Tomato, Mortgage Lifter
Large, smooth, 1-lb pink fruit has a delicious, rich, sweet taste. This variety has become very popular in recent years and was developed by M.C. Byles of Logan, West Virginia. After crossing varieties for 6 years and selecting the best, he introduced this beauty that he named Mortgage Lifter in the 1940s, after he sold […]
Tomato, Martino’s Roma
Fantastic yields of richly flavorful plum-shaped tomatoes, on compact plants that require very little staking! Resistant to early blight, reliable for home or market gardens! The paste-type fruit weighs in at 2-3 ounces, dry-fleshed and very meaty with few seeds. Great for sauces, salsas and pastes.Determinate70 – 80 daysFull SunIdeal Temperature: 75-95 Degrees FPlant Spacing: […]
Tomato, Kellogg’s Breakfast
A beautiful orange beefsteak preserved by our friend Darrell Kellogg, a railroad supervisor from Redford, Michigan. Its fruit is very flavorful and superbly sweet! This heirloom originated in West Virginia. This big, delicious tomato is always a favorite.Indeterminate85 daysFull SunIdeal Temperature: 75-95 Degrees FPlant Spacing: 24″Frost Hardy: NoSolanum lycopersicum Plants are grown with seeds from […]
Tomato, 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 […]
Tomato, Hartman’s Yellow Gooseberry
Scads of sunny yellow cherry tomatoes bedeck tall plants that often stretch beyond 7’ tall. Sweet, tangy fruits 1” in diameter develop in long, full clusters. First introduced by J.M Hartman and Daughters Seed Company in the 1830s. “Gooseberries” that are sweet, mild, tasty and light golden-yellow in color. One of the largest yielding tomatoes […]
Tomato, German Pink
One of the tomatoes that originally ignited the heirloom movement in America, this variety originated in Bavaria. It made its U.S. debut in 1883, brought here by Michael Ott, a great-grandfather of Seed Savers Exchange co-founder Diane Ott Whealy. The luxuriant potato-leaf plants give high yields of 1- to 2-lb, nearly seedless meaty fruit. The […]
Tomato, Dr. Wyche’s Yellow
This heirloom was introduced to Seed Savers Exchange by the late Dr. John Wyche, who was once a co-owner of 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 […]
Tomato, Costoluto Florentino
The fluted, old Italian favorite that has been around since the early 19th century. Fruit is rather flattened and quite attractive with its deep ribbing. This variety is a standard in Italy for both fresh eating and preserving, and known for its intensely flavorful, deep red flesh. This variety has also become very popular with […]
Tomato, Cherokee Purple
An old Cherokee Indian heirloom, pre-1890 variety; beautiful, deep, dusky purple-pink color, superb sweet flavor, and very-large-sized fruit. Try this one for real old-time tomato flavor. Our favorite dark tomato and one of our best selling varieties.Indeterminate80 daysFull SunIdeal Temperature: 75-95 Degrees FPlant Spacing: 24″Frost Hardy: NoSolanum lycopersicum Plants are grown with seeds from Baker […]
Tomato, Chadwick Cherry
Delicious, sweet flavor makes this 1-ounce cherry popular with home gardeners. Large vines set huge yields and are disease resistant. Developed by the late horticultural expert Alan Chadwick. He sure had a winner with this one! Indeterminate80 daysFull SunIdeal Temperature: 75-95 Degrees FPlant Spacing: 24″Frost Hardy: NoSolanum lycopersicum Plants are grown with seeds from Baker […]