Different Types Of Tomatoes we have at Food Home Grown’s nursery:
(Hybrids)Super Sweet Cherry Tomato- Pearly round or plum-shade, sweet or tangy, red or gold. Early season fruit weights about one ounce, bears fruit indeterminate. Grows in 60 days get 5 to 6 feet high. Cherry tomatoes were developed in 1973 by two scientist from Israel trying to slow down rapid ripening of regular tomatoes in hot climates.
Red Lightening Tomatoes-Red with yellow stripes and full of flavor. Get to be 1-2 ounces. Plant grows to about 5 feet tall. Red Lightening tomatoes are indeterminate. Matures in 85 days
Super Beefsteak-
Delicious, flavorful, meaty fruits have smooth shoulders, not as rough and ridgy as Beefsteak and the blossom end scars are smaller. Prolific,vigorous plants produce luscious red fruits averaging 17 ounces. Matures in 80 days. Better than Beefsteak! .
(Heirloom)
Baxter’s Bush Cherry Organic-“Early ripening organic cherry tomato.
A very early, red cherry tomato with remarkable weather tolerance and keeping quality. Vigorous and productive, yielding firm, crack resistant fruits around a week earlier than other open-pollinated cherries. Small tasty fruits are great used fresh in salads. Fruit set tolerant of adverse weather conditions. Bushy, determinate habit needs no staking or cages. Certified Organic.” from Burpee’s site
Italian Roma-“ Italian Roma is an heirloom paste and canning tomato from Italy. Growing up to 200 fruit per plant, you will have plenty of fruit to cook for sauces and to eat fresh in salads and sandwiches. The oblong-shaped Roma tomatoes are very firm and meaty without a lot of water or seeds, which makes them so good for cooking. If you want paste tomatoes, you may have trouble deciding between the Roma and the San Marzano. If you have room, grow them both! The Roma is a more compact bush-type that fruits all at once (good for making that big pot of sauce), and the San Marzano is a climbing pole-type that must by caged or staked - it is indeterminate and will give you a more drawn-out, longer harvest period.” from Botanical Interests
Burpee’s Long keeper-
Baker creek seeds says the fellowing about Burpee’s long keeper “Here is the tomato for gardeners wanting tomatoes for an extra couple of months! Pick fruit a little before they are ripe and keep them cool and dark. Ripe fruit turn reddish-orange. Developed by Burpee's in 1979.
Marglobe-
Heavy, uniform vine growth. High yield of large uniform, globe-shaped fruit. Marglobe Tomatoes are Determinate so be ready to can. Matures in 73 days
Rutgers-also known as the “Jersey” tomato, this variety was introduced in 1934. Good for slicing and cooking. Fusarium resistant. Matures in 74 days. Rutgers are indeterminate tomatoes so you could have fruit all summer long.
Baker creek says of this tomato “Good for canning; also good fresh; large red 8-oz. globes. Good yields and flavor on large vines. A fine New Jersey heirloom.”
Yellow pear-Clusters of pear-shaped, yellow fruit with mild, delicious flavor are attractive and tasty whole for salads and appetizers. Fine preserved or picked. Indeterminate so you’ll have a long time to enjoy this treat.
More coming soon…if you have a special Tomato plant you would like preorder and we’ll start any breed.