Vegetables

Russian Heirloom, Indeterminate 72-78 days
Our friend and customer, Jim Y., has been growing this luscious oxheart-shaped tomato in his Boulder garden for several years and urged us to try it. We can attest to its rich, sweet flavor and meaty texture, which make it perfect for salads and sandwich slices. The vigorous plants are very productive, bearing fruits that weigh 12 to 14 ounces, with some smaller ones, especially late in the season.

Open-Pollinated, Indeterminate 74-80 days
A traditional French salad and canning tomato, a staple of markets in France and very popular elsewhere in Europe. The 4-5ft. tall plants produce high yields of 4 to 6 oz deep red tomatoes. They are very flavorful, perfect for salads, slicing, sandwiches, sauces, and canning. St Pierre does well under adverse weather conditions including cold weather and dry conditions. It is easy to grow and an excellent choice for home gardens.

Czech heirloom, compact indeterminate, 65 days
A great potato-leaf variety that comes from the former Czechoslovakia. So early, so productive, so tasty, and such a healthy plant, tolerant of cold and heat! One of the best early tomatoes, this is among the earliest. Excellent flavor for an early type; these produce lots of 2” red fruit over a very long season. Highly popular in areas with short summers.

Hybrid, indeterminate, 57 days
Candy on a vine! Plentiful, plump, tangerine-colored, 3/4″ fruit, verysweet and juicy. The earliest and most famous cherry tomato, usually winning 1^st place at our Taste of Tomato event, and a customer favorite. Fully ripened fruit have best flavor but are very prone to cracking. Vines can grow very large and are extremely productive until frost.

Heirloom, semi-determinate, 71 days
This versatile tomato has old-fashioned flavor, combining complex, earthy flavors and sweetness with a pronounced tartness. The 4oz. round, bright red fruits are meaty and thick-walled, crack-free, and are great for sandwiches & burgers, canning and sauce. Very dependable and highly productive, continuing to set fruit even in extended hot, dry spells as well as cool weather. ‘Super Sioux’ was developed by D. V. Burrell Seed Growers of Colorado and is an improved version of the old variety ‘Sioux’ which had been bred at the Nebraska Experimental Station and introduced in 1944.

Hybrid, indeterminate, 65 days
With the same great flavor that made its predecessor Sweet 100 a garden standard for many years, Supersweet 100 has extra sweetness and better disease resistance (Verticillium and Fusarium wilts) and reportedly offers the highest Vitamin C content of any tomato. Bright red, 1″ globes are amazingly sweet and ripen prolifically on long pendulous clusters right up to frost.

Open-Pollinated, Determinate 65-70 days
Considered by many to be the best early, lemon-yellow tomato, especially for short-season gardens. Compact, dark green, 2’ by 2’ vines produce a concentrated early set of blemish-free, bright lemon yellow, meaty, 4-6oz. baseball-sized fruits with mild, acid-free flavor. Taxi is widely adapted, easy to grow, and a heavy yielder over a 3-4 week period.

Greek heirloom, indeterminate, 75 days
Beautiful, smooth, round, red, baseball-sized (5 to 8 oz) tomatoes with outstanding, rich, balanced, classic flavor. Resists cracking, blemish, sun scald and rot. Great for slicing, salads, canning and keeps well. Plants are very productive and very dependable, and Eve always includes Thessaloniki in her tomato patch. If you have room for just one indeterminate tomato variety, this may be the one!

Heirloom, Indeterminate 75 days

Our friend Thomas brought this very rare and completely unique tomato to our 2018 Taste of Tomato public tasting (where this remarkable new-old variety took second place in the Slicers category) and we’d never seen anything like it! Incredible color, flavor and history! Introduced in 1893 by J.M. Thorburn & Co. seedsmen of New York, this sensational tomato has glossy/waxy terracotta brown skin, orange-pink flesh, and green seed mass. Dr. William Woys Weaver has spent years growing out and selecting from the seeds he was gifted one hundred years later! His patient and artful work has restored this stunning and delicious, juicy slicer, which produces heavily during early/mid-season and then drops off quickly once cool weather sets in. Reviews from gardeners in Colorado reveal that this variety seems to like our hot, dry summers, whereas complaints of cracking came from growers in the wetter upper Midwest and Northwest. When cooked, it will yield a beautiful pumpkin-orange sauce with a floral aroma. Read the back-story, written by Dr. Weaver in 2012, at https://www.heirloomgardener.com/plant-profiles/edible/terra-cotta-tomato-zmaz12wzfis

Cherry, Dwarf Determinate, Open-Pollinated 45 days
Very popular since its introduction in 1945, Tiny Tim was bred specifically to be grown in containers. Bushy plants are typically only 12” tall, 14” wide, with more tomatoes than foliage. Heavily laden branches may need support. For a period of about 1 month, it produces a heavy crop of bright red, 1” round cherry tomatoes with

Cherry, Indeterminate, Heirloom Open-Pollinated, ~70 days

Tommy Toe is a great old heirloom from the Ozark Mountains that produces huge numbers of large, 1.5 oz red cherries with old fashioned flavor reminiscent of heirloom ‘beefsteak’ tomatoes. The large, vigorous plants will need staking/trellising to control.