Tomatoes

Stupice

Heirloom. A small, mostly round, red tomato from the former Czechoslovakia is always my first tomato of the season. It has wonderful zingy tomato flavor.

Morden Yellow

Small to medium sized yellow/orange fruit, with a slightly flattened shape. Developed in 1932 at a research station in Morden, Canada.

Jaune Flamme

Heirloom. A beautiful, round, orange tomato from France, with a unique fruity flavor.

Costoluto Genovese

Heirloom. An odd shaped red tomato, often with lots of accordian folds. The complex flavor leans toward sweetness.

Amish Salad

Heirloom. Small, salad sized tomato, with a pink-red color. The beautiful, perfect fruits have a meaty flesh.

Principe Borghese

A small, red tomato, grown in the Tuscany region of Italy.

Rose de  Berne

Heirloom. Pinkish red, beautiful, medium to large, round tomato, with a soft skin. It has a not too tart, not too sweet flavor.

Sweet Million

Cherry. Small, one to two bite red tomatoes that burst in your mouth.

Galina

Heirloom. Cherry. Small, yellow tomatoes with a subtle sweet flavor. It was brought to the US from Siberia.

Isis Candy

Cherry. A larger cherry, with a beautiful red/orange coloring. This is a couple bites of rich, sweet, fruity flavor.

Green Zebra

Heirloom. This tomato is green when it is ripe…green with a yellow blush under dark green stripes. The medium sized fruit have sweet and tangy flavor.

Striped German

Heirloom. These medium to large tomatoes, are shaded yellow and red, giving the marbled interior a special beauty. They can be oddly shaped, with ribbed shoulders, but have a complex, fruity flavor.

Brandywine

Heirloom. Very large, often weighing in at over a pound, these tomatoes are not beautiful. But, one catalog describes the taste as “very rich, loud, and distinctively spicy.”

Pineapple

Heirloom. Another very large tomato, that like the Brandywine, can weigh more than a pound. This one is red and yellow streaked, inside and out. The color is beautiful, though the shape may not be and has a full tomato flavor.

Persimmon

Heirloom. This medium to large orange/yellow tomato dates back to the mid-1800s.

Lena

This large, red sauce tomato was given to me by a friend, who got it from her neighbor, named Lena. The heart shaped medium to large fruits are meaty and full flavored.

Amish Paste

Heirloom. Though it was discovered in Wisconsin, this sauce tomato comes from the Pennsylvania Amish. Medium to large in size, it has a well balanced sweet and acid flavor.

San Marzano

Heirloom. The classic Italian paste tomato, with medium sized fruit, has a rich tomato flavor.