Tomato Starts
Our starts, with the exception of a few cherries, are heirloom varieties and all are organically grown in our greenhouse. They will be planted up into 4” pots. They are only available for local sales. We expect starts to be ready for pickup in mid to late May. Every customer will be notified by email when the plants are ready.
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Amish Paste
$8.50 Indeterminate 85 days Heirloom, organic paste tomato. A very productive leafy plant that produces up to 12 oz, deep-red, oxheart-shaped, meaty fruit. (Probably one of the largest paste tomatoes) Lots of sweet, delicious tomatoey flavors from this coreless meaty fruit. A great slicing tomato, canning tomato and sauce tomato. These… -
Backa
$8.50 Determinate 80 days Originally from Yugoslavia. Produces short, determinate, compact plants that yield an abundance of 12-16 oz., red, beefsteak tomatoes with delicious, big, tomatoey flavors. An excellent canning and sauce tomato and a wonderful slicer for sandwiches. -
Big Beef
$8.50 Indeterminate 70 days These large, juicy, fruits combine old-fashioned beefsteak flavor with heavy yields. 1-pound, round to globe-shaped. Flavor is full and hearty with lots of sweet juice balanced with that wonderful tomato acidity. These giants slice up perfectly for big sandwiches. Fruit stays large even at the end of… -
Black Cherry
$8.50 Indeterminate 64 days Organically grown. The only truly black cherry tomato. Produces large, sprawling, regular-leaf, vigorous tomato plants that yield abundant crops in huge clusters. The fruit consists of 1″, round, deep purple, mahogany-brown cherry tomatoes. Fruits are irresistibly delicious with sweet, rich flavors that burst in your mouth. Beautiful… -
Black Sea Man
$8.50 Determinate 75 Days A Russian heirloom tomato. Produces small determinant, potato-leaf plants that yield an abundant set of 12-16 ounce beautiful tomatoes that are rich mahogany colored with olive green shoulders when mature. Inside of tomato is deep, reddish green and loaded with excellent, full-bodied, complex, intense, creamy tomato flavors.… -
Brandywine
$8.50 Indeterminate 90 days An heirloom and organically grown. A potato-leaf, Amish variety from the 1880s. The brandywine is probably the first heirloom to achieve “cult status” within heirloom tomatoes. In tomato tastings, chefs and tomato lovers alike have always placed it as one of their top three favorites. It is… -
Flaming Burst
$8.50 Indeterminate 70 days Organic, 1¼ x 1″ golden mini pears cluster on a steadily productive plant. Meaty but not dense; juicy and sweet but tangy. Delivers the correct culinary combination that so many insipid yellow cherries and pears lack. These tomato starts will be in 4” pots and will be… -
German Johnson
$8.50 Indeterminate 78 days A large, prolific plant originating in Virginia and North Carolina. Thought to be one of the four parent lines of “Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter.” Big, leafy, robust plants that produce huge, 1 lb., pink, beefsteak-type tomatoes The flavor is excellent. A very popular farmers’ market tomato and… -
Gold Nugget Cherry
$8.50 Determinate 54 days Extra-early, determinate, compact plants (54 days) that bear prolific amounts of early setting golden, 1″, round to oval, deep yellow to orange, cherry tomatoes that are unusually delicious with well-balanced sweet flavors. A wonderful cherry tomato for snacking. -
Grandma Mary’s
$8.50 Indeterminate 68 days An heirloom with meaty 6–10 oz fruits that are very early for their size. And this Grandma produces fruit even during cold summers. -
Nebraska Wedding
$8.50 Determinate 100 days An heirloom great Plains favorite and organically grown. Plants yield an abundant crop of globe-shaped deep-yellow-orange fruits, weighing up to 12 oz. with good sweet/acid balance. These tomato starts will be in 4” pots and will be available for local pickup in mid to late May. -
Pink Berkley Tie Dye
$8.50 Indeterminate 65-75 days Every bite of this psychedelic-colored beefsteak-type is an experience. Big, succulent fruit can reach 8-12 ounces with a complex blend of flavors. The vivid, rosy-blushed fruit has iridescent, green skin with sunny yellow streaks and an interior that’s a fascinating kaleidoscope of green with trails of red…