Featured tomato: Skorospelka

Skorspelka This is an indeterminate plant with red, medium, round fruit. Good flavor, good production, and great for eating fresh sliced and in salads. Hails from Russia.

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Featured tomato: Tarasenko

TOMATO SEEDS, HEIRLOOM, Tarasenko, Russian 10 seeds sample pack,

Tarasenko is an indeterminate variety from Russia. Medium, rosey pink, heart. Very tasty.

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Featured tomato: Ildi, Russian

Ildi Russian heirloom yellow grape tomato. This is a VERY prolific tomato. It bears it's grape tomato size fruit in clusters of up to 60 tomatoes. It has very good, on the sweet side flavor and is a real hit with kids. I often would go out to pick these and the plants would be devoid of every ripe one and near ripe one. Consumed by the kids during a garden grazing.

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Featured tomato: Black Sea Elephant

Black Sea Elephant Russian variety known as Black Sea Elephant, not to be confused with Black Sea Man. The seed for this tomato came to me from a trade with a Russian woman living in Germany. The seed came from her parents' plants in Russia. This indeterminate variety is a robust plant and very much the elephant in the tomato patch. The leaves are generally bigger than others and the fruit is large as well. It is a large, RED, beefsteak type where one slice covers a sandwich or burger. The sea is Black, the tomato fruit is red. It is quite robust and a sturdy, dependable producer. I don't suggest growing this one in a container unless you have a 3 gal. container and keep it well fed and watered. Great for slicing and salads, good heirloom flavor and it's only fault seems to be what to do with the rest of the cut tomato after you've taken the slices off for the family's BLTs.    Buy seeds here!

Featured tomato: Braun pflaume

Braun pflaume. Russian variety. Why a German name with a Russian variety? I traded seeds with a Russian woman in Germany. Her parents grew them at their dachau in Russia. I can read some German, no Russian so she put the name on the packet in German for me and that is what I have always called them. What's so special about heirloom tomatoes? The idea that an heirloom is a variety that has been grown by generations and passed down from person to person is really very fascinating. And they just taste better. They are naturally a little more acidic so are better for canning. I love this particular variety because makes a rich, dark sauce and it's now been found that the black tomatoes are better for you as far as being higher in anti-cancer antioxidants. The size of these tomatoes are perfect if you have a tomato processor like a Victorio strainer. No need to cut these tomatoes, just wash, remove the stem ends and drop in the processor. 

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