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
Category: Tomato Cultivars
A list of all the cultivar of tomatoes on this site
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
Tomato Nectar Rose
Large pink/red cherry open pollinated tomato on strong indeterminate plants. Description Nectar Rose is a pretty cherry tomato just on the pink side of red with a slightly pointed shape. The large (for a cherry) tomatoes (they come in at about 2 ounces on average) hang in relatively small trusses (four or five fruit to…… Continue reading Tomato Nectar Rose
Tomato Mrs Rucks
A small/medium sized red open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description This variety comes from the Heritage Seed Library and was donated by Mrs Catherine Ruck at Audley End in 2004. A Determinate which produces small round red fruit, its therefore in competition with a whole load of similar tomatoes. In 2017 when we grew…… Continue reading Tomato Mrs Rucks
Tomato Mountain Princess
An early maturing red, medium sized heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Early maturing determinate tomato of average size and taste. Sounds similar to many commercial varieties (e.g. Heinz 9219). The web suggests that its been grown for many generations in the West Virginian mountains. a cool climate so it ought to be suitable for…… Continue reading Tomato Mountain Princess