We will not be shipping for 2018
Below I will group these by source, no favorites are intended or implied...
Additional varieties may be added at any time so check back often
*** Minimum order is only 5 plants ***
all prices include s/h
Additional varieties may be added at any time so check back often
*** Minimum order is only 5 plants ***
all prices include s/h
From Wild Boar Farms
Brad Gates and his crew offer up awesome 'new' flavors everty year, all well woth trying :)
Brad Gates and his crew offer up awesome 'new' flavors everty year, all well woth trying :)
Afternoon Delight
8-16 oz. - mid-late season indeterminate. Large and very meatly red / yellow bi-color beefsteak with purple anthocyanin splashes on the sun kissed fruits. This was an accidentlal cross between big rainbow and an unknown anthocyanin line 5 years ago. Large, beautiful, solid and meaty. Good ability to hang on the vine ripe and maintains flavor and texture. Stores well post harvest.
Sent along by Brad for us to trial here in Texas - won't you help?
Sent along by Brad for us to trial here in Texas - won't you help?
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Brad's Atomic Grape
Indet.Elongated multi-colored large cherries grow in clusters. Lavender and purple striped when immature, turning to green, red / brown with anthocycnin blue stripes when fully ripe. The interior is green with a blushed red when extra ripe. This amazing variety is delicately sweet. The fruit holds well on the vine and post harvest. The wispy foliage but produces a lot of fruit.
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Chestnut Chocolate
Lovely 1-2 oz. chestnut chocolate colored fruits; High yield and disease resistance. Very hardy plants "last variety to dye in my garden". Great tasting fruit; Sweet, rich flavor typical in dark tomatoes. Has a good ability to hand on the vine and stay edible longer than most. Good shelf-life after picking. Slow to break down.
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Cosmic Eclipse
Very unique variety. Beautiful 2-3oz. fruits start off green with dark green stripes and striking indigo colored splashes. It ripens brick-red with green stripes and lot's of black anthocyanin giving this a very beautiful multi-colored finish; sweet rich and juicy flavor. Very good production. Early-mid season. Great ability to hang on the vine ripe and stay edible better than most. Good post harvest shelf life. Slow to break down and extended eating quality.
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Lovely Lush
Anthocyanin rich Small 4-6oz Beefsteaks. Lovely Pink-Rose colored with green stripes that turn gold. Anthocynin splashes, depending on UV, makes this a very visually exciting tomato. Meaty, rich and luscious flavor; Fairly sweet. This variety has good hang on the vine ripe ability and great post harvest storage ability. A 'bonus' variety from Brad Gates for Texans to trail - THANKS BG!!!
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Napa Chardonnay - Limited Supply - Order Early!!!
Very productive yellow cherry with an pearlescentness to them. Great looking with a very good flavor that is sweet & rich. Everyone who trialed it was pleased. Another variety that has exceptional hang on the vine quality and can be harvested by cutting the entires cluster off, making for a very pretty and unique look. Early and does will in cool and hot conditions for me. - discripytion and pic from WBF
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Solar Flare XL
10-20 oz. - mid-season indeterminate. Large and meaty red beefsteaks with gold stripes. Originally from one Solar Flare plant that put out extra large tomatoes. I grew hundreds of plants for several years selecting only the largest fruits for seeds. Great classic beefsteak flavor with a strong bite. Sent along from Brad Gates as a trail for us Texas gardeners, lets help him shall we :)
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Summer of Love - Limited availability
8 -16 oz. mid-season indeterminate. This improved Berkely Tye-Die produces a larger yeild and ripens earlier. It has all the great colors and flavor of the original BTD. A good improvement to an excellent tomato. Beautiful, tasty and now more productive with an earlier harvest.
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From others:
Aunt Ruby’s German Green - Returning favorite :)
Ind. 80 days. Heirloom green beefsteak with a deliciously sweet flavor that's enhanced by a spicy undertone. Globe-shaped fruits are smooth skinned, 12 to 16 oz., with light green skins at maturity and just a hint of yellow. Flesh is green blushed with pink; meaty, and flavorful. Makes tasty juice!
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Black Pear - (Aka 'Japanese Black Trifele)
Aconfusing little spud, with origins in Russia, refind in Japan, and named in Latvian (Trifele) ... the folks at TGS gave up and simply call in 'Black Pear' = Dark brown tomatoes are shaped like miniature pears and flavored with an excellent, rich taste. Potato-leaved plants produce an abundance of these beautiful, 4 to 6 ounce fruit, perfect for cutting up for salads or using as a unique addition to platters. Heirloom variety. Indeterminate. 80 days. seeds pic & text from TGS
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Break of Day
Introduced in 1931, Compact / indet., regular leaf plants, somewhat droopy; 4-8 oz uniform red globes with very good acidic flavor and productivity.
Fruits are smooth, blemish-free and very juicy, with light-red interior in clusters of 4-6. Medium to high yield. Result of Marglobe x Marvana cross made in 1923. 60-70 days. From the awesome folfs at Victory Seeds.
Fruits are smooth, blemish-free and very juicy, with light-red interior in clusters of 4-6. Medium to high yield. Result of Marglobe x Marvana cross made in 1923. 60-70 days. From the awesome folfs at Victory Seeds.
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Cherokee Chocolate - back for '17 by customer demand!!!
From TGS; 75 days. A stabilized version of Cherokee Purple, this 10 to 16 oz. mahogany-colored variety has excellent flavor and beautiful large fruit. Very productive plants are vigorous and yield a large harvest of these chocolate-colored tomatoes with the ample size and wonderful flavor associated with Cherokee Purple.
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Flaming Burst - VERY LIMITED #
A sweeter 'teardrop' shaped version of Jaune Flamme. - From the creator of 'Green Zebra' - Productive plants produce an abundance of gold aromatic fruits. Firm texture, very sweet. Fruits can easily be transported to markets. Indeterminate, 80 days from transplant.
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Green Tiger
Elongated green-when-ripe cherry.Darker green striping creates a distinctive appearance. Green Tiger has the greenish-yellow flesh color and bold, sweet and acidic flavor typical of green-when-ripe varieties. Great in mixes with the other Artisan tomatoes™; See also - Blush, Pink Tiger, Lucky Tiger
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Komohana Grape - Very limited #
This oblong Thompson grape shaped tomato has its origins in Hawaii (by the name)???
It does well in the hot humid tropics, and it should do well in the south; reputed to be very productive. The determinate - small bush plant is said to get so loaded with fruit that it needs support. Fruits are small about ½ oz. 80-85 days.
It does well in the hot humid tropics, and it should do well in the south; reputed to be very productive. The determinate - small bush plant is said to get so loaded with fruit that it needs support. Fruits are small about ½ oz. 80-85 days.
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Petite Chocolate - 1.5 oz Cherry - For me... may be a few left over???
"Bred by J & L Gardens Seeds out of Rideau Sweet and Sara Galapagos. Indeterminate, regular leaf plant on huge vines produces abundant crops of 1 1/2", rich, chocolate fruit. The round to mini beefsteak-shaped cherries hold well on the vine and have a wonderfully rich and distinctive flavor." from Tomatofest (c) Seeds...
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Yellow Fire
70-80 days. This dual purpose tomato brings flamboyant orange, yellows and reds to sauces and stands out when sliced and eaten fresh. The fruits are meaty, with few seeds and super tasty. We love how the unique striped fruits hang on the plants, you can't miss them! Text & Pic from Baker Creek.
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Many 'new' DWARF varieties
from the great folks at Victory Seeds
'Kookaburra Cackle' Dwarf
70 days, tree-type — The vigorous, high yielding, rugose, regular leaf dwarf plants produce lots of smooth, oblate, beautiful, brown fruit that have a pleasant flavor that is on the tart side.This variety originated with a cross between an early generation "Sleepy family" selection called 'Wilpena' and 'Cherokee Purple' made by Patrina Nuske Small in 2008 When asked the significance behind the name, Patrina said, "Kookaburra [is] an iconic Australian bird similar to a kingfisher but brown and beige, and the song / call sounds like a human laughing, hence the 'cackle'." Phot / text from the awesome folks at Victory Seeds.
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'Lemon Ice' Dwarf - Limited #
Introduced by the Victory Seed Company (where I have borrowed the text and pictures - what great folks :) for the 2016 gardening season. 'Dwarf Lemon Ice' plants are compact but open, dwarf in habit with rugose, regular leaves producing small to medium sized (three to twelve ounce), yellow, heart-shaped fruits that are meaty and have a good, mild, sweet but slightly tart flavor (well-balanced).
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'Lucky Swirl' Dwarf
90 days, determinate tree-type — 'Lucky Swirl' is a rugose, regular leaf variety that produces medium-large (five to twenty ounce), yellow and red bi-color fruits. The fruits are smooth, slightly ribbed, oblate in shape, juicy and meaty with a nice mild and sweet flavor. This variety originated from a cross between 'Dwarf Russian Swirl' and 'Lucky Cross.' Text and Pics from Victory Seeds. Pic A from Marjorie halloway, B& C from Vertiloom Heirlooms :)
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'Orange Cream' Dwarf - Limited #
75 days, tree-type — The vigorous, rugose, potato leaf dwarf plants produce heavy yields of uniquely colored pale orange smooth oblate fruit that have a nearly matte, dull finish, ranging from 8-12 oz. A cross between 'Golden Dwarf Champion' and 'Elbe' made by Patrina Nuske Small in 2006 and named "Tipsy." 'Dwarf Orange Cream' was selected and named by Craig LeHoullier. As with most in the "Tipsy family," the flavor is superb - intense, rich, and with a lively tang. Photo crediyts to Renisance Farms & Rock Meadoew Farms.
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'Summersweet Gold' Dwarf - Replaces Summertime Gold
90 days, ind tree-type — This mid to late season variety is one of the best flavored of all of the dwarfs. The plentiful, medium large (six to fourteen ounces), smooth, oblate fruit on vigorous, rugose, potato leaf dwarf plants. The medium yellow tomatoes, often showing a pale pink blossom end blush, have an intense, wonderful and memorable flavor. When the original release of 'Summertime Gold' showed too much of a similarity to 'Dwarf Mr. Snow', likely due to some lingering segregation of genes, Craig LeHoullier and Lee Newman began a new selection process. The result is this improved version that they named 'Summer Sweet Gold', which is exactly what they had hoped for with the original release of 'Summertime Gold'. A bit smaller in average size and a bit later maturing than 'Summertime Gold', this variety was introduced in 2015. Photos by David Lockwood & Renisance Farms
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2016's additions:
My second year to purchased from
Tatiana's TOMATObase;
DEEP diversity, with over 1,000 varieties of tomatoes alone, not to mention other cool veggies...
check them out when you get the chance!
Descriptions will be copied directly from their website,
along with most photos - all their's!
Apricosa - Returning from 2015
These were AWESOME in my trials last year, for production and flavor. "Early. Indet. plants with dark green regular foliage. It is a prolific bloomer, sets fruit early and produces loads of large round orange cherry fruits with apricot-colored flesh, some up to 2" in diameter. Delicious sweet flavor." from Tatiana's
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Black Yum Yum - seriously, thats the name!!!
Returning from 2015; Great taste and production in my trials. "Indet., regular leaf foliage that is a noticeably darker compared to most of the other tomato varieties. High yield of round brown/black fruits with green shoulders, 3-6 oz. Very rich and savory, delicious flavor, yum yum indeed!" from Tatiana's
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Rio Grande - back again from 2016!!!
"Det. plants. Regular leaf. Small to medium sized blemish-free red plums with very good flavor. Fruits keep on the counter for quite a long time. Great canner. Very productive." from Tatiana's
I have offered these before, and am glad to bring them back this year - great for pasting, canning and all around munching!
I have offered these before, and am glad to bring them back this year - great for pasting, canning and all around munching!
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Dwarf Wherokowhai
From New Zealand, Maori words meaning "red/yellow" - Potato leaf Dwarf, it is the first bicolored offering from the Dwarf Tomato Project. Fruits are small to medium size, oblate, yellow with red swirls. Outstanding sweet flavor. It can be considered a dwarf version of one of its parents, Lucky Cross. Thanks to Patrina Nuske Small for photo #1; Picture #2 credit to www.bitsouttheback.net
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From the most amazing folks at
Baker Creek
Green Gage Yellow - LIMITED AVAILABILITY
One of our favorite cottage garden tomatoes. This Victorian classic was created in England in the 1870s and introduced into the US in 1876. The fruit is sweet just like a greengage plum and our careful selection is also the purest now available with pale yellow flesh and green seed mass. Exceptional flavor! Each fruit is roughly 1 ½ inches in diameter. Produces early, often 60 days after planting and will continue until frost. Ideal for small gardens; Easy to grow in tubs.from BC (c)
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Lucky Tiger
This is an elongated, green when ripe tomato that will mature to dark green with red striping. This tomato gets high marks for flavor: tangy, sweet and complex with tropical notes and balanced acidity. Lucky Tiger has great market gardening potential, they stand out in the market display and is well suited for both greenhouse and field growing. - from BC (c)
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Minibel - see also 'Patio'
SOLD OUT in 2016 - 65 days. Determinate. Bite-sized fruits are sweet and flavorsome. Tiny ornamental plants reach only to about a foot in height and require no support. Covered in tasty little tomatoes. Excellent choice for containers, pots or hanging baskets; pretty enough for the patio or deck. So cute!
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Orange Peach - VERY RARE = Limited #
75 days. A chance cross in the fields of our good friend James Weaver led to this exciting new variety. The fruits are orange, range from golf-ball to tennis-ball size, and are very sweet and flavorful. The fuzzy skin, reminiscent of a real peach, comes as an interesting bonus. Believed to be a cross of Mini Orange and Yellow Peach, which is an old French variety that was once used to make a very passable “marmalade.” from BC (c)
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Thornburn's Terra-Cotta -
Introduced in 1893 by James Thorburn of New York, this is one of the most sensational tomatoes we have ever grown. With honey-brown skin, orange-pink flesh, and green seed mass, this is an eye-catching slicer with an out-of-this-world flavor. The tomato produces heavily during mid-season and then drops off quickly once cool weather sets in. As a cooker it will yield a pumpkin-orange sauce with a floral aroma. We are excited to have this tomato that was painted in color in Thorburns 1893 catalog, at last we can offer this rare treasure! Very limited seeds this year. Fifty percent of each sale go to support Dr. Weavers work. from BC (c)
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Wagner Blue Green - LIMITED AVAILABILITY -
80 days. This great “Blue” tomato comes from renowned heirloom/OP breeder Tom Wagner. Color is an incredible blue, with green flesh! We were impressed with its beauty and great flavor! The round fruits are around 3 inches in diameter, and are very smooth and blemish-free - from BC (c)
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Cherry Brandywine - back again from 2015
85 days, large indet., potato leaf, 1-1.5 oz dark pink large oblate cherries in clusters of 5-6, some fruits can be up to 3 oz and resemble mini-beefsteaks, very beautiful, very productive, smooth texture, nice mild flavor, which gets 'sharper' towards the season end. A fairly rare variety that should be more popular. Photo & Text from Tatiana's Tomatobase.
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Orange-Fleshed Purple Smudge -By popular demand-
GOING FAST for 2016 - Only 10 left!!!
A surprising "Best Seller" last year... I'll double production for '16. Medium-size fruits that are tangerine-orange with purple speckles and blotches on the top half. The purple coloring is the result of anthocyanin pigment in the skin. Weighs 4-10 ounces. Sweet and mild. I grew these here in Boerne a few years back and couldn't stop the production! A rare variety; Diana's is one of the very few seed sources of this fine fruit!!!.
A surprising "Best Seller" last year... I'll double production for '16. Medium-size fruits that are tangerine-orange with purple speckles and blotches on the top half. The purple coloring is the result of anthocyanin pigment in the skin. Weighs 4-10 ounces. Sweet and mild. I grew these here in Boerne a few years back and couldn't stop the production! A rare variety; Diana's is one of the very few seed sources of this fine fruit!!!.
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Tim's Black Ruffels -
Returning from 2015 - Truly unique; It looks somewhat like the old heirloom, Purple Calabash, but the flavor is infinitely better -- rich, smoky and well-balanced. The 8-10 ounce, garnet-purple fruits are deeply pleated. They are produced in abundance; a cross between Black Krim and Zapotec Pink Pleated. A rare and wonderful variety.
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From Tomatofest(c)
Amish Gold -
Back from 2015, and previous years Ok... actually seed came from Diana's, but I've been getting them from TF for the last decade; One of my personal all-time favorites - back for 2015! Cross between Amish Paste and Sungold. Ind. regular-leaf tomato plants that yield HUGE crops of 1 1/2"-2" long, oblong shaped, gorgeous golden tomatoes with sharply-pointed end. Fruit has the gold color and flavor of the Sungold, the meatiness of the Amish Paste and delicious sweet/tart tomato flavors that will have you wanting more! This is a perennial favorite tomato in my garden. A rare tomato variety.
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Brandysweet Plum
"Indeterminate, open-pollinated, compact, potato leaf, tomato variety that was an accidental cross between Brandywine and Sweet 100, yielding abundant crops of 2 oz., jade-pink, elongated cherry fruit with the rich, complex flavors of Brandywine combined with the pronounced sweetness of Sweet 100. I've been told that it is difficult for these cherry tomatoes to make it out of the garden and into the kitchen because of their superb taste. A great snackin' and salad tomato." from Tomatofest (c)
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'Angora' - Aka 'Velvet' Red - Cherry
Back again after a few years without - Too cool- Great for the Kid's Garden
This is a beautiful ornamental tomato is fuzzy like a peach, an interesting botanical oddity known at pubescence. Indeterminate, regular-leaf (well not too regular) plants with a fuzzy, blue-gray "fur" on the leaves. Plant yields an abundance of 1-inch, red, super-sweet cherry tomatoes that also have a slight silvery fuzz on them which causes the red to appear less than red. A spectacular novelty tomato. Rare tomato seeds. This is great selection for a patio garden.
This is a beautiful ornamental tomato is fuzzy like a peach, an interesting botanical oddity known at pubescence. Indeterminate, regular-leaf (well not too regular) plants with a fuzzy, blue-gray "fur" on the leaves. Plant yields an abundance of 1-inch, red, super-sweet cherry tomatoes that also have a slight silvery fuzz on them which causes the red to appear less than red. A spectacular novelty tomato. Rare tomato seeds. This is great selection for a patio garden.
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Barry's Crazy Cherry - SOLD OUT in 2016!!!
High Demand - Hope I have one for myself so I can collect seeds!
"Huge clusters of pale yellow, oval shaped cherry tomatoes. Very good, sweet flavor. Huge harvest potential. Come from the largest cherry tomato clusters I have ever seen." - Text & photo from WBF (c)
"Huge clusters of pale yellow, oval shaped cherry tomatoes. Very good, sweet flavor. Huge harvest potential. Come from the largest cherry tomato clusters I have ever seen." - Text & photo from WBF (c)
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Black Beauty - HOW AWESOME!!!
These sold FAST for 2016 !!!
"This tomato is the result of an educated guess, a whole lot of luck and years of selecting the best of the best from hundreds of tomato plants over 5 generations. This is the darkest tomato we know of and is likely a nutritional powerhouse as anthocyanin can be seen forming in the flesh for the tomato under the smooth black skin.
Flavor potential is excellent. Rich, smooth and savory with earthy tones.
Dave Kaiser, tomato junkie from Baker Creek tasted it at the 2015 National Heirloom Exposition and proclaimed it as the BEST tomato he had ever eaten." Text & Photo from WBF (c)
"This tomato is the result of an educated guess, a whole lot of luck and years of selecting the best of the best from hundreds of tomato plants over 5 generations. This is the darkest tomato we know of and is likely a nutritional powerhouse as anthocyanin can be seen forming in the flesh for the tomato under the smooth black skin.
Flavor potential is excellent. Rich, smooth and savory with earthy tones.
Dave Kaiser, tomato junkie from Baker Creek tasted it at the 2015 National Heirloom Exposition and proclaimed it as the BEST tomato he had ever eaten." Text & Photo from WBF (c)
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Black Prince - by popular demand!!!
Unusual brown shoulders become orange-red at the blossom end. Color will be deeper and more pronounced in sunnier locations. Distinctive, rich, fruity tomato flavor. Relatively smooth, 3-5 oz., 3" globes show less cracking than typically seen in most heirlooms. Indeterminate.
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Lucid Gem - New for 2016
" 4-5 oz. beefsteaks. This is a red/yellow interior sister of Blue Beauty.First they ripen yellow, than more of an orange when very ripe. Very attractive with the black anthocyanin splashes really contrasting with the lighter colored skin. Good to very good production. Mid-mid/late.
Flavor is very good, much like a good bi-color. Sweet with fruity tones. Very meaty, very few seeds. One of the best varieties I have seen for heat tolerance. Very good ability to stay ripe on the vine and stay edible. (sometimes getting better) Excellent post harvest storage ability. (Last night i ate some that were picked 27 days ago and where excellent. This is an amazing variety" Text & photo from WBF (c)
Flavor is very good, much like a good bi-color. Sweet with fruity tones. Very meaty, very few seeds. One of the best varieties I have seen for heat tolerance. Very good ability to stay ripe on the vine and stay edible. (sometimes getting better) Excellent post harvest storage ability. (Last night i ate some that were picked 27 days ago and where excellent. This is an amazing variety" Text & photo from WBF (c)
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Norwood Miner's - Grower's Choice!!!
Incredible production in my 2015 trials! From the awesome breeding project at 'Wild Boar Farms'... Lovely clusters of striped cherry tomatoes with a very nice sweet tomato flavor and very good production. Named after a tomato friend that I shared many loving tomato conversation with until his passing in 2010. Norwood was great historian and passionate gardener from Mandeville Louisiana. Sometime in early 2000’s I sent Norwood seeds from Beauty King. He reported that one plant produced clusters of large cherry size tomatoes that looked like mini Beauty Kings.
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From Tomato Growers Supply
out of Florida
out of Florida
Dr. Carolyn - New for 2016 - replaces White Cherry
This is a wonderful ivory-colored cherry tomato that originally appeared as a variation of Galina's. Dr. Carolyn Male first saved the seed, and so the variety was named in her honor. Round fruit are about 1 inch in diameter and ivory-white deepening to pale yellow. The flavor is not just sweet, but also complex and nicely balanced with acid. Very productive vines. Indeterminate. 75 days. Text from TGS (c)
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Patio - DWARF - New for 2016 - see also 'Minibel'
This dwarf variety is one of America's most popular varieties ever for growing on patios, decks, courtyards, or wherever garden space is limited. Plants have attractive, deep green foliage and only become about 2 ft. tall, but produce large harvests of bright red, 3 to 4 oz. flavorful tomatoes. Outstanding for growing in containers -- one that measures at least 12 inches wide works best. Determinate. 70 days. Text from TGS (c)
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Last minute additions:
From The Sample Seed Shop
Tastywine - DWARF - NEW for 2016 - LIMITED AVAILABILITY
This Dwarf Tomato Project cultivar “originated with a cross made between Dwarf Wild Fred and Brandywine by Vince Lavallo in 2008 and named Tasty. TastyWine was selected and named by Vince. Essentially a dwarf growing version of Brandywine, the vigorous potato leaf dwarf plants produce plenty of pink smooth oblate tomatoes that range from 6-12 ounces. The intense, rich well balanced flavor resembles Brandywine in quality.
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Uluru Ochre - DWARF - (Don't ask me to pronounce it!)
"Dwarf Tomato Project release. ...and think it is one of the ugliest things I’ve ever grown (though others disagree,) BUT the flavor was fantastic. This is the description from the DTP, “The vigorous dwarf regular leaf plants are relatively compact, quite early to produce and prolific. Producing a good yield of medium to medium to large sized (6-12 ounces) oblate uniquely colored tomatoes that are essentially the first “black/orange” we’ve seen – orange flesh with green overtones, and somewhat amber/orange/green in appearance when whole. The flavor can be a bit variable season to season, but at it’s best is absolutely delicious with a smokey flavor. This variety originated with a cross between Orange Heirloom and Rosella Purple.” text from SSS, photo from Victory Seeds (c). OSSI seed pledge
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