Amish Paste

(Indeterminate) One of the largest sauce tomatoes we offer, produces a sauce with a superior flavor. Coreless, top-shaped fruits often weigh as much as 12 oz. Tall plants, heavy yields. Despite the name ‘Amish Paste,’ the juicy fruits are best suited to making sauce.

Amy's Apricot Mix

75 days. (Indeterminate) [Family heirloom given to Dustin Swanland by his Italian aunt. Introduced 2012 by SESE.] Delicious fruit (always a hit at our tomato tastings)! Vigorous and productive plants! But… a challenging variety for us to offer. Plants vary a lot, even after years of vigorous selection by us. It tends strongly toward the intensely fruity, sweet, luscious orange spheres we originally described. Many plants bear red fruits, and a wide range of orange types is present as well, in clusters of 2-12 and sizes of ½ - 1½ in. We’re unsure just how diverse this variety was before we received it, and why it keeps frustrating our selection efforts. But it’s so delicious we carry it anyway!

Big Rainbow

90 days. (Indeterminate) [Introduced 1990 by SESE from Polk Co., MN.] The most visually spectacular tomato we've grown. As fruits ripen they resemble a rainbow: green on the shoulder, yellow in the middle, and red on the bottom. Fully ripe fruits are gold on the stem end and red on the blossom end. Early fruits weigh over 2 lbs. with little catfacing or deformities. Very good resistance to foliar disease. Bears until frost.

Black Cherry

63 days (Indeterminate) Cherry tomatoes similar to Cherokee Purple in color and rich, full bodied flavor. 1 in. fruits, dusky purple with black highlights. Vigorous plants. A big favorite at our 2015 tomato tastings!

Brandywine OTV

72 days. (Indeterminate) [Named and released by Dr. Carolyn Male and Craig LeHoullier, editors of Off the Vine (OTV), heirloom tomato newsletter. Bred from an accidental cross of Yellow Brandywine and an unknown red beefsteak.] One of the best Brandywine strains. Smooth, creamy, almost buttery texture, and harmonious sweet flavor. Fruits are a rich red color with an orange undertone. Produces a large percentage of usable attractive tomatoes, relatively free of defects, averaging 12 oz. Excellent potato leaf foliage cover. 6-8 ft. tall plants. The most productive and heat-tolerant Brandywine. A must for every tomato lover.

Brandywine Sudduth Strain

74 days. (Indeterminate) [TN heirloom popularized by Ben Quisenberry.] Prized for distinctively flavorful fruit, highly rated in our taste trials. ‘Brandywine’ has achieved a national reputation as the flavor standard for tomatoes. Dark reddish-pink, 10-12 oz. fruits. Potato leaf vines are not as disease-resistant as other Brandywine strains, but we were impressed by how well it held up in 2013’s cold, wet summer. The flavor of the tomatoes is of gourmet quality. Use for slices, salads, and sandwiches.

Cherokee Purple

85 days. (Indeterminate) [Pre-1890 TN heirloom, reportedly of Cherokee Indian origin. Introduced 1993 by SESE. Seed courtesy Craig LeHoullier.] Large, smooth fruits (10-12 oz) with slightly ridged shoulders. Ripens to a unique dark, dusky pink/purple. Sometimes called a black tomato, the color carries through to the flesh, especially at the stem end. Good resistance to Septoria leaf spot. A shorter indeterminate, plants average 5 ft. tall. ‘Cherokee Purple’ has spread widely since its introduction, with variations developing over time, but our strain is still the original, shorter shape.

Cossack Pineapple Ground Cherry

60 days. 3⁄8-5⁄8 in. fruits with delicious flavor reminiscent of pineapple. Bite- sized fruits are so tasty they may never make it into the kitchen, especially if you have children. Excellent for preserves, hot dessert toppings, salads or mock pineapple yogurt. Plants are short (12-18 in.) but with bushy spreading lateral branches to keep down weeds. Fruits ripen to a pineapple yellow.

Eva Purple Ball

78 days. (Indeterminate) [Late 1800s heirloom from the Black Forest region of Germany from Joe Bratka’s grandfather. Seed courtesy of Carolyn Male and Craig LeHoullier. Introduced 1994 by SESE.] Outstanding performer in hot, humid areas. Excellent resistance to diseases, including some resistance to late blight. One of the most blemish-free tomatoes we have grown, with a soft tender texture. Smooth, round, attractive pink-purple fruits weigh 5-7 oz. Fruits are easy to harvest, some dropping from the vine at peak ripeness, and easy to peel. A wonderful all-purpose tomato with excellent flavor.

Garden Peach

73 Days. (Indeterminate) This tomato truly resembles a peach. 2-3 oz fruits have a peach-like fuzz and are yellow, often with a hint of pink blush when fully ripe. Outstanding flavor. A good storage tomato if picked light green right before frost. Highly split-resistant. Vigorous vines bear until frost.

Green Grape

78 days. (Semi-determinate) [Developed 1983 by Tater Mater Seed.] Ripens yellow-green, resembling large Muscat grapes. Flesh and juice are green. 13⁄8 in. fruits borne in clusters of 4-12. Sweeter than ‘Green Zebra,’ the flavor is in the top 5% of varieties we have grown. Lovely served with pesto.

Homestead 24

80 days. (Semi-determinate) [1966] Developed for hot humid coastal areas, especially Florida. Often grown in the Mid-Atlantic region, where it reliably sets fruit at high temperatures. Red 8 oz slightly flattened globes.

Marglobe VF (Marglobe Improved)

70 days. (Determinate) [Marglobe was first developed in 1917 from a cross between ‘Marvel’ and ‘Globe’ and released by the USDA in 1925.] Marglobe has been in demand for several generations while many other varieties have come and gone. This strain has been selected for disease resistance. Red, medium-sized, 5-8 oz. fruits with firm walls and good flavor. Stocky, vigorous plants with excellent disease tolerance. Vines provide good protection from sunscald.

Matt's Wild Cherry

55 days. (Indeterminate) [From seed collected in the wild near Hidalgo in eastern Mexico.] Plants bear loads of intensely sweet, tart, and flavorful, ½ in. deep red cherry tomatoes. Plants are vigorous, disease-resistant, and sprawling. Self-sows readily. Always a favorite at our tomato tastings.

.Principe Borghese

78 days. (Determinate) Italian heirloom bred for sun-drying, this low-moisture variety maintains more flavor when dried than do other varieties. Slightly oval, 1 oz fruits. Prized in Italian cooking when reconstituted in olive oil, they can also be crushed into small flakes to quickly thicken a thin sauce while adding a rich tomato flavor.

Purple Tomatillo

80 days. 1 x 1½ in. fruits ripen to dark purple. Sweeter than green varieties. 4-6 ft. plants

Red Cherry (Old Fashioned Red)

72 days. (Indeterminate) [Pre-1840. This is the small Red Cherry, not the Large Red Cherry commonly used as a salad tomato.] Bright red 1 in. fruits, sweet, tangy and juicy. Grows so vigorously that it tends to outgrow some diseases. Resistant to fruit- worm and high temperatures.

Roma VF

75 days. (Determinate) Very popular, pear-shaped paste tomato. Widely adapted. Fruit ripens uniformly. Highly productive, good resistance to disease and fruit-worm.

San Marzano

80 days. (Indeterminate) [Italian heirloom, famous for its use in Neapolitan pizza and other Italian dishes.] Long Roma-type tomatoes, 3-4 oz fruits with pointed ends. Thick, dry, low acid flesh contains few seeds. Very productive 6 ft. tall plants have good disease resistance. Excellent canning variety for recipes with sufficient acidity.

Sugar Cherry

(Solanum pimpinellifolium) 76 days. (Indeterminate) [Introduced by SESE 1994.] Large currant-type ½ in. orange-red fruits borne in clusters of 12. The berry-sized fruits are larger than true currant tomatoes and are intensely flavored and sweet.

Tomate Verde Tomatillo

75 days. 1½ in. fruits ripen to pale yellow green. Tall, 4-6 ft. plants. Husks are easy to remove and fruits are excellent quality.

Black Beauty Eggplant

74 days. [1902] Fruits are dark purple, high-quality, and of fine flavor. Dependable, well adapted to the Mid-Atlantic and the South. Produces up to 15 fruits per plant. Fruits are 6½ x 5 in. and may weigh up to 3 lbs, but best harvested when smaller.

Ping Tung Long Eggplant

62 days. [Taiwanese variety] Shiny deep lavender fruits can grow to 2 x 11 in. and longer. If plants are kept upright the fruits can be kept straight for over ¾ of the length, making for impressive filets. Disease-resistant variety and high yielding, producing over 20 fruits per plant in our garden. Excellent flavor.

Rosa Bianca Eggplant

62 days. [Taiwanese variety] Shiny deep lavender fruits can grow to 2 x 11 in. and longer. If plants are kept upright the fruits can be kept straight for over ¾ of the length, making for impressive filets. Disease-resistant variety and high yielding, producing over 20 fruits per plant in our garden. Excellent flavor.

Rosita Eggplant

70-80 days. [Heirloom from Puerto Rico] 4 ft. tall plants produce excellent yields of lavender-pink, teardrop-shaped fruits with white shoulders. The skin is tender without a trace of bitterness, and the white flesh is mild and sweet, because the seeds are so late to develop in the fruits. Our favorite eggplant, this is the one we always make sure to plant every year.