Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Heirloom Tomatoes For Sale - locals only

Due to the late cold this season, we are hoping the weather is good enough to plant right around the first week of June. We have 7 varieties - listed below. They are heirloom tomatoes and we are selling them for $3 a plant. We are expecting them to be between 12 and 24 inches tall when we deliver them to you.  Please contact me for orders (you can also leave a comment below and I will contact you) or you can call. Spencer will be walking the neighborhood with a sign up sheet as well.  And sorry, we won't be mailing these out.  This is a local sale only.


These are heirloom tomatoes.  $3 per tomato plant.  We have about 30 plants of each variety.

The 'Brandywine Pink' Heirloom Tomato Plant dates back to the mid-1880s from strong Amish stock. This heirloom tomato has quite a following when it comes to gardeners and tomato connoisseurs. Brandywine tomatoes have won numerous taste tests and many tomato enthusiasts wait anxiously until their first Brandywine Pink of the season is ripe for the picking. These tomatoes average about 12 ounces, but have often grown up to 2 pounds. The fruits are reddish-pink, the flesh is creamy and the taste is superb. Brandywine Pink has large pinkish-red fruits borne on vigorous vines. Fruits are flattened and irregular, perfect for sandwich slices. Each pot contains 1 tomato plant.




The 'Pineapple' Heirloom Tomato Plant ripens its fruit to a bright yellow, often with red stripes. It is a very large beefsteak-style tomato, which frequently weighs up to two pounds. The Pineapple Heirloom Tomato has a mild flavor and meaty flesh with relatively few seeds. The unusual color and size will be a conversation starter. Plants tend to be tall. Each pot contains 1 tomato plant.










The 'Old German' Heirloom Tomato Plant has large, very appealing and tasty tomatoes. Fruit color is yellow with a red center visible on the surface and throughout the core. It is a very attractive addition to salads. Old German Heirloom Tomato is not a heavy producer, nor does it tolerate drought, but its flavor and color are outstanding. Fruits often weigh over a pound. Old German Heirloom originates from the Mennonite community of Virginia. Each pot contains 1 tomato plant.









Jersey Devil
An old favorite, the Jersey Devil is an extremely prolific paste-like tomato with the shape of a hot pepper! The fruits grow to about 5-6" and are quite meaty, generally with few seeds. They have a variety of uses and their versatility, along with their strange shape has made them a favorite amongst obscure tomato connoisseurs. This once famous variety is now extremely rare in cultivation.








Stupice
60-65 days. This cold-tolerant tomato ripens sweet, red, slightly oval, 2 inch fruit that make an excellent choice for first-of-the-summer salads, lunch boxes, and juicing. Stupice consistently gets high marks for taste throughout the summer. Pumps out fruit over the entire season. Bred in the former Czechoslovakia. Indeterminate potato leaf variety.




Red Zebra
Bright red fruit overlaid with golden stripes. Probably the best flavoured of all the 'striped' varieties and the flesh is even deeper red and very dense, producing massive crops. 














Cuore de Toro

Plant produces good yields of large 2 lb pinkish-red Oxheart type tomatoes. Very meaty. Excellent for making paste, sauce, puree, and canning. A heirloom variety from Italy.

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