Even people who aren’t fond of tomatoes can find a soft spot for this selection that is a revelation in tomato taste. Everyone thinks they have tasted the best tomato ever, but one bite of this orange-fleshed, large cherry type will have you immediately realigning your favorites. ‘Sungold’ is so addictively sweet it will make a tomato lover absolutely obsessed with eating them all before they even enter the house, while it will soften the hard hearts of those who have never been tomato fans. It may be the only tomato you’d ever think of as a dessert with is sweet, seductive flavor! ‘Sungold’ is a strong producer and a vigorous grower. Like all cherry tomatoes, it can ramble so be sure to give it plenty of room and a secure fence so you can keep all that great taste to yourself!

Here’s a tomato that looks as good as it tastes with large, ribbed shouldered fruit maturing with a pattern of red and yellow skin that gives it a subtle striped look. Once the fruit matures in 78 days you’ll find its flesh carries the same bi-color striping pattern and that it has a taste that is fruity, smooth textured, and complex.

The fruit of ‘Red Zebra’ is so colorful you might think twice about eating it! Once you cut open its cherry red skin spashed with bright yellow and take a bite, you’ll fall in love with its tart taste. Late fruiting, ‘Red Zebra’ is vigorous and a high yield producer.

If gardening is art then ‘Pierce’s Pride’ may be one of the masterworks of this art. Big 8+ ounce fruit has a smooth, flattened globular shape and an unforgettable black-red hue that is a stunner. The question is: Are they too pretty to eat?? One taste will tell you that, while great to look at, the tomato from this heirloom selection is so rich and so tasty that only admiring its appearance would be a woeful waste of flavor. And don’t regret a single bite of this beauty because ‘Pierce’s Pride’ is a prodigious producer of these tasty tomatoes raising the dilemma, should you hoard them all for yourself or share them with friends? It’s a tasty dilemma only you can decide! 85 days maturity from transplant.

It would be hard to find a more aptly named tomato that this German heirloom that looks exactly like a monster sized, 8 to 16 ounce, strawberry except for its rich, intense orange hue! While it is a strange shape for a tomato, you’ll love its tremendous taste that is noteworthy for its richness and sweetness and perfect for fresh slicing or preserving. As a grower, it’s hard to beat this selection’s ability to perform in the garden. While the fruit matures late (80 Days after transplant), the plant is vigorous, easy to grow and, like its fruit, a little different looking with a lacy foliage that may make you think this aggressive grower is a little more delicate than it is!

Everyone has heard the sterotype that all New Yorkers are brash, loud, bigger than life characters. While ‘New Yorker’ the tomato may not be as bold and brash, it will still make a huge impression on the gardener. Start with its ability to adapt to the cooler northern tier weather. ‘New Yorker’ produces a bountiful crop of 5 to 6 ounce fruit starting a mere 63 days after transplant. Then there is this plant’s unforgettable taste: this early maturing fruit will assure you of a long season of harvesting these sweet tasting, slightly acid tanged tomatoes that are a treat eaten fresh or canned.

This tomato’s story starts in the 1940’s when M.C. “Radiator Charlie” Byles from West Virginia set out to make the best tomato in the world. Old “Radiator Charlie” crossed (5) varieties of the largest fruiting tomatoes he could find, and, after a stringent selection of the resulting plants, he selected ‘Mortgage Lifter’. It does seem like a crazy name for a Tomato until you realize Charlie had a dream to pay off his mortgage by selliing his monstous new 1 to 3 pound beefsteaks to everyone he knew! It was an easy sell because this pink colored beefsteak was so flavorful that people came from far and wide to buy ’em for a buck each enabling old Charlie to pay off his mortgage in 6 years! You might not be able to pay off your mortgage if you grow ‘Mortgage Lifter’ but you’ll revel in the taste of this great slicer with few seeds and oh so much flavor! Late maturing (85 days).

Considered by many to have the best taste and texture of any yellow-gold heirloom tomato, ‘Moonglow’ is produced in big bunches on this vigorous plant. Fruit is 6-8oz and 2″ round and, with its hefty wall structure, makes an outstanding slicer. Late season at 85 days.

Viva la France! You’ll be shouting it out after growing this old French heirloom with the prolific fruit and the incredible taste. ‘Jaune Flamme’ is an early fruiter with mature 1.5″ diameter persimmon colored tomatoes borne in groups of 6 or 8 that mature 60 days after transplant. This easy to grow beauty will surprise you when you slice it open and pop it in your mouth with the explosion of taste that some people have said is almost a sweet, citrus flavor that is as desirable as it is unique. ‘Jaune Flamme’ is also prized by chefs as a dried tomato because it retains so much of its unique flavor.

A real stunner, this smallish tomato stands out with its nearly purple-black fruit with rosy undersides that mature in a cluster on the plant. Its deep red flesh has a strongly acidic taste that lends itself perfectly to sauces and salsas. Highly productive. Best flavor when left of plant as long as possible.