TOMATO VARIETIES


AMISH PASTE


VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Plum


CHARACTERISTICS: Roma style. Vines continuously produce small clusters of large (up to 8oz.) deep red fruit that are nearly seedless. Great for saucing throughout the season with world-class flavor and a steady yield. 70-75 days.

AUNT MOLLY’S


VINE TYPE: Indeterminate (Caged or Staked)


FRUIT TYPE: Ground Cherry - Tomatillo


CHARACTERISTICS: 65-90 days. Golden-yellow, 1/2" fruits are excellent for pies, preserves, jams and fresh eating with a strawberry-like flavor. Productive plants 18" tall and 24" wide start fruiting in July and continue until frost.

BEEFMASTER

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Beefsteak


CHARACTERISTICS: A bigger-than-life variety you will admire and enjoy. Mouth watering giant red tomato routinely produces pound-sized fruit. Flavour is mild and sweet. 80 days.


Resistance: (V), (F),(N).

BEEFSTEAK

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing


CHARACTERISTICS: Beefsteak Tomatoes are well known for producing large, meaty, solid fruit that is slightly flattened and globe shaped, with a mild and flavorful taste. Heavy vines require staking. 80 days.

BETTER BOY PLUS

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Beefsteak


CHARACTERISTICS: Improved Better Boy with more flavour and even better disease resistance! High yield of smooth skinned, large fruit. Excellent classic tomato flavor with just the right balance of acid and sugar. This is great slicing tomato. 80 Days.


RESISTANT: (V),(F),(N).

BIG BEEF PLUS

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing


CHARACTERISTICS: Improved variety with larger, juicier fruit. Higher vitamins and nutrients, including lycopene giving it a darker red colour! Nice early variety will set fruit reliably. A large, beefsteak-type tomato that is delicious, early to bear, and highly resistant. 73 days.


RESISTANT: (V),(F),(N) 1 and 2, (N), (ALT), (ST) and (TMV).

BRANDYWINE PINK

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Beefsteak


CHARACTERISTICS: This heirloom cultivar has large potato leaves and pink beefsteak-shaped fruit. Considered one of the best tasting tomatoes! Flavourful but not acidic, it is a large-lobed, beefsteak-shaped tomato with a thin, pinkish-red skin. Very vigorous. Best if staked, caged, or trellised. Perfect for slicing. 80 days.

BRANDYWINE RED

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Beefsteak


CHARACTERISTICS: Flavourful but not acidic, it is a large-lobed, beefsteak-shaped tomato with a thin, deep-red skin. Very vigorous. Best if staked, caged, or trellised. Perfect for slicing, considered an heirloom classic. 75-90 days.

BURPEE BIG BOY

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Beefsteak


CHARACTERISTICS:  These vigorous plants are a vegetable gardener’s favourites, yielding its incredible productivity and gorgeous, large (8 to 9 oz/226 to 255 g) scarlet fruit with firm, smooth, red fruit, great flavour and excellent quality. 78 days.

BUSH EARLY GIRL

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing


CHARACTERISTICS: This bush-type plant produces large, red, smooth-skinned tomatoes with outstanding flavour. All-round good tomato for slicing, salads, or munching. It is a relative of Early Girl, but with higher yield and improved disease resistance. 65 days.

CELEBRITY

 

VINE TYPE: Determinate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Beefsteak


CHARACTERISTICS: Vines bear clusters of large tomatoes that are prized for their flavour. This is a great, all-round, dependable choice for your “basic” tomato needs. 70 days.

CHEROKEE PURPLE


VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Beefsteak


CHARACTERISTICS: Cherokee Purple is the name of an old variety of tomato that develops a fruit with a deep dusky rose colour while maintaining a somewhat greenish hue near the stem when mature for eating. Heirloom variety. The rich, dark colour and unmatched sweetness provide a rich flavour for sandwiches and salads. 80-90 days.

EARLY GIRL PLUS


VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing


CHARACTERISTICS: One of the earliest indeterminate varieties. All-round good tomato for slicing, salads, or munching. Bears lots of fruit for early harvest. Because the vines are indeterminate, they continue to produce through summer. This improved variety has higher yield and improved disease resistance! 65 days.


RESISTANT: (ASC) (F 0-2) (GLS) (TSWV) (V)

FANTASTICO

 

VINE TYPE: Determinate


FRUIT TYPE: Mini plum


CHARACTERISTICS: Grape-style tomato does well in baskets or hangers. Super sweet fruits grow on compact 15” plants that hang with abundant fruit. Excellent tolerance to late blight. 50 days.

PROVEN WINNERS®

TEMPTING TOMATOES®

 

*GOODHEARTED

Solanum lycopersicum


VINE TYPE: Determinate


FRUIT TYPE: Cherry


CHARACTERISTICS: This compact cherry size tomato has been hailed as a breakthrough. It is perfectly sized for growing in a container on your patio. It produces tons of ripe tomatoes. Tomatoes present prominently. Juicy fruits have a tender skin and perfect sweet to acid balance, with a Brix value of about 9. The somewhat heart-shaped tomatoes are fun and interesting. They look especially cool when sliced in half, which shows off the heart-shape to best effect. The tomato shape helps this veggie be ornamental as well as yummy. These plants will produce tomatoes for extended periods of time and thrive in heat and humidity. 65-72 days.

PROVEN WINNERS®

TEMPTING TOMATOES®

 

*GARDEN GEM

Solanum lycopersicum


VINE TYPE: Semi-determinate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicer


CHARACTERISTICS: Garden to table goodness! This snack sized tomato has been hailed a breakthrough! It was developed to have true heirloom taste with modern disease resistance and high fruit yield. It has firm, juicy fruit with a smooth, balanced flavour. 80-90 days.

PROVEN WINNERS®

TEMPTING TOMATOES®

 

*GARDEN TREASURE

Solanum lycopersicum


VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicer


CHARACTERISTICS: Developed to have true heirloom taste, with modern disease resistance and high yield of large fruit. It performs well in heat and humidity. It has a smooth, balanced flavour and is delicious in salads and sauces. This tomato will produce fruit for an extended period. This new version includes Late blight Resistance. 90 days.

HERITAGE

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Heirloom


CHARACTERISTICS: Heritage tomatoes are known for their classic taste and are great for slicing or cooking.  80 days.

MANITOBA

 

VINE TYPE: Determinate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Beefsteak


CHARACTERISTICS: 65 days. Heirloom beefsteak-style with firm, meaty flesh and a refreshing, tangy taste. Excellent producer of 6 oz fruit. Red, meaty and juicy fruit with a delicious rich tomato flavour.


RESISTANCE: (F) (V)

MOUNTAIN MERIT

 

VINE TYPE: Determinate


FRUIT TYPE: Slicing/Beefsteak


CHARACTERISTICS: 69 days. Giant, concentrated set of medium-large red fruit. Perfect for slicing in sandwiches and burgers-meaty and substantial tomatoes with great flavor.


RESISTANT: (F1), (F2), (N), (TSV)

RED GRAPE

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Cherry/Grape


CHARACTERISTICS: Bright red fruit weighing about one ounce each, and are generally smaller than most cherry tomatoes. Since they are mouth sized, they are perfect for snacking, salads and garnish plates. There are often 12-16 fruit per cluster. 70-75 days.

RED PROFUSION

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Cherry


CHARACTERISTICS: Red Profusion tomato is a trailing tomato that produces many scarlet pop-in-your-mouth fruits. They grow rapidly all over the plant and its shape is ideal for growing in a large hanging basket or other container.  This bush cherry tomato forms a neat and compact plant with a superb branching habit. 47 days.

ROMA

 

VINE TYPE: Determinate


FRUIT TYPE: Roma


CHARACTERISTICS: Roma tomatoes are the prime choice for sauces and canning due to a lower moisture content. They also stand out by their elongate, egg-like shape. 75-90 days.


RESISTANT: (A) (ST) (N) (V) (F)

SAN MARZANO

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate (Caged or Staked)


FRUIT TYPE: Plum/Roma


CHARACTERISTICS: Italian variety producing plum-type rosy-red fruits ideal for canning. Heavy Walls, very few seeds and little juice with an intense, rich flavour. Clusters of fruit adorn the vine. The Granddaddy of sauce tomatoes. 78-85 days.


RESISTANCE: (V) (F).

SUGAR RUSH

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Cherry


CHARACTERISTICS: One of the sweetest varieties available! Fast maturing plant produces all season, right from day 55! Ideal for fresh, crunchy snacks. 55 days.


RESISTANCE: (F), (TMV)

SUN SUGAR

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Snacking and salads


CHARACTERISTICS: The ultimate cherry tomato, very sweet, yet capturing tangy true tomato flavor. The deep golden-yellow, 1/2 ounce fruits are very crack resistant which is quite remarkable considering their very thin skin. Vigorous, indeterminate plants set fruit early and in huge quantities. 65-75 days.

SWEET MILLION

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Cherry 1 inch


CHARACTERISTICS: Bright red cherry tomatoes with masses of tomatoes on long trusses that mature early and deliver amazing clusters of tiny delicious, sweet fruit. Extremely vigorous and needs lots of support. Pruning may be required in smaller areas. 60-62 days.

TUMBLER

 

VINE TYPE: Determinate


FRUIT TYPE: Cherry up to 1.5 inch


CHARACTERISTICS: 48 days. Great yield with up to six pounds of fruit. Super tasty snacking variety to keep close to your lounging area!


RESISTANCE: (F)

YELLOW PEAR

 

VINE TYPE: Indeterminate


FRUIT TYPE: Masses of 1.5 to 2 inch


CHARACTERISTICS: The yellow pear tomato (Solanum Iycopersicum ‘Yellow Pear’ is one of the older small fruit types, first developed in Europe in 1805. This reliable, indeterminate, heirloom tomato adds flavour and colour to your culinary efforts all season long. Plants are pear shaped with lemon coloured fruits.


RESISTANT: (F) (TMV)

LA ROMA III

 

VINE TYPE: Determinate


FRUIT TYPE: Roma


CHARACTERISTICS: An excellent Roma tomato known for its vigor and uniformity. Bright red, meaty fruits are large, 5 to 8 ounces, and full of flavour. Disease resistant plants are very vigorous and produce fruit abundantly throughout the growing season. 76 days.


RESISTANT: (A) (ST) (N) (V) (F)

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