Tuesday, March 15, 2011

2011 Tomato Varieties

Here is a list of the varieties I have available this year. It is highly possible I will sell out of certain types, so let me know soon if you are interested (email growmyplants@gmail.com with preorder). These will be ready at the end of March...perfect time for planting here in the lowcountry! Happy gardening!

Black Krim - SOLD OUT!!!
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Green Zebra
Mortgage Lifter
Chocolate Cherry
Beefy Boy
Super San Marzano
Agro - SOLD OUT!!!
Italian - SOLD OUT!!!
Two Timing Willie
Pineapple
Cherokee Purple
Black Forest - SOLD OUT!!!
Chocolate Stripes - SOLD OUT!!!
Brandywine Red
Brandywine Pink
Large Red - SOLD OUT!!!
Tumbling Tom - SOLD OUT!!!
Sweet 'N' Neat - SOLD OUT!!!
Country Taste
Whopper
Rainbow Beefsteaks

Black Krim - SOLD OUT!!!

Black Krim


Days: 75
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Purple-Black
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
(aka Black Crimson and Black Crim) Originally from the Isle of Krim on the Black
Sea in the former Soviet Union. This rare, and outstanding tomato yields 3-4" slightly
flattened dark-red (mahogany-colored) slightly maroon, beefsteak tomatoes with deep
green shoulders. Green gel around seeds. Fantastic, intense, slightly salty taste
(which is great for those not wanting to add salt to their tomatoes). Also suitable
for container/patio garden. Perfect choice for slicing, salads and cooking.
Aunt Ruby's German Green

Black Krim


Days: 80
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Green
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
"Aunt Ruby's German Green" is a large green beefsteak tomato. With its delicious,
sweet, spicy flavor and up to 16 oz. fruits, you will make room in your garden for
these. They are light green when ripe with a tint of yellow and a pink blush underneath.
Great for canning!

Black Krim


Days: 75
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Green
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
This zany looking tomato has a sweet yet zingy taste. Beautiful in appearance and
loaded with flavor they are scrumptious! These smaller 2 to 4oz fruits have an excellent
tomato flavor and grow like crazy!
Mortgage Lifter

Black Krim


Days: 75-85
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Pink
Season: Late-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
Plant produces good yields of 1 to 2 lb beefsteak tomatoes. Tomatoes have a sweet
rich flavor and turn deep pink when mature. This variety was developed in the 1930's
by Mr. Byles of Logan, WV to help pay off his home mortgage. He was able to pay
off his mortgage in 6 years by selling the tomato plants. He crossed a German Johnson,
Beefsteak, and Italian English varieties to come up with this unique variety. Excellent
for slicing and salads.

Chocolate Cherry


Black Krim


Days: 70
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Brown/Purple
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
Unique Chocolate Color and Rich Tangy Flavor. Chocolate Cherry is so much more than
a pretty face! These 1-inch beauties boast the most flavorful tomato tang in the
family, from their delicious thin skins to their combinations of gels and solids,
sweets and meats, in every bite. Appearing in clusters of 8 all over this compact
vining plant, these miniatures ripen delectably from green to lavender to richest
mahogany. They have a fresh-grown flavor and texture no store-bought variety can
equal, from their rich fragrance to that great bite as they are popped whole into
your mouth or scattered on salads. Truly a gourmet variety, they keep coming all
summer! To make the most of this flavor, you may want to harvest these tomatoes
a day or two before they are fully ripe and let them bake in the sunshine of a kitchen
window. This prevents cracking and theft from birds, who also find them irresistible,
and assures that each Chocolate Cherry reaches its peak of flavor. There's nothing
to compare in the cherry tomato family! This plant reaches 5 to 6 feet high and
about 3 feet wide, sometimes continuing to grow and set new fruit into autumn. It
might just do for a large container, and should certainly be front and center in
the vegetable garden. You MUST try this gourmet delight!

Beefy Boy


Black Krim


Days: 70
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Hybrid

Description
Hearty Flavor, Mammoth Yields, and Extra-Large Beefsteak Size! 12- to 16-ounce fruits
are jammed with sweet, meaty flavor -- more solids and less gel than most tomatoes
of this size. Everything about Beefy Boy is larger-than-life, from its succulent
flavor to its generous yields! Bred specifically for maximum flavor, the taste is
sweet yet meaty, with more solids and less gel than other varieties, despite its
walloping 12- to 16-ounce size. This is the tomato you must grow this year for fresh
tomato sandwiches and salads! And because the vines are indetermine, production
is quite heavy. Yet the short internodes between the fruit mean a more manageable,
space-saving plant for the home garden -- you won't be desperately staking and re-staking
a runaway vine with Beefy Boy! Superior disease protection, too -- Beefy Boy is
tolerant of Stemphylium and resistant to Verticillium Wilt, Fusarium Wilt races
1 and 2, and Tobacco Mosaic Virus. On top of all that, the globe-shaped tomatoes
are gorgeous, with deep red skin and smooth shoulders (thanks to uniform ripening).
Cage or stake this main-season variety to support all of its bounty!

Super San Marzano


Black Krim


Days: 70
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
Giant in taste and in stature these huge flavorful tomatoes live up to the prestigious
San Marzano name. Packed full of rich, meaty goodness that make the world class
tomato sauces that the San Mazano is know for. Our classic San Marzano Tomatoes
are perfect for sauces, salsas, and salads and canning. Super San Marzano 3 is a
direct strain from Italy and will provide you with big tasty tomatoes all summer
long.

Agro - SOLD OUT!!! 


Black Krim


Days: 95
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red
Season: Late-Season
Type: Hybrid

Description
Firm fruit won't crack, and grows very uniform in size for easier cooking. When
it's time to make tomato paste, what you want is armloads of ripe, delicious fruit,
all about the same size so they will cook down evenly. That's what you get with
this new variety from Germany -- masses of plump, firm, bright red fruit full of
flavorful solids and fewer gels, for a very long season of harvest. Agro Hybrid
is a San Marzano type, with firm-skinned fruit that won't crack or burst on the
plant. This is the type of Tomato for which the Mt. Vesuvius region of Italy is
famous, and the sauces and pastes it makes are renowned for their full, tangy flavor.
When it's time for authentic Neopolitan cuisine, rely on Agro! A very heavy producer
all season, this is the cook's best friend. It is highly adaptable to different
climates, and a dependable performer in all. Give it a try this season!

Italian - SOLD OUT!!!


Black Krim


Days: 75
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
It's name says it. A real classic heirloom from Italy. Our organic, heirloom tomato
plants that yield an load of 12-16 oz., beautiful, red, meaty, fat, slightly pear-shaped,
tomatoes that enjoy an abundance of rich, complex, sweet flavors that are well-balanced
with good acidity. Everything you would expect from a tomato revered by the Italians
for it's BIG TASTE. A good choice for cooking, eating fresh or canning.

Two Timing Willie


Black Krim


Days: 80
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red
Season: Late-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
You will have plump juicy medium sized tomatoes in about 80 days with Willie. This
high yielding plant will produce multi purpose mouthwatering tomatoes perfect for
canning, cooking or freezing and they make great "Mater" sandwiches. You gotta try
this one!

Pineapple


Black Krim


Days: 85-90
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red/Yellow/Orange/Gold
Season: Late-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
The Best-Tasting Heirloom! This beefsteak type weighs up to 2 pounds. Pineapple
is a beefsteak type with huge yellow-gold fruit often striped in red and boasting
fewer seeds and more solids, for an extra bite or two in every Tomato. Very high-yielding,
this colossal Tomato is as fascinating to look at as it is delicious to eat. It
has a strong Tomato aroma and fruity aftertaste, for a 'real tomato' experience
you just can't find with today's less robust, milder-tasting hybrids! Enjoy this
memento of the past, recreated in your own garden.

Cherokee Purple


Black Krim


Days: 75
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red/Green/Purple/Orange
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
Deep Violet Color, Intense Rich Flavor. Believed to have originated in the Cherokee
Nation in Tennessee more than a century ago. A beloved heirloom as valuable for
its flavor as it is for its unusual look, Cherokee Purple sets giant beefsteaks
weighing about a pound and filled with intense violet-purple hues. This is a true
legacy plant, believed to have originated more than 120 years ago in the Cherokee
nation in Tennessee. The vining plant is very heavy-bearing, and each of these tomatoes
is a masterpiece of color, flavor, and history. Do not miss this valuable fruit
from the American past. Slightly ridged and very symmetrically shaped, these tomatoes
combine juiciness with a strong tomato tang, the type unknown to those rock-hard
supermarket varieties. They may need some support as they mature on the plant, their
massive weight pulling them downwards. Stake this vigorous plant well and then offer
a little extra help to bring in its crop of giants! Cherokee Purple is indeterminate,
so it keeps growing and setting new fruit all summer long. You will find it very
easy to grow and heavy-bearing. For extra-large tomatoes, remove all but a few flowers,
so the plant can concentrate its energy into fewer fruit. For our part, we like
Cherokee Purple so much that more is merrier!

Black Forest - SOLD OUT!!!


Black Krim


Days: 75
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Purple-Black
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
This fabulous tasting tomato has a distinctive complex flavor that screams to be
savored. A distinctive looking tomato that has a rich mahogany brown color and is
one of the most preferred varieties of black tomatoes. It originated in Germany
and is "OH-SO-Delicious!" An award winner at any county fair for sure.

Chocolate Stripes - SOLD OUT!!!


Black Krim


Days: 79
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Bi-colored
Season: Late-Season
Type: Open Pollinated

Description
Our plants that yield a plentiful crop of 3-4 inch, mahogany colored with dark,
olive green-striping (similar to black zebra). Fruits have delicious, complex, rich,
sweet, earthy tomato flavors. Chocolate Stripe, another desirable 'black tomato,"
is an excellent tomato and a fine choice for your tomato garden. Produces well into
the autumn A great sandwich tomato and salad tomato.

Brandywine - Red


Black Krim


Days: 80
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
The Classic Heirloom -- Big, Delicious Fruit! Indeterminate vines bear heavily over
a long season. Indeterminate. This is an heirloom that really looks like it was
developed and grown long ago. Bearing little resemblance to bland, smooth, evenly
red modern hybrids, Brandywine delights with big, uneven fruit, deeply lobed and
not at all "uniform"! All the better for the flavor, of course! Brandywine is a
favorite among connoisseurs of classic tomatoes. The plants are indeterminate, for
good yields over a long season. The fruit is surprisingly large -- 12 ounces or
more -- and no two will look exactly alike. Attention-getting, distinctive, and
tried-and-true, Brandywine is truly a classic!

Brandywine - Pink


Black Krim


Days: 80
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Pink
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
Brandywine heirloom tomato is Probably the first heirloom to achieve "cult status"
within the growing popularity of heirloom tomatoes. A pink, potato-leaf, Amish variety
from the 1880’s. Years ago, seed saving was done by individuals who understood that
the greatest thing they could pass on to the next generation was some of the treasured
food plants that had sustained life and had proven their value. One such pioneer
was a man named Ben Quinsenbury, who lived in Vermont. He died at the age of 95,
passing on his legacy. The Brandywine was Ben’s favorite tomato. In years of my
holding tomato tastings for chefs and tomato lovers, the Brandywine has always placed
as one of the top three favorites. It is legendary for it’s exceptionally rich,
succulent tomato flavor. Fruits are reddish-pink, with light, creamy flesh that
average 12 ounces but can grow to 2 pounds.

Large Red - SOLD OUT!!!


Black Krim


Days: 80
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
Prior to the Civil War, Large Red was one of the most favored tomato varieties in
the U.S. It was listed in the 1843 Shaker seed catalog and Fearing Burr stated in
his 1865 book, "From the time of the introduction of the tomato to its general use
in this country, the 'Large Red' was almost the only kind cultivated, or even commonly
known." Produce indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that yield in generous
amounts 1-2 pound, 4-inch, heavily ribbed, flattened, beautiful, red, beefsteak
tomatoes that shout out terrific, complex, well-balanced, sweet flavors with that
old-fashioned acidic 'tang' that makes it a winner. A perfect tomato for slicing
fresh into sandwiches or salads.

Tumbling Tom - SOLD OUT!!!


Black Krim


Days: 70
Size: Determinate
Color: Red
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Hybrid Cherry

Description
Pretty to Look at AND Good to Eat! Weeping habit trails 2 feet from baskets and
tubs! No more staking, stooping, and searching for Tomatoes in the garden -- Tumbling
Tom puts big handfuls of luscious Cherries right at eye level! This lovely "edible
ornamental" is just perfect for hanging baskets, windowboxes, and tall containers
where you want to show off the color and vigor of your favorite Tomato! This plant
has a weeping habit, so it dangles about 2 feet over the sides of containers, for
all the world as pretty as any spreading Petunia! First it sets attractive white
blooms, then masses of small, bright red 1- to 2-inch round fruits. Grow it just
as you would any other Tomato, but don't worry about stakes, cages, root nematode,
and other pests of the soil! Tumbling Tom is above it all! A great choice for small
space gardens (where it can hang above the "ground" Tomatoes!), urban balconies,
and any other bright sunny setting, Tumbling Tom is well-branched, about 6 to 8
inches wide, and vigorously productive. Plant 2 or 3 in a 10- or 12-inch basket
and you'll be rolling in Tomatoes before you know it!

Sweet N' Neat Scarlet - SOLD OUT!!!


Black Krim


Days: 60
Size: Determinate
Color: Red
Season: Early-Season
Type: Hybrid

Description
The Patio Tomato that Keeps Bearing All Season Long! The habit is determinate, but
the fruit production is ongoing! Here we go -- a fabulous new cherry tomato compact
enough to grow in containers on the patio or back porch, with a determinate habit
(meaning that it stops growing once it sets fruit) BUT an indeterminate fruit production
(meaning that those new tomatoes just keep setting all season long!) Talk about
the best of every situation: it's compact, it's heavy-bearing, and by the way, it's
delicious! Sweet 'n' Neat Scarlet Improved reaches just 10 to 12 inches high, but
sets lots and lots of flowers and fruit on its well-branched habit. The little cherries
are about ¾- to 1-ounce, arising in huge clumps like grapes! They will continue
as long as the warm summer weather holds out, so get ready for a bumper crop! Grow
Sweet 'n' Neat Scarlet Improved just as you would any other Tomato, but don't worry
about root nematodes and other pests of the soil! You can just pop this plant into
a container and be done with it! A great choice for small space gardens, urban balconies,
and any other bright sunny setting, Sweet 'n Neat Scarlet Improved is well-branched
and vigorously productive. Now, you WILL have to stake it, because it intends to
set heavy loads of fruit for weeks and weeks and weeks!

Country Taste


Black Krim


Days: 90
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red
Season: Late-Season
Type: Hybrid

Description
Delicious, Vigorous, and SO Disease-Resistant. Looking for the meaty, flavorful,
tangy bite of yesteryear's tomatoes . . . without the poor disease resistance and
small yields that plague so many heirlooms? Rely on Country Taste, a modern hybrid
that captures the essence of old-fashioned tomato goodness while keeping the vigor
and disease-fighting capability of a contemporary variety! These beefsteaks weigh
in at about 10 to 14 ounces each, a good size for slicing onto sandwiches and cutting
up into salads. They are heavily ribbed and beautifully colored, shading from persimmon-orange
to pure red in the last days of their growth. Expect them to appear in big clusters
all over very heavy-bearing, vining plants that keep the fruit coming over a long
season. But the real merit of Country Taste is its flavor. Cut into it and the peppery-sweet
tang of real homegrown tomatoes overtakes you! None of the rubbery or crisp texture
found in those flavorless supermarket types -- just pure backyard goodness! Glossy
and smooth, they have an excellent post-harvest shelf life, so you don't have to
overload on a good thing when the plant really begins to get going! Resistant to
tobacco mosaic virus and fusarium wilt races 1 and 2, this vining plant remains
healthy and strong throughout the growth season, setting fruit well into autumn
in mild and warm climates. It is easy to grow and very productive, keeping your
windowsills filled with dark red fruits. Try this super new tomato this season and
see if it doesn't replace your heirlooms AND your other modern hybrids!

Whopper


Black Krim


Days: 69-80
Size: Indeterminate
Color: Red
Season: Mid-Season
Type: Hybrid

Description
Bigger Yields and Even Meatier Flavor! Higher yields over a longer season! Indeterminate.
This successor to the original Whopper is simply the home gardener's dream tomato:
greater disease resistance, higher yields, a longer season, and better taste! These
big, juicy, crack-resistant tomatoes, 4 inches or more across, ripen uniformly (even
when the weather is overcast!) and finish 5 days sooner than the old Whopper. Then
they keep right on coming in huge quantities until frost -- none of your smaller,
greener end-of-season fruits here! And because they're meatier, you get even more
succulent tomato flavor in every slice!

Rainbow Beefsteak


Black Krim


Days: 75-115
Size: Indeterminate
Color: All
Season: Mid-Late Season
Type: Heirloom

Description
Many favorite colored heirloom tomato varieties for a beautiful and varied harvest
basket of heirloom tomatoes. An amazing palette of delicious tastes, wonderful shapes
and colors of black, purple, yellow, red, green, and orange tomatoes. Note: Each
plant is only one color...get several for a diverse selection!