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69-80 days. Indeterminate. A “black" beefsteak tomato with medium to large fruits. Benefits from a dose of Epsom salts and bone meal. Brown-red to purple-pink. Known for its complex but fantastic taste, not too sweet. From the Isle of Krim in the Black Sea. Water consistently to prevent cracking and green shoulders.

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Black Krim

Green ZebrA !75 days. Indeterminate. Open-pollinated. A 2” globe tomato with a taste that is old-fashioned, tangy, slightly astringent.

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!Invented in Everett, Washington from 4 different heirlooms, this is a fairly new tomato but has become a standard for a green striped tomato. This beautiful tomato is described as chartreuse with deep lime-green stripes and is a favorite of chefs.

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Gardener's Delight Cherry Tomato

80 days. Indeterminate. Folks have proclaimed this the best cherry tomato; extra sweet and packed with flavor. Many clusters of 6 - 12 tomatoes all summer. I love having cherry tomatoes around as I can pop them in my mouth while I do my garden work. Provide support for vigorous vines that easily reach 6 feet long.

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Brandywine

80 to 100 days, indeterminate — It is by far one of the best known heirloom tomato varieties. Reportedly it is an old Amish heirloom, dating back to 1885 and named after Brandywine Creek in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The disease tolerant, regular leaf plants yield fruits that are red, globe to oblate shaped, and full of flavor.

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Pineapple Tomato

!90 days. Indeterminate. Huge meaty tomatoes. The 1 pound red-and-yellow streaked tomatoes look beautiful and one taste will transport you back in time with that great old-fashioned, full bodied tomato flavor.

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Yellow Pear Tomato

!75-80 days. Indeterminate. This pear tomato is a real overachiever! Loaded with hundreds of small 1-2 inch yellow pear-shaped fruit. Get the stakes ready for this fast-growing plant. Get some good stakes or a big cage for this one. An old-time favorite with a sweet, clean tomato taste.

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Juliet Tomato

60 days. Indeterminate. A larger sister variety of Santa, Juliet is super resistant to late blight. They will keep their green leaves about them when the tomatoes one row over blacken and die. Deep red, shiny fruits average 2 inches in size. Typically 12-18 fruits per cluster. Delicious, rich tomato flavor for salads, great salsa, and fresh pasta sauce. Good crack resistance, vine storage, and shelf life. AAS winner.

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Stupice Tomato

60-65 days. Indeterminate. This potato-leaf heirloom from Czechoslovakia is a cold-tolerant tomato that bears an abundance of very sweet, flavorful 2 to 3-inch, deep red, slightly oval fruit. A 1988 comparative tasting in the San Francisco area gave it first place for its wonderful sweet/acid, tomatoey flavor and production. Try it if you are closer to the coast. An excellent choice for first-of-the-summer salads, lunch boxes, and juicing. Stupice consistently gets high marks for taste throughout the summer.

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Oregon Spring Tomato

65 days. Determinate. This extra-early slicing variety was developed at Oregon State University. Their research shows that Oregon Spring will produce incredibly early yields of 4 inch, 3-5oz oval tomatoes when planted outside a month before your last frost date and given no protection except on frosty nights. Gives heavy yields with few seeds and good flavor.

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Druzba Tomato

!80 days. Indeterminate. Tomato goddess and Author of 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden Carolyn Male first offered this tomato to the American public in 1995. It is a Bulgarian heirloom and the name translates to the word "friendship". Druzba has heavy 8-16 oz, 4-6" red fruits that are smooth, blemish free, sweet with just the right amount of tart. Delicious and perfect for sandwiches or salads. Produces on a large bush with pleasant-smelling foliage.

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Sun Gold tomato

57 days. Indeterminate. The Sun Gold tomato is a hybrid cherry tomato. These have a sugary sweet taste, and some describe the flavor as fruity. The Sun Gold grows on a long, 4-6 foot vine and produces sizeable clusters of the tiny tomatoes. Easily the most popular cherry tomato out there and my personal favorite.

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San Diego Tomato

64 days. Indeterminate. An uber-successful plant that will be loaded with large, perfectly round, bright red, paste tomatoes that have a thin skin that doesn't crack and just enough acidity to provide a superb taste. Pictured here is my all-time favorite way to eat tomatoes.

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Ace Tomato !85 days. I nicknamed my boyfriend Ace and this tomato is as reliable

and tasty as he is. It tolerates heat and humidity, so this is a tomato that can be grown in the warmer climates. Meaty, low acid, 12-oz fruits on plants that go and go and go. A keeper. <3

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Sweet 100 Tomato

65 days. These indeterminate, bright red cherry tomatoes are extremely sweet. This tomato is a hybrid and there is speculation that among Sweet 100’s parents is heirloom tomato Gardener’s Delight. Pick often, especially before rainstorms to keep them from bursting.

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Isis Candy Tomato

!70-80 days. Indeterminate. This tomato is getting a lot of buzz. And I thought it deserves to perservere despite its unfortunate name. This superior quality fruit is marbled in red and with a cat's-eye starbust on each blossom end. 1-1/2" fruits are a silky blend of sugary sweetness and rich fruitiness. Heavy yields, with season-long production of short trusses, in double rows of 6 to 8 fruits each. Bred by Joe Bratka of New Jersey.

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Cherokee Purple Tomato

!80 days. Indeterminate. An old Cherokee Indian heirloom, pre-1890 variety; beautiful deep dusky purple-pink color, superb sweet flavor, and very large sized fruit. Try this one for real old-time tomato flavor. My favorite "black" tomato.

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German Johnson Tomato

!80 days. Indeterminate. The German Johnson tomato is an heirloom variety from West Virginia that turns deep red-pink as it ripens on the vine. The tasty one-pound beefsteak-type tomatoes have a firm texture and few seeds, ideal for slicing fresh or canning.

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San Marzano Tomato

!80 days. Indeterminate. I can’t even begin to tell you the whole history of this tomato. There’s an entire website dedicated to it. This famous paste tomato has a wonderful rich taste and produces loads of tomatoes late in the season.

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Berkeley Tie-Dye Tomato

!65-75 days. Indeterminate. Compact plants produce beautiful 8-12 ounce fruit with a very sweet, rich, dark tomato flavor. Because each of the fruit colors has a different flavor, you taste hints of spice, sweet, and tart. And you have to make the joke, that with the name 'Berkeley Tie Dye’, these tomatoes must have a high acid content.

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mr. Stripey

!80 days. Indeterminate. This heirloom from the Mid-Atlantic states can be traced back to the 1800's. Large, ridge-shouldered, 9 oz. to 2 lb. fruits are an unusual combination of orange-yellow mottled with red both inside and out. Smooth meaty flesh is mild-flavored and very low in acid.

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Siberian 50 days, determinate — This tomato variety sets fruit very early. They are bright red and weigh up to five ounce. Although I would think the name came from its ability to withstand cold temps, there is a different story.

'Siberia' was discovered by Ron Driskill, a horticulture teacher at the Jack James Secondary School in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on sale at a local nursery. The nurseryman told him that a woman touring Canada from the Soviet Union in 1975 stopped by the greenhouse and supplied ten seeds. The woman told them that the variety was being trialed in Siberia at that time. Mr. Driskill saw its potential and became a big promoter of the variety to Northern gardeners, first giving seeds away in exchange for a self-addressed stamped envelope and ultimately starting a small, family operated seed company appropriately named The Siberia Seed Company.

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Mortgage lifter 85 days. Indeterminate. A late season tomato with an amazing history. I will tell you an abridged version but you can hear an interview with the inventor himself here.

Marshall Cletis Byles operated an auto repair shop in Logan, West Virginia during the Great Depression. Coal and timber trucks overheated as they climbed the hill. They rolled back down the hill to M.C.’s shop where he’d fix their radiators. Soon he became known as “Radiator Charlie.”

M.C. identified four of the largest tomato varieties available in the country at the time: German Johnson, Beefsteak, an English variety, and an Italian variety and and hand-pollinated the German Johnson with pollen from the other tomatoes. For six years, M.C. saved the strongest seed from his efforts and replanted until he had a stable tomato variety. He sold his tomato plants for $1 each and he used the profits to pay off his $6,000 house mortgage.

Tomatoes are large, pink, delicious and prolific.

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Paul Robeson Tomato

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80 days. Indeterminate. This favorite heirloom tomato was named after the operatic artist who won acclaim as an advocate of equal rights advocate who stood up to the the infamous McCarthy committee in the 1950's and had his career nearly destroyed as a result. He was idolized in Russia as well as all around the world. This "black" beefsteak tomato is slightly flattened, round, and grows to 4-inches. Very flavorful fruits with luscious, earthy and exotic flavors and good acid/sweet balance.

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Zebra Cherry Hybrid

!80 days. Determinate. This compact, hard-to-find basket type produces loads of tangy fruits that are slightly larger than the average cherry at 1 to 1-1/2 inches in diameter. Exotic fruits have red and green stripes, with dark red flesh that is surprisingly flavorful and very firm, making them easy to cut. Colorful, zebra-streaked skin surrounds a dark pinkish interior. Generously-sized cherry tomatoes are a burst of robust, full-bodied flavor that is outstanding and unique among its cherry tomato peers.

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Tomato growing tips... Before planting, mix a fertilizer high in phosphorus into the soil. This application will take care of the plant until the first fruits are set. Feed then and every month while the fruit is developing. Stop fertilizing when the tomatoes near maturity.

Tomatoes love heat. Cover the planting area with black or red plastic a couple of weeks before you intend to plant. Those extra degrees of warmth will translate into earlier tomatoes.

When you grow or purchase seedlings, aim for the ideal, which is a stocky plant. Unlike other plants, tomatoes are set deep in the soil. Plant them so that the first leaves are just above the soil line. Plant leggy plants horizontally so roots will form along the buried stem.

Remove the bottom TWO rows of leaves from your seedling before transplanting and bury the seedling very deep up to the next set of leaves. Be merciless. You need to encourage your seedling to grow deep roots to support the large plant.

Plant tomatoes where they will get 6-10 hours of light in summer. And leave room between plants for air to circulate.

Avoid soil-borne diseases by rotating your crop-don't plant in the same spot you did last year and refresh the soil in your garden containers.

Determinate type tomatoes tend to set and ripen their fruit all at one time, making a large quantity available when you’re ready to make sauce. You can get indeterminate type tomatoes to set fruit earlier by pinching off the tips of the main stems in early summer.

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!Pinch off suckers to keep the main branches of your tomato plant at their strongest.

!!!!!!!Water deeply every other day in the summer. Stake your plants so the branches don't break under the weight and fruit doesn't rot on the ground. Harvest earlier rather than later. Pull when ripe rather than dead ripe. Over-ripe tomatoes can be mealy...into the sauce they go! Or the gazpacho. If animals tend to steal your tomatoes, pull them early and let them fully ripen indoors.

More tomato and other summer veggie advice here. Questions about heirlooms vs. hybrids answered here.

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