Small/Medium sized red heritage tomato on potato leafed indeterminate plants. Description Stupice (also known as Stupicke Polni Rane) is an early standard sized red tomato with a wonderful taste. The potato-leaf, indeterminate plants bears large numbers of very sweet, 2 to 3-inch, deep red fruit. Originally from the Czech Republic, it does well both outdoors…… Continue reading Tomato Stupice
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Tomato Sandpoint
A red cherry/small standard open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description A regular leafed compact determinate (about 2ft high) plant with small (mostly round although some can be more strawberry shaped) red fruit. It was developed in 1978 by Dr. Art Boe of Idaho and released commercially in 1980. 2020 Update: We’ve grown quite a few…… Continue reading Tomato Sandpoint
Tomato San Marzano
Medium sized red plum heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description San Marzano is fleshy, sweet plum tomato with few seeds. Longer and thinner than Roma, the flesh is thicker and the taste stronger, sweeter and less acidic. Ideal for cooking or canning. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant can produce a heavy mid season crop. Needs to…… Continue reading Tomato San Marzano
Tomato Saint Pierre
Medium/large red heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Saint Pierre is an indeterminate, red round tomato with slight ridges which we grew for the first time in 2016, having got the seeds from a seed swap. the fruit were reasonably large (about 2 – 2.5 inches) and had thick walls which made the good for…… Continue reading Tomato Saint Pierre
Tomato Roma
Elongated red medium sized heritage tomato on compact indeterminate plants. Description Roma is one of the most common and prolofic Italian cooking tomatoes. is fleshy, sweet plum tomato with few seeds. Shorter and stockier than San Marzano, the flesh is thinner and it has a strong, sweet and more acidic taste. Ideal for cooking or…… Continue reading Tomato Roma
Tomato Rio Grande
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
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 Zebra
Red/Yellow striped medium sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Red Zebra is a medium sized sweet tomato. A red version of the better known Green Zebra, it is slightly more unusual, the fruits are sweet and full of flavour. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant produces bright red fruit covered in yellow stripes (similar to…… Continue reading Tomato Red Zebra
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