Mr. Stripey – Flossie’s Stripey               Huge beefsteak fruits ripen from green to green/yellow to green/yellow/red to yellow/red. This process alone is a marvel. Pick one as soon as the yellow begins to arrive and just watch it turn. Wonderful, balanced sweet fruits with excellent firm flesh. Plenty of juice to savor, but still very meaty.

   Soldaki                                                                    Polish heirloom yielding 1 pound deep pink beefsteak fruits. Low acid, sweet flavor with thin skin makes this cherished by home gardeners as it does not transport well. Vigorous plants need staking.

Blue Beech                                                             This “sausage” type paste tomato produces large, 8–10 oz., elongated fruits that are easy to process into sauce. An excellent canning tomato, it also tastes great when eaten fresh. Attractive green shoulders give a distinct heirloom look. Fruits ripen during a concentrated period, allowing for a more efficient canning process. It is well-adapted to northern climates, and resists disease and blossom end rot better than others of its type. This strain of Blue Beech was originally brought to Vermont from Italy during WWII.

Matina is a heavy producer of uniform, smooth, round to slightly flattened, rich red fruit full of sweet, tangy, beefsteak-like flavor. Large clusters of 2-6 ounce fruits ripen early in the season, and production continues well into the fall. The healthy, vigorous, indeterminate potato-leaved vines provide ample cover against sun scald. Use Matina tomatoes on sandwiches, or in salads and sauces. A German heirloom.

Chocolate Miracle                                                A tomato for true chocoholics. These melt-in-your-mouth marvels are velvety, smoky, and laced with cocoa undertones. Their thin chocolate-purple skins shimmer like truffles and their rich, tangy juices burst like bittersweet ganache. Claimed by experts as one of the finest-tasting brown tomatoes, pure savory indulgence.

Chadwick Cherry Delicious, sweet flavor makes this 1-ounce cherry popular with home gardeners. Large vines set huge yields and are disease resistant. Developed by the late horticultural expert Alan Chadwick. 

San Marzano                                                          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.

Barnes Mountain Orange
 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.              My personal favorite “non red” tomato

Mortgage Lifter – Radiator Charlie’s
A legendary tomato developed by M C Byles (Radiator Charlie), in the early 1930s in Logan WV.  After crossing varieties for 6 years and selecting the best, he introduced this beauty that he named Mortgage Lifter in the 1940s, after he sold plants for $1 each and paid off the $6000 mortgage on his house. The large, slightly flattened, pink-red tomatoes can average 2-1/2 lbs. They are meaty and very flavorful. A must grow. Large, smooth, 1-lb pink fruit has a delicious, rich, sweet taste. 

Carbon
 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. Bonus that is doesn’t crack nearly as much as many of the other purple varities.

Blue Beauty
 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.                                                                       My overall tomato favorite

Tappy’s Heritage                                                What a great, old-fashioned tomato. The flavor is so balanced and fresh it won my heart in this year’s trials. Such a great, all around tomato. Beautiful, juicy, rich, good producer. In our efforts to offer more red globe tomatoes we sought this one out and it beat Tappy’s Finest hands down for production, flavor, and disease resistance. Great canning tomato or fresh off the vine. Try this one, you will be so pleased!

Arkansas Traveler                                                     A University of Arkansas 1960’s introduction known for its ability to produce abundantly, even in hot dry weather. Medium sized 6-8 ounce, rose pink, crack and disease resistant & incredibly delicious!

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.

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.

Black Cherry
 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.

Pink Bumblebee
 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!

Yellow Pear                                                            Very sweet, 1½-inch yellow, pear-shaped fruit has a mild flavor, and is great for fresh eating or for making tomato preserves. Very productive plants are easy to grow. This plant was sooo productive last year that we got more tomatoes from it than we could pick!

Nevsky                                                               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                                                                    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.