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                       Heirloom Tomatoes 2024

                                                The Flavor of Days Bygone

WELCOME TO TOMATOES 2024

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.

                                                         A Plateful of Flavor and Color

(Our tomatoes are selected based on flavor, productivity, disease resistance, and interesting names and histories.

Beefmaster - really large beefsteak type, red fruit

Brandywine- famous for its award winning flavor, large pink/red fruit, 1885 heirloom.  Tomato Brandywine famous flavor champion

 

Brandywine Black-  large purple/red, delicious tomatoes


Box Car Willie- heavy production of medium sized red, round tomatoes, excellent flavor. Tomato Box Car Willie

Chefs Choice Orange -  2013 All American Winner! Low acid, high yield orange/yellow medium size, one of our top favorites from last year

Cherokee Purple - medium to large fruit, excellent complex flavor.

Early First Prize- red round early and very productive

Early Girl- earliest variety with good flavor and productivity, medium sized fruits. probably the best full sized tomato production in our garden last season.

 Tomato Early Girl

La Roma- paste tomato, larger fruit and better disiease resistance than Roma

La Roma

 Mortage Lifter- famously productive, large meaty pink fruit     Tomato Mortgage Lifter

 Precious Pink - Medium sized round, juicy, tomato flavor

San Marzano- Italian paste tomato, meaty bright red fruit, great for sauce or paste. Tomato San Marzano

Supersteak- giant beefstake with large yields of large tomatoes. The standard of slicing varieties. Tomato Superstaeak, the traditional slicing tomato

  


                                                             CHERRY TOMATOES
                                                           An Assortment of Colorful and Flavorful Cherry Tomatoes, Summer 2013

 (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.

Coyote-whitish/yellow, prolific, very sweet and fruity flavor.The most expansive growth habit we've seen, 5'-6' ht. x 10' width, thousand of small sweet fruits.

Coyote


Midnight Snack
 - Changing from red to purple at maturity, rich complex flavor

Sun Gold- orange fruit abundantly produced, very sweet flavor, a favorite. Tomato Sungold, super productive and flavorful


Sweet 100- tons of red tomatoes, sweet and pungent, our favorite for eating off the vine and for salads with no chopping required.

  Tomato Sweet 100, our favorite cherry tomato

 

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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