The Early Girl tomato is a medium globe type F1 hybrid popular with home gardeners because of its early fruit ripening. Early Girl is an indeterminate variety. It is tall growing and needs support as the plant grows. Fruit maturity claims range from 50 to 62 days from transplanting. Plants are reliable and prolific. The ripe fruit is about the …
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Tomatillo – Purple
This unusual deep purple tomatillo makes an ideal salsa with its sweet tart flavor. The plant has striking purple veins in the leaves, and the husks are light green to buff colored. Very decorative as a garnish. We’ve noticed that after harvest when husks are completely removed, the skin becomes more uniformly purple. It takes 70 days from seed to …
Read More »Dry Farming of Tomatoes
Early Girl is well suited to a technique known as “dry farming”. Researchers at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among those who have described the technique: not watering tomatoes after transplanting, forcing the roots to grow deeper to seek out moisture, producing more “concentrated flavor,” and saving water. Dry-farmed …
Read More »Tomato – Yellow Beefsteak
Outstanding 1-2 lb. yellow/orange beefsteak tomato named for gardener and seedsman Chuck Wyatt. A dependable and prolific producer of large, meaty, deliciously sweet tomatoes. Planted: 2014 Days: 77 Size: Indeterminate Color: Yellow-Orange Season: Mid-Season Type: Heirloom From
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The Red Fig tomatoes have been grown in America since the 18th century. The Red Fig is an heirloom tomato named for a sweet delicacy that was made with this tomato and popular in the mid 1800s. Historically they were dried and packed away for winter use in substitute of figs. These TomatoFest organic tomato seeds produce big leafy, indeterminate, …
Read More »Tomato – Dads Sunset
Uniformly round, meaty, 10 -14 oz., (2-3 inches), smooth, golden-orange tomatoes (the color of the setting sun). Slightly tart, yet a delightful sweet, fruity flavor. One of the best tasting tomatoes. A beautiful tomato on the vine or in the bowl. Wonderful salad tomato. A great choice for a market tomato due to its visual appeal and productivity. Good disease …
Read More »Tomato – Amana Orange
Huge heirloom beefsteak tomato named for the Amana Colonies in Iowa. These organic tomato seeds produce big, regular leaf plants that produce above average amounts of beautiful light-orange, irregular shaped (fluted) heirloom tomatoes that can grow to 2 pounds or more, with an average diameter of 5 inches. Excellent sweet, almost tropical fruit flavors. Planted: 2014 Days: 90 Size: Indeterminate Color: Yellow-Orange Season: Late-Season …
Read More »Tomato – Black Pear
Truly a unique black Russian tomato of Siberian origin. (Similar to Japanese Black Trifele.) TomatoFest organic heirloom tomato seeds produce big, indeterminate, potato-leaf plants that yield plentiful crops of 6-8 oz., dark, mahogany-brown tomatoes with dark green shoulders. Fruits are shaped like miniature pears and are loaded with excellent, complex, sweet, well-balanced flavors. These are not only very decorative but …
Read More »Tomato – San Francisco Fog
Large tomato plant bearing abundant clusters of delicious, red, round, 2-3 inch heirloom tomato fruit. Bred for the cool, west coast, overcast climate these tomato seeds will do well in cooler areas. A great red heirloom tomato. First Planted: 2004 Days: 72 Size: Indeterminate Color: Red Season: Early-Season From
Read More »Tomato – Black Zebra
A natural and stabilized cross between Green Zebra and a black tomato by Jeff Dawson. These TomatoFest organic tomato seeds produce vigorous, indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that produce 4 oz., 1 1/2″, juicy, round tomatoes with purple/mahogany-colored skin with green stripes (like brush strokes) with exceptionally rich, complex, really delightful tomato flavors that contain hints of smoke and sweetness. Its …
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