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"Hi, I HAVE seeds of plenty of tomato varieties. Have fun choosing!
Cherry type, indeterminate.
1. * Afra f1 Grape x Fruty; lovely lot of red, tangy & sweet cherries in trusses; my very own & only cross so far; try it – I’m proud of it!
2. Fruty – big red cherries in huge trusses, very sweet & fruity; my most productive tomato variety in 2001
3. Grape - small red grape shaped fruits hang by ten in trusses. These are the most delightful miniature tomatoes you will ever grow. They are regular, tasty red tomatoes but they only reach 3/8" or so in size and grow in clusters just like grapes. Great for salads or as a conversation piece. Each plant can bear over a thousand fruits!
4. Green Grape - 78 days. (Semi-determinate ). This one has the most tomato flavour for your time. I mean, it comes up and whacks your taste buds all over! Weird ,totally unripe looking green inside when ripe, with a burnt orange outside. 1 inch, slightly elongated. Heavy producer. Very small seeds. Developed and released in 1986 by Tater Mater Seed. 'Green Grape' was selected from a cross of two or more heirloom varieties. Ripe fruits are yellow-green: green at the shoulder, green with yellow veins at mid-section, and translucent yellow-green at the blossom end, resembling large Muscat grapes. Flesh and juice are green. Fruits average 1-3/8in. in diameter and are borne in clusters of 4
5. Hartman’s Yellow Gooseberry:- Huge yields of gold, cherry size fruit with mild flavour. One of the oldest varieties.
6. Mexican Honey – resists drought & cracking, low acid sweet bigger red cherry, late, good keeper
7. Santa f2 - the original grape tomato which shows almost NO segregation in the F2 (1%) Prolific amounts of orange red to deep red 1/2 ounce fruit in clusters that resemble elongated grapes. Outstanding meaty, sweet flavor. 60 days; cool tolerant, once picked keep better than many cherry tomatoes.
8. Sweetie – very tasty 2” red cherries, in grape-like clusters; 65 – 70 days
9. Yellow Pear - 75 days. [First described in 1805 by Persoon.] Pear-shaped yellow tomatoes about 1-1/2 x 3/4 in. with mild flavor. Very productive, and heat-resistant. Excellent for popping in your mouth or for preserves. Good in salads, sauces or for drying & sugaring! fairly cold tolerant . Large vine
Paste type, indeterminate.
10. Amish Paste - 74 days . Red, 8 oz. canner, good producer. Great flavor as well as super canning properties. Outstanding.
11. DeBarao Black - semi-indeterminate, 67 - 72 days, Smooth oval, deep red and firm, good keeper. Firm, crack free, from the Farmer’s Market in Irkutsk, Siberia. 3-4 oz fruits are great for salads and sauce
12. Hungarian Italian Paste very productive pears-shaped roma
13. Linosa - orange/red paste, Italy, prolific, squarish plum with pointed end
14. Martino's Roma 70 - 83 days Italian heirloom. Compact, almost determinate plants have rugose, dark green foliage. Great flavored heavy yielder of 2-3 oz Roma type fruit This variety may produce the highest yield of all Roma types. The red, pear shaped fruits weigh about 2 ounces each, and have dry, meaty flesh with few seeds. Shows resistance to blossom end rot. My 2002 favorite!
15. Myona 75 I "From John Rahart, whose father got this from an Italian market gardener and found it so good he saved the seed and went back to ask what variety it was. The answer: ""It's-a my own-a." Very much like Amish Paste, but more prolific, and a bit less spicy.
16. Olive - red, the smallest roma I know; very prolific & rain resistant; excellent paste type
17. Pink Plum- This is a lovely tomato. It is a very handy size, bright pink in color. When cut lengthways it is very attractive indeed with prominent seeds. The flavor is very good. Early.
18. Polish Egg – red paste, oval; gives you tomatoes until the first real frost
19. Roma: red paste, Italian plum; prolific
20. San Marzano – dark red paste, 80 days, Italian favourite giant plum, crack resistant, very good canner
21. Trip-l-crop, aka Italian Tree Tomato -Enormous yields on vigorous potato-leaf vines that can grow up to 15 ft.. Need to be trellised. Each plant can produce up to 2-3 bushels of tomatoes. Fruits are rich red, firm, meaty and elongated pear-shaped. Perfect for canning & pizzas.
Medium type, indeterminate.
22. Early Girl: Medium sized, red, 5 oz fruit, prolific, early, and excellent flavor.: Bright red flattened flobe shaped fruits continue producing longer than most early varieties. Indeterminate. 4-5 ounces. 59 days Staking variety. Starts maturing fruit early and carries on producing to relatively late in the season. Moderate sweetness, medium to high acidity. A good all season tomato for those who prefer the acid notes in tomatoes
23. Eva's Purple Ball - An 1880's heirloom tomato from Germany makes pinkish-purple 8-ounce fruits that tend to drop when ripe; one of the most beautiful tomatoes I know.
24. Flammee Jaune - 70 days- regular leaf. 2-3 oz. Bright orange, delicious spheres. My 2001 revelation! Productive, French.
25. Golden Queen 65 - 80 days - This Amish heirloom was first introduced by Livingston in 1882! The delicious fruits average 8 - 12 ounces in size and are very meaty, with few seeds. Our favorite yellow tomato!. Deep golden orange fruits are prolific, slightly flattened and have a dramatic flavor. NOT bland
26. Green Zebra - 78-90days. Very vigorous determinate, they say, but to me it’ s indeterminate. Developed in 1985 by revered tomato breeder Tom Wagner, this is a great tomato for brightening up salads and other tomato dishes. The 2-inch round fruit ripens to a yellow-gold with dark-green zebra-like stripes. The flesh is lime-emerald in color that has an invigorating lemon-lime flavor, with a wonderful sweet to acid ratio.A winner.
27. Harbinger - red, round, salad; old fashioned taste
28. Reine Claude Rouge - red, round, salad, musk taste
29. Stupice (60 days) - Tall, spindly, potato leaf. Czechoslovakian origin. ''Stupice' is early bearing, productive, disease tolerant, and flavorful. It usually produces until frost. Fruits have a depth of flavor with a wonderful balance of sweetness and tartness. Juicy 2 oz. fruits are produced in clusters of 6 to 8 with a concentrated fruit set near the base of the plant. Fruit ripens to red (with an orange undertone) with some tendency for green shoulders later in the season. A great salad tomato. (only 2 seeds left !!)
30. Sungella -A new larger fruited Sungold - Very heavy cropper - As uniform as a Hybrid! - Delicious sweet flavour. A dedicated T&M customer from Norfolk, spent several years in breeding this cross between Sungold and a larger fruited, orange skinned heirloom favourite. Sungella produces a huge yield of orange skinned, golf ball sized fruits. Each fruit has a sweet juicy taste, with low acidity, as you would expect from its parentage. Long trusses with masses of hybrid quality fruit, ideal for a complete season's picking. Like its parents it grows equally well under glass as it does outside. Grow as a Cordon or Indeterminate.
31. Tangella -Orange 70 days- England – Tart, not sweet, intense flavour, globe shape, prolific
beef type, indeterminate.
32. Hugh's - 85 days An heirloom beefsteak variety from Madison County, Indiana in the 1940's. Sparse plants produce generous amounts of 1 to 2 pound, pale-yellow, thin-skinned (delicate), meaty fruits that are bursting with lucious, robust, sweet tomatoey flavor.
33. Lillian's Yellow Heirloom- 90-100 days - Rampant potato leaf plant bears huge and beautiful clear yellow globes. This is one of my favorite yellows. "Jack and the Beanstalk" vines produce translucent misshapen beefsteaks with creamy texture and excellent eating quality: sweet, citrusy flavors, juicy flesh and very few seeds. These tomatoes even taste fantastic when picked green and allowed to ripen indoors. Save seeds as you pick the tomatoes all through the season as there aren't many seeds per fruit.
34. Persimmon - 85 days - Introduced about 1982. Beautiful persimmon colored, rose-orange fruits range between 12 and 16 oz., though early fruits can weigh up to 2 lbs. Ripens from the blossom end to the softly dented light green shoulders, gradually acquiring a rose orange hue. Vines are vigorous, well branched and produce 1 to 2 fruits per flower cluster. 'Persimmon' is one of our personal favorites for inviting color and rewarding flavor.
Determinate tomatoes:
35. Gold Nugget: 54 days; Cherry sized, round, golden-yellow fruit, medium flavor, very prolific & extremely early; first fruits are seedless
36. Ida Gold – 56 days; orange golf ball, very early & tasty
37. Sub Arctic Plenty – Red, 50 days, good yields, sets fruit at low temperatures, 60 g
38. Thessaloniki ( Greek Heirloom ) Uniform baseball size fruits that are resistant to sunburn, spots and cracking. Mild flavor and keeps well even after ripe.. 68 days
39. Whippersnapper 52 days, hundreds of pinkish red marbles
I usually put 10 to 15 tomato seeds in one packet.
Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) , aka Indian Ginseng:
This wonderful perennial shrub is related to tomatoes etc, and as easy to grow . Start the seeds in early spring, giving them at least 21 ° C for 6 weeks, then plant on a sunny spot – my greenhouse is the ideal place! Take whatever quantity of the rather bitter leaves & roots, brewed into a strong tea, or (my trick) dried & ground & mixed with some honey; you’ll feel the effects after a few days.
Since early Sanskrit texts, it has been described as an anti-ageing, anti-exhaustion, rejuvenating, aphrodisiac agent. Scientific research on the alkaloids in Ashwagandha has shown sedative, anti-bacterial, anti-tumour, anti-inflammatory, … properties, and no side-effects!
However, the most interesting effect of Ashwagandha is that it reduces the amount of cortisol released by the adrenal glands during periods of stress.
And this is my WANT list:
Allium Species (edible types only)
Apple gourd
Asian greens & mustard greens
Beans: all types of striped or wonderfully coloured beans
Beet
Brassica carinata
Broccoli – Calabrese / Romanesco
Calabash gourd: Japanese round
Calendula
Campanula versicolor.
Carrot
Chervil
Coriander
Cucuzzi
Dill
Estafiate (Artemisia Ludoviciana)
Hulless Seed Pumpkin
Jaltomato (Jaltomata procumbens)
Japanese greens: Hiroshimana; Misome, Green Wonder, Komatsuna, …
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata )
Lettuce: Leaf & Cos & Batavia & Summer Crisp Varieties
Maca (Lepidium Peruvianum)
Mesclun
Misome
Parsnip
Radish / Daikon
Rakkyo (= Allium Chinense)
Reichardia picroides
Root parsley
Smyrnium olusatrum
Snap Peas
Solanum Burbankii
Strawberry species
Summer Savory
Sweet Corn
Sweet Peas: fragrant varieties
Sweet Pepper: very early varieties: such as Fushimi, Frigitella, …
Swiss chard
Tagetes Lucida / Anisata
Vicia narbonensis
Winter Broccoli aka Sprouting Broccoli
Winter Leek
Winter Savory
White Acorn Squash
White Sage (Salvia Apiana)
Squash:
Baby Blue
Banquet
Butterbal
Butterboy
Butterbush
Butternut
Cream of the Crop
Delicata
Golden Crown
Goldpack
Greengold
Heart of Gold
Honey Boat
Patty Green Tint
Peraoro
Sugar Loaf
Sun Drops
Sweet Dumpling
Sweet Nut
Sweet Zucchini
White Acorn
Yellow Acorn
Any other ornamental summer squash
Any other very sweet & small winter squash
Tomato:
Alpha
Amish Gold
Auld Sod
Baby Heart
Baylor Paste
Beach Boy
Besser
Big Italian Plum
Black Ethiopian
Black Pear
Black Prince
Blondkopfchen
Bonny's Best
Brandywine, Heart Shaped
Bulgarian Triumph
Burbank
Canestrino #1
Cherrio
Chico
Czech Plum
Ciudad Victoria
Dix Doights De Naples
Dominick's Paste
Dorothy's Green
Dr Carolyn
Dr. Neal
Ernie's Plump
Flavor Steak
Giant Paste
Gilbertie Paste
Giles Mullis Plum
Gillogly Pink
Golden Cherry
Grandma Mary's Paste
Health Kick
Hogheart
Joe's Plum
Jumbo Jim Orange
Jumbo Roma
La Carotina
Lunch Bucket
Madagascar
Mamma Mia
Manny
Mega Tom
Mexico
Mike's Italian
Mini Charm
Mirabell
Mission Dyke
Missouri Pink Love Apple
Napoli
New Zealand Pear
Nick's
Olivette Jaune
Peacevine
Pink Niblets
Pink Ping Pong
Polonaise Jaune
Red Calabash
Red Sungold
Rideau Sweet
Rio Grande
Ropreco
Rosalie's Paste
Roughwood Golden Plum
Ruby Cluster
Ruby Gold
Ruby Pearl
Russian Big Roma
Salisaw Café
San Marzano ( La Padrino)
San Remo
Santa Clara Canner
Sol Gold
Southern Night
Sun Drop
Suncherry
Sungold Select
Sunsugar
Super Italian Paste
Sweet Orange
Sweet Orange Roma
Teepee
Teton de Venus
Tom Patti's Italian Paste
Unas Yellow Cherry
Valley Girl
(you can suggest any other tasty & prolific varieties you like; unfortunately, varieties that need more than 85 days to ripen are rather too late for our climate)
Thank you!
Lieven David
Molenstraat 31
3202 Rillaar
Belgium
veera@vt4.net
This list was updated on Saturday, 11 January 2003.
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