Vegetables

Beefsteak, Compact Indeterminate, Open-Pollinated, 68 days
Regarded as the best of the Wild Boar series from breeder Brad Gates, this tomato has everything going for it: great heirloom flavor, early productivity, size, disease tolerance, and gorgeous good looks! These are ‘beefsteak’ tomatoes, averaging 9 oz., with the color of port wine and metallic green stripes. Many of our local market farmers have had great success with this variety and make it a mainstay of their tomato production.

Heirloom, Indeterminate, 72 days
Large, dark pink, wonderful flavor, exceptionally early and delicious Brandywine-type.

Open Pollinated, Dwarf Determinate, 72 days
This attractive miniature cherry tomato, studded with bright red fruit, is so compact, you can put it in a 6-inch flowerpot or let it billow over the sides of a window box or hanging basket. Red Robin is a charming ornamental that also happens to set a nice crop of sweet, tangy fruit. Setting all of its crop at once, Red Robin sports 1-inch-diameter round fruits that resist cracking and offer a nice tangy-sweet bite. The semi-weeping plants are well-branched, and the dark green leaves offer some protection from sunscald. Red Robin actually prefers afternoon shade or dappled shade.

80 days, Open-pollinated. Indeterminate
Considered the Brandywine of continental Europe, the Swiss Rose de Berne is widely considered in France, Germany, and Switzerland to be the best-flavored tomato. Only medium-sized yet delivers the robust flavor of the bigger types. It bested some formidable competition in Boulder tomato tastings with an unmatched rich sweetness. Unblemished globes are perfectly round, the soft skins not overly fragile, the color very attractive, and plants as productive as hybrids. Some Late Blight tolerance.

73 days, OP, Indeterminate
The original Rutgers tomato, developed at Rutgers University for the Campbell’s Soup Co. in 1928 for processing, but also an excellent slicer. Fruits are uniform, 7 ounce, brilliant red, with good, full-bodied flavor. Very healthy, reliable producer.

Heirloom, Indeterminate, Open-Pollinated, 78 days
Here’s a case where a Super-Sized food is a good thing! We offered San Marzano Redorta for the first time in 2017, and got rave reviews. A very large paste tomato with even better flavor than the renowned San Marzano, but twice the size – weighing 8-10 oz., and at least 4” long.  The large, vigorous, disease-resistant plants grow to 4-5’ tall, and are very prolific, both in heat and in cooler weather. SM Redorta is an excellent paste tomato that is great for canning, salsas, sauces and roasting, and delicious enough to eat fresh off the vine! The flavors are even richer than San Marzano, with a balanced sweetness and tanginess with a touch of salt. Thick walls have lots of meaty flesh with an easy to peel skin and a small seed cavity. Named for the Pizzo Redorta mountain outside Bergamo, in Northern Italy.

70 days, Open-pollinated, Determinate
An early paste variety with small bushes that heavily produce clusters of plum-shaped, meaty, 2-3 oz. red fruit with few seeds and very good flavor. Fruits resist blossom end rot, to which so many other sauce tomatoes are susceptible. They are easy to pick and peel, and the tomatoes can be easily shaken from the plants when they mature. Very reliable and early compared to the typical Roma variety. Released in 1993 by Dr. Jim Baggett of Oregon State U.

Siberian Heirloom, Indeterminate, 59 days
These slightly flattened 3”, 5-8 oz. bright red fruits are incredibly early, sweet, flavorful and prolific, consistently winning blind taste tests. It performs really well in the foothills, where the growing season is short. Bred by a home gardener in a small Siberian town, Sasha’s Altai has a good story behind it, so if you ever get to hear seedsman Bill McDorman speak, be sure to ask him about it.

Heirloom, Dwarf, 50 days
Yes, it’s true – fruits ripen only 50 days from transplant, and they’re really delicious!! The bright red, perfectly balanced sweet and flavorful little tomatoes, ranging from 2 to 5 oz., are borne in clusters on compact plants. They’re wonderful for salads, slicing and drying. ‘Siberian’ has been a great favorite at our tomato tastings, and I grow it every year. The dwarf plant sets fruit very early; it is reportedly capable of setting fruit even at 38 degrees. A great choice for small gardens, large containers, and cooler, short-season/high altitude 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, very sweet 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.

60-70 days, Open-pollinated, Indeterminate
A Sungold F1 dehybridization, Sungella is bigger and much more crack-resistant than the ubiquitous hybrid, and just as delicious and juicy. At 1½-2” diameter, the sweet, yellow-orange globes are small, but larger than cherry tomatoes. Like Sungold, the vines are large and sprawling, requiring sturdy support. Sungella is productive, great for salads, snacking, drying and preserves, and tolerant of cool temperatures.

70 days, Open-pollinated, Indeterminate
The sweetest cherry in the Artisan™ series has outstanding sweet and tangy flavor and great looks, with yellows and reds inside and out. It was bred with high vigor to perform under tough conditions.

57 days, Hybrid, Determinate
Sunrise Sauce produces early, high yields of 3-6 oz. squat, bright orange Roma-shaped fruits within a concentrated period, which makes it perfect for saucing. Not to mention it has exceptional fruit quality and flavor, much sweeter than others in its class, peels easily, and cooks down quickly. This low-maintenance paste tomato is highly resistant to fusarium wilt race 1 and verticillium wilt and makes a great small-space or patio container tomato.

Heirloom, Semi-determinate, 71 days
This versatile tomato has old-fashioned flavor, combining complex, earthy flavors and sweetness with a pronounced tartness. The 4 oz. 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, Super Sweet 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.

68 days Open-Pollinated, Determinate 
A very popular bright yellow tomato for short season gardeners. This compact, bushy, heirloom, determinate variety grows to about 2’ tall x 2’ wide. Expect heavy yields of 4-6 oz. meaty, sweet, mild, non-acid tomatoes for 3-4 weeks. Great for salads, sandwich slices and salsas.

65-75 days, Open pollinated, Dwarf Determinate
A delicious slicer for small spaces, Tasmanian Chocolate retains the abundant flavor of its heirloom parentage (New Big Dwarf and Paul Robeson). Sturdy dwarf 3-4’ plants with stout central stem are perfect for small spaces and containers, with tidy plant habit and short stature, and only need a standard tomato cage for support. The big crops of burgundy/mahogany 4-6 oz., ribbed fruits are richly flavored and perfect for sandwich slices.

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!

50-60 days, Hybrid, Dwarf Indeterminate
Bred specifically for container growing, this dwarf vining tomato is quite early, high-yielding and, best of all – the 1” fruits are sweet and tasty. Johnny’s Seeds considers it the best cherry tomato for patio containers. Dwarf plants stay a manageable size, to 3-4’ tall, with healthy green foliage, and are easily tamed with a tomato cage or trellis.

65-70 days, Hybrid, Indeterminate
Abundant crops of tasty, sweet 1-2 oz. golden-yellow cherry tomatoes are borne on stems that cascade freely from window-boxes, tall containers, or pots on stands, trailing up to 24”. Fruits set continuously through the summer on attractive, healthy, disease-resistant plants. Although one plant can fill a 12” diameter pot, several can be planted together in a larger pot.

85 days, Open-pollinated, Indeterminate
This little known but extremely tasty pink heirloom beefsteak variety won first place for flavor, firmness/slicing quality, exterior color, and shape from a panel of experts: food writers, chefs produce experts and state officials. A compact potato-leafed variety, it also excels in fruit size (8-18oz.), vigor and yield. This scrumptious pink tomato begins producing in late August-early September, and the flavor is sweet, rich, and complex with delicious acid overtones. The meaty flesh has very few seeds but is still juicy.