We have all of our seed and supplies and are beginning to start our tomato plants! We’ve already started some that we will sell as larger plants in larger containers but the rest will be in the same biodegradable containers we used last year and at the same price. We’ve added a few new varieties this year and are looking forward to some tomato deliciousness!
Starter Plants will be available starting on May 3rd – Creekside Market Day
We are going back to selling on a first come/first served basis
All are grown by us from seed (organic when available) in organic soil in our own greenhouse. We use only organic fertilizer and if we have an insect problem, we use either ivory soap water or neem oil.
In addition to our heirloom tomato plants (varieties listed below) – we will have a variety of vegetable plants, including: pickle and slicing cucumbers, zucchini, broccolini, green stem cauliflower, celery & lettuce.
Herb plants include: Basil in 4 varieties, cilantro, chamomile, sweet marjoram, chives, oregano, tarragon, rosemary, mojito & chocolate mint & lavender
We will also have a variety of flower plants that help pollinators. Including: Dwarf sunflowers, tall zinnias, tall snapdragons, stock, ageratum, forget me not, bunny tail grass, gallardia, calendula & pansies.
Big Smile Attractive in small beds, containers, and 4–6″ pots. 3–6″ blooms are bright golden-yellow with a black center. Day neutral. Branching. Bears pollen.
A classic and superior strain of giant zinnia originating from a historic German seed company, the Benary’s Giant Series features large, double blossoms of approximately 4–5″ in diameter, in multiple, magnificent colors.
Snapdragon Tall Deluxe Beautiful, 30-36 inch flower spikes in a brilliant range of colors: pink, red, yellow, lavender, and rose shades.
Imperial Antique Shades Pansy – 1 1/2–2 1/2″ blooms in shades of cream, peach, rose, burgundy, gold, and white. Vigorous and healthy plants. Mildly fragrant blooms.
Heirloom Beefsteak & Slicing Tomatoes
Sarah Black Sturdy 6′ vines, good yield of 3-4″ flattened globes. 8-12 oz fruit are purple-black-maroon with green shoulders and slight cracking on the top. Taste is excellent, possibly the best of this color type. Rich, deep flavor, some sweetness, smokiness and extra complex flavors. Schwarze Sarah in German. A German heirloom from Gerhard Bohl, a seed steward in Germany.
Arkansas Traveler This 100-year-old heirloom tomato favorite hailing from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas produces good numbers of rich flavorful tomatoes. Deep pink when ripe, the round 6-8 oz. fruits artful balance of sweetness and tartness accounts for its standing as one of the very best heirloom varieties. Disease-resistant and heat and drought tolerant indeterminate vines.
Pineapple Very large fruit that weigh up to 2 pounds each. The yellow fruit has red marbling through the flesh and is one of the most beautiful tomatoes we grow. The flavor is very sweet and fruity; good yields!
The Original Abe Lincoln tomato: From Bakers Creek Heirlooms – This wonderful old heirloom was shared with us by Diann Dirks–The Garden Lady of Georgia. Diann is a seed saver and seed sharer at heart and received this variety from a gentleman she had struck up a conversation with one day while pumping gas. She writes “A man (in his 80s?) and I got to talking while pumping gas and I told him I collected seeds. He said he grew the original Abe Lincoln tomato–not the ones that were later sold but from the 1923 seed catalog.” Released by H.W. Buckbees in 1923, this meaty variety has incredibly thick flesh with a tiny seed core and great old-fashioned tomato flavor. Vines are indeterminate with medium to very large red fruit. Vines in our 2016 trial here in southern Missouri were not excessively vigorous but yielded well nonetheless and with no apparent sunburning.
German Johnson – Recommended for higher productivity in a pink heirloom. Earlier, more uniform, and slightly smaller than Brandywine at 8-16 oz. Fruits have lots of deep, acidic tomato flavor and a rich, creamy texture. This is the regular-leaf strain, which is earlier and more productive than the potato-leaf strain.
Tappy’s Heritage is our favorite medium size red tomato. It’s a great multi purpose tomato. One of the first to ripen with abundant tomatoes for eating or canning.
Barnes Mountain Orange
Barnes Mountain Orange – IND (90 days) Kentucky heirloom. Large beefsteak, brilliant orange fruits that deliver flavor and yields. Bring some sunshine into your kitchen with this delicious tomato. Some disease resistance; vigorous plants need staking. As the years go by I appreciate this variety more and more. It is becoming a customer favorite, I think we all realize how rare this one is! Firm and juicy fruits have no other rival in the yellow/orange category. Perfect balance of sweet/tart.
Blue Beauty
80 days. This recent Brad Gates introduction was selected from a cross between ‘Beauty King’ and a blue tomato. Fruit is modest beefsteak-type slicer, weighing up to 8 ounces, and the flavor is as good as its outstanding antioxidant content! Gorgeous, deep blue-black shoulders make this unique among slicing types. Excellent potential for market, as the fruit holds well on the vine. Sunburn and crack resistance are a welcome bonus.
Carbon
90 days. Winner of the 2005 “Heirloom Garden Show” best-tasting tomato award. These have won taste awards coast to coast in the last few years, so we were proud to locate a small supply of seed. The fruit is smooth, large, and beautiful, being one of the darkest and prettiest of the purple types we have seen. They seem to have an extra dose of the complex flavor that makes dark tomatoes famous.
Brandywine
80 days. The most popular heirloom vegetable! A favorite of many gardeners, large fruit with superb flavor. A great potato-leafed variety from 1885! Beautiful pink fruit up to 1½ lbs each!
Sauce/Paste Tomato
They also make great salsa
San Marzano
82 days The infamous sauce tomato, deserving every bit of its stellar reputation. Clusters of red, oblong fruits ripen uniformly to allow for small batch processing of your sauces and marinara. Superb flavor, very meaty with few seeds and juice, makes this one of the best canning tomatoes we offer. Try roasting them for an even more rewarding experience!
Amish Paste A longtime favorite heirloom plum.
Large for a sauce tomato, Amish Paste’s slightly irregular plum to strawberry-shaped fruits avg. 8-12 oz. with excellent flavor. These meaty tomatoes are good in salads and great for processing. A Slow Food USA Ark of Taste variety.
Salad Tomatoes
Piglet Willie’s French Black Dark, 2-3” fruit weigh 2-3 oz and have a full-bodied meaty taste. Not a true black tomato, but very dark red with chocolate shoulders. Fruit ripens in clusters of 4 or 5 and can be harvested by snipping the cluster stem.
Cherry Tomatoes
Yellow Pear Very sweet, 1.5-inch yellow, pear-shaped fruit has a mild flavor, and is great for fresh eating or for making tomato preserves. These are very productive plants that are easy to grow.
Riesentraube This old German heirloom was offered in Philadelphia by the mid-1800s. The sweet, red 1-ounce fruits grow in large clusters. The name Riesentraube means “giant bunch of grapes” in German. This is likely the most popular small tomato with seed collectors, as many favor the rich, full tomato flavor that is missing in today’s cherry types. To top it all off, the large plants produce massive yields.
Sweetie A good, reliable, sweet red cherry. If you’re looking for a classically delicious, productive and sweet cherry tomato, this is the easy choice. Fruit are 1-1½” in diameter. Skin is firm but not tough. Great for gardeners or for market production, as fruit are delicious right off the vine, productive, relatively firm and store well. A true basket filler that lives up to its name.
Pink Bumblebee
60-70 days. A stunning cherry tomato, of recent breeding from Artisan Seeds. The fruit has a bright, sweet flavor, and the color is vibrant fire-engine-red with golden orange striping. Vigorous vines yield crack resistant fruit over a very long season. Tolerates cool nighttime temps and hot days. Salad will never be the same!
Black Cherry
75 days. Beautiful black cherries look like large, dusky purple-brown grapes; they have that rich flavor that makes black tomatoes famous. Large vines yield very well; very unique and delicious.
Sungold
Intense fruity flavor.
Exceptionally sweet, bright tangerine-orange cherry tomatoes leave everyone begging for more. Vigorous plants start yielding early and bear right through the season.
Container Plants
Sweet Cherriette Almost always the first tomato of the season for us, sometimes by two whole weeks! Beautifully branched, small vines are great for container culture or hanging baskets. Flavor is reminiscent of red currant types, and more tart than you would expect with a name like Sweet Cherriette. Fruit are larger than true currants, but smaller than cherry tomatoes. We call it an indeterminate dwarf, as it pumps out several flushes of fruit over the course of the season.
Nevsky Dwarf Another round, red, mid-season tomato? It takes a lot for a tomato to impress us these days and Nevsky surely did. Dwarf plants with good disease resistance produce fruit that hold late into the season when all other varieties succumb to wet, cold weather. Attractive, meaty, round, slightly flat, slicer type fruit average 6 oz. The blemish-free fruit keep well after harvest. And it tastes really good, too.
Confetti Dwarf This tomato really knows how to party, and not just because of the name. Dwarf Confetti’s striped skin is a festive addition to any garden or food dish, and the sweet flavor has a pizzaz that many older dwarf tomato varieties lack. Slightly flattened 6-8 oz globe fruit have yellow/pink bicolored flesh. High yielding plants benefit from a short cage or staking so they don’t fall over.
Tasmanian Chocolate
Delicious slicer for small spaces.
A small plant with abundant flavor, Tasmanian Chocolate retains the superior qualities of its heirloom parentage. Unlike traditional heirlooms, it is well-suited for patios and containers (owing to its tidy plant habit and short stature) and only needs a standard tomato cage for support. These burgundy 4–6 oz., ribbed tomatoes are richly flavored and perfect for slicing onto sandwiches.
