Kalman's Hungarian Pink | 85 DAYS | 85 days - Indet. Hungarian heirloom imported by Kalman Lajvort of Edison, N.J. 8 oz. Outstanding flavor. | Opalka | 83 DAYS(85) | INDET, Wispy but vigorous vines, Good set of 5" long by 3" wide red paste tomatoes. Primarily for paste, but good eating qualities as well. Poland to Amsterdam, NY about 1900. | Speckled Roman | | Probably my best new variety of 1999, and definitely in my top 10 list; 5x3" tapered red fruits with stunning wavy orange stripes; fruits meaty and with excellent flavor; the markings are more distinct than reported by John Swenson in the 1999 Yearbook. IL SW J 99 Chance cross of Antique Roman with Banana Legs. | Joe's Plum | 85 DAYS | Huge red 8-12oz. plums with solid flesh, low seed count and sweet rich flavor. Plants produce lots of fruits and just a few will fill your kitchen basket. From Italy. Indet. ● One of my favorite new varieties of 1998; huge (4x5"), blocky, red, very meaty fruits; great production; great canner. From Charles Daidone, Nutley, NJ, who got seeds from a gardener named Joe who got seeds from Italy. | Romeo | 90 | 1-2lb giant paste type tomatoes. A super dense meaty tomato with near zero seeds and little gel. Surpasses all other red Roma varieties for earliness, size uniformity, kitchen value, and disease resistance. Uniform ripening. Flavor seems to richen as the season progresses, by late August good sliced on sandwiches. Makes extra good sauce with little simmering. | Wagner's Italian | 80 DAYS | Very rare, dusky pink colored, elongated plum to heart shaped paste tomato. Delicious and sweet, plants are productive. Indet. |
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Brad's Black Heart | | Brad's Black Heart is the only Black heart shaped tomato I know of. It was a very rare mutant discovery that I found amoungst a field of a thousand Black Krim tomato plants. Indetermant plant produces nice amounts of 1/2-1lb. fruit on a wispy foilage plant. Fruit is of top quality. Rich black tomato flavor with pink dense meaty flesh. | Linnie's Oxheart | | Late season, large orangish-red fruits, flavor & texture is very good. indet, regular leaf, droopy foliage, moderate yield of lovely 12-24 oz. scarlet red oxhearts with outstanding flavor. From Big Red in KY, who got the seeds from a elderly neighbor (Linnie Sears). She's been growing this variety for years, and originally obtained her seeds from one of her friends. | Butter And Bull Heart | | Nice, 3-4" pink, heart-shaped fruits; good flavor; good canner. Originally from Jenny Virsnieks, a Latvian immigrant now living in Junction City, WI. | Nicky Crain | 75 DAYS | Gorgeous, blemish-free pink heart-shaped fruits. Extremely prolific for an oxheart variety. This one is listed, as well it should, in the book, “100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden.” Now that I’ve grown it, I understand why. The taste is exquisite as well, sweet and mild. Very few seeds mean it’s great for sauces too. ● Large, excellently flavored Oxheart with a pronounced scar on the side of most fruit. | Slankard's | 85 DAYS | Won BIGGEST TOMATO at the 2009 Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest. Large pinks, 1lb+, quite productive, RL, fruit mild,meaty. ● Large (4-5"), blocky pink fruits with very few seeds; great flavor; excellent canner. MI BY M 96 Family heirloom Michael Byrne, Lawton, MI. | Herman's Yellow | 80 DAYS | Golden orange heart shaped, indeterminate type, intense but balanced flavor, with hints of citrus; 12-16oz or more. | Ukrainian Heart | | Indet., large pink, 5", round fruit, high shoulders, flat sides, mild flavor, to 1.5 lbs. | Wes | | Reg. leaf wispy plant. Large heart shaped red fruits, great flavor, intense aroma; a Great tomato |
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Ernie's Plump | | | My favorite Italian saucer since I first grew it, 3 years ago.. Cooks down to the the reddest, richest, flavorful sauce ever! 8 -12oz. fruits are a most unique shape: "plump" double pears with a tiny blossom scar. Rich beyond words, I ate plenty this year straight out of hand. Extreme producer. |
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Horvath (pic #2) | | | Large red plum type fruits 4-6" ● Standard pepper-shaped paste tomato with meaty, almost seedless 4" long fruits; good canner. Family heirloom of the Horvath Family, Edison, NJ, seed originally from an area in Italy on the Adriatic Sea. | Uncle Steve's (pic above) | | | Italian plum from rxkeith's great uncle steve messina, 6oz and up plum type tomato, nice and meaty, great for cooking, and sauce, juicy enough to eat fresh too. a good tomato. |
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