Red elongated plum shaped open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Elongated late ripening plum tomato trusses of four or five fruit of about 5-6 ounces. Really meaty and good for cooking and salads. This variety seems to appear from nowhere at the Heritage Seed Library where it was “acquired by chance” from Provence. Other…… Continue reading Tomato Red Buffalo Horn
Tag: Indeterminate Tomato
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 Red Brandywine
Red Beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Red Brandywine is an excellent tasting and very productive beefsteak tomato. A mid-late ripening indeterminate, regular-leafed beefsteak with medium-large (4-14oz) red fruits. A heavy cropper (it needs to be staked), it is supposedly named after the Brandywine River in Pennsylvania where it was introduced around 1885. In…… Continue reading Tomato Red Brandywine
Tomato Purple Russian (Ukranian Purple)
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)
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 Marizol Gold
Orange, beefsteak, heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Marizol Gold is another Orange, Round Beefsteak, similar in many aspects to Mandarin Cross but a little more red colour to the skin and red flecks in the flesh. We like the taste, its creamy and smooth. It is said to originate from Germany but has been…… Continue reading Tomato Marizol Gold
Tomato Golden Sunrise
Medium sized yellow heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Golden Sunrise is a golden-yellow medium sized tomato with a sweet, distinctive flavour. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant produces a good crop of early/mid, round, golden-yellow medium sized fleshy tomatoes. Whilst it is one of the best standard sized yellow tomatoes as it has a distinctive, good…… Continue reading Tomato Golden Sunrise
Tomato German Gold
A yellow/red bicolour beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description We grew German Gold in 2013 and 2014 with very different results. In 2013 we had over 2kg of fruit but in 2014 it was under 1kg. The fruit are attractive. Yellow with quite heavy fluting but with attractive pink colouring from the flower end…… Continue reading Tomato German Gold
Tomato Fred Limbaugh Potato Top
Pink Beefsteak heritage tomato on potato leafed indeterminate plants. Description Fred Limbaugh’s Potato Top (aka Limbaugh’s Legacy Potato Top) is one of the (fairly numerous) pink beefsteak tomato on indeterminate, potato leafed plants. They produce large numbers of large fruit (1-2lb) which are slightly flattened and fluted. Really tasty with fruity sweet flavours. The heirloom…… Continue reading Tomato Fred Limbaugh Potato Top