• Open Pollinated
• Early Season
• Indeterminate
Our favorite cherry tomato. 3/4" fruits are a beautiful pale yellow, sweet, nicely balanced, thin-skinned and easy to pick. Polite, indeterminate plants produce well.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Local Variety and uniquely delicious! Bred by Fred Hempel of Baia Nicchia Farm in Sunol, this pink + orange striped cherry tomato is unique. Sweet without being too sugary and with complex, layered flavors that other cherries don’t have. 1” fruits are a perfect size and hold well on the vine.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Sweet, balanced and packed with vitamin C, this cherry variety originated from “Sweet 100” in the 1970’s. Delicious 3/4” fruit grows abundantly on polite indeterminate plants.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Local variety, unique and delicious!. Bred by Fred Hempel of Baia Nicchia Farm in Sunol, this orange + yellow striped cherry tomato is sweet, but also packs layers of complex flavors you won’t find in plain ‘ole cherries. 1” fruits are a perfect size and hold well on the vine.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Garden Candy! These dime-sized red cherry tomatoes are rated consistently as one of the sweetest cherries you can grow (even sweeter than Sungold!?!). Thin-skinned, crack resistant fruit grows on vigorous trusses.
• Open Pollinated
• Very Early Season
• Determinate
A good choice for containers, even hanging baskets. Plants are small, but produce so much fruit you can barely see the leaves! Great for balconies or very small spaces.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
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The MOST productive cherry variety I’ve ever met. Big, sprawling plants produce enormous numbers of delicious 1/2"-3/4” yellow fruits with a citrusy flavor and a sweet finish. Very popular with our customers.
• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Classic, rich, complex sweet flavors Brandywines are famous for, and this one produces consistently. 5" beefsteak fruits tend to come in flushes, 8-10 or more in a flush, then you must wait patiently for the next flush. Well worth it! On Slow Food's Ark of Taste list as a rare, endangered variety.
• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
A Bulgarian heirloom that produces LOTS of smooth, red, crack-free, blemish-free red globe tomatoes with a good balance of flavor. Not too sweet or tart. This is a very good red variety that does especially well in raised beds.
• Open Pollinated
• Green, Beefsteak
• Mid Season
Sturdy plants produce smooth, crack-free beefsteak fruits that are juicy but meaty and with very small seed cavities. The flavor isn’t what you’d expect from a green tomato, it’s a complex combination of sweet and bright. When ripe the green color softens to a more yellow-green, particularly on the bottom. Great for slicing.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Very productive and with great flavor, this black beefsteak variety is much loved amongst seed traders yet little known in the commercial trade. Medium sized beefsteak fruits are meaty and a deep red/brown.
• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Another great heart tomato and good for small gardens! Compact plants produce large pink, dense, meaty, heart-shaped fruits with very few seeds and excellent full flavors. Tolerates heat well. As with many heart varieties, production is moderate, but the flavor and texture is worth it!
• Open Pollinated
• Mid-Late Season
• Indeterminate
Large, smooth skinned fruit are a long time favorite with tomato growers. Beautiful orange flesh, a classic beefsteak. Rates high every year for flavor.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate, Potato Leaf
One of our favorite bi-color tomatoes. Sweet, richly flavored and well balanced, this beauty has produced extremely well for us and is a hit with most who taste it. Medium to large sized fruit are orange-yellow with beautiful red streaks.
• Open Pollinated
• Black, Beefsteak
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Indian Stripe is a full-flavored black tomato highly regarded by tomato breeders. Classic ‘black’ flavors are all here--sweet, full and slightly salty or smoky. While often compared to Cherokee Purple for flavor, Indian Stripe produces more fruit, and more consistently season to season. Fruits are medium sized beefsteaks.
• Open Pollinated
• Early-Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Fantastic tomato! As a heart variety of the standard Cherokee Purple, it’s got all the delicious, full flavor plus it’s meaty and juicy but with few seeds and less gel. It’s all goodness, and produces SO much better than the standard. Unlike other oxheart plants that grow leggy and wispy, this variety is well-branched with good leaf coverage.
• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
A rare 100 year old heirloom from Russia and a favorite of mine. Orange-yellow beefsteak fruit are well balanced with a perfect amount of sweetness. Produces well and consistently year to year.
• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
One of my favorites! Very good production of large mahogany red beefsteak fruits that are full flavored, juicy, sweet and with good texture. Plants are hardy and have produced fairly early for me.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid-Late Season
• Indeterminate
An improved, disease resistant version of Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter. Large, smooth, juicy red beefsteak fruits grow on very sturdy, healthy plants. They start slow, but catch up and produce better and better as the season progresses. If you have disease problems but want a big meaty beefsteak, this is your ticket!
• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Sweet and thin-skinned with low acid, this classic old heirloom variety from Virginia produces large, beautifully streaked beefsteak tomatoes. Productive, and a customer favorite.
• Heirloom
• Early/Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Great for that hot, dry corner of the garden and an early producer, this variety keeps fruiting even when temperatures rise. Smooth, crack-free globe shaped fruit has a good, well balanced flavor, better than most early varieties.
• Heirloom
• Early Season
• Indeterminate
Our best tasting early tomato. Easy to grow, with consistently good production of yellow, smooth crack-free 3-4" fruit with very good sweet, citrusy flavors. A Russian heirloom.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Hands-down our #1 customer favorite! Tropical sweet flavors abound in a beautiful, colorful, early beefsteak. Very productive and consistent every year. Super easy variety to grow.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
I love heart tomatoes! They are in a class by themselves. They’re meaty, juicy, and have almost no seed cavity, so you get great texture and flavor with no mush, and Wes is considered to be one of the best tasting red hearts. As with most hearts, plant growth is willowy with long wispy leaves. Production is average, so grow it for flavor!
• Open Pollinated
• Very Early Season
• Indeterminate
Early, productive, and a local variety! This open pollinated variety of Early Girl was developed by Dirty Girl Produce (Santa Cruz County), whose dry-farmed tomatoes are MUCH loved by chefs and food lovers. Medium/small red globe tomatoes are firm and smooth. If you want to try dry-gardening tomatoes, or just want a productive, early variety to jump-start your tomato season, this one’s for you.
• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Fantastic, subtle, sweet flavors and very juicy. A definite favorite of mine. Great with Burrata or other mild fresh cheeses. Produces incredibly well every year. They don’t hold well once picked, but they’re so good you’ll want to eat them immediately anyway. On Slow Food's Ark of Taste list as an endangered variety.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
I LOVE this tomato. Large purple-brown-red beefsteaks are meaty, sweet, full flavored and resist cracking. This one excels in raised beds and produces LOADS of fruit over a long season. A recent introduction by a highly regarded midwest grower/breeder.
• Heirloom
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
• Plum/Paste type
5" long tapered fruits have the best flavor of pastes, in our opinion. Meaty, juicy and sweet, these are wonderful for salsas and sauces, but even good for slicing into salads. Does especially well in raised beds.
• Open Pollinated
• Striped Plum/Paste
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Another Local Variety! Bred in Sunol, this one is productive, delicious and beautiful. Red fruit striped with orange is densy and meaty with few seeds and grows abundantly on sturdy semi-determinate plants. Excellent for roasting, sauce and canning.
• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Determinate
• Plum/Paste type
Heat tolerant, disease resistant, and a very heavy producer of red plum tomatoes great for making sauce, salsas, or for canning. Compact plants produce loads of fruit throughout the season, and they start early. Plants stay short but do spread a little, so don’t skimp on space.
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• Open Pollinated
• Mid Season
• Indeterminate
Our sweetest variety, super early and thin skinned too! Incredibly productive plants provide loads of 1/2” yellow fruit with a blue-red shoulders non-stop until frost.