Solanum lycopersicum. All varieties are indeterminate unless otherwise noted (what does that mean?). Look for the 🌟 next to the variety name for our favourite types!
All tomatoes are $5 per plant.
🌟 Amish Paste
Blocky, elongated paste tomato with thick and juicy flesh. Plants produce heavily from mid-season until frost. Our favourite paste tomato. Good for sauces and preserves, but also tasty enough to eat fresh.
- Variety origin: USA
- Date of origin: 1870s
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2018
🌟 Brandywine
A garden star for over a century. Slightly flattened beefsteak with pink fruits and potato leaves. Big tomatoes, and sometimes massive; one of our Brandywine plants in 2022, with no supplemental irrigation, produced a whopper of a tomato that weighed just over 1 kilo (2.2 lb)!
NB: there are several different strains of Brandywine, with different colouration and sometimes leaf shape. This is the classic pink strain, aka the Sudduth Strain. Our original seed source contained plants with both potato leaves and regular leaves. We have aggressively rogued all regular-leaved plants from our seed-saving population, however the odd one may pop up.
- Variety origin: USA
- Date of origin: Late 1800s
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2018
Sold out! Budenovka Pink
Heart-shaped pink fruits are juicy inside, with a rich taste. Compact for an indeterminate, performing well in cooler weather.
- Variety origin: Ukraine
- Date of origin: 1950s
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2022
New! Canestrino di Lucca
Basket-shaped heirloom saucer from Tuscany which produces flavour-rich, dry tomatoes that reduce down quickly with minimal wasted time or juices.
- Variety origin: Italy
- Date of origin: Unknown
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2023
Sold out! Chernoe serdtse s nosikom (Черное сердце с носиком)
Big, meaty, oxheart-shaped tomato, sometimes lightly ribbed. A rusty red, sometimes with dark shoulders. Few seeds and complex flavour. Very rare variety, we had to import the seed from France.
- Variety origin: Russia
- Date of origin: Unknown
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2022
Sold out! Cuor di Bue
Large, red heart-shaped tomatoes, with smooth, shiny skins. Dense flesh with few seeds, great for canning, sauces, or fresh eating.
- Variety origin: Italy
- Date of origin: Unknown (heirloom)
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2021
🌟 Paul Robeson
Chocolate brown beefsteak with dark green shoulders. Singularly delicious, with an intense sweet-smokey tang that makes it a favourite around here for tomato sandwiches. Named after famed African American singer, actor, football player, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.
For more about the origins of this variety, visit Atlas Obscura
- Variety origin: Russia
- Date of origin: Mid-to-late 20th century
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2018
🌟 Sgt. Pepper's
Tall, vigorous vines produce an abundance of raspberry-pink, heart-shaped tomatoes with dark shoulders that range from purple to jet black, depending on the sun exposure. This variety was our sleeper hit of the 2022 trials, starting out as spindly seedlings but booming into some of our most productive plants of the whole year. Sweet and meaty, with a hint of earthiness.
- Variety origin: USA, bred by Jason Haynes of Seaside Seeds. Cross between OSU Blue and German Red Strawberry.
- Date of origin: 2010s
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2022
New! Sart Roloise
With its striking colour combo of lemon yellow bottoms and deep purple tops, Sart Roloise will not only turn heads in the garden but delight in the kitchen. Its sweet, fruity, and complex flavour makes it a great choice for fresh eating. Extremely limited supply for 2023.
- Variety origin: Belgium
- Date of origin: 2012
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2023
Sold out! Surprise Oxheart
Coming from an unlabelled bag of "surprise" seeds sent by a French supplier, this green-shouldered oxheart was a standout, with a vigourous plant producing big, meaty, flavourful tomatoes.
- Variety origin: Unknown
- Date of origin: Unknown
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2022
Sold out! Vater Rhein
This old heirloom from Germany offers scarlet red, beaked fruits with a meaty interior and a good balance between sweet and tart.
- Variety origin: Germany
- Date of origin: Unknown
- Seed status: Open pollinated
- First grown by us: 2021
