Tomato Cherry Sungold

by Maureen Sullivan on January 19, 2016

Full sun.  Hands down, the most popular cherry tomato that we grow, and with good reason. The orange fruits of this hybrid variety have a complex flavor often described as “tropical” or winy”. Exotic and delicious. Ripens early, produces heavily and is the last tomato standing in our garden each fall.

 

Tomato Chocolate Stripes

by Maureen Sullivan on January 27, 2025

Full sun. Chocolate Stripes tomato has a brick red fruit with metallic green stripes. Plants are extremely vigorous and productive with uniformly round medium-large 10–15 oz fruits, delicious with a complex fusion of sweetness and earthiness.

Tomato Cosmonaut Volkov (indeterminate)

by Maureen Sullivan on January 19, 2016

Full sun. Cosmonaut Volkov is an early ripening heirloom with a satisfying authentic tomato flavor. Very sweet flesh. Plants produce round, red 12oz. fruits. One of our favorite sandwich tomatoes.

Indeterminate tomato vines set flowers until frost kills the plant. Indeterminate plants give you a long harvest season. Staking or trellising is recommended for indeterminate plants. Suckering of indeterminate plants is recommended for slicing varieties so that you get a good number of larger tomatoes (suckering is not necessary for cherry tomatoes).

Tomato Drying Principe Borghese

by Maureen Sullivan on January 19, 2016

Tomato Principe Borghese wsFull sun. Heirloom Principe Borghese is a small plum-type fruit for drying. The dried fruits of Principe Borghese are far and away superior to store bought dried tomatoes. The dried fruit is sweet as a raisin but with a concentrated tomato bite.

Tomato Heirloom German Johnson

by Maureen Sullivan on January 27, 2025

Full sun.  Looking for an heirloom pink fleshed tomato that is earlier and more productive than Brandywine that has sweet but with a well balanced acidity?  Try German Johnson.

Tomato Jetstar (indeterminate)

by Maureen Sullivan on January 19, 2016

Tomato Jetstar wsFull sun. The best all-around garden tomato we have found. Tasty, large, heavy yielding, dependable and early. Fruits are thin skinned and sweet fleshed. Jetstar, though a hybrid variety, does not have the wide disease resistance of other hybrid varieties. This is the tomato we grow in our garden to sell and eat.

Indeterminate tomato vines set flowers until frost kills the plant. Indeterminate plants give you a long harvest season. Staking or trellising is recommended for indeterminate plants. Suckering of indeterminate plants is recommended for slicing varieties so that you get a good number of larger tomatoes (suckering is not necessary for cherry tomatoes).

Tomato Jubilee (indeterminate)

by Maureen Sullivan on January 19, 2016

Full sun. Heirloom Jubilee was an All-America Selections winner in 1943. The 3″ fruits are bright golden-orange when ready for eating. Jubilee has a mild sweet flavor and is low in acid.

Indeterminate tomato vines set flowers until frost kills the plant. Indeterminate plants give you a long harvest season. Staking or trellising is recommended for indeterminate plants. Suckering of indeterminate plants is recommended for slicing varieties so that you get a good number of larger tomatoes (suckering is not necessary for cherry tomatoes).

Tomato Juliet

by Maureen Sullivan on January 19, 2016

Tomato Juliette wsFull sun. Juliet is so versatile that it is hard to categorize!  Some catalogs call it a grape, others a mini roma.  Juliet is a hybrid variety producing small (2 1/4″ x 1 1/2″),  deep red, shiny, elongated 1 1/2 to 2 oz. fruits. Delicious, rich tomato flavor for salads, great salsa, and fresh pasta sauce. Dries nicely with a sweet-as-candy quality. Juliet is very disease resistant.

Tomato Mountain Fresh Plus (determinate)

by Maureen Sullivan on January 19, 2016

Full sun. Mountain Fresh Plus is a big red hybrid  tomato that produces 8 to 16 oz. slicers with great flavor. Mountain Fresh Plus is tolerant of cool, wet weather conditions. Try this as a follow up to Bush Beefsteak for a longer supply of garden tomatoes. 75 days

Determinate tomato plants have a specific time period for producing flowers that will then set fruit and ripen. Caging determinate types will help to keep the fruit off the ground to reduce pest nibbling. Determinate types are not suckered.

Tomato New Girl (indeterminate)

by Maureen Sullivan on January 19, 2016

Full sun.  New Girl is an early variety (62 days) with flavor!  Fruits avgerage 4 to 6 ounces. New Girl has better flavor and are more disease resistant than Early Girl.

Indeterminate tomato vines set flowers until frost kills the plant. Indeterminate plants give you a long harvest season. Staking or trellising is recommended for indeterminate plants. Suckering of indeterminate plants is recommended for slicing varieties so that you get a good number of larger tomatoes (suckering is not necessary for cherry tomatoes).