Purple egg shaped heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Purple Russian (also known as Ukranian Purple) is an unusual 6 ounce, oblong (egg shaped) tomato with an excellent sweet flavour perfect for salads, salsa and sauces. The indeterminate, regular leafed plant produces a large quantity of fruit which vary in shape quite considerably but which…… Continue reading Tomato Purple Russian (Ukranian Purple)
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Tomato Principe Borghese
Red/Pink cherry heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Principe Borghese is an Italian small paste tomato full of flavour and ideal for sauces and salads. An early/mid-ripening, determinate, regular leafed plant, the cherry tomatoes are about 1-2 oz. The plant is very prolific the fruit is ideal for salads, drying and cooking. The tomatoes can…… Continue reading Tomato Principe Borghese
Tomato Pink Brandywine
Pink/red beefsteak heritage tomato on Indeterminate potato leafed plants. Description Pink Brandywine is a pink-fleshed beefsteak tomato described as having “great tomatoey flavour” and “beautifully sweet, offset by a wonderful acidity”. A late-ripening indeterminate, potato-leafed beefsteak tomato, this is possibly our favourite tomato (competes with Summer Cider). The large blush-pink fruits are 4-12oz on a…… Continue reading Tomato Pink Brandywine
Tomato Pantano
Red Beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description An Italian Beefsteak (which for us introduces its own problems) Pantano has a number of names (Il Pantano Romanesco, Pantano Il Romansco, Pantano) which all seem to describe an moderate sized beefsteak with slightly fluted shoulders which, when we grew it in 2014, produced a somewhat spindly…… Continue reading Tomato Pantano
Tomato Ottos Papa
Medium sized red open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description A standard, red, indeterminate variety wth a reasonable taste (nothing really special), grown for the first time in 2017 when it started cropping in late August/ Early September (2017 was a late year so it may produce earlier in other years). Whether its better value…… Continue reading Tomato Ottos Papa
Tomato Orange Strawberry
Large oxheart orange open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Orange Strawberry is well described by its name. Its Orange and shaped like a strawberry. An oxheart shaped fairly large tomato, we grew this in 2014 and got a small number of relatively large (8 ounce) tomatoes with a lot of flesh and not many…… Continue reading Tomato Orange Strawberry
Tomato Orange Berry
Orange cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Orange Berry is a bright orange cherry tomato with very sweet flavour with bite. An early/mid ripening, indeterminate, regular leafed plant, the long trusses of pale green tomatoes ripen to bright orange,are very tasty and crop well into the season. An excellent complement to the red and…… Continue reading Tomato Orange Berry
Tomato Mountain Magic (F1 Hybrid)
A large cherry, blight resistant red F1 Hybrid tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Mountain Magic is a “Blight Resistant” F1 Hybrid. Developed by North Carolina State University it has resistance to both Early and Late Blight. It is a “large cherry” (about 1 – 1.5 inches) and crops well. We have grown Mountain Magic in…… Continue reading Tomato Mountain Magic (F1 Hybrid)
Tomato Oleron Yellow
A Yellow cherry open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Oleron Yellow is a medium sized, pale yellow cherry tomato with an excellent sweet taste, one of the best yellow tomatoes we have tasted. Collected from the French island of Oleron where they have been grown for “hundreds of years”, they were put on one…… Continue reading Tomato Oleron Yellow
Tomato Nikolayev Yellow Cherry
Yellow Cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Nikolayev Yellow Cherry (also written Nicholayev) is said to be a rare Russian golden-yellow cherry tomato that bursts with sweet/acid flavour (but there is no explanation of its name). The vigorous compact indeterminate, regular leafed plant produces large numbers of 1-2cm fruits on trusses of 8-12 fruits…… Continue reading Tomato Nikolayev Yellow Cherry