Our Heirloom Tomato Varieties
Over the years, we have tried growing over 20 different heirloom tomato varieties and have chosen our favorite varieties to continue to grow based on yield, customer preference, and flavor. Heirloom tomatoes were bred for flavor and yield, unlike the hybrids found in grocery stores which were bred for storing capability and perfect roundness. Because of this, many people agree that you haven’t tasted a tomato unless you have tried an heirloom one. Also, unlike hybrids, heirloom tomatoes’ seeds will produce true to type, so you can save seeds from a tomato and grow the same variety with all of its great traits year after year. Happy planting!
Solar Flair
This 6-10 ounce beefsteak is red with gold stripes and has very meaty flesh with luscious sweet red tomato flavor. This tomato is selected for flavor, production, increased earliness and scab resistance.
Black Krim
The Black Krim is an heirloom tomato originating from the Isle of Krim in the Black Sea off the coast of the Crimean Peninsula. The plant is open-pollinated, indeterminate, bearing 8 ounce flattened globe fruits that are dark reddish-purple to black with green/brown shoulders.
Green Zebra
Beautiful chartreuse with deep lime-green stripes, very attractive. Flesh is bright green and very rich tasting, sweet with a sharp bite to it (just too good to describe!). A favorite tomato of many high-class chefs, specialty markets, and home gardeners. Yield is excellent.
Black Icicle
Stunning, perfectly shaped, deep purplish-brown fruit that is almost black. A great variety for both home gardeners and chefs. This tomato has the incredible rich taste that is in many of the large, dark beefsteak types--sweet, rich with earthy overtones. This variety has so much potential for introduction commercially and was among our best tasting varieties last season.
Dr. Wyche's Yellow
This heirloom was introduced to Seed Savers Exchange by the late Dr. John Wyche, who at one time owned the Cole Brothers Circus and used the manure of elephants to fertilize his heritage gardens. The 1-lb fruit is solid and smooth; the color is a glowing tangerine-orange that always stands out in the kitchen or on the vine. One of the best heirloom orange types for market, with its smooth texture and tropical, sweet taste. Heavy yields.
Blue Beauty
This fruit is modest beefsteak-type slicer, weighing up to 8 ounces, and the flavor is as good as its outstanding antioxidant content! Gorgeous, deep blue-black shoulders make this unique among slicing types. Excellent potential for market, as the fruit holds well on the vine. Sunburn and crack resistance are a welcome bonus.
Hungarian Heart
Brilliant reddish-pink oxheart type fruit is large—frequently exceeding one pound! The fruit of this heirloom is firm and meaty like all oxheart types—great for paste, canning or fresh use. The crack-resistant fruit contains very few seeds and shows very little tendency to develop cores—just rich tasting, solid flesh across each hefty slice! Heavy production all season long.
Brads Atomic Grape
75 days. Elongated, large cherries in clusters. The color (and flavor!) is a full-blown assault on the senses—lavender and purple stripes, turning to technicolor olive-green, red, and brown/blue stripes when fully ripe. Really wild! Fruit holds well on the vine or off. Olive green interior is blushed with red when dead-ripe. Crack-resistant fruit is extraordinarily sweet! Wispy foliage looks delicate but belies these plants’ rugged constitution and high productivity. This release from Wild Boar Farms won best in show at the 2017 National Heirloom Expo! These range some in size from a large grape to plum-sized. AMAZING!
Sun Sugar Gold
Although called yellow cherry, these little tomatoes are orange at their peak, making almost more bite-sized bursts of sweetness than you can imagine on each plant. A single healthy plant is capable of producing hundreds. Several years ago, Sun Sugar was named by Sunset magazine as the best tasting tomato in their trials for its sweetness and rich tomato flavor that includes just the right amount of tartness. This disease-resistant plant is one of our very best cherry tomatoes and are easy to grow.