in the gardening season. Salad size. Seeds Trust 2nd year saved
Striped German Tomato – 78 days The flat, medium to large, variably ribbed-shoulder tomatoes are shaded yellow and red. The marbled interior looks beautiful sliced. Complex, fruity flavor and smooth texture. Medium-tall vines. Johnny’s -– 1st year saved by Beki Javernick, Canon City, Co
Sun Gold Hybrid – 60 days Great “tomatoey” flavor and very sweet, an 8 on the brix scale. Fruits are nearly one inch round globes which turn a very attractive golden orange when ripe. Productive vines provide very high yields. A customer favorite! Pinetree
Super Beefsteak VFN – 80 days Even better than Beefsteak! Gurney’s
Super Beefsteak Hybrid 80 days – An improved beefsteak type with heavier yields and better disease resistance. Smooth, meaty fruits average more than 1 lb. each. Burpee
Sweet 100 Hybrid – 65 days – “Thousands of sweet, little fruits.” Huge, multiple-branched clusters of 1/2 inch very sweet fruit with high vitamin C content. Mouth-watering flavor. Vigorous vines bear abundantly until frost and need staking for best results. Gurney’s seed, Tomato Growers description
Topaz – (or Huan U) Named for the beautiful yellow Topaz stone. This Chinese introduction is sure to please you with it’s beautiful and sparkling; 1-3 oz. fruit that are light yellow with golden speckles. Mild tasting, firm and good for snacking and salads. Incredibly productive. Baker Creek
Tommy Toe – 70 days Australian Heirloom Round to slightly elongated. Bright red and prolific with excellent flavor and plenty of juice. Resists most diseases. Sets loads of fruits. Seeds Trust
Thessaloniki – 75-80 days – Greece Greek variety with beautifully smooth, large red fruits. Tomatoes are 3-4” in diameter and juicy with an excellent flavor. Good yields and crack resistant. Tomato Growers
Valencia – 59 days – Maine. This is a seductive old heirloom tomato! Bright-orange, round, smooth, large, 8-20 ox., nearly seedless fruits with rich, tomato flavor. Looks like a navel orange on the vine. Some staking required. Seeds Trust
Velvet Red – 75-80 days – Winner of the 2009 Tomato Tasting at SSE’s Heritage farm. From Joe Bratka of Elmwood, New Jersey. Striking silvery gray dusty miller-type foliage. Heavy yields of 1” cherry tomatoes, excellent sweet flavor. Occasionally a non-silvery plant will appear. Seed Savers Exchange
Vendor – 75 days – Greenhouse Tomato Holland. Where disease is a problem, vendor shines as the best open-pollinated tomato in our greenhouse trials. Somewhat compact plants produce 6-9 oz., bright-red fruits. V & F Resistant Seeds Trust
Violet Jasper (or Tzi Bi U) When these little Oriental jewels ripen, your eyes will be stunned by the color. They have pretty violet-purple fruit with iridescent green streaks! Fruit weigh 1-3 oz., are smooth and have a good tasting, dark purplish-red flesh. This variety will also amaze you with its yield: it’s not only high, but incredibly high, being one of the most productive tomatoes we have ever grown. A great variety for marketing. Introduced to you from China along with its twin sister “Topaz”. Baker Creek
Virginia Sweets – 80 days This heirloom variety is simply one of the best tasting, best producing gold-red bicolor we have ever grown. On top of that, the tomatoes are stunningly beautiful and enormous weighing at least 1 lb. each. Golden yellow beefsteaks are colored with red stripes that turn into a ruby blush. Flavor is sweet and rich, and harvests are abundant. Tomato Growers
White Cherry – 80 days – The pale, almost translucent, lemon yellow 1” tomatoes are borne on vigorous vines. They have a very pleasant, sweet/tart flavor. Pinetree
White Queen – 70-75 days The favorite white variety of many tomato collectors’, this heirloom is said to have been introduced in 1882 by A.W. Livingston, though many people question the exact date of introduction. 4-8 oz. fruit have one of the best flavors of all tomatoes, being fragrant, fruity and intensely sweet. It’s creamy white in color and very attractive. A productive variety that has become very rare. Baker Creek
Yellow Pear – 80 days – This organic variety has large, open, ind. Vines that bear clusters of waxy yellow pear shaped fruits with definite necks. The fruit can reach two inches long. This mild-flavored heirloom bears sweet fruits all summer long and is good for snacks, in preserves, and pickles. The plants are easy to grow, prolific and great for home gardens. BBB Seed
Yellow Reisenstraube – 75-80 days Germany Everyone loves our popular ‘red’ variety, but here is the brilliant yellow version of this fantastic grape tomato. Imagine clusters of delicious, golden grape tomatoes, these are even sweeter than the red ones! Super productive plants with pointed, grape-sized fruits. Baker Creek
DETERMINATES: “Bush” Tomatoes
Bellstar – 72 days Twice the size of our other paste tomatoes! Fresh flavor, excellent for soups, sauces, pastes as well as salads and sandwiches. Early, 4-5 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Black Sea Man – 75 days Russia Russian heirloom from Marina Danilenko. Small plants produce medium-sized brownish-pink fruits with olive green shading. Well-marbled flesh is attractive when blanched and peeled. Rich flavor. Potato leaf foliage. Seed Savers Exchange
Clear Pink Early – 58 days – Russia This compact plant becomes loaded with along trusse4s of perfectly round, smooth beautiful clear pink tomatoes. The flavor is very good, sweet yet tangy, making this a wonderful addition to an early harvest. Tomato Growers
Coldset - 68 days Ideal tomatoes for areas with predictably cold June weather as seeds can be sown directly outside in soil as low as 50 degrees F. 4-6 oz., deep-red fruits are good canners. Seeds Trust
Early Wonder – 55 days – This extra-early maturing varieties distinguished itself in our trials for its excellent, full tomato flavor. It is aptly named since it is a wonder when an early variety tastes this good. Expect abundant crops of round tomatoes with and average weight of 6 ozs. on compact vines. A good choice for gardeners in short-season areas. 1st year saved seed
Fakel – 75 days Russia Kate Gessert brought Fakel to us from a Moscow seed store many years ago. The productive compact bush makes a good stand of flame red, 3.5” slightly oblong fruits with an excellent flavor and texture. Multi-purpose Fakel holds well after harvest and is a good choice for packing in newspaper and holding in a cool spot. Good choice for container growing. Nichols
Floradade – 78 days - Our new disease resistant offering for warmer climates and cold-climate greenhouses. Rather large determinate plants produce numerous beautiful smooth fruits averaging 6-8 ozs. Seeds Trust
Gem State – 58 days University of Idaho A cross between sub-arctic and a larger, beefsteak tomato. Compact, bush-type growth. Excellent for containers and patio gardens! Produces small, 2 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Glacier - 55 days - 18” One of the first tomatoes to ripen even when the plants are still small. Sweet, flavorful, 2-3 oz. crack resistant fruits do exceptionally well in cool northern areas and make a good winter crop in Florida. Spreading plants look a little scraggly at first but shape up into a nice full bush. Nichols
Gold Nugget – 60 days Oregon In record time, compact plants produces enormous amounts of beautiful, golden-yellow, cherry tomatoes! Slightly oval, often seedless, 1” fruits with tender skins. Seeds Trust 1st year seed
Grushovka – 67 days Siberia Popular from Novosibirsk to Lake Baikal. Beautifully compact, 2 ½’ tall plant produces 30-40 oblong 6-8 oz. fruits. Distinctive rose-colored skin contains a delicious flavor. Seeds Trust
Heinz - 1439
Excellent for fresh market as well as ketchup, purees and sauces, as its name suggests! Fruits resist cracking and plants feature good foliage cover. Smooth, round, 4 to 6 oz. globes. Good disease resistance and high meat content. Determinate. Totally Tomatoes
Homestead - 70 days - Highly adaptable, especially in hot conditions. An excellent salad variety with mild, non-acid flavor. Large, 8 oz. fruits, thick and meaty with few seeds, make Homestead ideal for canning.
Ida Gold – 59 days – University of Idaho. The earliest, low-acid tomato we have found! Large quantities of bright orange extra early 2-3 oz. fruits. Mild flavor. Orange tomatoes are known for their flavor and Ida gold is the best. Seeds Trust
Kotlas – 60 days Russia Also known as Sprint. Extra-early, cold-tolerant tomato! Proven blight tolerant, sparse foliage produces healthy amounts of savory, sweet, 2 oz. fruits. Harvest over a long period of time. Requires staking. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Market Miracle – 65 days – Siberia. Great tomato flavor is a balance of sweet as well as acidic! Obviously bred for the competitive Siberian market. Compact plants produce showy solid 8-12 oz. beautiful red fruits. Seeds Trust
Marglobe - 73 days Heavy, uniform growth. High yield of large, uniform, globe-shaped fruits. 5-8 oz fruits mid-season. Michael-Leonard Inc Seeds
Moscow – 62 days - Siberia - Early, big, red, 3 ½”, 6-8 oz. fruits. Nice balance of sweet and acid flavors in a dense meat. Great for canning. Comes on all at once. Seeds Trust 2nd year saved seed.
Mt. Roma - 68 days – Paste. A new earliness standard for paste tomatoes! Compact plants produce firm, 2-3 oz., elongated fruits, even in cold areas. Bred from the older Heinz varieties. Disease resistant. Seeds Trust
Nebraska Wedding – The ultimate “love-apple” according to Amy Goldman’s colorful story in The Heirloom Tomato. Nebraskan brides reportedly still receive these seeds as a wedding gift. Listed in the 1983 SSE yearbook by Dorothy Beiswenger of Crookston, Minnesota. Reliable producer of stunning 4” round fruits with glowing orange skin. Well-balanced flavor. Plants typically grow less than 36” tall, but benefit from staking. Seeds of Change
New Big Dwarf – 60 days – Compact plants only become about 2 ft. tall yet produce a very early harvest of flavorful deep pink tomatoes that grow up to 1 lb., but more typically 8-12 ozs. Wonderful in the garden and also in containers since the plant stays so small. We consider this an heirloom tomato as it was created before 1915 by crossing the Ponderosa and Dwarf Champion varieties. 1st year saved seed
Northern Light – 55 days – Montana – Heirloom beefsteak celebrated because of its beauty and dependability. Excellent flavor and remarkable earliness. Compact 18” vines yield copious amounts of red-orange round smooth 2-3” fruits. Exceedingly tolerant of climatic surprises! Seeds Trust
Persimmon (75-80 days) - 5-7 oz This beautiful deep orange fruit has incredible taste and resemble a fuyu persimmon. Meaty, sweet, with very few seeds, this main season slicer is popular at the local farmer’s market. A main season slicing variety with deep orange fruit. Juicy and flavorful. Round 3" globes on 5-6' vines. Seeds of Change
Principe Borghese – 78 days – Italy This is Italy’s tomato for sun drying. It is very small (1-2 oz.), plum shaped, and pointed at one end. Fruits are born in large clusters of several dozen, like grapes. They are meaty with little juice and branches can be hung to dry until leathery. Italians just throw the vines over a fence. We’ve had success in our cool, wet climate with slicing them in half and drying them in an oven with just the pilot light. Don’t give this one too much water, as you don’t want juicy fruit for drying. Pinetree
Odessa – 58 days – Ukraine – each small, compact plant produces 20-30, 4-6 oz. juicy tomatoes in record time. In fact, Odessa is the only tomato to ripen in the same class with Galina, Stupice and Sasha’s. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Oregon Spring - 60 days - One of our best-selling tomatoes for commercial growers. A seedless variety bred to miraculously yield beautiful, smooth, 4” fruits in cold, foggy weather. Delicious flavor. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Otradny – 70 days – Siberia The best way to describe Otrady is a Sasha’s Altai on a compact plant. Great for small gardens. One of Wes’s favorites. Tasty, slightly flattened, red-orange, 3-6 oz fruits. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed.
Prairie Fire – 54 days Montana Compact plants produce 3” 3-4 oz. fruits. A cross between Sub-Arctic and a flavorful beefsteak. Seeds Trust 1st year seed
Red Alert – 50-55 days – A superb, juicy, sweet flavor in small fruits. Expect 4-5 lbs of fruit per plant! Excellent for container and patio gardening. Easy-to-grow. Totally Tomatoes 1st year saved seed
Red Robin – 55 days – This popular dwarf variety of cherry tomato thrives in relatively small pots or hanging baskets set on sunny windowsills or outdoor patios. Plants only become 8-12” tall and bear masses of 1-1/4” full-flavored tomatoes with a touch of sweetness. Can be grown in an 8” pot. Tomato Growers
Rio Grande - 75 days. Large plant produces high yields of large size red tomatoes. An excellent variety for fresh market and processing. Well adapted to hot days and cold nights. Withstand extremes in temperature. Great for salads and sandwiches, or making sauces and puree. Suitable for home gardens and market growers. Disease Resistant: VFFA The American Heritage Seed Co. Westcliffe Seed Lending Library
Roma Paste - 75-85 days – Rich paste tomatoes with meaty flesh and few seeds are long renowned for delicious sauces and pastes. Great for canning. Compact vines produce 8-10 tomatoes per pound. Disease resistant. The American Heritage Seed Company
Siletz – 48 days Dr. James Bagget developed this improved Oregon Spring with a more vigorous plant and earlier, blemish-free fruits. Resistant to V, F1 and cracking. Seeds Trust
Silvery Fir Tree – 58 days – Russia. Finely divided, almost carrot-like leaves on distinctive, tidy 2’ plants. Surprising amounts of slightly flattened 2-3 ½” red fruits with that delicious, Russian flavor. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Snow Fairy – early – Russia An incredibly dwarf variety from Russia that produces a large yield of small globe-shaped fruit very early. The plants are beautiful, stocky and very deep green. Growing just a little over a foot tall, this variety looks lovely when loaded with bright red fruit, and it does this very quickly. It is one of the first to produce. The fruit are tart and of an average tomato taste. Baker Creek
Sub-Arctic Plenty – 62 days - Alaska – Cold tolerant and early ripening. A favorite of gardeners north of the 45th parallel! Compact, prolific plants produce clusters of red tasty 2 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Taxi – 65 days – Brilliant-yellow gourmet tomato! In addition to meeting our requirements for earliness and cold-tolerance, Taxi supplies sweet-tomato flavor, compact vines and smooth, blemish-free, large, 3-4” fruits. Seeds Trust – 1st year saved seed
Tiny Tim – 60-65 days – A very unusual dwarf tomato that can be grown outdoors, in pots, indoors or in a porch boxes. Just perfect for container growing or smaller gardens. Plants grow no more than 18” tall and can be grown in a 6” pot. Round, bright red cherry tomatoes are about 3“ in diameter. 1st year saved seed
Tumbler – 70 days - Bred for hanging baskets. Bushy plants will produce lots of nicely flavored cherry tomatoes. Tumbler tends to fill in a basket instead of producing lanky growth. We also like it as an edging for planting beds. Nichols
Urbikany – 58 days – Eastern Europe. Similar to Stupice in earliness and flavor yet comes on a compact, determinate vine. Rapidly becoming a favorite for market growers in Tucson because of its popularity. Seeds Trust – 2nd year saved seeds.
VR Moscow – 80 days – Utah Mountain West favorite with old-fashioned tomato flavor. Outstanding canner. 3-4”, large, red thick walled fruit. V Seeds Trust
Wayahead Super – 63 days – Jung’s introduced this tomato in 1921 and it continues to have a loyal fan base due to its early 63 day maturity, abundant fruit and fine tomato flavor. The smooth, bright red, firm and juicy medium-size tomatoes are delicious fresh and are among the finest for juice.
Whippersnapper – 59 days – Always popular, extra-early, tasty, pinkish-red, slightly oval 1” cherry tomatoes. Extremely prolific compact plants. Probably our best tomato for patio containers. Seeds Trust
SEMI-DETERMINATE (A little of both – vining and bush.)
Crimson Sprinter – 65 days – Canada Brilliant candy-apple red color and strong performance in cool conditions for early season harvests. Medium-sized 5-7 oz fruits are abundant and ripen nicely on the vine. Developed by Professor T. Graham of OAC, Ontario. Crimson Sprinter is the earliest maturing cultivar to carry the famous crimson gene with notably high lycopene content. Holds well due to its thick skin. High Mowing 1st year saved seed in Canon City by Beki Javernick
Long Keeper – 70 days – This tomato will keep up to 3 months. Fruits are 3 inches and light orange/red when ripe. Semi-determinate habit. Territorial
Wendy – 65 days – New Zealand. Sent to us by one of our faithful customers always on the lookout for better varieties. Sweet as a plum. Round, yellow 2” tomatoes. Our most productive non-red tomato. Seeds Trust – 1st year saved seed.
Zaryanka Sunrise – Siberia – 68 days – Lots of beautiful, orange-red, 6-8 oz. beauties. Very meaty. Almost beefsteak. Great size and color for farmer’s markets. Tidy, compact plants. Seeds Trust – 2nd year saved seed.
Cord’s Mystery Tomatoes
Uncle Toad’s Nice Tasty Cherry 1” – 1 ½” – RED – Indeterminate
Uncle Toad’s Big Gnarly Pink- Large, meaty, good taste. May crack if over-ripe. Ripe when pink. Probably German Giant Indeterminate.
Big, Black/Purple – grown in the front of Cord’s greenhouse. Not huge plants – either Black Krim or Cherokee Purple Ind.
Prolific Red Salad – grown in Cord’s greenhouse – salad sized – lots of them.
Extra-Early and Early
Amateur’s Dream, Aurora, Black Cherry, Black Krim, Clear Pink Early, Coldset, Crimson Sprinter, Early Girl Improved Hybrid, Early Siberian, Early Wonder,
Galina, Gem State, Glacier, Golden King of Siberia, Gold Nugget, Glasnost, Gregori’s Altai, Grushovka, Ida Gold, Market Miracle, Mikarda Sweet, Moscow, Mr. Stripey, New Big Dwarf, Northern Light, Odessa, Olga’s Biggest, Perestroika, Prairie Fire, Red Alert, Red Robin, Sasha’s Altai, Siberian, Siletz, Silvery Fir Tree, Snow Fairy, Sub-Arctic Plenty, Taxi, Tiny Tim, Urbikany, Wayahead Super, Wendy, Whippersnapper, Zaryanka Sunrise
Siberian/Russian
Amateur’s Dream, Aurora, Azoychka, Black Krim, Black From Tula, Black Sea Man, Bread and Salt, Clear Pink Early, De Barrao II, Fakel, Galina, Glasnost, Golden King of Siberia, Gregori’s Altai, Grushovka, Ispolin, Kotlas, Market Miracle, Mikarda Sweet, Mother Russia, Moscow, Olga’s Biggest, Olga’s Yellow Chicken, Orenburg Giant, Otradny, Perestroika, Red Siberian, Sasha’s Altai, Siberian, Silvery Fir Tree, Zaryanka Sunrise
Cold-Tolerant
All Siberians/Russians, Caro Rich, Coldset, Crimson Sprinter, Gem State, Glacier, Mt. Roma, Nepal, Oregon Spring, Rio Grande, Sub-Arctic Plenty
Beefsteaks
Aussie, Beefsteak, Better Boy Hybrid, Caro Rich, Costoluto Fiorentino, Costoluto Genovese, Delicious, Early Siberian, German Giant, Gregori’s Altai, Ispolin, Market Miracle, Mr. Underwood’s Pink German Giant, Nepal, New Big Dwarf, Red Siberian, Santa Clara Canner, Stump of the World, Striped German, Virginia Sweets, Super Beefsteak, Valencia
Paste – Roma & Canning
Amish Paste, Arkansas Traveler, Bellstar, Coldset, De Barrao II, Fakel, Grushovka, Heinz 1439, High Country, Moscow, Mt. Roma, Opalka, Red Pear, Rio Grande, Roma Paste, San Marzano, Santa Clara Canner, VR Moscow
Cherry
Blush, Chadwick Cherry, Ceylon, Fox Cherry, Galina, Ghost Cherry, Gold Nugget, Ildi, Isis Candy, Ninety Wonder, Peacevine Cherry, Red Fig, Red Pear, Sweet 100, Velvet Red, Whippersnapper, White Cherry, Yellow Pear
Grape
Golden Grape, Ildi, Reisenstraube, Yellow Reisenstraube, Topaz, Violet Jasper, Principe Borghese
Currant
Coyote, Honey Pearl, Sara’s Galapagos
Yellow, Orange, White
Azoychka, Blush, Coyote, Galina, Ghost Cherry, Golden Grape, Golden King of Siberia, Gold Nugget, Honey Pearl, Ida Gold, Ildi, Isis Candy, Mr. Stripey, Nebraska Wedding, Olga’s Yellow Chicken, Persimmon, Scotland Yellow, Striped German, Sungold Hybrid, Taxi, Topaz, Valencia, Virginia Sweets, Wendy, White Cherry, White Queen, Yellow Pear
Purple/Black
Black From Tula, Black Krim, Black Pear, Black Sea Man, Cherokee Purple, Gregori’s Altai, Indigo Rose, Violet Jasper
Drying
Arkansas Traveler, Principe Borghese, Red Fig, Red Pear
Dwarf
Gem State, Grushovka, Kotlas, New Big Dwarf, Odessa, Otradny, Red Robin, Silvery Fir Tree, Snow Fairy, Tiny Tim, Urbikany
Greenhouse
Vendor, Floradade
Hybrids
Early Girl, Better Boy, Sungold, Super Beefsteak, Sweet 100
THE 2012 MASTER LIST
INDETERMINATES: - “Vining” Tomatoes
Red: This is the seed I have seed for - and so does Seeds Trust.
Blue: These are the varieties I sold to Seeds Trust - go to them for these varieties.
Black: No seed from me until next year. Check Seeds Trust and other catalogs.
Amateur’s Dream - 65 days Siberia. Round, red, rather large tomatoes with a bright crimson color inside. 5 ft. vines. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seeds
Amish Paste – 80-90 days – Wisconsin – This large, meaty heirloom was discovered in Wisconsin although it hails from the Pennsylvania Amish. It has a superior taste, brilliant with a nice balance of sweet and acid. Excellent fresh or in sauces. Seeds of Change
Arkansas Traveler Red Tomato - 80-90 days Round to ovate fruits vary in size, but are average chicken-egg size. Incredibly delicious. Very tolerant to high heat and humidity, diseases, dry periods and cracking. Excellent for eating fresh, canning, stewing, dehydrating. Fruit stores and ships well, hence the name, “Traveler”. Large, open seed chambers make seed saving easy. Firm, thick-walled flesh. 5-petaled flowers on 5-6’ vines. Killed by freezing. Tender perennial, grown as an annual crop. Open Pollinated Heirloom. ThunderFoot
Aurora – 65 days – Siberia - Five stars for flavor! At a taste test of dozens of tomatoes, someone shouted, “Oh my gosh! This is a tomato!” One of our best sellers. Scarlet round 2-3 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Aussie – 85 days – Australia – Heirloom This is one of those varieties to grow when you want a really big impressive red tomato to show off to your friends. This fruit is huge, at least a pound or two, and borne abundantly on large, vigorous plants. Its flavor is as big as its size, bursting with a blend of sugars and acids – a full old-fashioned tomato taste. Tomato Growers
Azoychka – 70 days – Russia – This is a delightful small yellow beefsteak tomato that matures so early it will be one of the first varieties to ripen in your garden. Beautifully smooth, lemon yellow fruit weighs about 8 ozs. and is very flavorful, rich but pleasantly sweet with a delicious hint of citrus. Heirloom variety from Russia. Our stock seed is from Craig Le Houllier. Tomato Growers
Beefsteak - 70 days - Huge Beefsteak-type tomato with vigor and disease tolerance. Very firm and flavorful. Produced in abundance on strong vines.
Better Boy Hybrid – 75 days Produces a bushel of fruit per plant. Guinness record holder – 342 lbs. of fruit from one plant! Deep red and meaty, up to a pound each. Dense foliage cover, too. Gurney’s
Black From Tula – 70-80 days – Russia A unique, large, 8-12 oz. dark tomato exhibiting a rich, deep purplish brown color. Some seed savers say it is the best tasting of all the dark tomatoes. Very rich, old-fashioned flavor, sweet and spicy. A rare Russian heirloom. Seed Savers Exchange + 1st year saved seed
Black Krim – 69 days - A most unusual novelty. Fruits are a dark, deep red (almost shiny black) with heavy green shoulders. Interior is a deep, reddish-green color. Sweet and tasty. Matures extremely early. Totally Tomatoes
Black Pear – 80 days – Dark brown tomatoes are shaped like miniature pears and flavored with and excellent, rich taste. Potato-leaved plants produce an abundance pf these beautiful, 4-6oz. fruit, perfect for cutting up for salads or using as a unique addition to platters. Heirloom variety. Tomato Growers
Blush – 75-80 days A unique “julienne” cherry tomato from breeder Fred Hempel with an unforgettable tropical sweet flavor reminiscent of pineapple. Widely adapted with heavy fruit set over an extended period. Seeds of Change
Brandywine – 85 days Excellent, full-tomato flavor has kept this Amish heirloom a favorite for generations! Expect delicious 3”, 1 lb. fruits on un-staked, indeterminate vines with potato leaves. Seeds Trust
Bread and Salt – Russia Named for the long held tradition in Russia to give special guests a loaf of bread and salt as they arrive. In Russian culture bread is associated with hospitality and salt has an association with long friendship. Forget bread and just give your guests this tomato, they will love it! Big, sweet fruit are round to slightly wedge shaped and pink in color. Baker Creek
Caro Rich - 75-80 days - A large, orange-yellow beefsteak with 10-12 oz. fruits. The flavor is full, low in acid, sweet and rich. Smooth skin, slightly ribbed and blemish free. No problems with cracking. Excellent salad tomato. The best part about Caro Rich is they have ten times as much beta-carotene than most other tomatoes. A good producer in cooler climates. Sustainable Seed Company 1st year saved seed
Ceylon – 80 days A tomato like you’ve probably ever seed before, these small, ruffled red fruit are unique in appearance. Their taste is rich and assertive, slightly sweet with a bit of a zing added in. Only about 2” across, these flattened scalloped tomatoes appear in great profusion, perfect for salad or as a garnish. Tomato Growers
Chadwick Cherry - 80 days Delicious, sweet flavor makes this 1-oz. cherry popular with home gardeners. Large vines set huge yields and are disease resistant. Developed by the late horticultural expert Alan Chadwick. He sure had a winner with this one! Baker Creek
Cherokee Purple – 80 days – Cherokee is a recently popular heirloom that is known for its multiple disease tolerance and wide adaptability. It’s the perfect home garden tomato. The abundant purple-red, beefsteak shaped fruits are firm with dark flesh and very flavorful. Excellent fruit to use for salads, juices, relishes, canning and cooking. The plant is large with an indeterminate habit that will provide a longer fruit production. BBB Seeds
Costoluto Fiorentino – 80 days – Italy - This Italian heirloom variety from the Tuscany region produces loads of bright red tomatoes with terrific flavor. Tomatoes are typically about 8 ozs, but may be larger, with a smooth shape rather than the heavily ribbed shape typical of Costoluto Genovese. The flavor is high in sugar, but also high in acid, making for outstanding taste that’s wonderful fresh or made into sauces. Tomato Growers
Costoluto Genovese 80 days – Italy – The fluted, old Italian favorite has been around since the early 19th century. Fruit are rather flattened and quite attractive with their deep ribbing. This variety is a standard for Italy for both fresh eating and preserving, known for its intensely flavorful, deep red flesh. This variety has also become very popular with chefs in this country. Baker Creek
Coyote – 50 days – This tiny tomato made its way from Mexico to Pennsylvania and is now cultivated all over. A tiny tomato with a big taste, you just can’t stop popping them into your mouth like candy. They need plenty of room and lots of good support to grow on. The fruits are born in clusters of 6-8 fruits. Sustainable Seed Company
De Barrao II - 67 days Siberia Pretty pear-shaped 3”, 6-8 oz. Roma-type tomatoes named for the hat the Russian cavalry once wore. One of our favorites because it stores so well. Great fresh or cooked in sauce. Seeds Trust
Delicious 77 days – Set the world record for size – over 7 pounds! You may be lucky enough to harvest the tomato that beats the record, but even if not, most of your crop will be plump, meaty fruits that weigh well over a pound. The name describes the taste – flavorful, juicy and just plan delicious. Fruit resists cracking and stores for weeks. Indeterminate plants produce huge yields. Gurney
Early Girl Improved Hybrid – 60 days Ask any greenhouse around here what the best selling tomato is, they will tell you Early Girl. Modest-sized plants mature rapidly and begin to yield 4-6 oz. fruit within a couple of months of transplanting. Yield will continue to be good until frost, so this may be the only one you need. It is a nice juicy tomato with a rich, red color, loose texture, and fine sweet flavor. Pinetree
Early Siberian - 64 days Siberia Small, early beefsteak with “an unusual lemony zest”. Slightly flattened, deeply veined, 4-5oz., reddish-orange fruits. Shorter, bushy indeterminate plants. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Fox Cherry - 80-90 days – Delicious, large, red, heirloom cherry tomatoes that seem to be one of the best-tasting large cherries around. The vining plants are very reliable; even in years when the wilt kills about everything else these seem to do great. The fruit weigh about 1 oz. each and are perfect for salads. Baker Creek
Galina - 59 days Siberia – Arguably our most flavorful tomato. Galina’s was chosen one of the 10 best early tomatoes in Organic Gardening Magazine. Harvest baskets of flavor-packed, round, yellow 1” cherry tomatoes from each vigorous plant. Seeds Trust – 1st year saved
German Giant – 77 days This family heirloom variety produces an abundance of deep pink tomatoes that are just huge and brimming with luscious flavor. The plant’s potato-leaved foliage may remind you of Brandywine, but this one matures fruit that are earlier, larger and more plentiful than those of Brandywine. German Giant tomatoes are smooth in shape, 2 lbs. or more, and full of rich but sweet taste that make a tomato scrumptious. Tomato Growers
German Red Strawberry – 85 days These big red oxheart tomatoes may be shaped like strawberries but are much larger. They average 10 ozs., but can grow to 1 lb. or more. Tomatoes are meaty with an excellent taste that is on the acid side. Tall plants yield an abundance of these wonderful fruits. Heirloom variety. Tomato Growers 1st year saved seed in Canon City by Beki Javernick
Ghost Cherry – 75 days Larger than a typical cherry, this fuzzy ivory-colored tomato is sweet and delicious. Extremely productive plants yield plenty of these 2” beautiful fruit, which are wonderful in salads, but tasty enough to just enjoy by themselves. Tomato Growers
Glasnost – 62 days Siberia A most beautiful tomato. A best seller. Surprisingly large, glorious 3”, 6-10 oz. fruits. Shiny smooth deep red-orange skin with dense meaty flavor. Excellent flavor. Seeds Trust
Golden Grape – Ind. – Oval Yellow Cherry Tomato
Unique, early and very productive. Very suitable for greenhouse or outdoor growing. Bite-size fruits resemble Thompsons Seedless Grapes, but are a sunny yellow color. Killed by freezing. Tender Perennial, usually grown as an annual. Open Pollinates ThunderFoot Earthworks exclusive variety. Authentically grown in Cottonwood, AZ. 1st year saved seed
Golden King of Siberia – Russia – Big, lemon-yellow fruit are a delightful heart shape. The flesh is smooth, creamy and has a nicely balanced sweet taste. I always find myself “snacking” on these one-pound beauties. Plants are very productive and seem to have some disease resistance. Thanks to Russia for this really great yellow type. Baker Creek
Green Zebra – 75 days – One of my favorite tomatoes. Beautiful chartreuse with deep lime-green stripes, very attractive. Flesh is bright green and very rich tasting, sweet with a sharp bite to it (just too good to describe!). A favorite tomato of many high-class chefs, specialty markets, and home gardeners. Yield is excellent. The most striking tomato in our catalog, a real beauty. Around 3 ozs. This is the tomato colored for the Green Bay Packers. Baker Creek 1st year saved seed from Canon City, Co by Beki Javernick
Gregori’s Altai – 67 days – Siberia Another award winner in Organic Gardening Magazine. Smooth, dense meaty interior slices paper-thin. Large, 4”, purple-red, 8-10 oz. fruits with home-picked flavor. Seeds Trust
High Country – 60 days - Montana Each single plant produces over 100 medium size 3-4 oz. fruits with flesh thick enough for use in sauces and pastes. Delicious also fresh-picked. Seeds Trust 1st year savedHoney Pearl – 90 days – Ind. Extremely small and flavorful pearl to marble sized Tomato berries are the perfect size for finger popping and for chickens to eat. Sweet and spicy flavor. Vigorous vines are prolific and early ripening with clusters of small white fruits, which fully ripen, to a pale golden color, ripen quickly and store a long time and don’t weigh down the plants. May return as a volunteer and become established. Killed by freezing. Open Pollinated Tender Perennial, usually grown as an annual. Authentically grown in Page Springs, AZ. ThunderFoot 1st year saved seed
Ildi – 68 days - These lovely oval yellow cherries are about the size of a large grape, with a well-balanced flavor that is a delicious combination of sweet and acid. Vigorous plants are quite prolific, producing large clusters of these yellow morsels of sweetness. Tomato Growers 1st year saved seed
Indigo Rose – 70 days Oregon A new release from the breeding program of Jim Myers, Oregon State University Beautiful eye-catching hues of deep purple where sunshine hits to red/orange where a leaf or stem shields an area from the sun. The saladette-sized fruits; the deep purple colored skins and surrounding tissue are extremely high in anthocyanin. A classically bred tomato like Indigo Rose is the result of ten or more years or more painstaking selection. Nichols
Isis Candy – 67 days - This delightful variety produces yellow-gold cherry tomatoes with red marbling. Marbling varies from just a red blush to extensive streaking inside and out. What is consistent, however, is the sweet taste that is also rich and fruity, and very delicious. Tomatoes are about 1” across and are round to oblate in shape. Very productive plants bear throughout a long season. Tomato Growers
Ispolin – 70 days Siberia Truly a giant from the Siberian need to outdo the neighbor for the largest tomato. Spectacular huge round pink 1-2 lb. fruits can be expected from vines that reach 7’. Seeds Trust
Japanese Oxheart – 90 days – This is an outstanding oxheart variety that distinguishes itself with extra high yields and richer flavor than most other pink oxhearts. Fruit weighs at least 10 oz. and may grow up to a pound or more. Shaped like a heart, these tomatoes are very juicy and flavorful while being meaty with a few seeds. Expect fern-like foliage that is typical of oxheart varieties. Tomato Growers
Mikarda Sweet – 67 days Siberia Sweet flavor with and ever so slight acid bite. Long, pear-shaped, 3-4” 5-7 oz fruits. Seeds Trust
Mother Russia - 72 days- Siberia Fitting for a tomato named Mother Russia, these large, flavorful, pink tomatoes ripen in the shape of a perfect heart. Dense, meaty. 4”, 10-12 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Mr. Underwood’s Pink German Giant – 85-90 days Huge, 1 ½ - 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 a giant. Heirloom variety. Tomato Growers
Mr. Stripey – 56 days (Tigerella) 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. The American Heritage Seed Company Conifer, Co
Nepal – 78 days Nepal Enormous, cold-tolerant beefsteak with intense, rich, tomato flavor. Original strain from Himalayan Mountains in Nepal! Bright-red, smooth, 10-12 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Ninety Wonder – Large Red Cherry Tomato Ping-pong ball sized fruits with sprawling semi-upright vines. Very hardy to light frosts and summertime heat, as well as to very dry conditions. Seed may be direct sown in early spring with a long-growing season, otherwise start seeds in containers in soil in Feb-Mar. Produces many clusters of bright red delicious fruits which keep for a long time and are resistant to cracking and mold. It may become established as a volunteer where seed has spilled from previous seasons. Plant is killed by freezing. Open Pollinated annual/freeze-sensitive perennial. Authentically grown in Cottonwood, Az. ThunderFoot 1st year saved seed
Olga’s Biggest – 65 days – Siberia. Belly-buttoned, bright red, wide-ribbed, 1 ½ lb., 4-8” fruits. Beefsteak flesh. A monster. Seeds Trust
Olga’s Yellow Chicken – 1st year saved seeds – Seeds Trust
Opalka – 83 days A very large tomato that has the appearance of a bull’s horn with massive solid fruit. Definitely a paste tomato with a dry texture and low seed count, it will become one of the more unique plants in your garden. This heirloom tomato is amazing to behold and difficult to find. If you grow tomatoes for paste, this is the one to grow. Pinetree
Orenburg Giant – 75 days - Russia Originally from the European Russia but tested in Siberia by Dr. Andriev. Nearly round beautiful crimson fruit weighs from ¾ -3 lbs. with “wonderful flavor”. Seeds Trust
Peacevine Cherry 70-80 days Prolific tresses of delicious red fruits. Complex flavor begins tart and finishes sweet. Found by independent research to be extremely high in vitamin C and gamma-amino butyric acid, a body sedative that calms jitters. Seeds of Change
Perestroika – 67 days - Siberia Perfect, picture book roundness and smooth skin have conspired to make Perestroika a market garden favorite. Solid 8-10 oz. red-orange fruits with few seeds. Seeds Trust
Pink Brandywine Tomato An Amish Heirloom Tomato with Salmon-pink skin and red flesh with a very meaty heart. Potato-leaf variety with large, simple leaves and double 10-petaled yellow flowers. The thin-skinned fruits may weigh up to a pound each. Voted world over as “The World’s Best Tasting Tomato”. Produces better in cooler climates than in hot regions, but will fare well if given afternoon shade in intense hear. Open Pollinated pure strain. Annual. Authentically grown in, Colorado ThunderFoot
Red Calabash – 80-90 days Delicious, thin-skinned, ruffled fruit may have come from Chiapas State in Mexico. Documented as the variety in a 1793 painting by Raphael Paele in Penn. The small fruits look like miniature beefsteak tomatoes. Seeds of Change – 1st year saved.
Red Fig – 85 days Philadelphia heirloom documented to 1805. Heavy yields of 1 1/2 “ pear-shaped fruits that are great for fresh eating. Used as a substitute for figs years ago by gardeners who would pack crates of dried tomatoes for winter use. Seed Savers Exchange
Red Pear - 78 days Bright red, pear-shaped, 2” long fruit borne in clusters. Excellent for canning, sauce, juicing, and salads. Produced throughout a long season. Tomato Growers 1st year saved seed
Red Siberian – 70 days Siberia - Many fruits weigh over 1 lb. Perfectly shaped, crimson fruits with the characteristically good Siberian tomato flavor. “A glorious tomato.” Seeds Trust
Riesenstraube – 76-80 days - Germany This old German heirloom was offered in Philadelphia by the mid-1800’s. The sweet red 1 oz. fruit grow in large clusters and the name means “Giant Bunch of Grapes” in German. Large plants produce massive yields. Baker Creek
Riesetomate – The most novel tomato we have seen, this tomato is like a big bunch of cherry tomatoes all fused together: an amazing trait that had everyone here asking questions about the alien-looking bumpy tomatoes. Also called “Traveler Tomato” (“reise” is German for travel or “journey”) for the ability to tear it apart a piece at a time, with no need for a knife. This type of tomato traces it’s roots to Central America where the native people would carry traveler tomatoes on trips – to eat as they walked. Bright red tomatoes taste – well, rather sour, strong and acid. The perfect tomato for those who love raw lemons, but who cares? They are still far-out and groovy. Baker Creek
San Marzano - 90 days - Paste Heirloom Highly productive and extensively grown for canning whole, for puree and making tomato paste. Fine if peeled whole for salads. Fruits are intense red, rectangular-shaped, 3 1/2 “ long and 1 ½” across, meaty, free from juicy pulp of very mild flavor. (Thought by some to make the world’s finest sauce.) American Heritage
Santa Clara Canner – 80 days Good yields of 10-12 oz. reddish-orange beefsteaks. This variety was once used in the California canning industry. Westcliffe Seed Lending Library Bob’s Tomatoes
Sara’s Galapagos – 75 days – This special currant tomato is only ½ inch wide, but packed with tons of sweet flavor in its very small size. The seed was originally collected in the wild by Amy Goldman on a trip to the Galapagos with her daughter, Sara. Large plants are prolific, bearing long trusses of tiny red intensely flavored fruit. Tomato Growers
Sasha’s Altai 59 days Siberia. Incredible earliness and extraordinarily sweet and juicy flavor. One of the 10 best tomatoes in Organic Gardening Magazine. 3”, 5-8 oz., slightly flattened, bright-red fruits. Seed Trust – 2nd year saved seed (Read about Sasha’s story at seedstrust.com)
Scotland Yellow – 80 days A very productive plant from Scotland that yields excellent quantities of 2-3 oz. golden yellow tomatoes perfect for salads. Westcliffe Seed Lending Library - Bob’s Tomatoes
Siberian – 59 days – Siberia. The original Siberian tomato that inspired us to go to Siberia in 1989. Red round 3-4 oz. fruits, hand selected for generations for fresh-picked flavor. Seeds Trust
Stump of the World - 80 days Dark pink beefsteak fruit reach about one pound and grow on potato-leaved vines. The variety was part of Ben Quisinberry Collection, which also contributed the variety Brandywine. Stump of the World is a bit smaller and more productive than Brandywine, but, like Brandywine, offers outstandingly rich, complex flavor. Tomato Growers
Stupice – 52 days - Czechoslovakia Our earliest tomato. Produces tasty. 3-6 oz., red-orange fruits. First in earliness and first in flavor at the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners tomato trials. Also one of the 10 best early tomatoes in Organic Gardening Magazine. Vigorous potato-leafed plants yield incredibly early 3-6 oz. fruits, which get larger later in the gardening season. Salad size. Seeds Trust 2nd year saved
Striped German Tomato – 78 days The flat, medium to large, variably ribbed-shoulder tomatoes are shaded yellow and red. The marbled interior looks beautiful sliced. Complex, fruity flavor and smooth texture. Medium-tall vines. Johnny’s -– 1st year saved by Beki Javernick, Canon City, Co
Sun Gold Hybrid – 60 days Great “tomatoey” flavor and very sweet, an 8 on the brix scale. Fruits are nearly one inch round globes which turn a very attractive golden orange when ripe. Productive vines provide very high yields. A customer favorite! Pinetree
Super Beefsteak VFN – 80 days Even better than Beefsteak! Gurney’s
Super Beefsteak Hybrid 80 days – An improved beefsteak type with heavier yields and better disease resistance. Smooth, meaty fruits average more than 1 lb. each. Burpee
Sweet 100 Hybrid – 65 days – “Thousands of sweet, little fruits.” Huge, multiple-branched clusters of 1/2 inch very sweet fruit with high vitamin C content. Mouth-watering flavor. Vigorous vines bear abundantly until frost and need staking for best results. Gurney’s seed, Tomato Growers description
Topaz – (or Huan U) Named for the beautiful yellow Topaz stone. This Chinese introduction is sure to please you with it’s beautiful and sparkling; 1-3 oz. fruit that are light yellow with golden speckles. Mild tasting, firm and good for snacking and salads. Incredibly productive. Baker Creek
Tommy Toe – 70 days Australian Heirloom Round to slightly elongated. Bright red and prolific with excellent flavor and plenty of juice. Resists most diseases. Sets loads of fruits. Seeds Trust
Thessaloniki – 75-80 days – Greece Greek variety with beautifully smooth, large red fruits. Tomatoes are 3-4” in diameter and juicy with an excellent flavor. Good yields and crack resistant. Tomato Growers
Valencia – 59 days – Maine. This is a seductive old heirloom tomato! Bright-orange, round, smooth, large, 8-20 ox., nearly seedless fruits with rich, tomato flavor. Looks like a navel orange on the vine. Some staking required. Seeds Trust
Velvet Red – 75-80 days – Winner of the 2009 Tomato Tasting at SSE’s Heritage farm. From Joe Bratka of Elmwood, New Jersey. Striking silvery gray dusty miller-type foliage. Heavy yields of 1” cherry tomatoes, excellent sweet flavor. Occasionally a non-silvery plant will appear. Seed Savers Exchange
Vendor – 75 days – Greenhouse Tomato Holland. Where disease is a problem, vendor shines as the best open-pollinated tomato in our greenhouse trials. Somewhat compact plants produce 6-9 oz., bright-red fruits. V & F Resistant Seeds Trust
Violet Jasper (or Tzi Bi U) When these little Oriental jewels ripen, your eyes will be stunned by the color. They have pretty violet-purple fruit with iridescent green streaks! Fruit weigh 1-3 oz., are smooth and have a good tasting, dark purplish-red flesh. This variety will also amaze you with its yield: it’s not only high, but incredibly high, being one of the most productive tomatoes we have ever grown. A great variety for marketing. Introduced to you from China along with its twin sister “Topaz”. Baker Creek
Virginia Sweets – 80 days This heirloom variety is simply one of the best tasting, best producing gold-red bicolor we have ever grown. On top of that, the tomatoes are stunningly beautiful and enormous weighing at least 1 lb. each. Golden yellow beefsteaks are colored with red stripes that turn into a ruby blush. Flavor is sweet and rich, and harvests are abundant. Tomato Growers
White Cherry – 80 days – The pale, almost translucent, lemon yellow 1” tomatoes are borne on vigorous vines. They have a very pleasant, sweet/tart flavor. Pinetree
White Queen – 70-75 days The favorite white variety of many tomato collectors’, this heirloom is said to have been introduced in 1882 by A.W. Livingston, though many people question the exact date of introduction. 4-8 oz. fruit have one of the best flavors of all tomatoes, being fragrant, fruity and intensely sweet. It’s creamy white in color and very attractive. A productive variety that has become very rare. Baker Creek
Yellow Pear – 80 days – This organic variety has large, open, ind. Vines that bear clusters of waxy yellow pear shaped fruits with definite necks. The fruit can reach two inches long. This mild-flavored heirloom bears sweet fruits all summer long and is good for snacks, in preserves, and pickles. The plants are easy to grow, prolific and great for home gardens. BBB Seed
Yellow Reisenstraube – 75-80 days Germany Everyone loves our popular ‘red’ variety, but here is the brilliant yellow version of this fantastic grape tomato. Imagine clusters of delicious, golden grape tomatoes, these are even sweeter than the red ones! Super productive plants with pointed, grape-sized fruits. Baker Creek
DETERMINATES: “Bush” Tomatoes
Bellstar – 72 days Twice the size of our other paste tomatoes! Fresh flavor, excellent for soups, sauces, pastes as well as salads and sandwiches. Early, 4-5 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Black Sea Man – 75 days Russia Russian heirloom from Marina Danilenko. Small plants produce medium-sized brownish-pink fruits with olive green shading. Well-marbled flesh is attractive when blanched and peeled. Rich flavor. Potato leaf foliage. Seed Savers Exchange
Clear Pink Early – 58 days – Russia This compact plant becomes loaded with along trusse4s of perfectly round, smooth beautiful clear pink tomatoes. The flavor is very good, sweet yet tangy, making this a wonderful addition to an early harvest. Tomato Growers
Coldset - 68 days Ideal tomatoes for areas with predictably cold June weather as seeds can be sown directly outside in soil as low as 50 degrees F. 4-6 oz., deep-red fruits are good canners. Seeds Trust
Early Wonder – 55 days – This extra-early maturing varieties distinguished itself in our trials for its excellent, full tomato flavor. It is aptly named since it is a wonder when an early variety tastes this good. Expect abundant crops of round tomatoes with and average weight of 6 ozs. on compact vines. A good choice for gardeners in short-season areas. 1st year saved seed
Fakel – 75 days Russia Kate Gessert brought Fakel to us from a Moscow seed store many years ago. The productive compact bush makes a good stand of flame red, 3.5” slightly oblong fruits with an excellent flavor and texture. Multi-purpose Fakel holds well after harvest and is a good choice for packing in newspaper and holding in a cool spot. Good choice for container growing. Nichols
Floradade – 78 days - Our new disease resistant offering for warmer climates and cold-climate greenhouses. Rather large determinate plants produce numerous beautiful smooth fruits averaging 6-8 ozs. Seeds Trust
Gem State – 58 days University of Idaho A cross between sub-arctic and a larger, beefsteak tomato. Compact, bush-type growth. Excellent for containers and patio gardens! Produces small, 2 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Glacier - 55 days - 18” One of the first tomatoes to ripen even when the plants are still small. Sweet, flavorful, 2-3 oz. crack resistant fruits do exceptionally well in cool northern areas and make a good winter crop in Florida. Spreading plants look a little scraggly at first but shape up into a nice full bush. Nichols
Gold Nugget – 60 days Oregon In record time, compact plants produces enormous amounts of beautiful, golden-yellow, cherry tomatoes! Slightly oval, often seedless, 1” fruits with tender skins. Seeds Trust 1st year seed
Grushovka – 67 days Siberia Popular from Novosibirsk to Lake Baikal. Beautifully compact, 2 ½’ tall plant produces 30-40 oblong 6-8 oz. fruits. Distinctive rose-colored skin contains a delicious flavor. Seeds Trust
Heinz - 1439
Excellent for fresh market as well as ketchup, purees and sauces, as its name suggests! Fruits resist cracking and plants feature good foliage cover. Smooth, round, 4 to 6 oz. globes. Good disease resistance and high meat content. Determinate. Totally Tomatoes
Homestead - 70 days - Highly adaptable, especially in hot conditions. An excellent salad variety with mild, non-acid flavor. Large, 8 oz. fruits, thick and meaty with few seeds, make Homestead ideal for canning.
Ida Gold – 59 days – University of Idaho. The earliest, low-acid tomato we have found! Large quantities of bright orange extra early 2-3 oz. fruits. Mild flavor. Orange tomatoes are known for their flavor and Ida gold is the best. Seeds Trust
Kotlas – 60 days Russia Also known as Sprint. Extra-early, cold-tolerant tomato! Proven blight tolerant, sparse foliage produces healthy amounts of savory, sweet, 2 oz. fruits. Harvest over a long period of time. Requires staking. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Market Miracle – 65 days – Siberia. Great tomato flavor is a balance of sweet as well as acidic! Obviously bred for the competitive Siberian market. Compact plants produce showy solid 8-12 oz. beautiful red fruits. Seeds Trust
Marglobe - 73 days Heavy, uniform growth. High yield of large, uniform, globe-shaped fruits. 5-8 oz fruits mid-season. Michael-Leonard Inc Seeds
Moscow – 62 days - Siberia - Early, big, red, 3 ½”, 6-8 oz. fruits. Nice balance of sweet and acid flavors in a dense meat. Great for canning. Comes on all at once. Seeds Trust 2nd year saved seed.
Mt. Roma - 68 days – Paste. A new earliness standard for paste tomatoes! Compact plants produce firm, 2-3 oz., elongated fruits, even in cold areas. Bred from the older Heinz varieties. Disease resistant. Seeds Trust
Nebraska Wedding – The ultimate “love-apple” according to Amy Goldman’s colorful story in The Heirloom Tomato. Nebraskan brides reportedly still receive these seeds as a wedding gift. Listed in the 1983 SSE yearbook by Dorothy Beiswenger of Crookston, Minnesota. Reliable producer of stunning 4” round fruits with glowing orange skin. Well-balanced flavor. Plants typically grow less than 36” tall, but benefit from staking. Seeds of Change
New Big Dwarf – 60 days – Compact plants only become about 2 ft. tall yet produce a very early harvest of flavorful deep pink tomatoes that grow up to 1 lb., but more typically 8-12 ozs. Wonderful in the garden and also in containers since the plant stays so small. We consider this an heirloom tomato as it was created before 1915 by crossing the Ponderosa and Dwarf Champion varieties. 1st year saved seed
Northern Light – 55 days – Montana – Heirloom beefsteak celebrated because of its beauty and dependability. Excellent flavor and remarkable earliness. Compact 18” vines yield copious amounts of red-orange round smooth 2-3” fruits. Exceedingly tolerant of climatic surprises! Seeds Trust
Persimmon (75-80 days) - 5-7 oz This beautiful deep orange fruit has incredible taste and resemble a fuyu persimmon. Meaty, sweet, with very few seeds, this main season slicer is popular at the local farmer’s market. A main season slicing variety with deep orange fruit. Juicy and flavorful. Round 3" globes on 5-6' vines. Seeds of Change
Principe Borghese – 78 days – Italy This is Italy’s tomato for sun drying. It is very small (1-2 oz.), plum shaped, and pointed at one end. Fruits are born in large clusters of several dozen, like grapes. They are meaty with little juice and branches can be hung to dry until leathery. Italians just throw the vines over a fence. We’ve had success in our cool, wet climate with slicing them in half and drying them in an oven with just the pilot light. Don’t give this one too much water, as you don’t want juicy fruit for drying. Pinetree
Odessa – 58 days – Ukraine – each small, compact plant produces 20-30, 4-6 oz. juicy tomatoes in record time. In fact, Odessa is the only tomato to ripen in the same class with Galina, Stupice and Sasha’s. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Oregon Spring - 60 days - One of our best-selling tomatoes for commercial growers. A seedless variety bred to miraculously yield beautiful, smooth, 4” fruits in cold, foggy weather. Delicious flavor. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Otradny – 70 days – Siberia The best way to describe Otrady is a Sasha’s Altai on a compact plant. Great for small gardens. One of Wes’s favorites. Tasty, slightly flattened, red-orange, 3-6 oz fruits. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed.
Prairie Fire – 54 days Montana Compact plants produce 3” 3-4 oz. fruits. A cross between Sub-Arctic and a flavorful beefsteak. Seeds Trust 1st year seed
Red Alert – 50-55 days – A superb, juicy, sweet flavor in small fruits. Expect 4-5 lbs of fruit per plant! Excellent for container and patio gardening. Easy-to-grow. Totally Tomatoes 1st year saved seed
Red Robin – 55 days – This popular dwarf variety of cherry tomato thrives in relatively small pots or hanging baskets set on sunny windowsills or outdoor patios. Plants only become 8-12” tall and bear masses of 1-1/4” full-flavored tomatoes with a touch of sweetness. Can be grown in an 8” pot. Tomato Growers
Rio Grande - 75 days. Large plant produces high yields of large size red tomatoes. An excellent variety for fresh market and processing. Well adapted to hot days and cold nights. Withstand extremes in temperature. Great for salads and sandwiches, or making sauces and puree. Suitable for home gardens and market growers. Disease Resistant: VFFA The American Heritage Seed Co. Westcliffe Seed Lending Library
Roma Paste - 75-85 days – Rich paste tomatoes with meaty flesh and few seeds are long renowned for delicious sauces and pastes. Great for canning. Compact vines produce 8-10 tomatoes per pound. Disease resistant. The American Heritage Seed Company
Siletz – 48 days Dr. James Bagget developed this improved Oregon Spring with a more vigorous plant and earlier, blemish-free fruits. Resistant to V, F1 and cracking. Seeds Trust
Silvery Fir Tree – 58 days – Russia. Finely divided, almost carrot-like leaves on distinctive, tidy 2’ plants. Surprising amounts of slightly flattened 2-3 ½” red fruits with that delicious, Russian flavor. Seeds Trust 1st year saved seed
Snow Fairy – early – Russia An incredibly dwarf variety from Russia that produces a large yield of small globe-shaped fruit very early. The plants are beautiful, stocky and very deep green. Growing just a little over a foot tall, this variety looks lovely when loaded with bright red fruit, and it does this very quickly. It is one of the first to produce. The fruit are tart and of an average tomato taste. Baker Creek
Sub-Arctic Plenty – 62 days - Alaska – Cold tolerant and early ripening. A favorite of gardeners north of the 45th parallel! Compact, prolific plants produce clusters of red tasty 2 oz. fruits. Seeds Trust
Taxi – 65 days – Brilliant-yellow gourmet tomato! In addition to meeting our requirements for earliness and cold-tolerance, Taxi supplies sweet-tomato flavor, compact vines and smooth, blemish-free, large, 3-4” fruits. Seeds Trust – 1st year saved seed
Tiny Tim – 60-65 days – A very unusual dwarf tomato that can be grown outdoors, in pots, indoors or in a porch boxes. Just perfect for container growing or smaller gardens. Plants grow no more than 18” tall and can be grown in a 6” pot. Round, bright red cherry tomatoes are about 3“ in diameter. 1st year saved seed
Tumbler – 70 days - Bred for hanging baskets. Bushy plants will produce lots of nicely flavored cherry tomatoes. Tumbler tends to fill in a basket instead of producing lanky growth. We also like it as an edging for planting beds. Nichols
Urbikany – 58 days – Eastern Europe. Similar to Stupice in earliness and flavor yet comes on a compact, determinate vine. Rapidly becoming a favorite for market growers in Tucson because of its popularity. Seeds Trust – 2nd year saved seeds.
VR Moscow – 80 days – Utah Mountain West favorite with old-fashioned tomato flavor. Outstanding canner. 3-4”, large, red thick walled fruit. V Seeds Trust
Wayahead Super – 63 days – Jung’s introduced this tomato in 1921 and it continues to have a loyal fan base due to its early 63 day maturity, abundant fruit and fine tomato flavor. The smooth, bright red, firm and juicy medium-size tomatoes are delicious fresh and are among the finest for juice.
Whippersnapper – 59 days – Always popular, extra-early, tasty, pinkish-red, slightly oval 1” cherry tomatoes. Extremely prolific compact plants. Probably our best tomato for patio containers. Seeds Trust
SEMI-DETERMINATE (A little of both – vining and bush.)
Crimson Sprinter – 65 days – Canada Brilliant candy-apple red color and strong performance in cool conditions for early season harvests. Medium-sized 5-7 oz fruits are abundant and ripen nicely on the vine. Developed by Professor T. Graham of OAC, Ontario. Crimson Sprinter is the earliest maturing cultivar to carry the famous crimson gene with notably high lycopene content. Holds well due to its thick skin. High Mowing 1st year saved seed in Canon City by Beki Javernick
Long Keeper – 70 days – This tomato will keep up to 3 months. Fruits are 3 inches and light orange/red when ripe. Semi-determinate habit. Territorial
Wendy – 65 days – New Zealand. Sent to us by one of our faithful customers always on the lookout for better varieties. Sweet as a plum. Round, yellow 2” tomatoes. Our most productive non-red tomato. Seeds Trust – 1st year saved seed.
Zaryanka Sunrise – Siberia – 68 days – Lots of beautiful, orange-red, 6-8 oz. beauties. Very meaty. Almost beefsteak. Great size and color for farmer’s markets. Tidy, compact plants. Seeds Trust – 2nd year saved seed.
Cord’s Mystery Tomatoes
Uncle Toad’s Nice Tasty Cherry 1” – 1 ½” – RED – Indeterminate
Uncle Toad’s Big Gnarly Pink- Large, meaty, good taste. May crack if over-ripe. Ripe when pink. Probably German Giant Indeterminate.
Big, Black/Purple – grown in the front of Cord’s greenhouse. Not huge plants – either Black Krim or Cherokee Purple Ind.
Prolific Red Salad – grown in Cord’s greenhouse – salad sized – lots of them.
