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
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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 Moneymaker
A medium sized red heritage tomato on short(ish) indeterminate plants. Description Moneymaker is a mid-sized, red tomato. The semi-bush/indeterminate, regular leafed plants bear medium sized fruits starting fairly early in the season (70+ days). The plants do need staking and are best treated as an indeterminate plant with the side-shoots removed. It’s a popular, old…… Continue reading Tomato Moneymaker
Tomato Matina
Medium sized red heritage tomato on an indeterminate plant. Description Matina is a mid-sized, red, meaty tomato. The indeterminate, potato-leafed, plants bear medium/large sized, red round fruits early and for a long season. The fruit do not get green shoulders (being red all around the fruit). The flesh is meaty, more like a beefsteak tomato…… Continue reading Tomato Matina
Tomato Legend
Red, large fruited open pollinated tomato on semi-determinate plants Description Semi-determinate, red meaty tomato with fruit 2-3 inches in diameter. Mainly seedless fruit on a plant that has some resistance to late blight. We grew this in 2017 for the first time as a Determinate, leaving it to do its worst. It produced a number…… Continue reading Tomato Legend
Tomato Latah
Medium sized red open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description Latah is one of the regular/small early tomatoes that grow on semi-determinate plants. This means that the plant doesn’t actually grow very tall and is usually quite sprawling and is best grown with a number of cordons rather than trying to grow it as a…… Continue reading Tomato Latah
Tomato Kibit’s Ukranian
A small(ish), plum shaped open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description Kibit’s Ukranian is a Plum shaped mid-season tomato on a relatively small Determinate plant (which makes it good for growing in containers). We grew it for the first time in 2016 using seed from a seeds swap in the UK so, we’ve looked around…… Continue reading Tomato Kibit’s Ukranian
Tomato Heinz-9129
Medium sized, red, open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description Heinz-9129 is a standard sized red tomato with a true tomato taste. It grown on a strong, leafy, determinate (bush) plant and we grew it in 2012. It was successful with a good crop of 2-3 inch fruit which ripened to bright red fruit good…… Continue reading Tomato Heinz-9129
Tomato Harbinger
Red, medium sized, heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Harbinger is a bright red, sweet, medium sized tomato. The indeterminate, regular leafed, plant produces medium sized round tomatoes over a long period of time, ripening early in the right conditions. It does well indoors but is also suitable for outdoor growing but is not resistant…… Continue reading Tomato Harbinger
Tomato Green Zebra
Distinctive green striped medium sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Green Zebra is a mid-sized tart tomato with distinctive green and yellow stripes. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant produces good quantities of the round, distinctively green and yellow striped fruit. Another tomato bred by Tom Wagner and released in the early 1980s, its part…… Continue reading Tomato Green Zebra