Medium sized pear shaped red heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Rio Grande is a deep red large, pear shaped, tomato which produces good crops of fruit on vigorous determinate plants which can be grown indoors or outdoors. The fruit is similar in size and shape to Roma but grows on a determinate plant. The…… Continue reading Tomato Rio Grande
Tag: Cherry Tomato
Tomato Reisentraube
Red oval cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description This indeterminate slightly oval cherry tomato originates from Germany (interestingly it is said that it was originally grown for wine making) but today is an extremely tasty red fruit similar in shape to Principe Borghese, but darker and richer in flavour. The fruit grow in clusters…… Continue reading Tomato Reisentraube
Tomato Reisetomate Pocketbook
Unusual red multi-berried open pollinated tomato on straggly indeterminate plants. Description A very unusual tomato this one, heavily fluted to the point where it appears to be a bunch of grapes rather than a single tomato although the individual pieces can be easily separated. Originating from Guatemala, it has a reasonable flavour and is worthwhile…… Continue reading Tomato Reisetomate Pocketbook
Tomato Red Robin
Red Cherry open pollinated tomato on compact determinate plants. Description This is another of the compact determinate red cherry tomatoes (similar to Tiny Tim). The seeds came to us via a seed swap and, when we grew them (2016) produced lots of small cherry tomatoes with an acceptable taste. They are early, extremely compact plants…… Continue reading Tomato Red Robin
Tomato – Red Berry
Red, Cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Red Berry/Cherry are identical as fas as we can make out. The trusses of fruit look the same and the taste/size are again so similar that we have decided they are one and the same cultivar. Red Berry/Cherry is a lovely sweet cherry tomato. An early/mid ripening,…… Continue reading Tomato – Red Berry
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 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