Red/Yellow striped bell shaped heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Striped Stuffer is a bell-pepper shaped red and yellow striped, hollow tomato, ideal for stuffing. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant produces mid season fruit which range up to the size of a cricket ball. The lack of seeds, strong, thick walls and large internal space make…… Continue reading Tomato Striped Stuffer
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Tomato Speckled Roman
Red/Yellow striped long plum shaped open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Speckled Roman (aka Striped Roman) is a long plum shaped red tomato with yellow stripes grows on strong but wispy leaved plants. Its an intentional cross of Antique Roman and Banana Legs stabilised in the early 2000s. We grew this for the first…… Continue reading Tomato Speckled Roman
Tomato Sasha’s Altai
A medium sized red heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Sasha’s Altai is an early cropping red tomato (after Bloody Butcher but before Alicante). The determinate (bush) plant produces very good yields of 2-6oz thin skinned, bright red, slightly flattened complex tasting fruit, very similar to Matina. The plants set well in cooler climates (it…… Continue reading Tomato Sasha’s Altai
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 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 Buffalo Horn
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
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 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)