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.

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).

Early to maturity with fruit ready in 63 days from transplant, this heavy producer yields 5-6 oz tomatoes that may be the best early Tomato for slicing that you can find on the market! Perfect for small gardens or containers, you’ll love the great taste of summer that ‘Homeslice’ will bring to the table.

A cross of Sudduth’s Brandywine and Rutgers yields a early producer of 10-12 oz. tomatoes that are packed with heirloom flavor without the blemishes that plagued the original plants. Productive and tasty a great combination for summer cooking!

A match made in tomato heaven, this cross of the heirlooms Brandywine and Costoluto Genovese creates a plant that is bursting with 10 to 12 ounce, juicy, tasty fruit that will be the envy of your friends all summer. Vigorous and productive with loads of uses!

This heirloom cross of Brandywine and Big Dwarf yields a fruit that will become your favorite beefsteak! Huge, ribbed pink-red tomatoes form early and keep on coming all with outstanding taste that can be savored fresh or raved about when cooked!

Okay, this isn’t actually an Heirloom but it is a new variety that bears growing for all the right reasons: taste, disease resistance, and health. This productive vine gives you smaller, 4 ounce tomatoes within 72 days and gives them to you in huge numbers. The fruit is oval and the brightest red you’ve ever seen with superb taste and an extremely high level of lycopene, the antioxidant that makes tomatoes so nutritionally exciting. With a name like ‘Health Kick’ and flavor like this, your taste buds will enjoy being a healthy eater!

There’s something about the name ‘Costoluto Genovese’ that says “Tasty Tomato”! Now, that may not be the direct translation but, you can bet if you buy this heirloom selection that everyone in your family will be thinking that name must mean “Tasty Tomato”. This mid season fruiter is certainly unique for more than taste…its medium to large fruits are deeply ribbed giving it singular appearance to go with with its very juicy, full bodied taste. Even better, ‘Costoluto Genovese’ is equally at home producing in cool weather or extended hot periods dependably yielding enough fruit for fresh use, canning or sauce!

Talk about the perfect Tomato plant for a container, ‘Bush Early Girl’ is at the top of the list with compact size and amazingly high yields that will have you licking your lips with delight! ‘Bush Early Girl’ is a determinate plant giving it a dense form and an ability to grow in very small spaces. With such a small plant you might be persuaded that the harvest might be small to match the plant size but you couldn’t be further from the truth. ‘Bush Early Girl’ is laden with 5 to 6 ounce fruit by the handfuls, in fact, you’ll get so much fruit so early (54 days!!) your friends will be wondering if you have a greenhouse when you share some of the bounty of this incredibly early producer! Disease resistant and easy to grow, ‘Bush Early Girl’ is destined to become one of your garden (or deck!) favorites!