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 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…Add to cart -
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…Add to cart -
Black Sea Man
$8.50 Wait till you see the inside of this beauty! Brown/purple exterior and a great determinate tomato!Add to cart -
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…Add to cart -
Enormous Plum
$8.50 Large, 10-16 oz., 3-inch x 7-inch, red paste with good acid content and excellent flavors. Most respected choice for sauces.Add to cart -
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…Add to cart -
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.Add to cart -
Mortgage Lifter
$8.50 A classic old-time, heirloom tomato that has become one of America's favorites. Large, regular-leaf tomato plants produce good crops of 1-2 pound, slightly ribbed, meaty, red, beefsteak tomatoes with the perfectly rich, sweet, bold, old-fashioned tomato flavors. An ideal sandwich tomato.Add to cart -
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.Add to cart -
New Yorker
$8.50 Determinate 63 days This early cold tolerant variety yields some of the first fruits in your garden. The plants produce large crops of smooth, meaty, 3-7 oz. scarlet globes that have a balanced sweet and acidic flavor. New Yorker will set fruit in cool, short-season conditions without cracking or suffering…Add to cart -
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…Add to cart -
Rose de Berne
$8.50 One of the best pink slicers for it's size. Rivals Brandywine. Medium sized and heavy producer.Add to cart