The Neighborhood Farm

Amana Orange
Heirloom
Orange
This heirloom variety takes its name from Amana, Iowa, and features large, up to 5" in diameter, beefsteak-type, mild fruits of a distinctive orange color.    ~Totally Tomatoes

Ananas Noire aka Black Pineapple
Heirloom
Red, green and yellow
One of the most unusual tomatoes. Giant fruits, 2 lbs or more, change from dark red to green with shades of yellow in between; flesh is greenish with red markings. The sweet/fruity/ spicy taste is reminiscent of both black and bicolor tomatoes. Flavor changes within the same fruit! Scrumptious. Strong, productive plants with heavy foliage protection. U.S. heirloom.
~ Underwood Gardens

 Aunt Ruby’s German Green
Heirloom
Green when ripe!
“The biggest surprise I’ve ever experienced in tomatoes.” Until you try it, you won’t believe a green tomato could be this good. I rate it second only to Brandywine for flavor and it is on just about everyone’s top ten list. Oblate 12-16 oz. fruits blush lightly yellow and develop an amber-pink tinge on the blossom end when ripe. Watch closely and don’t allow them to get too soft before picking. The green flesh of this beefsteak is faintly marbled with pink. Flavor sweet and tart, rich and spicy. Aunt Ruby’s is not just the best green eating tomato, it also makes a delicious basis for salsa verde. From Ruby Arnold of Greenville, TN, who got it from her grandfather who brought it from Germany. ~Fedco Seeds

 Black Cherry
Cherry - Heirloom
“Black” (purplish)
Two-bite cherries with the dusky color and complex flavor typical of the best black tomatoes. Somewhat late for a cherry tomato, fruit ripens slowly and individually until frost, but worth the wait. Examine each plant closely at picking time: the dark-hued cherries are easy to lose in the foliage.
~ Fedco Seeds

 Black from Tula
Heirloom
Dark brown-red with green shoulders
A robust Russian heirloom and the largest of the dramatic blacks, with dark, greenish-black shoulders on dark, brownish-red, slightly flattened fruits that grow to 3 to 5" in diameter. Full flavored, chocolate-brown flesh with green gel is rich and satisfying. Performs well in dry conditions.  ~Totally Tomatoes

Black Krim
Heirloom
Dark red-purple with green shoulders
Krims should be harvested when half green and still firm. They are dead ripe and perfectly delicious at that stage. If you wait till they are fully purple, you will not be able to get them from garden to table intact.  Krims are strikingly iridescent purple on the outside, usually with dark green-black shoulders and noticeable catfacing. Interiors are part black, too, with an unusual juicy yet meaty.  Heirloom Krim hails from Krymsk on the Black Sea in Russia.  ~ Fedco Seeds

Black Sea Man
Heirloom
Black, green, red and pink
A hardy Russian heirloom that looks odd but tastes delicious. Rich, tangy tomato flavor in medium-sized, 4 to 8 oz. fruits with brown-black skins and pink shoulders. Fruits are slightly plum-shaped, revealing skeleton-like veins when blanched and peeled. Short, potato leaf plants. Plant early for best results.
~Totally Tomatoes

Bloody Butcher
Heirloom
Red
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.
~Rareseeds.com

 Box Car Willie
Heirloom
Red
We predict this old-timer might become your main crop variety, due to its prolific yields of smooth, reddish-orange fruits averaging a large 10 to 16 oz.! With an old-fashioned flavor you'll remember from childhood, these high-yielding, multi-use tomatoes will last throughout the season and are ideal for canning, freezing, or for home-cooked meals. Crack-free and disease resistant.
~Totally Tomatoes

Brandywine
Heirloom
Pinkish red
The classic heirloom tomato.  Meaty with just the perfect hint of tartness, pink Brandywine was the poster tomato of the heirloom revival. Introduced in 1889 by Johnson & Stokes.  The oblate beefsteak-type fruits average right around a pound. Although they ripen unevenly throughout the season, at least a few will be quite early for such a large tomato.                       ~ Fedco Seeds

Brown Berry
Cherry - Heirloom
Reddish brown
Sweet but tart brown cherry tomatoes.  Beautiful color, fabulous taste.
~Totally Tomatoes 

Cherokee Purple
Heirloom
Dark purple with green shoulders
No list of the best-tasting heirloom tomatoes would be complete without Cherokee Purple, an unusual variety from Tennessee, said to have originated with the Cherokee Indians. Fruits are globes to slightly oblate, averaging 10-13 oz, with dusky brownish-purple skin, dark green shoulders and brick-red flesh. Their real attraction is their rich taste, which has been described as “smoky,” “sweet rich juicy winey,” “delicious sweet,” and “rich brandywine flavor”.   The vines should not be pruned because the delicate fruits sunburn easily.
~ Fedco Seeds

Chocolate Cherry
Cherry - Heirloom
Chocolate brown
Extremely flavorful, uniform, round fruits in trusses of 8, measure 1" in diameter. Fruits hold stems very well, don't crack and can be picked several days before completely mature and allowed to ripen off the vine without sacrificing quality. Great variety for the home gardener or for packing into pints for market.
~Totally Tomatoes

Giant Oxheart
Heirloom
Red with yellow shoulders
This well-named giant produces large, 12 oz. to 2 lbs., firm, meaty, heart-shaped fruits with thick walls, few seeds and a mild flavor. The vigorous vines produce high yields of fruits that mature late but are well worth the wait! ~Totally Tomatoes

Goldman’s Italian American
Paste – Heirloom
Red
Ongoing production of large, red, voluptuous (large in the hip) pear shaped, paste tomatoes with exceptional flavor and few seeds. Individual tomatoes can reach one pound each. Makes a great tomato/spaghetti sauce. 80 days. …Named Goldman's Italian American by Amy Goldman for her father's grocery store in Brooklyn. ~Underwood Gardens

 Green Zebra
Heirloom (according to most people)
Green striped
Green-striped salad specialty.
A delicious, tangy salad tomato, ripe just as the green fruit develops a yellow blush, accentuating the darker green stripes. The 3-4 oz. fruits are the ideal size for slicing into wedges for salads. Productive over a long season. Developed by Tom Wagner. Though technically not an heirloom, we feel this is the best place to list it. ~Johnny’s Seed

Kellogg’s Breakfast
Heirloom
Pale orange
Lovely, pale-orange fruits are solid and meaty throughout, packed with mild, superb-tasting flesh. A long-season producer of large, beefsteak-type fruits, up to 16 oz., with solid centers that have just a few seeds at the edges. Very desirable!~Totally Tomatoes

Lillian’s Yellow
Heirloom
Golden Yellow
Lillian’s may be a little late, not coming on until September, but she is worth waiting for. Her superb creamy consistency, meaty flesh, and complex of rich deep flavors make her the best-tasting clear tomato, a perfect balance of engaging sweetness and intriguing citrus quality in every 1 lb. fruit. These won’t win any beauty contests, being bilobed, oblate and a bit lopsided, but will win tasting contests. One bite into one of these beefsteaks and you’ll forget about its superficial shortcomings… From Lillian Bruce, Manchester, TN.  ~ Fedco seeds

Mortgage Lifter AKA Radiator Charlie
Heirloom
Pink
Also called Radiator Charlie. Longtime favorite with good yields of very large, smooth, pink-skinned fruits even in droughts. Very meaty fruits with few seeds, much like Giant Belgium, but not quite as large. Very mild, delectable, sweet flavor.~Totally Tomatoes

Moskovich
Heirloom
Red
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. Indeterminate. ~ Johnny’s Seeds

Mr. Stripey
Heirloom
Red and yellow striped
Red and yellow-striped heirloom variety that adds color to any gourmet salad bar. Large, ridge-shouldered fruits are mild-flavored and low in acid.  ~Totally Tomatoes

 New Girl
Hybrid
Red
First early, great taste.
Better tasting and more disease resistant than Early Girl. ~Johnny’s Seeds

Paul Robeson
Heirloom
Maroon with green shoulders
This Russian heirloom was named in honor of Paul Robeson (1898-1976) who befriended the Soviet Union. Had he lived at a different time, Robeson might have become our first black President.… The maroon-brick 6–12 oz. oblate often bi-lobed fruits with dark green shoulders come closest in flavor to Black Krim, but can claim their own distinctive sweet smoky taste. A sandwich tomato with a tang, an extraordinary tomato for an extraordinary man.~ Fedco seeds

Pineapple
Heirloom
Yellow, orange and red – like a sunset
The striped tomatoes are among my favorites. They have a silky smooth texture and complex, fruity taste. They tend to be a little funky cosmetically and often grow huge, 1 lb. or more. Cut in half, it looks like the interior of a pineapple except with yellow and red marbling. It doesn’t taste like a pineapple, though, nor like a typical red tomato, either. Its unique mild low-acid fruity sweetness needs a fruit name all its own. Originally from Kentucky.~ Fedco Seeds
                                            

Polbig
Hybrid
Red
High yields of very good tasting, meaty, 6-8 oz globe shaped fruit. Uniform ripening time. Excellent deep red internal and external color. Determinate. 
~Johnny’s Seeds

Principe Borghese
Cherry - Heirloom
Red
An Italian heirloom with excellent flavor. Used for sun-dried tomatoes as it has few seeds and little juice. Also makes a tasty sauce, although you’ll need a lot of the little tomatoes! Bears small fruits in prolific clusters over a long season.         ~ Fedco Seeds

Pruden’s Purple
Heirloom
Pink outside and red inside
"Early Brandywine type."
Large to very large (many over 1 lb.) fruits are flattened and smooth (except for shoulder ribbing on some), and resist cracking. Vivid dark pink skin with crimson flesh. Medium tall, potato-leaf plants. Indeterminate.
 ~Johnny’s Seeds

Rose de Berne
Heirloom
Beautiful pink
The star of our tomato trials was Rose de Berne.  This French émigré is a superior medium-sized pink tomato that delivers the robust flavor of the bigger types. It has a rich sweetness the others can’t match. I found myself popping one juicy 5 oz. translucent smooth pink fruit after another into my mouth. No slouch in the appearance department either, the unblemished globes are perfectly round, the soft skins not excessively fragile and the color and size very attractive.  ~ Fedco Seeds                                       

San Marzano
Paste - Heirloom
Red
Early, large classic Italian.
Tall vines produce heavy yields of long, cylindrical fruit a week earlier than other San Marzano varieties. Delicious, balanced acidic flavor, and meaty flesh makes for good sauce. Fruits avg. 5-6 oz. High quality for our most demanding "saladette" or "paste" customers. ~Johnny’s Seeds

Snowberry
Cherry – Hybrid
Pale yellow outside, white inside
Nicely rounded, 1-1/2 to 2 oz., firm fruits feature a creamy yellow color outside with a white inside, making this unique variety the closest thing to a pure white cherry available on the market today. Sturdy plants produce trusses of uniform fruits and are sweet and fruity with a typical tomato flavor.  ~Totally Tomatoes

Striped German
Heirloom
Red and yellow striped
The flat, medium to large, variably ribbed-shoulder tomatoes are shaded yellow and red. The marbled interior looks beautiful sliced. Complex, fruity flavor and smooth texture. Medium-tall vines. Indeterminate. ~Johnny’s Seeds    

Suncherry
Cherry – Hybrid
Red
Sweet, red cherries.
Small, 1 1/8", 13 gm. (0.45 oz.) fruits are borne in long, 20-fruit, grape-like trusses. Very sweet, with 8 1/2-10? Brix (sugar percentage). Compared to other "Sweet 100" types, the fruits are sweeter and ripen earlier. Pick on time to avoid cracking. ~Johnny’s Seeds

 Sun Gold
Cherry - Hybrid
Orange
To quote one of our customers, “Without these little babies, there’s no summer!” The best cherry tomato ever developed, a perfect combination of deep sweetness with a hint of acid tartness, so good that for several years it took away our incentive to do cherry tomato trials because all others paled in comparison. Small fruits, borne in prolific clusters, ripen very early to a rich apricot color and keep producing till frost.
~ Fedco Seeds

Super Suncherry
Cherry - Hybrid
Red
This sweet sister to Sungold gives you the same super-sweet taste and earliness in bright red, utterly delicious, cherry-sized fruits. Bite-size, 1/4" fruits weigh barely more than 1/2 oz. each, and are thin-skinned and juicy, ripening earlier and sweeter than other varieties of its type. Vigorous vines with 20 fruits or more per truss. ~Totally Tomatoes

Sweet Chelsea
Cherry - Hybrid
Red
“A reliable heavy producer of luscious big cherries. I have never enough cages and stakes for the multitudes of fruit that weigh down the rampant vines. The best for grazing in the garden,” says Janine Welsby. Sweet round red fruits are practically impeccable in appearance. Chelsea starts producing relatively early and continues throughout the season. Wide disease resistance, including TMV and F. ~Fedco seeds

Tiffen Mennonite
Heirloom
Pinkish red
Tiffen has many similarities to the more famous Brandywine—potato-leaf foliage, pink skin, and rich, rich old-fashioned tomato taste which has twice drawn raves at staff tastings. The large rough oblate beefsteak fruits (avg. 15 oz.) are a tad bigger and later than Brandywine. For a superb sandwich tomato or a fresh garden snack, heirloom Tiffen is hard to top!~ Fedco Seeds

Tigerella
Heirloom
Red and yellow striped
Similar to Mr. Stripey, with tangy, red, meaty fruits that exhibit marked stripes of a green-to-yellow hue. Uniform production all season. ~ Totally Tomatoes

Tomatoberry Garden
Cherry - Hybrid
Red
Unique strawberry-shaped fruits.
High yielding plants. Fruits have a beautiful, deep red color with broad shoulders tapering to a blunt point at the blossom end, giving them a heart-like appearance. Fruit on later sets will have more of a point at the tip end. Firm, chewy texture with excellent sweet flavor.                                  ~Johnny’s Seeds

Yellow Mini
Cherry - Hybrid
Yellow
Bright yellow fruits with less splitting!
Excellent sweet juicy flavor. Fruits are round and avg. 1-1 1/4". Compared with other cherry tomatoes, Yellow Mini resists the splitting that is caused by too much rain or inconsistent watering. Indeterminate.
~Johnny’s Seeds                                    

Yellow Pear
Cherry - Heirloom
Yellow
Petite, distinctive salad tomato.
The tall, vigorous vine bears quantities of small, 3/4-1 oz., lemon yellow, pear-shaped fruits. Mild flavor. Indeterminate. ~Johnny’s Seeds