Tomatoes
Abe Lincoln
Abe Lincoln Tomato is an indeterminate variety with large plants that will continually produce throughout the warm growing season. Fruits can get as large as 1 lb each and grow in massive clusters, with up to 9 tomatoes per cluster. This is a great slicing variety for tomato sandwiches, but also is the preferred variety by many for canning and making sauces. The fruits have a slightly acidic flavor and have a uniform ripeness with no green shoulders.
Brandywine
The Brandywine tomato plant has unusual potato leaf-shaped foliage, with smooth, oval, pointy tipped leaves. Its sandwich-sized fruit can grow up to 1.5 lbs (0.7 kg) and has been described as having a "great tomatoey flavor", offset by an appealing acidity.
It has a beefsteak tomato shape, mixed red and deep purple flesh, and can have green shoulders near the stem even when fully ripe. The Brandywine tomato is an heirloom cultivar of tomato, with large potato-leaved foliage and large pink beefsteak-shaped fruit. It is popularly considered among the best tasting available.
Cherry
Cherry tomatoes are a smaller, thumb tip sized variants of tomatoes that are popular all over the world. Taste-wise they are juicier and sweeter than the regular plum tomatoes and available in many colors like yellow, green and red.
Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Purple tomatoes are beefsteak in style. They are also notable for having a dense, juicy texture, with small seed locules irregularly scattered throughout the flesh. The comparatively dark interior color is enhanced by the tendency of the seeds to be surrounded by green gel.
In 1995, a skin color mutation of Cherokee Purple arose in Craig LeHoullier's North Carolina garden. It was named Cherokee Chocolate, and the yellow skin gives the variety a brownish mahogany hue. Cherokee Green arose in Craig's garden in 1997 from a planting of Cherokee Chocolate. It is one of several tomatoes whose flesh stays green when it ripens; the skin color is yellow, which provides a guide to indicate when the tomato is ripe and ready for harvest.
The Cherokee Purple tomato is most commonly available in the summer and fall. This tomato is best enjoyed fresh and is often used in BLT sandwiches and salads. It can also be used when making pizza and pasta sauces.
Delicious
Meaty texture meets crack-resistant skin in the Delicious tomato. These tomatoes get their name from their flavor, which is just the right blend of sweetness and mild acidity. A size of 1 lb is average for this variety, so you can expect some even larger fruit, up to 2 lbs!
Whether it’s pink or red, this tomato is ideal for sandwiches, sauces, and pastes. Imagine a single tomato slice that covers an entire piece of bread and maybe even hangs over the side! Serve it fresh, grilled, or sliced for that classic tomato look on the outside and juicy, sweet flavor on the inside.
Long Keeper
A Burpee introduction in 1979, Long-Keeper is a must for winter storage. Staying fresh for 6-12 weeks or more, it provides fruits for fresh use during the fall and into the winter.
The skin of these fruits is a golden orange-red when ripe. Use blemished or cracked fruits right away.
Store fruits at 65-68 Fahrenheit, making sure that none touch each other.
Martian Giant
This large, juicy, scarlet red beefsteak has richly sweet, well balanced tomato flavor, and one slice is perfect for sandwiches or burgers. This semi-determinate Seeds of Change Original yields impressive, scarlet red beefsteak tomatoes with rich, perfectly balanced sweet/acid flavor.
Marvel Stripe
Heirloom with strong, climbing vines bearing large sunny gold fruits shot through with rose-red,
giving them a beautiful marbleized effect. Flavor is mild, sweet & smooth.
Mortgage Lifters
The original Mortgage Lifter is known for its mild sweet flavor, and can weigh as much as two pounds (900 g). Byles' and Estler's cultivars are only the most well-known of a number of Great Depression-era tomato breeds named "Mortgage Lifter". These were developed for the nursery plant market, and named after their presumably high sale ability, which allowed small-scale plant nurseries and farmers to recover from debt.
Roma
The Roma tomato or Roma is a plum tomato popularly used both for canning and producing tomato paste because of its slender and firm nature. Commonly found in supermarkets in some countries, Roma tomatoes are also known as Italian tomatoes or Italian plum tomatoes.
Rutgers
An old favorite among growers is the tried and true Rutgers tomato. This plant is incredibly productive and produces big, beautifully red fruits with outstanding flavor.
They have strong vines that produce a generous crop. The Rutgers tomato is so amazing that it’s been used as the parent in breeding a host of hybrid varieties
San Marzano
Compared to the Roma tomato, San Marzano tomatoes are thinner and more pointed. The flesh is much
thicker with fewer seeds, and the taste is stronger, sweeter, and less acidic.
Sweetheart
Sugar-sweet, crunchy and so delicious! This cherry tomato is simply packed with sweetness and a rich
berry-like flavor. It is quite crisp, and the fruit can keep long on the vine, making it extra high in sugar! Sweetheart Berry is a wildly productive little snacking tomato great for greenhouse and outdoor production. This was an outstanding tomato in our trials for flavor and yield, and the strong vines produced heavy yields of tomatoes longer than any other variety we have tried! Extra long trusses are smothered in small red cherry-sized fruit that resists cracking. Allow the fruit to ripen on the vine to a deep red for the very sweetest flavor, or pick earlier if you like it a bit more tangy; either way it is superb!
Sweeties
Sweetie cherry tomato is an open-pollinated, indeterminate cherry variety that produce heavy clusters of super sweet cherry tomatoes. Sweetie is known for its low acidity and high sugar content.
Yellow Pear
The yellow pear tomato is one of the older small fruit types, first developed in Europe in 1805. Plants produce masses of 1 1/2 to 2 inch, pear-shaped, lemon colored fruits. This reliable, indeterminate, heirloom tomato adds flavor and color to your culinary efforts all season long. With few seeds and mild (low-acid) flavor, they are also delicious eaten right off the vine.
