The Flavor of Days Bygone
WELCOME TO TOMATOES 2026
PERHAPS WE'VE GOTTEN A BIT CARRIED AWAY, SEDUCED BY THE MYRIAD SHAPES, SIZES, FLAVORS AND COLORS OF THE BEST GARDEN VEGETABLE. WE ARE LUCKY TO BE GARDENING DURING THIS TOMATO RENAISSANCE. OLD VARIETIES BEING REDISCOVERED AND OFTEN BRED FOR MORE PRODUCTIVITY AND DISEASE RESISTANCE. BEST OF ALL, RETAINING THE MOUTHWATERING FLAVORS THAT HAVE BEEN SO FORGOTTEN IN MODERN FARM PRODUCTION. I GUESS THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SO MANY DELICIOUS AND INTRIGUING VARIETIES ON OUR LIST.
(Our tomatoes are selected based on flavor, productivity, disease resistance, and interesting names and histories.
CHERRY TOMATOES
(To pick and eat or to put in salads with no slicing necessary. Just how many colors and tastes can we find?)
Brandysweet - Somewhat plum shaped Brandywine hybrid, potato leaves, great flavor, one of our favorites from last year.
Green Doctors-
Midnight Snack - Changing from red to purple at maturity, rich complex flavor
Sugar Baby-
Sun Gold- orange fruit abundantly produced, very sweet flavor, a favorite. 
Sweet 100- tons of red tomatoes, sweet and pungent, our favorite for eating off the vine and for salads with no chopping
Big Beef- really large beefsteak, red. 
Brandywine- famous for its award winning flavor, large pink/red fruit, 1885 heirloom. 
Box Car Willie- heavy production of medium sized red, round tomatoes, excellent flavor. 
Chefs Choice Black-
Chefs Choice Orange - 2013 All American Winner! Low acid, high yield orange/yellow medium size, one of our top favorites from last year
Chefs Choice Red - Also All American winner. Productive and very tasty.
Cherokee Purple - medium to large fruit, excellent complex
Early Girl- earliest variety with good flavor and productivity, medium sized fruits. probably the best full sized tomato production in our garden last season.
Mortage Lifter- famously productive, large meaty pink fruit
Patio- small to medium size tomato on dwarf determinate plant, 2'-21/2' tall, great for containers
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye-
San Marzano- Italian paste tomato, meaty bright red fruit, great for canning and saucing.
Tomatoes and Flavor
Why do homegrown tomatoes taste so much better than storebought? Unless you are buying from a local farmstand, or from a store that buys from one, you are not able to purchase any of the many hundreds of great tasting varieties that exist in the tomato world. Large farms grow produce that is uniform for ripening, harvest, packing, and shipping. Flavor is not part of the equation. Even if a variety is not completely devoid of flavor, the fruit is harvested well before fully ripe, so that it can ship with minimal bruising. Until the day when a great flavored tomato exists that can meet the other criteria , large farms are not able to provide the taste we look for in tomatoes. Luckily, we on the East End have plentiful sources for fulfilling our tomato desires.
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