Rich red flesh are good for fresh eating and preserving.Ĭuor di Bue is a magnificent large oxheart with creamy flesh of superb flavour.Ĭurrant Heirloom Tomatoes are some of the smallest tomatoes available. The fruit are attractive with their somewhat flattened structure and deep ribs. Verdicts on taste are split…Ĭostoluto Genovese is an old Italian favourite. With a good shelf life, and thick skin, they do well as a cooking tomato too. With potato leaf foliage, the vines are vigorous producers.Ĭarmelita has its parentage in sought after French heirlooms and with its striking red-pink perfectly round fruit, is sure to be a great hybrid choice.Ĭasady's Folly Tomato are really striking fruit! With their elongated plum shape and psychedelic orange red wave stripes they look beautiful in salads. The beefsteak rosy pink fruits are loaded with an old-fashioned tomato taste. Very high yielding.īloody Butcher is rich red inside and out and is a great all-round use tomato with good flavour.īrandywine Pink is a popular heirloom tomato of Amish origin. Everyone loves their outstanding flavor that is both sweet and smoky with a hint of citrus. The flesh is bright green with deep red streaks. The multi-colored, smooth fruit (green, yellow and purple mix) weigh about 1 1/2 lbs. A firm favourite in taste tests, and unique looking fruit.īlack Pineapple Heirloom Tomato aka Ananas Noireīlack Pineapple, or Ananas Noire is an unusual variety and was developed in Belgium. Visually a great addition to cherry tomato mixes.īlack Krim is an heirloom from Russia with very juicy dark red-purple fruit and rich sweet flavour. Masses of chocolate brown round cherry tomatoes with a deep and sweet taste. Indeterminate, 70-75 days.Heirloom and Open Pollinated Tomato Selection PhotographĪmish Orange Sherbet is a good producer of orange-red beefsteak type tomatoes that are large and meaty with a mild, sweet flavour that is pretty low in acidity as well.Īmish Paste is a plum tomato that is often used for cooking and canning.īerkeley Tie Dye Pink was developed by Wild Boar Farms, this tomato is a compact plant that produces beautiful round medium fruit with a very sweet, rich, dark tomato flavor.īlack Cherry is produced on vigorous vines. Deep burgundy and fleshy pink, striped with green. That combination of rich flavor and being particularly meaty, the Vernissage lends itself well to a heavy red sauce where it needs little herbal assistance in creating a fresh, rich flavor.īlack Vernissage Tomato (solanum lycopersicum) originated in the Ukraine. That standout is Black Vernissage, a saladette sized tomato ironically sent to as a free gift with my spring seed order but one I will grow every year hereafter, not only for its deliciousness but for if prolific nature and its ability to make one of the best sauces I’ve ever gotten from any tomato.īlack Vernissage features everything great about both paste tomatoes while also maintaining the best flavor qualities of chocolate and black toms and with a light acidity and nearly no sweetness it has a sort of savory pepperiness en par with the scent of fresh sweet basil. As a planned segment of Crescent in the Pines is to highlight prized heirloom varieties and other garden selections of note, this beaut seems an obvious choice for the first feature of the Heirloom series. As with every summer though, a standout has shown through, this one particularly impressive for not only putting on in mass quantities but for doing so under the strenuous conditions of down pours and unseasonable cool turning immediately into drought and heat. A few plants, although stunted, have managed to put on but by no means in the quantities of a more typical season. This has been a year of lamentations on the mass drowning of mine and everyone I knows’ gardens.
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