Tomato Starts

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

80-85 Days. This exotic looking beauty has the best taste of any paste tomato we have tried. The flavor of this big paste tomato will put a regular Roma to shame! Incredibly flavorful and so sweet! The super-long, 6-inch fruit of this paste tomato has very few seeds and thick, sweet flesh. Try making this meaty, sweet variety into paste or marinara.

Johnny’s Selected Seeds

Indeterminate

78 Days. Considered one of the best paste tomatoes of all time, with old-world look and taste. 4–6 oz. tomatoes peel easily and cook down quickly. Various strains of San Marzano exist; this strain was selected by tomato breeder Emily Rose Haga from seeds from the USDA gene bank, which is designed to preserve genetic diversity and increase food security. The strain originates from Parma, Italy, where it was developed for the 1950's canning industry. This strain has a very traditional San Marzano shape and appearance as well as a vibrant red color.

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

85-90 days. Unique, tasty and versatile, the Korean Long tomato is a sauce or slicing tomato with meaty flesh and superb flavor. The long pinkish red fruit has a slightly curved pointed nose or tail and ranges between 6-14 ounces, with some fruit being more heart shaped. A crack-resistant paste tomato that is productive, reliable and bursting with heirloom flavor. This sumptuous and flavorful variety is delicious fresh or cooked.

Hand-me-down-seed

Indeterminate

85 days. This West Virginia heirloom is a giant paste variety that produces high yields of 7" long banana shaped fruits. With its acidic and rich tomato flavor, this variety is delicious in salsas and heavy sauces. Ideal for the home garden Excellent for processing, especially good for salsa.

MI Gardener Seed

Indeterminate

85 Days. This Polish heirloom produces large pointed pepper looking tomatoes weighing 5 to 8 ounces. Very minimal seeds and jell make this tomato a go-to for authentic tomato paste, tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, or anything else that requires a meaty and flavorful tomato. The flavor profile of this tomato is incredible, you get flavors of classic tangy tomato, a savory zip from acid, and a slight fruity undertone that makes the tomato perfectly balanced between sweet and acidic. Very disease resistant.

MI Gardener Seed

Indeterminate

75-80 Days. First grown in Wisconsin by Lithuanian immigrants in the early 1900s, this early paste variety has become a favorite paste tomato for generations. Its medium 6oz fruits have the perfect balance of sweetness and acidity and strong heirloom flavor. Ideal for sauces, but also deliciously eaten fresh.

MI Gardener Seed

Indeterminate

80-85 Days. There are the same uses for these as a traditional Roma, only when raw, it is more appealing and interesting to the eye. This nearly seedless elongated plum tomato is delicious both in sauces and fresh out of the garden. Expect abundant harvests of meaty 4–6 oz fruits with vibrant golden streaks.

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

90 days. This famous tomato has almost a cult following among seed collectors and tomato connoisseurs, who simply cannot get enough of this variety’s amazing flavor that is so distinctive, sweet, and smoky. 7 to 10-oz fruit is a red-brick color. Named in honor of the famous black opera singer, star of King Solomon’s Mines, 1937.

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

80 days. 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, rich tomato flavor. Our popular dark tomato and one personal favorites.

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

75-80 Days. This popular Russian heirloom tomato does very well in cooler climates! The skin of Black Prince tomatoes is very deep red, and their flesh ranges from deep red to brown. This 5 Oz tomato is sweet and low acid. This rich, garnet colored tomato comes from Irkutsk, Siberia. Because of this heritage, it performs excellently well in northern, cold climates. In national taste tests for tomatoes, Black Prince tomatoes rated in the top ten.

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

80-90 days. Producer of deep maroon tomatoes that can reach 16 Oz in weight. Great-tasting tomato that is extra large in size and full of the deep, earthy and sweet flavor that has made these blackish-purple tomatoes so popular. Some fruit tends to crack, but the yield is heavy, and the plants are vigorous. Dr. Harold E Martin began producing this variety in the 1920s, reportedly selecting it from a cross between a red Brandywine and a brown Beefsteak tomato.

Hand-me-Down-Seed

Indeterminate

90 days. Known for their size and great flavor, Giant Belgian Pink tomatoes average 2 pounds but can get as large as 5 pounds! A great slicing variety, these heirloom tomatoes are mild sweet. This sweet, low acid beefsteak tomato, sometimes used for wine making, is a 1930s heirloom variety from Ohio. This meaty tomato can reach up to 5 pounds; because of its size, it is an old favorite for sandwiches because just one slice covers a piece of bread. Cage or trellis. Supporting the fruits when they become large will prevent fruit from snapping branches due to weight.

Hudson Valley Seed Co

Indeterminate

One quick pluck and voila! a plateful of sweet, soft eating. These oxhearts are the biggest of the big. A local gardener donated this seed to us, and we were instantly smitten. Its fruits are huge, weight up to 3 lbs.; its flavor is exceptional; its texture is dense and multi-layered with heart-like flaps and cavities. And while this variety is a gardener's dream, it's a bit of a seed company nightmare: it produces very few seeds per fruit, which means we have to grow a ton of plants to get enough seeds for our packs!

Hudson Valley Seed Co

Determinate

70 Days. An early producer, excellent for canning and processing. This cold-tolerant, early season tomato produces some of the first fruits in your garden. Pruning not necessary; harvest is condensed for about 3 or 4 weeks at the very beginning of tomato season. This reliable early-crop tomato is terrific for salads, canning, sauces, and slicing. Produces tons of small, attractive, orangey-red fruit that come earlier than nearly any other variety.

MI Gardener Seeds

Semi-Determinate

80 Days. This classic variety will take you back to the days of rummaging through grandma's garden. Ace 55 is best served fresh out of the garden. Having a low acidity, this variety is perfect for those who may have been wary of tomatoes in the past. It is one of the most common varieties for home gardens to grow because of its delicious flavor. Resistant to blossom end rot and has superior drought resistance.

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

75 days. A spectacular stuffing tomato with gorgeous golden streaked skin. This crisp fleshed and hollow variety is perfectly suited to stuffing, superb when eaten raw but also holds up beautifully when baked. Fruit averages 5-7 ounces each and is similar to a bell pepper in shape. The skin of this variety is gilded in light streaks of gold. Medium large with a strawberry-like seed cluster in the middle that is easy to scoop out. Delicious stuffed with various stuffings raw or cooked. Shaped like a bell pepper with crispy texture but great tomato flavor.

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

85 days. Large fruit up to 2 lbs.; delicious and sweet tasting. These tomatoes are very striking sliced, as the yellow fruit has neon red streaking through the flesh. An heirloom preserved by members of Seed Savers Exchange. Subject to cracks and catfacing but has superb flavor.

Hand-me-Down-Seed

Indeterminate

75-80 days. Stunning, large, bright golden-orange fruits with a juicy, fresh, lively and sweet tomato flavor. This Iowa heirloom is the perfect variety to add color to any salad or sandwich. Sweet and tangy flavors mimic pineapple without the acidity. Delicious addition to salsas, sandwiches, or salads. A Belena Farm favorite!

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

65-70 days. This regular leaf tomato grows fairly stocky and not as tall as most indeterminate varieties. Flattened beefsteak fruit is pink-brown with metallic green stripes and weighs 8-12 ounces. Very meaty pink flesh is very flavorful.

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

70-75 days. Vigorous producer of small, beautifully striped, 1-3 oz fruits with a flavor profile that is slightly tangy, sweet, and has dark meaty flesh and smooth thick skin. Pruning and trellising recommended.

Baker Creek Rare Seeds

Indeterminate

70 days. Chefs love the beautiful luminous swirls of reds and oranges, inside the fruit and out! Everyone loves the sweet, fruity taste, too! Oblong little fruit weighs barely an ounce, and sometimes shows a pronounced beak at the blossom end. Another member of the incredible new ‘Artisan’ series.

Thresh Seed Co

Indeterminate

50-65 days. This tomato has succulent clusters of fruits that grow up to 1" in diameter, weigh about an ounce, and despite their small size, have an extremely high sugar content. Being indeterminate, these plants need lots of trellising, but will give you a heavy, continuous harvest until frost

Hudson Valley Seed Co

Dwarf Indeterminate

Dwarf size, suitable for containers. Pale glowing orbs that defy every terrestrial challenge. The Dwarf Tomato Project, a cooperative plant breeding venture between growers in the United States and Australia, has produced loads of new varieties in recent years. We adore this one for its small, tasty, gorgeously pale-colored fruit and the plants' solid stature and disease resistance. Although the fruit are lunar white, Mandurang, a town in Australia, means "Black Cicada" in the indigenous language of the area.

Seed Savers Exchange

75-90 Days. One of the tastiest ground cherries we've grown! Small yellow fruits have a popping crisp texture and a sweet-tart flavor with hints of citrus and pineapple. They're great for snacking, chopped up into salsas and cooked into jams, preserves and pie fillings. Aunt Molly's is an extremely productive, heirloom variety that has been a favorite among Pennsylvania Dutch growers since the 1830s. The fruits are covered in a papery husk and drop to the ground when ripe. The harvested fruits hold up in the husk for 3-4 weeks.