Tomato

'Persimmon Orange'. 80 days. Indeterminate heirloom. Large, good flavored, golden-orange fruits weighing in at 1 to 2 pounds. Highly rated in taste tests.

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'Pineapple'. 85 days. Indeterminate. This heirloom variety produces large bicolored, yellow fruit that is streaked with red both inside and out. Strong vines produce an abundant crop of rich, fruity and sweet tomatoes. One of my favorites.

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'Pink Ping Pong'. 75 days. Indeterminate. Productive vines bear juicy, delicious, ping pong ball sized, pink fruit.

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'Principe Borghese'. 75 days. Determinate heirloom. This plum-shaped Italian tomato is favored for drying, sauce. But it is also tasty to eat out of hand. Meaty fruits have little juice and few seeds.

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'Prudens Purple'. 75 days. Indeterminate. Large pink fruits up to 1 pound are produced on potato-leaved vines. Delicious flavor with surprising production. Very highly rated in taste tests.

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'Red Brandywine'. 80 days. Indeterminate. This is a version of Brandywine that offers red fruit with luscious old-time, red tomato flavor. Plants have regularly-shaped leaves and are extremely productive, bearing long harvests of these 10 to 16 oz. fruit. Technically, not an heirloom as this version of Brandywine wass introduced only a few years ago.

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'Red Grape'. 60 day. Indeterminate vines produce loads of firm meaty, sweet fruits. Clusters have up to 20 tomatoes each. Good shelf and vine life.
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'Red Pear'. 70 days. Indeterminate. Pear-shaped tomatoes have a long history in the garden. Their unique shape, coupled with their small size, create a tomato that kids and adults love to eat out of hand or in salads.

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'Red Robin'. 55 days. Determinate. Dwarf Red Robin plants are 8 to 12 inches high, perfect for hanging baskets or a six-inch pot. Sweet-flavored fruits are 1 1/2 inches in diameter.

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'Red Zebra'. 85 days. Indeterminate.Fruits are dark red inside, and fire engine red outside with golden streaks. Produces large crops of 3 inch round fruit. One of the best tasting striped tomatoes.

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'Roma'. 75 days. Determinate. Fruits are plum-shaped and 2 to 3 inches long. A well-known, reliable variety for cooking and canning.

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'Roman Candle'. 80 days. Indeterminate. Elongated, yellow, paste-type fruit are 4 to 6 inches long. Meaty and flavorful with brilliant yellow skin and white flesh.

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'Rose'. 78 days. Indeterminate. This is an heirloom taste rival to Brandywine. Smooth, large, meaty fruits are produced.

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'Rutgers Vfast'. 75 days. Determinate. Thick-walled, 7 oz., bright red fruits ripen evenly inside out. An old time favorite that is well suited for canning.
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'San Marzano'. 80 days. Indeterminate. This old favorite is more rectangular in shape and larger than Roma. A favorite with many of my Italian customers because of its meaty interior. Imported seed.

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Before You Visit Us
- This is not an availability list!
  Please call to check our supply before you visit.
  This catalog lists most of the varieties I am growing or plan to grow, however, it is not possible to list everything. Some plants are tricky to propagate; others are too new for me to describe in any detail. Demand for certain varieties is sometimes greater than I anticipated and we run out. Usually, during the Spring season, there is another crop on the way.
  
  I can guarantee the quality of our plants because we grow them ourselves. I cannot guarantee that every item listed will be available at any given time.
About Our Veggies
- About Our Veggies
  The strength of the vegetable garden is its ability to yield the freshest produce from superior varieties that are unobtainable in the supermarket. That philosophy carries over into what I select to offer you. The way my plants are grown also offers you benefits. All vegetable plants are sold in individual pots to permit you to select just the number you need when you need them. Plants in individual pots tend to be more vigorous, grow faster, and produce a larger harvest. For you this means better vegetables sooner. Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplants, and most other vegetable plants are $1.69 each. Lettuce, Italian and Asian greens are $1.29 unless otherwise specified.
Blossom End Rot
- Blossom End Rot
  The dark soft spot that appears on the end of a tomato (to a lesser degree eggplant or pepper) opposite the stem, ruining the fruit, is an annual problem that frustrates many gardeners. The condition is not caused by a disease but a calcium deficiency that weakens the cell walls of tomatoes. The most common causes of this malady are uneven periods of soil moisture (which can also cause cracking and cat-facing) and improper soil pH. Both interfere with the plant's ability to properly transport calcium to the fruit. Overly wet soil is difficult to prevent in our unpredictable climate, but raised beds will allow excess water to drain. Conservation of soil moisture during dry spells is relatively easy through mulching and drip irrigating (overhead irrigation can foster bacterial and fungal diseases of the foliage). Check beneath the mulch one or twice a week and irrigate if necessary. If the soil is too acidic, the plant will not be able to use efficiently calcium already in the soil. Lime, a chief source of calcium, is used to raise the pH (your local extension agent can help with soil samples and recommendations on the amount needed to achieve the target pH of 7). A fertilizer which obtains its nitrogen from calcium carbonate rather than acid-forming ammonium is also recommended.
Understanding Tomato Talk
- Understanding Tomato Talk
  The initials after the tomato name indicate the types of disease resistance. The number of days is an estimated time to the first harvest. The terms "determinate" and "indeterminate" indicate the length of the fruit-bearing season.
  - Indeterminate vines, often robust and in need of pruning, produce over the entire season.
  - Determinate vines, frequently short and well-behaved, produce most of their bounty all at once. Determinate varieties are useful when canning tomatoes.
Supporting Tomatoes and Peppers
- Supporting Tomatoes and Peppers
  Supporting tomato plants helps control disease and makes it easier to harvest the fruit. The support systems I have seen for sale at garden centers are generally laughably short; a contraption three feet high and a foot around is not going to provide much support for a six-foot plant three feet in diameter. My grandfather favored large home designed tomato cages made from concrete reinforcing wire. The cages were 6 feet high and nearly three feet in diameter and provided support for lush growth and heavy yields. The cages had some drawbacks, however; they were heavy, hard to move, and they took up a lot of storage space. My father started out with stakes made of stout pieces of wood, but found they could be snapped easily when a strong, wet wind blew against a mature plant. He used 1/2-inch diameter by 10 foot long metal, electrical conduit for a number of years and found it worked well for tomatoes as well as eggplant. I usually cut the conduit into 8 foot lengths. It's light and easily pushed into garden soil, and is easily stored. The metal conduit lasts for years with virtually no maintenance. To tie the stems of tomatoes and eggplants to the conduit, I use plastic stretch ties (available at the nursery). Old pantyhose or cheese cloth work well also.