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
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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 Quedlinberger Fruhe Liebe
Variable sized red heritage tomato on compact indeterminate potato leafed plants. Description A very early compact indeterminate, potato leafed red tomato of variable size. Very similar in both appearance and taste to Bloody Butcher and Stupice (in fact so similar that I wonder if they are actually the same cultivar from different sources), it certainly…… Continue reading Tomato Quedlinberger Fruhe Liebe
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 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 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
Tomato Mortgage Lifter
A beefsteak heritage/open pollinated tomato with many different cultivars all of which are indeterminate. Description Mortgage Lifter is a very successful pink beefsteak tomato with a light flavour. A mid-ripening, indeterminate, regular-leafed, medium-large, red/pink tomato. The are at least 15 different cultivars all bearing the Mortgage Lifter title. (Mortgage Lifter, Mortgage Lifter Halladay’s, Mortgage Lifter…… Continue reading Tomato Mortgage Lifter