Hand Sown Homegrown
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2008 Heirloom and Tasty Tomatoes
All tomato varieties are indeterminate unless otherwise noted.
Green Zebra: Beautiful chartreuse 3 oz. round tomato with deep lime-green stripes, very attractive. Flesh is bright green and very rich tasting, sweet with a sharp bite to it. Favorite of chefs and gourmet cooks. Yield is excellent. This is the tomato colored for the Green Bay Packers.
Dad's Sunset: The perfect orange tomato! Large 10 oz. fruit are very smooth, uniform and beautiful, glowing orange in color. Keeps very well. Won the "Best Tasting Tomato" contest at the 2004 Heirloom Garden Show.
Persimmon: At Smoke Tree Farms, Ann's personal favorite. Beautiful, golden-orange tomatoes have one of the best flavors of all orange tomatoes. Average 5" in diameter and between 1 and 2 pounds, quite meaty with few seeds. A definite must have tomato for the growers who want a beautiful, delicious and colorful fruit to add to their collection.
Brandywine Sudduth's Strain: This is widely knows as the original Pink Brandywine strain. It is considered by many gardeners to be the best Brandywine with fruit that is superior in taste and smoothness. Its tomatoes are indeed special, 1 to 1 lb. pink beefsteaks with delectably complex, rich, sweet flavor.
Elmer’s Old German: An old heirloom tomato from Germany. Large, indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that yield 1-2 pound (and more), deep-pink beefsteak tomatoes that have delicious, bold, sweet/acid tomato flavors with very few seeds. An excellent slicer for eating fresh in salads and sandwiches. Rare tomato seeds.
German Johnson: Very large 1 to 2 lb. fruits are deep pink, very flavorful and nearly crack free. The plants are very productive, producing superb quality fruits. Many mid-western customers liken this tomato to those they grew back home in size, shape and flavor.
Henderson’s Winsall: An heirloom tomato variety introduced by Peter Henderson in 1924 as 'Number 400' and which he renamed his 1926 tomato seed catalog. Here is some of what he said, "It wins approval from 40,000 people, it wins by its quality of sweetness, solidity and seedlessness..." This rare tomato seed strain produce large, indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that yield slightly flattened, 1-2 pound, pink-red tomatoes containing few seeds. Exceptionally delicious and one of the most favored tomato varieties.
Momotaro: This is the most popular tomato in Japan where gardeners prefer their tomatoes pink and sweetly flavored. Hybrid plants produce abundant crops of round, medium-sized, perfectly smooth tomatoes with no blemishes. Their taste is wonderful, intensely rich and sweet, with just the right amount of acid.
Mortgage Lifter: Winner of the 2006 Poulsbo Farmers Market Taste Off "Best of Show. Large, smooth 1 lb. pink fruit have a delicious, rich, sweet taste. This variety is very prolific and a Poulsbo Farmers Market customer favorite. M.C. Byles of Logan, West Virginia developed it. After crossing varieties for 6 years and selecting the best, he introduced this beauty that he named Mortgage Lifter in the 1940's after he sold plants for $1 each and paid off the $6,000 mortgage on his house.
Black Plum: Small elongated- oval fruits are deep mahogany in color, meaty, with a sweet, fruity flavor. These are small teardrop-shaped morsels of sweetness. The vines are hardy and prolific. Snack right off the vine, place in a salad or make delicious tomato jam or tasty salsa.
Black Prince: A Poulsbo Farmers Market customer favorite. An heirloom from Irkutsk, Siberia. The 5 oz. tomatoes are round and very uniform. The color is a wonderful deep blackish-chocolate brown. The flavor is as deep and rich as the color. A unique salad size tomato with vines producing a large, early crop.
Black Zebra: 1 1/2" round fruit with purple/brown skin with green stripes containing rich tomato flavors with hints of smoke and sweetness. This is a favorite for looks and taste.
Cherokee Purple: An old Cherokee Indian heirloom, pre-1890 variety; beautiful, deep dusky purple-pink color, superb sweet flavor and very large sized fruit. One of the best selling dark tomato varieties.
Japanese Trifele Black: One of the best black tomatoes, with high yields of blemish free fruits, rarely cracks. Rich full flavor and great for canning. The size of a Bartlett pear, weighing 4-5 oz., bred in Russia, potato leaf.
Paul Robeson: Always a Poulsbo Farmers Market customer favorite, this variety has an amazing flavor that is very distinctive, sweet and smoky. The 7-10 oz. fruits are a black-brick color and free from most blemishes and cracking. This Russian variety was named in honor of the famous black opera singer in 1937. Paul Robeson was also a Russian Equal Rights advocate for Blacks.
Bloody Butcher: A small 3-4 oz ‘cluster’ tomato. Fruit are deep red in color and have a nice tomato flavor. Production is really good, but where this open-pollinated tomato really shines is its earliness. It ripens in only about 60 days, making it ripen about the same time as Early Girl, but this tomato is much tastier.
Celebrity Hybrid: A 1984 ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS WINNER. Exceptionally flavorful, firm 8 to 12 ounce fruit on strong vines with good cover and outstanding disease resistance. Large clusters of consistently large, beautiful tomatoes. Determinate.
Chapman: Beautiful, deep red fruit is quite large, weighing from 1 to 2 lbs. with dense, meaty flesh and extraordinary flavor. Plants bear prolifically.
Early Girl Hybrid: Comes in
first as an early slicing tomato and many customers favorite early variety.
Dependable large harvests of solid 4-6 oz. fruit. Disease resistance is
good. Known for its excellent performance in almost any climate.
German Red Strawberry: Big, red and flavorful 10 oz. - 1 lb. fruit shaped like a giant strawberry. Loaded with rich, sweet flavor and few seeds or juice. Great for canning and sandwiches. A family heirloom from Germany. A favorite of our local chefs for its size, shape and meaty texture.
Granny Cantrell German Red: This meaty beefsteak type tomato is named after Lettie Cantrell, who received seeds from a soldier returning from Germany during World War II. Named best tasting tomato of the year at the 2006 Heirloom Garden Show. Quite productive with some tomatoes reaching over 2 lbs. in size and what a flavor!
Moskvich: A farm favorite and loved by our Market customers. One of the most appealing extra-early tomatoes. Fruits are early, deep red and cold tolerant. Rich taste, smooth and globe shaped 4-6 oz. with a small stem scar. A must for every NW vegetable gardener.
Pantano Romanesco: A Roman heirloom. The fruit are medium sized and deep red with almost a purple tint. The flesh is very rich, flavorful and juicy. For our farm, they produced from mid-end season. One of our customers favorites for its rich taste and perfect shape. Very rare and delicious.
San Marzano Redorta: Huge plum tomato is an heirloom variety from Tuscany, and named for a mountain in Bergamo. Used for cooking, but flavorful enough to eat fresh. Tomatoes are much larger than a regular San Marzano with the average size being about 8 ozs.
Sioux: One of the best -known historic tomatoes, the medium-sized fruit are early. Productive plants and great flavor made this one of the most popular Midwestern tomatoes in the late 1940's. Gardeners love the smooth, beautiful fruit and heavy yields. Introduced in 1944 by the U of NE.
Azoychka: Our favorite yellow tomato. The fruits of this Russian heirloom are glowing lemon yellow in color, flat round and weigh 6-8 oz. They are smooth and attractive with flavorful flesh that has a citrusy taste, being sweet, yet rich. Delicious, early, productive, blemish and crack free - Our customers couldn't get enough of them.
Plum Lemon: Bright canary-yellow 3" fruit looks like a fresh lemon. This variety was collected by Kent Whealy, of Seed Saver's Exchange, from an elderly seedsman at the Bird Market in Moscow. Delicious, sweet taste.
Yellow Brandywine: Our largest yellow/orange tomato. Fruit size is 12-24 oz., excellent quality, creamy texture and excellent flavor. Produces heavily over a long period on tall potato-leafed stems. Small amount of cracking. Excellent for slicing. One of our customer favorites.
Beam’s Yellow Pear: A favorite when compared with 25 different yellow pears in 1998. Endless supply of 1 1/2” pear tomatoes with great taste, ideal for salads.
Black Cherry: Beautiful black cherries look like large, dusky purple-brown grapes. They have that rich flavor that makes black tomatoes famous. Fruits pick clean from the stem and are produced in abundance on vigorous, tall stems. The largest of our cherry tomatoes, our customers devoured every one we could grow.
Sungold: The Gold Standard for a sweet cherry tomato. Its intense sweet, fruity flavor and bright tangerine-orange color leave customers begging for more. Vigorous, very tall plants start yielding early and bear right through the season. Tendency to split. A non-heirloom tomato we grow for a taste that cannot be beat.
SunSugar Hybrid: A hybrid orange cherry tomato with unbelievably good flavor and productivity. Very sweet, fruity-tasting tomatoes are borne in log clusters on vigorous plants. Crack resistant. So tasty, they are often picked and eaten in the garden, never making it indoors.
Flame (Hillbilly): A huge, bicolor heirloom, brilliant yellow color with red marbling. Very large with a rich, sweet flavor. Beautiful when sliced. An heirloom believed to be from West Virginia.
Old German: Beautiful, large yellow fruit streaked and mottled with crimson red. The flavor is luscious and rich. An old Mennonite heirloom. Very popular variety in the Ozarks and becoming more widely produced on the West Coast.
Striped Cavern: Beautiful stuffing tomato. Abundant, blocky thick-walled 8 oz. red fruits with yellow stripes. Good flavor, a favorite to be stuffed with cheese.
Striped Roman: Stunning and unique, these long, pointed red fruit have wavy orange stripes. Perfect midsize beauty, brilliant color, meaty flesh and excellent flavor. Chefs and customers love Striped Roman. Last year we sold out each market with this unique tomato.
Patio F Hybrid: This red dwarf variety if one of America's most popular varieties ever for growing on patios, decks, courtyards, or wherever garden space is limited. Plants only become about 2 ft. gall, but produce large harvests of bright red, 3 t0 4 ounce flavorful tomatoes. Outstanding for growing in containers - one that measures at least 12 inches wide works best. Determinate.
Tiny Tiger: Dwarf, 30" plants produce 2" fruits that have orange and red stripes, sweet flavor and is perfect for growing in containers or in small gardens. A fun tomato for kids and adults alike. Determinate.
Tiny Tim: These round, bright red cherry tomatoes are just perfect for container growing or smaller gardens. Plants grow no more than 18 inches tall and can be grown in a 6-inch pot. The tomatoes are about 3/4 inch in diameter. Determinate.
Tumbler: Back by popular demand, Smoke Tree Farms offers hanging baskets of tumbler tomatoes. Developed to hang or for container planting, these dwarf plants are compact and attractive especially when laden with sweet clusters of 1 1/4" bright red fruit. This year, trailing lobelia will add color to these wonderful hanging baskets. Determinate.
