![]() (Not that you’re going back to grocery store tomatoes once you’ve seen the light of the home-grown kind anyway.) Not unripe green tomatoes like you use for fried green tomatoes - tomatoes that stay green when they’re sweet and ripe! These unusual varieties are especially great to grow at home, because you usually won’t find them in the grocery store. Mortgage Lifter - Incredible 1-2 lb fruits are common on this variety.Cherokee Purple - Sow True’s all-time bestselling tomato variety.Pink Brandywine - A legendary heirloom tomato!.“Beefsteak tomato” is basically synonymous with “amazing sandwich.” These hefty slicing tomatoes are the biggest and meatiest around, so satisfying to pick and enjoy. Paul Robeson - Delicious round slicers with a purple blush on the shoulders.Chocolate Stripes - Dark green stripes on maroon, medium-sized fruit.Oaxacan Pink - Medium-sized, ribbed fruits with a gorgeous pink hue.About half the tomatoes we offer at Sow True Seed are heirlooms! Browse all of our heirloom tomatoes, or check out these gems you might not have heard of: Plus, many have quirky shapes and colors you’d never see at a grocery store. If a variety has been saved and passed down for that long, you know it tastes good, and many of these have great stories to go along with their culinary quality. Most originated before the second World War, and many are much older than that. An “heirloom” vegetable is any variety that has been passed down generation to generation. Heirloom tomatoes are what many gardeners are after, because of their storied reputation for excellent flavor. Here’s a guide to some all-time favorite varieties of all different shapes, sizes, colors and types. “But there’s still so many to choose from, how do I pick!?” you say. Now you know a little more about how to choose the right tomatoes for your garden. There are determinate slicers and cherry tomatoes out there, but they tend to be favored more by commercial producers than home gardeners, who mostly prefer a gradual harvest throughout the summer to a ton of tomatoes at once. The majority of the slicing and cherry tomatoes that Sow True Seed carries are indeterminate. Many dwarf tomatoes for container growing also behave more like determinate types. ![]() Most paste tomatoes are determinate, since you want a lot of ripe fruit at once to make it worth your trouble to can them or make sauce. “Indeterminate” means the plants will continually grow, flower, and set fruits a few at a time throughout the season, until frost or blight stops them. ![]() “Determinate” means that the plants will grow to a certain size, set a lot of fruits at once, ripen them all at about the same time, then stop producing. You’ll notice that all tomato variety descriptions will note that the variety is either determinate or indeterminate. There’s a special little joy in popping a sun-warmed, perfectly ripe cherry tomato in your mouth while working in the garden on a summer day. Some paste tomatoes might also be pretty good for fresh eating, but their highest calling is as a cooking ingredient.Ĭherry tomato varieties produce small, juicy fruits that grow in clusters, and are perfect for snacking, salads, or to use in veggie kebabs on the grill. ![]() They are also great for canning in general, whole or chopped, and their relatively low moisture content makes them ideal for dried tomatoes as well. Paste or sauce tomatoes are characterized by rich flavor, thick fruit walls, and very small seed cavities, which help them cook down into tomato paste or homemade sauce quicker than bigger, juicier varieties. Some slicers are described as “beefsteak” type, meaning they are especially big and meaty. Slicing tomatoes are big and round or flattened-round (aka “oblate,” if you want to impress your gardener friends) and perfect for making thick slices for burgers or sandwiches.
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