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Black Cherry
65 days, indeterminate
A new variety that is
very productive with cherry shaped fruits on large clusters.
Fruit is a dark, purplish, near black color. Flavor is sweet but
yet has a very rich and complex taste. Fruit picks clean from
the stems. Plants are vigorous and tall and load up with an
abundance of fruit.
Bradley
75-80 days, semi-determinate
Plants are semi-determinate, short stake type of plant with
heavy foliage cover when staked and pruned. Fruit are pink in
color and size ranges from 8-12 ounces. Plants have fusarium
wilt resistance.
The 'Bradley' is the most asked for and favored tomato for my
area here in Middle Tennessee and has been so since it was first
released in 1961 by Dr. Joe McFerran of the University of
Arkansas.
We have been
growing the Bradley tomato for over 40 years since it's
introduction.
Brandywine (Sudduth)
85 days, indeterminate
Brandywine is one of the most well known heirloom tomatoes.
Potato leaf plants produce 1 to 2 pound sized fruit that are
oblate in shape and pink in color. Excellent flavor.
This variety
originally is from the Ben Quisenberry collection who reportedly
obtained the seed from a Mrs. Dorris Sudduth Hill who said that
it had been in her family since about 1900.
Cherokee Purple
80 days,
indeterminate
Reported as being originally grown by the Cherokee Indians, this
tomato was given to Craig LeHoullier by J.D. Green of Tennessee.
Plants are very productive bearing fruit in the 10 to 16 ounce
range. Fruits are a dusky rose/purple color with red interiors.
Fruits have a complex rich flavor with a slight sweet
aftertaste. This tomato is well over 100 years old.
Dwarf Champion
80 days. Tree-type
A very old variety dating back to the 1800s. Plants are
compact with a tree like growth (stiff and upright) and will
obtain a height of around 3 feet, sometimes a little more,
during the season. Leaves are rugose (crinkled, thick and
leathery). Fruits average 3-8 ounces and have a slightly tangy
taste but are also mild with a sweet overtone.
Ferris Wheel
90 days, indeterminate
Released by the John A. Salzer Seed Company of La Crosse,
Wisconsin in about 1907. A very nice large pink tomato. Fruit
are juicy having a mild and slightly sweet taste. Fruit size
average between 8 ounces and a pound with up to 2 pound fruit
under favorable growing conditions.
Florida Pink
85 - 90 days, indeterminate
Giant, light pink fruit grow to 2 pounds or more, but are
incredibly productive for such a large tomato. The fruit is
virtually crack-free and smooth in shape except for ribbing at
the shoulders. It is very juicy with delicious, sweet flavor.
Kosovo
75 days,
indeterminate
Shape is variable including large heart, double-heart, and
large flat shaped pink on the same plant. Fruit average 1 to 2
pounds in weight. Fruit are meaty with few seed and makes a
great slicing tomato. A very nice tasting tomato.
We received Kosovo in 2003 from Glenn Parker of New Zealand who
told us the following information about it;
He received it from one of his nursery customers in 2000, the
man told him that his son, who was a UN worker in Kosovo, had
sent him the seed the previous year of a beautiful Kosovoan
tomato.
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Magnus (Livingston's)
75 -
80 days. Indeterminate
Introduced by the Livingston Seed Company in 1900.
Potato leaf plants bearing 6 to 8 ounce oblate, pink fruit with
an excellent taste.
Marianna's Peace
80 - 85 days. Indeterminate
Marianna's Peace is a family heirloom reportedly from
Czechoslovakia. Potato leaf foliage. Dark reddish pink fruit are
large weighing 1-2 pounds. Plants are very productive which is
unusual for a potato leaf variety. Fruit has a good sweet / acid
balance flavor, very meaty and a shy seeded variety like
Brandywine.
Mexico
80 days. Indeterminate
The plants grow quite tall and steadily produce good amounts
of large (1 to 2-3/4 pound), dark pink fruits continuing
throughout the growing season. Makes a good, thick tomato juice.
Not watery like some beefsteaks. Reportedly to have been brought
to the U.S. by a Mexican family now living in the Midwest.
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Mildglobe,
Hastings'
75 days. Indeterminate
Medium size pink
fruit, flattened-globe shaped, 6 to 12 ounce, mild flavor with a
hint of sweetness. Plants are large, stout and vigorous, fruit
set is moderate to heavy. Introduced by the Hastings Seed
Company of Georgia in 1942.
Our original source was USDA accession
NSL 27535
Pinkshipper
80 - 85 days. Indeterminate
Developed by the USDA, Beltsville, Maryland and released in 1957
for pink tomato markets and home garden. Fruit are smooth, pink
and globe shaped and are mild tasting. For us it shows good
crack tolerance. It exhibits a high resistance to fusarium wilt.
Plants are of a good medium size and grow somewhat erect. Fruits
are uniform and of good market size averaging 8-12 ounces. Our
parent stock source was from USDA
PI 270241
David
Pendergrass - President of New Hope Seed Company writes:
Our family has grown tomatoes for market for over 50 years.
Which variety was grown in a given year was dictated by the
packer who supplied plants for the growers. Gulf State Market
was the primary grown tomato until the release of the
Pinkshipper in 1957 and then Bradley followed in 1961. My
grandfather and father both favored the Pinkshipper most of all
but it was soon dropped by the packer who began supplying the
growers with Bradley plants which is a fine tomato also. He and
my father always said they regretted not saving seed but wasn't
expecting it to disappear so fast. I spent nearly 20 years
searching for the Pinkshipper tomato with the hope it had not
become extinct.
In 2003 I finally
found it sitting in the USDA Seed Bank. My grandfather passed
away in 1983, 22 after he last grew Pinkshipper and 20 years
since he passed making 42 years since it had been planted on our
soil, I think he would be proud to know that it is back and
growing on our farm.
Polish
85 days. Indeterminate
Heirloom potato leaf variety from Poland.
Large, brick-red fruit are moderately smooth and very meaty
weighing up to a 1 pound or more.
Plants are vigorous and set fruit even in cool weather. Flavor
is excellent, making for an outstanding slicing tomato as well
as an excellent canning tomato.
Tidwell German
80 days,
indeterminate
A family heirloom
from the Tidwell family of Tennessee (our own relatives) who
have been growing it since at least the 1920s. The plants are
large and vigorous with dark colored regular leaves yielding
large pink fruits that are mild in flavor. The average fruit
sizes range from one to two pounds. Suckering the plants can
result in fruits weighing more, we have had them up to and over
three pounds. Shows moderate drought resistance but does not
tolerate extremely wet conditions very well.
Although being our own family's heirloom and thus making us a
bit (lot) bias, we think the flavor is excellent and the best
slicing tomato for those (like us) that enjoy a huge slice of
tomato for their sandwiches and that is big enough to cover the
bread. It's also an outstanding juicing tomato, with it's meaty
flesh and few seed it makes a good thick juice.
Due to it fast growth and vigor we have found it best if no
additional fertilize, besides what is given at transplanting, be
added until the first or second cluster of fruit have set on.
Too much fertilize or added nutrients given before it has set on
fruit may result in an overly large, unmanageable plant with
little fruit set.
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Trucker's Favorite
75 days,
indeterminate
Originated in Burlington County, New Jersey and released by
Burpee sometime before 1899.
A medium to large size pink fruited tomato, ranging 6-12 ounces,
has a fair resistance to cracking. Fruit are uniform globe shape
and ripen evenly. Plants are strong and produce very good yields
of old fashioned tasting tomatoes right up until frost.
Winsall
 (Henderson’s)
80 - 85 days. Indeterminate
Originally introduced by the Peter Henderson Seed Company in
1924.
Pink fruit are slightly flattened and fairly smooth with few
blemishes. Average weight is about 1 pound.
Flavor is excellent with a sweet taste.
Our seed source was Dr. Carolyn Male who grew out from USDA
accession
NSL 5951
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