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• All Tomatoes are OP(Open Pollinated) and/or Heirloom with a minimum of 15 seeds per packet unless stated otherwise.
• All tomato packets are $1 unless stated otherwise.
• Free seeds with every order!
• All tomato descriptions are from my experience/climate. I was asked by a customer about adding DTM(days to maturity) to my descriptions. I really don’t like them since so much is variable on the weather and the gardener. I try to be as honest as possible in how a plant performs here. I am in one of the most northern spots of zone 6 in the country. So those of you in zone 5 probably can expect experiences similar to mine. Spring comes late here, and I always hope I can get them out by mid-May. I try to get plants out by late May. Sometimes the weather does not cooperate(too rainy), and it is the beginning of June. If I say a plant is early, I’m getting tomatoes in good amounts at the end of July/beginning of August. If I say a plant has produced a lot of tomatoes, by the end of August, I’ve thought to myself how good the plant has done. If I’m waiting in Sept. for the first ripe tomato off the plant, or it only grew a few tomatoes, I promise to say so in the description as I did for Depp’s Pink Firefly for example.
• Plants are indeterminate and regular leaf unless otherwise stated.
• All photos clickable to enlarge.
• If you need growing from seed tips, or you decide you want to buy plants, please visit Darrel Jones’s site Selected Plants.

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On to to the shopping….
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Heirloom Mix tomMix.
Want a lot of seeds and don’t mind if you don’t know the cultivar names? Then this is for you. All stray seeds and seed mishaps end up in this mix so it is full of great varieties. It is not a dumping ground for poor sellers as some may think. I can’t promise you’ll be able to figure out what tomatoes you’ll end up with, but I do promise you’ll end up loving the tomatoes anyway. 100+ seeds.

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Amish Paste tomAmP
This was one of the first heirlooms I ever grew. The red fruit are quite juicy for a tomato with paste in the name. They are sweet and mild flavored. Though the fruits have an elongated plum shape, the plants have that narrow skimpy foliage often associated with hearts. It has been always a good grower for me and given a high yield of fruit.

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Amish Potato Leaf tomAPL
This tomato originally came from MN. Doug Wallace received two nameless varieties of tomatoes from an Amish family. He shared seeds with Carolyn Male and they decided on giving them names. (The other is Todd County Amish.) It produces large pink beefsteaks. I somehow missed taking a pic of this variety.

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Anna Russian tomAnnR
This is a popular heirloom heart shaped tomato. As with many hearts, I find it sweet. Also as with many hearts, the foliage is very whispy. It can make you think there’s something wrong with the plants, but they do just fine with thin leaves.

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Azoychka tomAzo
This small lemon yellow beefsteak(sometimes a tad smaller and rounder as in this first fruit of the season pic) is reliably early for me. I love it for that reason. It is also quite zippy tasting for a yellow. I used to have the wrong assumption that yellows were boring tasting, not so! This variety comes originally from Russia.

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Aunt Ruby’s German Green tomARGG
This is an old favorite of mine. It makes large green beefsteaks. When they are ripe a pink blush radiates from the bottom which helps to know it is time to eat! They are juicy and have a blend of sweet and tart flavor.

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Berkeley Tie Dye tomBTD
This is an unusual looking tomato. It was developed by my Tomatoville friend, Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms. Some find it very attractive. At first I found it hard to tell when to pick, but I realized it is like a green when ripe tomato dressed up in a crazy suit. If you wait too long for other coloration to appear, it will be over ripe. It is a juicy tomato with excellent flavor.

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Big Beef F1 Hybrid tomBigB
By customer request ~ This variety has red tomatoes that are 10-12 oz. in size. Reports are that it is productive, a favorite of many. We have both treated with Thiram and untreated seed. 1994 AAS winner. 10 seeds for $1.

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Black Cherry tomBlCh.
I first encountered this tomato in an heirloom cherry mix. It wowed me with its taste. The fruit are also a very pretty dusky color purple.

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Black From Tula tomBFT
I’ve not grown this one myself but have often read great comments about it. Originally from Russia, it is a favorite of many. The dark fruits average between 8-12oz.

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Bradley tomBrad
I really like this unassuming round pink tomato. It has excellent flavor and produces very well. It can have green shoulders. It was introduced in 1961 by the University of Arkansas. I’m not sure if it is named after Bradley County, Arkansas, but they do have a Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival there each year. Semi-determinate. (Photo of tomatoes grown by me courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)

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Burracker’s Favorite tomBF
The fruits from this bi-color were reliably large, hefty looking. They were sweet tasting as many old fashioned bi-colors seem to be. The name of this tomato comes from Burracker’s Hollow in the Blue Ridge Mtn. area of Virginia.

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Carbon tomCar
This is my favorite black. For its size it is dependably early. It is a smooth shaped beefsteak. The flavor is not strong, but it has a balance of sweet and acid. It is juicy. (Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)
Sorry out of stock until Fall 2010.
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Cherokee Purple tomCP.
This well known heirloom is very popular due to its flavor. The dark fruits that average about 1lb. are lauded by many people. The fruits are thin skinned so they must be eaten soon after maturity. With the flavor they have, this should not be a problem.(Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck)

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Costoluto Genovese tomCosG.
This is the well known Italian ribbed variety. The red fruit varied in size. It is productive.
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Costoluto Fiorentino TomCosF.
This is a smoother tomato from Italy. It produces red medium sized fruit in good quantities. (Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)

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Coustralee tomCous
(Description to come.)
Available later in 2010.
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Currant (Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium) tomCur
These plants produce tiny red fruit with abandon! When you bit into one, you are surprised by a juicy sweet burst of flavor reminiscent of cherry tomatoes. This is a great one for kids to grow. The plants can grow massive, so I planted mine in pots, and this did keep them to a manageable size.

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Depp’s Pink Firefly tomDPF
This family heirloom comes from Kentucky. It produces deep pink beefsteaks often with green shoulders. The skin has a very fine flecking to it(like Redfield Beauty or Eva Purple Ball) which is where the firefly part of the name comes from. Having grown this variety a couple times now, I can say it is not the most productive for me. I’ve been told it does much better south of here. Potato leaf.

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Druzba tomDruz.
This tomato is a wonderful medium size red. The flavor is great, and the production is good too. It is originally from Bulgaria.

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Earl’s Faux tomEF
This pink beefsteak is very popular due to it’s great taste. It won best tasting at the 2007 Buffalo~Niagara Tomato TasteFest. It is similar to Brandywine. Earl is a tomato grower who lives down in the Cincinnati area who I’ve had the pleasure of meeting at a CHOPTAG(Cincinnati Heirloom & Open Pollinated Tomato Associate Growers) gathering. The first plant originally came out a packet of seed he purchased that was suppose to be another variety.

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Earlibell tomEarlib
(Description to come.)
Available later in 2010.
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Early Glee tomEG
I can see why someone named this variety Early Glee. It is early, the tomatoes are good sized for an early, and being smooth red fruit they look pretty. Some early fruit had green shoulders. It is a good producer of fruit too. It more acidic tasting than sweet. These were grown only in pots by me and seemed to have a determinate habit, but I’ve seen them listed as semi-determinate so in the ground maybe they would grown more.

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Eckert Polish tomEcP
This tomato was a real winner this year(2009.) It produced lots of pink beefsteaks, way more than I normally get from beefsteaks. It also tasted great too. I found they held their quality a bit longer than many other heirloom beefsteaks too. So there is no confusion, there is also an Eckert Polish from Sand Hill Preservation(an excellent seed source) that is heart shaped.

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Ernesto tomErn
This Italian tomato is quite large and it looks like an Oxheart or Giant Pear depending on the individual fruit. What doesn’t vary is the great tasty meaty quality.(Right photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck)
Will be available later in 2010.
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Evan’s Purple Pear tomEvan
(Description to be added.)
Coming later in 2010.
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Evergreen aka Emerald Evergreen tomEver
This is another green when ripe variety. This one develops an amber cast to it when ready to pick and has a sweet taste.

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Gajo de Melon tomGDM
This variety was a real winner this past season. It was early with its first fruit and didn’t stop. The flavor runs somewhere between a cherry and a beefsteak if that makes any sense. They were on the large end of what I would call a cherry, a bit too big to pop in your mouth, but I enjoyed them still. The skin is very pretty looking like a bi-color, but the red does not appear on the inside(in very few tomatoes it did.)

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Gardener’s Delight tomGD.
This well known heirloom cherry has been grown in gardens for a long time. It is originally from Germany and is sometimes called ‘Sugar Lump’. As with most cherries, the fruit come early and keep getting pumped out until frost. (Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck).

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Fantome Du Laos tomFDL
I’m impressed with this white tomato. It is very productive, and though mild tasting, it is by no means flavorless. The color stays very light. Some of the fruit develop a pink blush on the bottom, but not all, so don’t use that as an indicator of ripeness.
Will be available later in 2010.
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Garden Peach tomGPea
This novelty has yellow 2 oz. fruit with fuzzy skin. To me it looks more of a Japanese plum, but whatever you think it looks like, it is still cute. There is sometimes a red blush to the fruit when ripe. Known to be a good producer. (Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)

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Golden Queen, USDA tomGQ
This excellent tasting variety from the late 1800’s is a small yellow globe with a pink blush on the skin that radiates up from the bottom. The USDA part of the name denotes that the seed for this variety originally came from the USDA seed bank. It seems there were Golden Queens in circulation that did not have the characteristic blush or flavor which came with the original description in antique catalogs. Fortunately the seed bank seeds were the correct version and a great old variety has been preserved. (Photo of tomatoes grown by me courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)

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Grapette F1 Hybrid tomGra
I’m offering this grape tomato since the description reads “thin-skinned and juicy…sweet…clusters of 16-40 fruit.” This sounds like something worth growing, a great deal better than Juliet/Juilette(which I have grown) that is thick-skinned and not juicy. Semi-determinate. 10 seeds.

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Great White tomGW
This large white(pale yellow) variety is a favorite of many. Some claim it has more flavor than many tomatoes of this color category. The fruit are large and can reach 2lbs. The plants are vigorous.

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Green Zebra tomGZ
This tomato was created by another Tomatovillian, Tom Wagner. It has been a very popular variety since he introduced it 25 years ago. It is a small globe tomato striped in light and dark green that develops an amber hue when ripe. It has a strong sweet and tangy flavor. (Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)

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Grosse Cotelee tomGroC
It took some time to acquire seeds of this variety since it is not widely available. I’m baffled as to why. It is an excellent red. The plants are vigorous and the fruit comes in good quantities for it size. The fruit do vary in looks. I found the earlier fruit was strongly ribbed while the later fruit was smoother. In the photo, you can see the transitioning of the fruit. The fruit to the left is very ribbed compared to the one on the right. For anyone newer to growing tomatoes that might be reading this~ The cracking you see on the fruit, though ugly, does not affect edibility. It was caused by the large monsoon like quantities of rain that occurred previous to picking.

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Guernsey Island tomGuIs
(Description to come.)
Will be available later in 2010.
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Hahms Gelbe Topftomate tomHGT
This is a a very dwarf yellow cherry, very cute for pots. The fruits are packed on trusses like grapes and ripen very early. They are mild and sweet.
Coming later in 2010.
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Hellfrucht aka Hell Fruit tomHel
The first time I saw this tomato plant growing in my tomato buddy Norm’s garden, I wanted to grow it. The name does not come from the fact that the fruit are red thought that helps; it is the leaf growth. The branches and leaves have a decidedly upward fire flames look to them. Unfortunately my pic is not the best, but you get the idea. In the garden, you really can pick out the plants of Hellfrucht by foliage alone. Norm originally got the seed on as trip to Germany. I believe it is a fairly popular variety there. The fruit are small red globes and produced in good quantity.

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Huge Black tomHB
The seeds of this variety originally came to me from a gardening buddy in Kentucky, Bert aka Spider. (He was an extraordinary gardener and seed saver who always won lots of ribbons at his state fair. A couple years ago he died in his garden. If we should all be so lucky…) I don’t have a history of this tomato. It is a black beefsteak that was normal sized for me, about a pound. If it is an old variety though, it would make sense for a name. The photo does not show the color very well but is a dark bronzy red. As with all black tomatoes I’ve tasted so far the flavor is good.
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Humph tomHumph
This tomato is not very well known, but should be. Maybe it is the name that is holding it back? It is a family heirloom from Binghampton, NY, and how it got the name I do not know. I do know the fruit are very tasty and the plants are pretty productive. You can tell when they are ripe by the amber cast the fruit gets. They do not develop a pink blush like Aunt Ruby’s.
Coming later in 2010.
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Indian Stripe tomIndStr
This tomato is very similar to Cherokee Purple. Most people think it is a variant of Cherokee Purple and having grown them both at the same time, I would have to concur. This variety won best tasting at the 2009 Buffalo~Niagara Tomato TasteFest.
Will be available later in 2010.
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Jet Star F1 Hybrid tomJet
Since this is a popular hybrid, I figured I would carry it(I personally prefer heirlooms in general, but I want to give customers variety to choose from.) It make 6-8 oz. round red tomatoes in good quantities. Seed treated with Thiram. 10 seeds for $1.

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Kanner Hoell tomKH.
This red tomato grows to about 3/4lb. to a lb. I originally bought seed to grow because of the interesting name. I wish I had some history.(No, I won’t make one up!) It did have a lot of ripe tomatoes at the same time though which makes for a good canner.

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KBX tomKBX
This tomato originally came from the garden of a Tomatoville member who was growing a commercial packet of Kellogg’s Breakfast which is a regular leaf orange beefsteak tomato. She got potato leaf plants that produced an orange beefsteak tomato. The tomato was subsequently grown out and stabilized. Many growers love this tomato.
Coming later in 2010.
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Large Red tomLR
As you can see by the photo, this tomato is red, but not so large. I found the size very variable. It is an old variety. The earliest known listing of it is from 1843 in a Shaker seed catalog. So back then it probably was quite large. It is very pretty with the deeply ribbed shoulders and bright red color.

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Little Lucky tomLL
Luscious Little Lucky runs through my mind when I eat this tomato. I just love it. It is juicy with phenomenal flavor. It is a small yellow globe to small beefsteak shape with a red blossom end blush and you will find red in the core. Craig LeHoullier, heirloom tomato connoisseur, had an accidental cross of Brandywine with and unknown variety. From that he developed this variety and Lucky Cross(I plan to offer in 2010.) Potato leaf.(Photo of tomatoes grown by me courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)

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Matina tomMat
This tomato is often mentioned when asked of tomato growers what their favorite early variety is.(Many others will mention Stupice.) The small, 2-4 oz., round red fruit is flavorful and produced in large quantities. This variety originally came from Germany. Potato leaf.

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Monkey Ass tomMoAs
This tomato has a silly name, but it is a wonderful tomato! It is a pink large heart, very meaty and sweet. Sometimes the hearts double causing a baboon bottom look to them. I found it productive compared to some other hearts I’ve tried. It also was on the early side of my main crop to ripen.
Sorry Out of Stock. Will be back in late 2010.
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New Big Dwarf tomNBD
This is the oxymoron named tomato. How could you be big and dwarf? Well, it grows like a tree with rugose foliage typical of many dwarfs, but it grows up to 4′ tall. It must of been quite the novelty when it was first sold in 1915. Sites often list 2-4 feet, but both times I’ve grown it it is 3-4 feet tall. The tomatoes are nice sized tasty pink beefsteaks up to a lb. It is also not early like normal dwarfs. There are many indeterminates that produce fruit before it does. Still it worth a spot in the garden.

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Nyagous tomNya.
Nyagous is a prodigious producer of small to med. black globes.

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Olive Hill tomOH.
Reports from everyone who has grown this variety are the same; it is exceptionally productive. It is a deep pink tomato averaging about 3/4lb. Potato leaf.(Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck)
Sorry out of stock until late 2010.
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Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge tomOFPS
This variety was one of the oddest things I’ve ever grown. The fruits were small and orange with purple shoulders. The orange color is a bit brighter than the photograph shows. The Purple coloration comes from Lycopersicon peruvianum which is in the gene pool mix of this variety. The color is more pronounced with exposure to light and low temps. I had both this season so the purple color came out quite nicely. The foliage though looked as if it had phosphorous deficiency for most of the growing season, and it was a bit wispy like many heart shaped tomatoes have. Every time I looked at the plants I had to remember that the foliage should look that way. I was expecting acidic flavor, not sure why, maybe because of the purple, but the meaty fruit were very mild in taste.

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Pink Ping Pong tomPPP
This name never appealed to me because it makes me think that they will be hard balls that taste like a bad paste tomato. What an intro I’ve written! The name of course is referring to the size of being large cherries looking about the same as ping pong balls, and they do get a good write up in 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden by Carolyn Male. They are sweet and juicy.

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Polish (Ellis) tomPolEl
There are a lot of tomatoes named with Polish in their name, and good general rule is if Polish is in the name, it probably is tasty. Since there are a lot of them, there is some sort of identifier as with Ellis in this case. The Ellis comes from the person, Bill Ellis, who originally sent the seeds to SSE(Seed Savers Exchange) not the family that brought them to the US. This is a deep pink beefsteak, the kind of pink that often gets called red by mistake. Potato Leaf.

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Polish Dwarf tomPolD
This is a very cute variety. It is a mini tree type with rugose foliage. It grows to about 2-2 1/2 feet tall. All my plants were in small pots(nursery gallon size) so growth was more restrained to about 1 1/2 feet or so. They stood straight up until they got full of tomatoes and then started to tip from the weight. The tomatoes are small unassuming red globes, but what flavor! They are quite yummy for an early tomato.

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Polish Linguisa tomPLing.
This paste tastes like sauce should taste to me. I find it performs best in cooler weather so if your entire season is in the 90’s, you might not like this one.
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Polish Pastel tomPolP
This unusual tomato originated in Australia. The creator of this bi-color paste, John Smarsz, is of Polish decent. The fruit are very sweet and meaty. This also variety does well in hot weather producing lots of fruit. Both years I’ve grown this variety, the plants did not get very large so semi-determinate would be the best description for growth. The fruit is variable in size.

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Prescott tomPres
By customer request. I received seeds for this tomato labeled Prescott Cherry, and I got a bit worried when I saw the tomatoes getting a tad too large for a cherry They are more of a mini plum shape than cherry, but it is the correct tomato. Someone incorrectly added cherry to the name. The tomatoes do grow in trusses like cherries and are very high yielding. They are pink.
Coming later in 2010.
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Prudens Purple tomPrudP
This variety has been a mainstay in my garden longer than any other. It is a reliable, early for its size, producer for me. The big pink beefsteaks are meaty and flavorful. There is a slight ribbing to the shoulders of the fruit. The plants are very vigorous right from the get-go. Potato leaf.

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Purple Calabash tomPurC
Now this tomato is as purple as a tomato is going to get. Heavy on the ruffles, and unusual tasting, it is a conversation piece. People often disagree on this tomato with its looks and taste. It has been awhile since I grew this one, but I don’t remember disliking it(not like when I grew Early Girl, yuck!)

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Purple Hillbilly tomPurH
This tomato is a very dark pink beefsteak with deeply lobed sections that average about a pound. For those of you new to heirloom tomatoes, purple does not usually mean purple. Purple used to be the descriptive word for pink. Just like Purple Coneflower is pink. Semi-determinate.

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Red Penna tomRPen.
This is a unique tasting variety. It is tomatoey and not sweet. It reminds me of some the tomatoes from my youth that the old gardeners used to grow. The tomatoes are large and attractive.

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Red Star tomRStar
(Description to come.)
Will be available later in 2010.
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Remy Rouge tomRemR
This cherry tomato is from France. (Thank you my friend Tomatoadddict for originally supplying me with seeds.) Remy is a popular name there, and I of course think it is quite a nice name. The small cherries are incredibly sweet. I would dare say sweeter than Sungold, yes, I know, you think I’m lying, but I’m not. The plants are quite attractive too. Determinate.
Coming later in 2010.
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RinaldotomRin.
This variety is quite unusual. It looks like an unassuming red paste. It actually is sweet and juicy! This tomato was brought to America with Italian immigrants.
Sorry Out of Stock. Will be back in late 2010.
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‘Rio Grande’ tomRioG
This paste tomato is growing in popularity. It makes very meaty 4″ tomatoes. It is definitely one for making sauce. Hilde Reineck’s photo of my tomato is a bit smaller than normal. Determinate.

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Romeo tomRomeo
This variety makes dependably huge red paste tomatoes. The ones in the pic are actually small compared to some of the fruit! The seeds of this one originally came from GW friend, Chemocurl. (More info to come.)
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Rose Beauty tomRoB
The name is a bit confusing on this tomato. Rose comes from a family surname, not the color. This tomato originated from John Rose of Richmond,KY. It is a pretty white (pale yellow) tomato that with good care can get quite large as seen in the photo. (Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)
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Roughwood Golden Tiger tomRGT
This novelty tomato came through as a real winner. I would of never believed such a bizarre plant and fruit combo would produce high quality tomatoes if I hadn’t seen and tasted them myself. The angora foliage hung down in a floppy way reminding me of a long eared rabbit. The plum shaped tomatoes have orange and red stripes and have fine hairs creating a peach fuzz to the skin. The tomatoes are meaty and very flavorful. They were also born in abundance.

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Rozovyi Flamingo tomRozF
Rozovyi means pink in Russian, and I just had to grow a tomato whose name translates to Pink Flamingo for my proud to be tacky, plastic flamingo loving, grandmother. The plants were grown in gallon pots and were dwarf growing only a couple feet high. They probably will be a bit larger grown in the ground. The fruit are an elongated globe shape (not elongated enough to be called a heart in my opinion) and a light pink, very pink as tomatoes go so the name is fitting.

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Rutgers tomRut
This variety is an old commercial one introduced in 1934. The fruit are red slightly flattened globes. From what I’ve read, this is a variety often called a Jersey Tomato and is a good canner. To see an original article about Rutgers when it was first released Click Here.

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Sabre tomSab
I grew this variety for my Buffalo Sabres loving husband. There seems unfortunately to be a few varieties of tomatoes floating around with the name Sabre. This variety is the same pink one as offered by Sand Hill Preservation. It averages about 6-10 ounces. I found a lot of variability in size, and though mostly globe shaped, some were like a beefsteak as shown in the first pic. The flavor was very good. It also produced fruit well.

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Saint Pierre tomStP.
This is a popular old French variety. It produces an abundance of red globes.

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San Marzano 2 tomSM3
This is a paste tomato from Italy. There are quite a few variations of San Marzano out there. This one has bigger fruit than some and is indeterminate.

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Silvery Fir Tree tomSFT
The finely dissected foliage of this tomato is unusual and attractive. This plant is listed as a determinate, but it is more like a spreading dwarf for me. I’ve grown this variety in the flower border as well as pots. The juicy tart, but still tasty, tomatoes come early and in plentiful quantities. They are red, vary from smooth to lobed, and are a good size for such a small plant.

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Slavic Masterpiece aka Slavyanskiy Shedevr tomSlavM
This variety makes red tomatoes of various sizes. The biggest as in my hand(very dirty from gardening) were almost a lb. and very pretty so I can see where the masterpiece part of the name came from. I was expecting an earlier ripening variety being Slavic, but it was mid-season for me and others that I gave plants to.
Coming later in 2010.
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Snow White tomSW
This pale yellow cherry is a favorite of many growers. It has good flavor. Many people assume pale tomatoes have a bland taste, but this variety proves that is not true. The fruit is a nice pop in your mouth size. It is also a nice contrast to other colored cherries when making a salad.

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Soldacki tomSold
I first grew this pink beefsteak after reading 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden by Carolyn Male. I liked the tangy but sweet, complex flavor description. I’m happy to say, I agree with the book. Though contrary to the book, my yields haven’t been overly high. It seems each year I decide to grow this tomato, the weather is cold and wet, and it doesn’t seem to like that. I still like growing this tomato because I do enjoy the flavor so much, and I bet in better weather there would be more fruit. Polish heirloom. Potato leaf.

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Sophie’s Choice tomSoCh.
This tomato is a dwarf favorite of mine. In a pot or in the ground, it is a little workhorse. It produces red, large for the plant, fruit early and keeps on going. Fruit tasty and not overly acidic tasting like many early tomatoes. The left photo is an early one from last season of the tomatoes developing. The other is courtesy of Hilde Reineck.
Sorry out of stock until Fall 2010.
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Stump of the World tomSTOTW.
This is my favorite variety though I sort of hate to say that. What if you buy it and hate it?! It is sort of like Brandywine, but a bit stronger flavored and juicier. The best analogy I can come up with is Brandywine is a peach, and Stump is a nectarine. So if you like sweet peaches best, you’ll like Brandywine better. If you like zippier nectarines better, you’ll like Stump more. It is a small deep pink beefsteak that performs very well here. It won best tasting tomato at the 2008 Buffalo~Niagara Tomato TasteFest. Potato leaf.
Sorry, these went fast! Out of stock until the Fall of 2010.
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Stupice tomStup
This is a well known heirloom early tomato. I grew it years ago myself. It gets loaded with large cherry sized fruit. A lot of people love the flavor and will tell you it is the best early. I remember them being acidic. Originally from Czechoslovakia. Potato leaf.

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Sungold aka Sun Gold F1 Hybrid TomSunG.
This tomato won sweetest at the last Buffalo-Niagara TasteFest. It is always talked about. Some love it for its sweetness. Others think it is unnatural for a tomato. It starts producing ripe fruit very early and keeps on delivering all season. 10 seeds. (Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)

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Sunsugar F1 Hybrid tomSunsu
This is another very popular sweet cherry tomato. The fruits are orange and though sweet, have a hint of tartness that Sungold doesn’t have. 10 seeds.

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Tigerella tomTiger
This tomato is a small red globe with orange stripes. It looks like Green Zebra’s sister. From what I can tell its origins are in England.(If you know more let me know.)

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Tigrovy (sometimes known as Tiger-Like) tomTigro
The name Tigrovy translates to Tiger-like because of the stripes on the fruit. I prefer to keep the names of tomatoes in their native tongue if I know them to avoid confusion later on. If you look at other country’s catalogs, they do not rename our tomatoes. Anyway, all that aside. This is a nice little tomato! The flavor is balanced between sweet and tangy.(More info to be added later)
Will be available later in 2010.
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Tom’s Yellow Wonder tomTYW
My tomato growing friend, Rob K., grew this monster sized fruit. Rob is known for growing large fruit, but this one was just huge! He generously brought the fruit to me to save seeds from and offer them here. So this is going to be a limited supply/time event. Tom’s Yellow Wonder is normally a big yellow beefsteak often with a pink blush at the base when ripe, and obviously with lots of love can grow exceptionally large. The origins of this variety come from seed saved from another tomato friend, Tom M. of NJ.(Photo courtesy of Rob K.)
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Victorian Dwarf tomVD
This dwarf as with all the dwarfs I’ve tried are little work horses pumping out a lot of tomates. It is almost like they are trying to prove their worth as a plant. The red tomatoes are slightly flattened globes with a few ribs. As with all the dwarfs this season, I grew these in pots so I can’t comment on garden planted size. In the pots they were about 2 feet tall.

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Yellow Brandywine tomYelBra
(Info to come)
Available later in 2010.
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Yellow Pear tomYP.
This very old heirloom produces copious quantities of miniature pear shape fruit. The flavor is sweet and mild. (Photo courtesy of Hilde Reineck.)

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Zloty Ozarowski tomZloOza
Zloty means golden in Polish. It fits this tomato perfectly. The fruits are bright golden orange globes. The flavor is tasty and strong but not overly acidic.
Coming later 2010.
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Zogola tomZog
This tomato is know for being able to grow to very large proportions. I don’t grow for size but I could easily see that with proper care, pruning, etc they could get huge. The red tomatoes are plentiful on the large plants. They are deeply lobed and can get misshapen when the fruits grow together on the plants. Polish heirloom.

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