Heirloom and Open Pollinated Tomato Selection
Photograph | Description | Fruit Size | Fruit Colour | Fruit Type | Maturity | Uses |
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Amish Orange Sherbet is a good producer of orange-red beefsteak type tomatoes that are large and meaty with a mild, sweet flavour that is pretty low in acidity as well. Indeterminate. | Large | Bicolor - Orange Red | Beefsteak | Late (80-100) | Fresh | |
Amish Paste is a plum tomato that is often used for cooking and canning. Indeterminate | Medium | Red | Plum | Mid (69-80) | Cooking (Paste) Canning |
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Berkeley Tie Dye Pink was developed by Wild Boar Farms, this tomato is a compact plant that produces beautiful round medium fruit with a very sweet, rich, dark tomato flavor. Indeterminate. | Medium | Bicolor (striped) Green Red | Round | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad) Canning | |
Black Cherry is produced on vigorous vines. Masses of chocolate brown round cherry tomatoes with a deep and sweet taste. Visually a great addition to cherry tomato mixes. Indeterminate. | Small | Brown | Cherry | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad) Fresh (Cocktail) | |
Black Krim is an heirloom from Russia with very juicy dark red-purple fruit and rich sweet flavour. A firm favourite in taste tests, and unique looking fruit. Indeterminate. | Medium-Large | Bicolor - Dark Brown Dark Red | Beefsteak | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Slicing) Fresh (Salad) | |
Black Pineapple, or Ananas Noire is an unusual variety and was developed in Belgium. The multi-colored, smooth fruit (green, yellow and purple mix) weigh about 1 1/2 lbs. The flesh is bright green with deep red streaks. Everyone loves their outstanding flavor that is both sweet and smoky with a hint of citrus. Very high yielding. Indeterminate. | Large | Bicolor - Green Red | Beefsteak | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Slicing) Fresh (Salad) | |
Bloody Butcher is rich red inside and out and is a great all-round use tomato with good flavour. Indeterminate | Medium | Red | Round | Early (50-60) | Fresh (Slicing) Fresh (Salad) Cooking |
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Brandywine Pink is a popular heirloom tomato of Amish origin. The beefsteak rosy pink fruits are loaded with an old-fashioned tomato taste. With potato leaf foliage, the vines are vigorous producers. Indeterminate | Medium-Large | Pink | Beefsteak | Late (80-100) | Fresh (Slicing) | |
Carmelita has its parentage in sought after French heirlooms and with its striking red-pink perfectly round fruit, is sure to be a great hybrid choice. Indeterminate | Medium | Red | Globe | Mid (69-80) | ||
Casady's Folly Tomato are really striking fruit! With their elongated plum shape and psychedelic orange red wave stripes they look beautiful in salads. With a good shelf life, and thick skin, they do well as a cooking tomato too. Verdicts on taste are split… Indeterminate. | Small | Bicolor (striped) Red Yellow | Sausage | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad) Canning Paste Cooking | |
Costoluto Genovese is an old Italian favourite. The fruit are attractive with their somewhat flattened structure and deep ribs. Rich red flesh are good for fresh eating and preserving. Indeterminate | Large | Red | Deeply ribbed flattened globe | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Sliced) Cooking |
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Cuor di Bue is a magnificent large oxheart with creamy flesh of superb flavour. | Large | Red | Oxheart | Late (80-100) | Fresh (Sliced) Fresh (Salad) |
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Currant Heirloom Tomatoes are some of the smallest tomatoes available. Like cherry tomatoes but smaller, the plants are very productive, and the tomatoes are sweet and tangy, and perfect for fresh eating or preserving. Indeterminate | Very small | Red | Currant | Early (50-60) | Fresh (Salad) Fresh (Cocktail) Preserving |
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Dr Walter is a superior beefsteak type, producing low acid fruit. Grows vigorously and requires staking. Indeterminate | Medium | Red | Round | Late (80-100) | ||
Gold Nugget is early producing having gold tomatoes that are rich and sweet in flavor. Determinate | Small | Yellow | Cherry | Early (50-60) | Fresh (Salad) Fresh (Cocktail) |
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Green Giant is a super productive and great tasting tomato. Large emerald-green fruit are uniform, very smooth and blemish-free. Color stays pure green even when dead ripe! Plants are potato-leafed, are very robust and require staking. Outstanding, complex flavor—very sweet and juicy. Indeterminate. | Large | Green | Beefsteak | Late (80-100) | Fresh (Slicing) Fresh (Salad) | |
Green Grape are lime-green on the inside but yellowish on the skin. The tomatoes are the size of a large grape, and are rich, sweet and zingy. Voted the best in our household for taste. Indeterminate. | Small-Medium | Green | Plum | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad) Fresh (Cocktail) | |
Green Vernissage is a little striped jewel of a tomato and is loaded with sublime sweetness & taste. A perfect addition to salads, salsas and even desserts! The small fruit have lovely light green flesh. Indeterminate. | Small | Green | Round | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad) Fresh (Snacking) |
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Hawaiian Pineapple is a tomato with yellow-and-red mottled flesh and excellent flavour: sweet, fruity and somewhat pineapple-like in taste. Productive and beautiful. Indeterminate. | Large | Bicolor - Yellow Red | Beefsteak with deep pleats | Late (80-100) | ||
Moneymaker is an old English heirloom. Great as a greenhouse variety that produces globular fruit that are intensely red, smooth and of very high quality. This variety grows well in hot humid climates and greenhouses. Very flavourful. Indeterminate | Medium | Red | Round | Late (80-100) | Fresh (Slicing) Fresh (Salad) |
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Indigo Rose Tomato has striking dark purple-almost black colour that make them a talking point. High in anthocyanins and thus with great nutritiional value, the plants produce a good crop of good tasting fruit. Indeterminate. | Medium | Black | Globe | Mid (69-80) | ||
Jaffa is a plum shaped tomato on a bushy, indeterminate, regular-leaf, tomato plant. Huge yields with gold tomatoes with an impressively sweet fruity flavors. Meaty and juicy these tomatoes are perfect as a canning tomato and sauce tomato. A fine choice for a market tomato. Also a good container tomato garden. Indeterminate | Small-Medium | Orange | Plum | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad /Cocktail) Canning | |
Jaune Flamme has been a dependable producer of delicious tasting orange fruit. Winner of taste tests and with some disease resistance, it is becoming a firm favourite orange tomato. Indeterminate. | Medium | Orange | Globe | Early (50-60) | Fresh (Salad) Fresh (Slicing) |
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Kiwi tomato has a distinctly, unique flavor that is sharp, spicy with fruit-like overtones that reminds us of kiwi and citrus. One of the more acid green types, but these are also fairly sweet. The medium sized flattened globes are bright lime to olive color and are produced in abundance. Indeterminate. | Large | Green | Flattened globe | Late (80-100) | Fresh (Slicing) Fresh (Salad) | |
Marmande is a popular tomato with chefs. The medium red fruit are slighty ribbed and have a full rich flavour. Produces even in cool weather. Very productive. Indeterminate | Medium | Red | Flattened globe, deep ribs | Mid (69-80) | ||
Moonglow is a perfect-looking golden-orange tomato: smooth, medium- sized and globe-shaped. Excellently flavoured, rich and fruity. Indeterminate. | Medium | Yellow | Globe | Late (80-100) | ||
Mortgage Lifter has become very popular in recent years. The productive plant produces fruit that are delicious, rich, and sweet in taste. Indeterminate | Large | Red | Beefsteak | Late (80-100) | ||
Mr Stripey makes huge beefsteak-type fruits that are high in sugar and delicious to eat fresh, and because of the bi-coloring with a yellow to light orange background and radiating red "stripes", they are really pretty too! Indeterminate. | Medium-Large | Bicolor - Orange Red | Beefsteak | Late (80-100) | Fresh (Slicing) Canning | |
Orange Beefsteak produces enormous fruit in bright orange that have a superbly sweet, mild and fruity flavour. Indeterminate. | Medium-Large | Orange | Beefsteak | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Slicing) | |
Orange Cherry is a small, orange cherry tomato that has a good yield. Saved from a supermarket punnet, so no parentage available. | Small | Orange | Cherry | Mid (69-80) | Fresh Snacking Salad |
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Orange Russian is described as large, tasty and abundant, this heirloom tomato has ox-heart shaped and bi-coloured fruit that has proven to be a favourite with tomato connoseurs. Meaty with a sweet-sour balance and fruity tones. Indeterminate. | Medium | Bicolor - Yellow Red | Oxheart | Late (80-100) | Fresh (Salad) Fresh (Slicing) | |
Pleasantly tart and slightly acidic, these bright yellow fruits bear a full purple cap of heavy indigo anthocyanin pigmentation. Fireball is great for fresh eating and cooking, with significantly more vitamin E than similar-sized red hybrids. Determinate. | Small | Bicolor - Yellow Purple | Cherry | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (salad) Fresh (Coctail) Cooking | |
Purple Cherokee is an heirloom tomato variety that consistently ranks very high in taste tests. Slice Cherokee Purple tomato for rich, dark color and unmatched sweet, rich taste on sandwiches or in salads. The tomato is a beautiful dusky pink with a deep, rich-red interior. Indeterminate. | Large | Black Purple | Beefsteak | Late (80-100) | Fresh (Slice) Fresh (Salad) | |
Purple Russian tomatoes beautiful purple fruit with delicious flavour and few blemishes. Productive producers. Indeterminate | Medium | Purple | Slightly elongated | Fresh Preserving Salsa |
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Red Cherry produces and abundance of acidy-sweet small, red cherry tomatoes. Saved seed from a supermarket punnet, so no parentage available. | Small | Red | Cherry | Mid (69-80) | Fresh Snacking Salad |
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Reisentraube translates to "giant bunch of grapes" referring to how the tomatoes grow like bunches of grapes. It is a very popular small tomato with a rich full tomato flavour. Indeterminate | Small-Medium | Red | Plum | Mid (69-80) | ||
San Marzano is a popular and reliable producer of rich tasting tomatoes that are great for fresh eating, and paste, canning or puree Meaty with no juicy pulp. Indeterminate. Indeterminate | Small-Medium | Red | Sausage | Late (80-100) | ||
Scoresby Dwarf produces round, slightly flattened red fruit with excellent flavour on a bush type plant. Great for cooking or fresh eating. Determinate | Medium | Red | Globe | Early (50-60) | ||
Small Fry is a dependable hybrid tomato producing large yields of sweet cherry tomatoes. Indeterminate | Small | Red | Cherry | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad / Cocktail) | |
Snowball, or White Beauty are medium sized ivory to yellow coloured tomatoes. Known for their sweet, citrus taste that is richer and more complex than many white types. Indeterminate. | Medium | White Ivory | Flattened globe | Mid (69-80) | Fresh Sauce |
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Striped is an heirloom gifted to me simply as "striped" - it looks like it may be a Tigerella or a Red Zebra. | Medium | Bicolor - Red/Yellow | Small round | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad) Fresh (Slicing) |
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Thai Pink Egg, as the name suggest bears small egg-shaped and sized fruit that are pink in colour. Bursting with natural goodness, sweet and rich in flavour. Determinate. | Small-Medium | Pink | Egg | Early (50-60) | Fresh Cooking |
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The Green Sausage are defined by green fruit and yellow stripes, revealing kiwi-like green flesh when sliced. Bushy plants produce 6 to 8 fruits per truss, and require only moderate staking for high yields. Very ornamental, but also flavorful enough to hold its own with the best of the paste tomatoes. Determinate. | Medium | Green | Sausage | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Slicing) Fresh (Salad) | |
Tiny Tim Hybrid Tomato | Tiny Tim Hybrid Tomato is a surprisingly tiny plant, perfect for pots and hanging baskets. The fruit is juicy and has very good sweet/tart tomato flavours. Determinate. | Small | Red | Cherry | Early (50-60) | Fresh |
Tommy Toe has been a vigorous vine and strong producer of medium to large sized cherry shaped tomatoes with a great fresh taste. Not bothered by heat and humidity. Indeterminate | Medium | Red | Cherry | Mid (69-80) | Fresh | |
Tumblar is an open pollinated hybrid perfectly suited to growing in pots or, with their cascading habit, hanging baskets. Fruit are delicious sweet little cherry type tomatoes. Determinate. | Small | Red | Cherry | Early (50-60) | Fresh | |
Voyage or Reisetomate (translates to traveller's tomato) is a strange-looking tomato with what seems like many fused little cherry tomatoes. It's truly a novelty variety. Indeterminate. | Medium-Large | Red | Multi-fused fruit | Mid (69-80) | Fresh | |
White Cherry is a prolific producer of creamy-yellow cherry tomatoes that are juicy and delicious. Indeterminate | Small | Yellow Ivory White | Cherry | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad /Cocktail) | |
Yellow Pear is a definite favourite with children. The colour, shape and taste make them a great addition to any salad or cocktail plate. Heavy yielding. Indeterminate | Small | Yellow | Pear | Mid (69-80) | Fresh (Salad) Fresh (Snacking) Fresh (Cocktail) Preserving. |