6TH ANNUAL TOMATO PLANT SALE & EDUCATION DAY SATURDAY, APRIL 14 TH - 9AM TIL SOLD OUT LIST OF 2018 TOMATO VARIETIES Red Tomato Varieties Plant & Fruit Descriptions / / Ball s Beefsteak Beefsteak - This is a great choice for gardeners who want to grow luscious big tomatoes but need them to mature early and stand up to the challenges of disease problems. These 8 to 12 oz. globe-shaped fruit grow on highly disease-resistant plants, having no cracking, and offer great, old-fashioned flavor. Wonderful as a sandwich tomato. Disease Resistant - VFFT 76 Day - Mid Season 76 Days Better Boy Beefsteak - Old time favorite. Tasty, red tomatoes, many weighing up to 1 lb. each. Delicious, bright red, high yielding fruits, starting in midseason and continuing to frost. Good foliage protection prevents fruit from sunscald. Thrives in most climates. Plants need to be staked or caged. 72 Days- Mid Season 72 Days Bloody Butcher Slicing - Sensational general use fruits with a rich heirloom flavor and a dark deep red color, inside and out. If it's hard for you to wait for ordinary tomatoes to ripen, try these. In less than 8 weeks, they're ready to enjoy. Plants will yield five to nine 3-4 oz. fruits per cluster. Plants require staking and will produce until frost. 55 Days - Early Season Boxcar Willie Beefsteak - What this variety offers is a very heavy crop of good-sized, smooth red tomatoes with delicious flavor, ranging from 6 to 10 ounces. Because of their abundance and medium to large size, they could well be a mainstay of your crop, providing excellent tasting fruit for a variety of uses including canning, sauce and salads, throughout a long season. 80 Days
Clint Eastwood s Rowdy Red Beefsteak - Big tomato flavor wrapped up in a 6 to 10 ounces, medium-sized round, red tomato is what this variety is all about. Tall, vigorous plants grow very plentiful harvests of these versatile and attractive fruits with an assertive yet delicious taste. Even beginning gardeners will find this one easy to grow. 78 Days - Mid Season Crimson Carmello Renee s Garden Seeds Slicing - Bred in France especially for fresh eating. These plump 4 to 5 inch tomatoes will satisfy all your tomato fantasies. The round red juicy fruits have the perfect sweet to acid balance that translates to exquisite taste. Savor their sun warmed sweet flesh sliced fresh from the garden, in salads, pastas or wherever you crave rich tomato flavor. Fusarium, Verticilium, Nematode and TMV resistant 70 Days - Early Season EARLY GIRL Slicing - Comes in first as an early spring slicing tomato and a gardeners favorite. Dependable large harvests all season long of flavorful, solid 4 to 6 oz. fruit. Disease resistance is good. A proven variety for delicious, early tomatoes. Excellent performance in almost any climate. - VFF 52 Days Early Season RUTGERS 250 Rohrer Seeds Slicing - An improved version of the classic Rutgers tomato which is what most people think of as the Jersey tomato. Fruit has good red color, fine flavor; large, globular, slightly flattened fruits weigh 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 ounces. This new variety has a firmer skin and acid and sugar balance reminiscent of the original Rutgers tomato. 74 Days - Mid Season Unusual Colors Tomato Varieties Plant & Fruit Descriptions / / BLACK BEAUTY Wild Boar Farm Seeds Slicing - World s Darkest Tomato- A dark, meaty, very richfleshed tomato with extreme anthocyanin expression (same antioxidant in blueberries and blackberries). So dark that some tomatoes turn solid blue-black on the skin. Deep red flesh is among the best tasting of all tomatoes. Rich, smooth and savory with earthy tones. Hangs well on the vine and stores very well, and the flavor improves with room-temperature storage.
BLACK KRIM Beefsteak - Russian. Black Krim combines bold, smoky flavor and good texture with an unusual appearance. Deep brown/red, 8-16 oz. tomatoes have brown/green shoulders that get darker with more heat and sunlight. High yielding. Rare Seeds CHEROKEE PURPLE Beefsteak - Unusual variety with full flavor. Famously rich flavor and texture make this a colorful favorite among heirloom enthusiasts. Medium-large, flattened globe, 8-12 oz. fruits. Color is dusky pink with dark shoulders. Multilocular interior ranges from purple to brown to green. Relatively short vines. 72 Days - Mid Season Johnny Seeds CHOCOLATE STRIPES David s Garden Seeds GREEN ZEBRA Slicing - A beautiful true show stopper, Chocolate Stripes Tomatoes feature mahogany colored flesh with olive green striping. Complex, rich, earthy flavors reward the gardener with plants that yield a plentiful crop of 3 to 6" fruit. An excellent choice for salads and sandwiches, this one just might become your favorite! Plants need to be staked or caged. Slicing - Uniquely green with gold-striped salad specialty. A delicious, tangy salad tomato, ripe just as the green fruit develops a yellow blush, accentuating the darker green stripes. The 3 to 4 ounce fruits are the ideal size for slicing into wedges for salads. Productive over a long season. 72 Days - Mid Season David s Garden Seeds JAUNE FLAMME Seeds KELLOGG S BREAKFAST Slicing - This beautiful and especially flavorful heirloom comes to us from France. A perfect, fruity blend of sweet and tart, Jaune Flamme (or Yellow Flame in French) excels, whether dried or roasted, the slices retaining their deep orange color. An early producer, ample crops of apricot-colored 3-4 oz. fruits are borne on elongated trusses. Plants need to be staked or caged. Beefsteak - Lovely pale-orange color beefsteak type fruit weighing up to 1 pound. Tomatoes have very good flavor and are quite meaty with few seeds. Juice has the same bright color as orange juice and is delicious. 70-
MARVEL STRIPE Beefsteak - This heirloom variety has become one of gardeners' favorite bicolored tomatoes because of its beauty, size, and taste. Large yellow-orange fruits are streaked with ruby red and have a sweet, fruity taste that is absolutely delicious. Tomatoes weigh about 1 lb., although they often become 2 lbs. or even more. Large harvests on vigorous vines. 85 Days - Late Season SUMMER LOVE Beefsteak - This improved Berkeley Tie-Dye produces a larger yield and ripens earlier. It has all the great colors and flavor of the original BTD. A good improvement to an excellent tomato. Beautiful, 16 oz. fruit, tasty and now more productive with an earlier harvest. 75 Days - Mid Season Wild Boar Farm Seeds Paste & Sauce Tomato Varieties Plant & Fruit Description / / BIG MAMA Sauce - Mama Mia! Enormous size and flavor. The new standard in homegrown paste tomatoes. These beauties are plum-shaped, incredibly meaty, and enormous-up to 5" long and 3" across, weighing 8 to 10 ounces. Skin peels away easily after par boiling, which means less fuss, less mess and more delicious, thick, creamy sauce! GLADIATOR Sauce - Gigantic Gladiator is the hands-down champion in the arena of Roma tomatoes. With an unbeatable armor of vigor, flavor, aroma and yield, it bears a bounty of oval 8 oz. fruit on the patio or in a small garden. Strong roots conquer enemies such as blossom end rot. It has dense flesh and a tangy flavor that makes Gladiator victorious for imparting rich, robust flavor to paste, sauces, soups, salsa, or ketchup. 72 Days - Early Season
P PATIO PASTE Sauce - Bold, full flavor with dense flesh and few seeds. Cook's Garden Favorite. 'Patio Paste' tomatoes work magic in the kitchen: transforming sauces, stews and soups. With bold, full flavor this tomato stands out with dense flesh and few seeds. Fruit weigh 2-3 ounces. Bush makes a colorful, flavorful presence in a patio container. Plants grow larger when planted directly into the ground. 72 Days - Mid Season ROMA Sauce - The classic sauce and paste tomato. Compact plants produce 2-ounce paste-type tomatoes with meaty interiors and few seeds. Disease resistant to Verticillium and Fusarium wilts. GARDEN HINTS: Fertilize when first fruits form to increase yield. Water deeply once a week during very dry weather. 75 Days - Mid Season SUPER SAN MARZANO Tomato Fest Sauce - Improved variety of San Marzano tomato. A very productive, 1 x 5 inch long, red tomato that has been dehybridized over a period of years. A great addition to tomato sauces and salsa because of its exceptional flavor. 70 Days - Early Season Cherry Tomatoes Artisanal Collection Plant & Fruit Description / / BARRY S CRAZY CHERRY Rare Seeds Cherry - Pale yellow cherries are delicious, and grow on very large clusters. Sweet fruits are oval, each with a tiny beak at the blossom end. The flavor is good and the fruits keep well. The sight of 40 to 60-fruit trusses on one large plant is positively mind-boggling. 75 Days - Mid Season T BLACK CHERRY Cherry - Truly black cherry with classic black tomato flavor, sweet yet rich and complex. Irresistibly delicious. This is a unique addition to the color spectrum of rainbow colored cherry tomatoes. Large vines yield productively with a very unique and delicious flavor. 65 Days - Early Season
BLUSH Johnny s Selected Seeds Cherry - Stunning Blushed in red and gold combine with a translucent quality to give these elongated cherries serious visual appeal! The fruits, similar in size and shape to large, long olives, score high in taste tests. 65 Days - Early Season RAPUNZEL Cherry - Just like its fairy tale namesake, Rapunzel puts out long, cascading trusses, each with up to 40 sweet, bright red cherry tomatoes that keep coming all summer long. The long stems are quite impressive when picked fully loaded with tomatoes, which can be enjoyed individually as they ripen. 70 Days - Early Season SUN GOLD Cherry - Very sweet, bright golden orange cherry tomatoes taste not just sugary but also fruity and delicious. Try these for a real taste treat, you won't believe you're eating tomatoes! Vigorous plants, these tall plants bear long clusters of beautiful golden fruit. The taste can't be beat. High resistance to fusarium wilt and tobacco mosaic virus. 57 Days Early Season SUPER SWEET 100 Cherry - Scarlet red, sweet cherry-sized fruits are produced on long clusters right up to frost. Fruit produces steadily throughout the growing season. Plant produces in a wide variety of climates, and is drought and heat tolerant. Can grow up to 10 tall. 70 Days Early Season All Proceeds From Our Sale Supports Our Home Gardening Education Programs Check Out Master Gardener s Tomato Growing Tips!