Featured tomato: San Francisco Fog

 This indeterminate plant bears small to medium size tomatoes that are red and tasty. It is a variety I got from an Australian gentleman last year. It should be able to set and ripen fruit if the weather is cool, foggy, and cloudy. We've had a hot, humid summer and it's doing just great as well. Very juicy fruit.

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Featured tomato: Banjan roomi

Banjan roomi. This is the first year I've grown this tomato. I traded tomato seeds with someone and this is one of the varieties I got. I was told it is a Middle Eastern variety. Sorry, I've forgotten to take a picture of it, but it is red, slightly pleated, flattened, and of small to medium size. It has been very productive...especially impressive because we had 100 degree weather for a week and it still managed to set blossoms. The taste is good, like a tomato ought to taste and could be used for fresh eating as well as for sauce.

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Featured tomato: Tondino

Italian Tondino maremmano. Italian variety of tomato. It is an excellent sauce tomato from the center of Italy. It bears 3 oz fruit all through the summer. It is a determinate variety that may not require staking and would be suitable for containers. 

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Featured Tomato: Scabitha

This indeterminate plant bears small to medium size tomatoes that are very flavorful and prolific Even the meat is tasty and most often all the taste is in the gel around the seeds. I won't pull any punches, the fruit itself is, well...somewhat ugly. It's pretty with it's bright red color and gold streaks. But, it often has many scabs. The scabs do not harm the eater or the tomato and this variety is becoming one of my favorites for taste.

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Featured tomato: Montseraat

Montserrat.. This will be the first year I have grown these tomatoes so I will only be able to tell you what I have read about them. The fruit is red which is flattened and oblate. It also has pleats like an accordion, but somewhat twisted. Very unusual and very rare. It has good flavor.

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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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Sasha Altai. This indeterminate plant bears small to medium rosey pink/red tomatoes. The great thing about this variety is that it is from Siberia. It has excellent cold tolerance so will set fruit at lower temperatures in the spring and into the fall. Because they are not large fruit, it ripens quickly, early, and even if it is somewhat chilly. It cannot, however, take extreme heat. It is indeterminate and tasty..

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Red Boar. This indeterminate plant bears medium to large size tomatoes that are red with gold stripes, or gold with red stripes. The overall effect is that the tomato is a light gold. The meat is a dark red. Good flavor. Makes an interesting addition to summer salads, sandwiches and home made fresh salsa...especially mixed with red, white, yellow, pink, and black tomatoes.

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Feature tomato: Liguria

TOMATO seeds, LIGURIA, Italian sauce tomato, 30 seeds, red pear

Liguria. I bought these seeds from a man in Slovenia. He only described them as incredibly sweet, highly productive and vigorous, suitable for greenhouse production and in the field. I believe it to be a variety from Italy as there is a region called Liguria. It is a dumpy, oblate spheroid...larger on the bottom than the top and very red. It is great for sauce though it is sweeter than most sauce tomatoes. I was intrigued by the shape so, because I tend to be obsessive/compulsive about collecting tomatoes, I just had to have this one. Besides, ever since 9th grade earth science when I first heard the words oblate spheroid to describe the Earth, I've wanted to use the words "oblate spheroid". I've waited 34 years and now here's my chance. 
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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: Druzba

Druzba. This indeterminate plant bears medium to large red tomatoes with a good yield and some disease resistance. Druzba is a Bulgarian heirloom and Druzba means "friend" in that language. Good taste and it is juicy. 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

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Featured tomato: Muchamiel

Muchamiel, Spain. The name means lots of honey. This indeterminate plant bears small to medium size tomatoes that are flattened, slightly pleated, red, and sweet. Makes an interesting addition to summer salads, sandwiches and home made fresh salsa...especially mixed with red, white, yellow, pink, and black tomatoes. 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.

 

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Featured tomato: Novosadatsky 37

Novosadatsky 37. This indeterminate plant bears medium to large red tomatoes with a good yield. Good taste and it is quite meaty. This is a former Soviet Union variety. 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.30 seeds

 

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