This Year's Tomato List
The 4 Tomato Groups - Tanja's Tomatoes 2022
SLICERS -
Your everyday use tomatoes, good for everything. These are the tomatoes you find at the grocery store. Mid sized and good for everything.
Anna's Russian - * early, large oxheart tomato. Indeterminate.
Black - * large mahogany brown tomatoes. Indeterminate.
Black Krim - famous, black tomato with fantastic flavour. Ind.
Black Prince - the one that started my heirloom journey, rich flavoured, medium size, mahogany coloured tomato. Ind.
Bloody Butcher - *love the name of this early, red, German tomato. Ind.
Costoluto Fiorentino - Love this gorgeous, Italian, ruffled tomato. Tastes fantastic, my must have. Ind.
Dwarf Hannah's Prize - huge, red, juicy, tasty tomatoes that grow in clusters! Love this one! Dwarf.
Dwarf Purple Heart - like an oxheart but is purple. Is meaty, yummy, on a dwarf vine. Love.
Green Zebra - Shoulders turn yellow when ripe, sweeter than your reds! Been on my top 10 often. Ind.
Grushkova - *Saladette type, early tomatoes! Very yummy and versatile. Great for containers. Det.
Latah - early determinate, tasty, saladette size! This is a great super early red tomato.
Legend - another early tomato, super yummy, cool weather tolerant, blight resistant. Determinate.
Mystery Keeper - another long storage type tomato that ripens from the inside out, lasts in pantry till spring. Indeterminate.
Old German - Yellow bi-colour, a favourite of one of our local high-end restaurants, big, sweet, yummy. Ind.
Paul Robeson - My must grow. Is a bit later than the other blacks but worth the wait. Ind.
Russian Saskatchewan - dwarf determinate tomato plant, is as hardy as it sounds. Early, det.
Sasha's Altai - This one has a following. Large, red tomatoes, juicy, tastes like tomatoes should! Det.
Thorburn's Terra Cotta - I got so many great comments about this brick orange coloured tomato last year that I had to bring it back. Heavy producer, great tasting tomatoes, has been around for 130 years! Huge tomatoes, indeterminate.
Uluru Ochre - Dwarf tree type tomato, black-orange in colour, super yummy with fruity, sweet, smoky flavour. I really like this one, especially the growth habit.
* means new to the NGP, excited to trial new favourites ; )
CHERRY/GRAPE TOMATOES
What can I say? These are likely the most popular tomatoes in general. Great for fresh eating, put a bowl of them on the table and they will be gone in no time flat. Grow a few colours to make a gorgeous salad.
A Grappoli d'Inverno - Semi-determinate, produces super well, great for storage, Italian heirloom.
Black Cherry - The most famous and popular black coloured cherry tomato, large cherries! Ind.
Blush Tiger - Gold oblong cherry (grape?) tomato with pink stripes. Vigorous, produces tons, ind.
Brad's Atomic Grape - Oblong tomato with the most unique colouring. delicately sweet.
Brown Berry - My personal favourite black/dark cherry, more complex flavour. Ind.
Chocolate Pear - This is a stunningly beautiful looking and tasting pear shaped tomato. Ind.
Cream Cherry - *Similar in looks to the Blue bumblebee, is yellow with blue shoulders, sweet with thin skins. See picture at TomatoFest, if you like : )
Droplet - determinate, compact, sweet red cherry. Great for containers.
Fargo's Yellow Pear - always popular here at ngp, a yellow pear, sweet, very , very prolific, on a semi-determinate plant so keeps on giving from early summer till frost.
Lucky Tiger - This oblong tomato is my most favourite to grow. Is a bi-colour with green stripes, is beautiful like a jewel!
Pink Bumblebee - The bumblebees are taking over the cherry world in popularity. They give and give and give. The cherries are striped and pretty and there are lots of them on the indeterminate vines.
Purple Bumblebee - see above.
Sprite -*early, sweet, determinate, grape tomato.
White Cherry - a pale yellow tomato that is one of the ngp facourites. Determinate.
PASTE/ROMA/PLUM
These are the ones you want for canning, meaty, less pulp, full of great flavour. They are also great for salads and sandwiches as they have less pulp. No more soggy bread. These are my 'boys' favourites, both hubby and son love the pastes.
Black Plum - Semi-determinate vine that produces small, mahogany coloured oblong tomatoes. I know several people that love this tomato as a must grow each year for it's lovely flavour. I would not grow this so much for canning bur rather for drying or salads.
Heinz 2653 - I grew these for the first time last year. These are the tomatoes that they grow in Ontario for a certain ketchup company. When green, it looks like a mini pumpkin. Is a great producer. Det.
Martino's Roma - This is the one that became my new go to after I could not get the Ropreco. Now I grow either or both. I grow 40 plants and get between 200 and 300 lbs of tomatoes, depending on the year, to feed the family. Determinate.
Pink Fang - this is the weirdest looking tomato that I have ever seen. I picked it up as I know hubby is going to love it for making sauce or paste as it will be pretty much all meat, no pulp.
Romana's Ukrainian - a plumper, rounder tomato that I absolutely love. Is a compact indeterminate, more like a semi so produces for longer into the season.
Ropreco - this determinate was my canning tomato for nearly a decade and then there were a few years that I could not find the seeds for it after the little seedhouse I got them from closed down. It is back!
San Marzano - the 'original authentic' paste tomato from Italy. Indeterminate.
San Marzano Redorta - As above but a bit bigger tomatoes.
Speckled Roman - large, beautifully striped semi-determinate tomato. The best of both worlds, produces from early summer till frost.
Tondino di Manduria - grown in Italy with little to no irrigation! Can you imagine the deep, robust flavour? Perfect for our droughty summers.
6 packs of paste tomatoes for the canners -
Heinz 2653
Martino's Roma
Ropreco
BEEFSTEAK - the big guys
These guys are my personal favourites, great as sandwich toppers. One slice covers the entire piece of bread. also great for bruschetta, fresh salsas, and canning.
Ananas Noire - my must grow each year! This bi-colour is pretty, is sweet, is big, is amazing.
Aunt Ginny's Purple - not actually purple, is a big, pink tomato! We grow this each year!
Berkeley Tie-dye (green) - these open-pollinated beefs are taking the world by storm. They are super good producers, have a rich, dark flavour, win 10 out of 10 in taste tests! Compact indeterminate. My puppy is named after this tomato ; )
Dr Wyche's Yellow - Named after Dr Wyche who is said to have fertilised his garden with manure from the nearby zoon. One of the very best tasting yellow tomatoes! Indeterminate, big gold coloured fruits, meaty, few seeds, rich and sweet flavour.
German Pink - My most popular selling beef. This Bavarian tomato is large, meaty. nearly seedless, indeterminate.
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye - as with the Berkeley above, people love this tomato! Is a great producer, super pretty, win all the taste tests. Grow on a more compact vine than other indeterminates.
Tasmanian Chocolate - from the dwarf tomato project, this is a brick red coloured beefsteak that grows on a compact tree-like stem/trunk. Delicious tasting. Make sure to stake it as it makes loads of large beefs!
MORE INFO TO HELP YOU CHOOSE : )
Very Early Tomatoes
Latah
Early Tomatoes
Glacier
Grushkova
Legend
Russian Saskatchewan
Sasha's Altai
Cool Climate/Short Season Tomatoes
Black
Black cherry (cherry)
Black Krim
Black Pear (cherry)
Black Prince
Paul Robeson
Russian Saskatchewan
Sasha's Altai
Sprite (cherry)
Tasmanian Chocolate (beefsteak)
Uluru Ochre
Green/Yellow/Orange Tomatoes
Blush Tiger
Cream Cherry
Dr Wyche's Yellow
Green Zebra
Uluru Ochre (orange)
White Cherry
Bi-Coloured Tomatoes
Berkeley Tie-Dye
Brad's Atomic Grape
Bosque Blue Bumblebee
Lucky Tiger
Old German
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye
Black/Purple/Mahogany Tomatoes
Black
Black Cherry
Black Krim
Black Plum
Black Prince
Brown Berry
Chocolate Pear
Dwarf Purple Heart
Paul Robeson
Purple Bumblebee
Tasmanian Chocolate
Long Storage Tomatoes
Mystery Keeper
A Grappoli d'Inverno (cherry)
Determinate Tomatoes (Bush Type)
Droplet
Dwarf Hannah's Prize (tree type)
Dwarf Purple Heart (tree type)
Grushovka
Heinz 2653
Latah
Legend
Martino's Roma
Ropreco
Sasha's Altai
Speckled Roman (semi)
Sprite
Tasmanian Chocolate
Tondino di Monduria
Best Tomatoes for Containers- (pretty much any of the determinate varieties listed above)
Droplet
Grushovka
Sprite
Best Tomatoes for Canning
Black Plum
Black Prince
German Pink
Grushovka
Heinz 2653
Legend
Martino's Roma
Pink Fang
Romano's Ukrainian
Ropreco
San Marzano
San Marzano Redorta
Speckled Roman
Tondino di Manduria
I think that most all of you know that tomatoes are my most favourite thing in the whole world to grow.
They make me happy, they move my soul, they taste great, and they can, store, freeze, dehydrate well. Very important in today's world. Grow lots and stock your pantry!
I only grow and sell heirloom tomatoes and some of the newer open-pollinated ones.
The hybrids just do not incite any passion in me, so I do not grow them.
I truly hope you enjoy this year's selection and have fun making your wish list.
~Tanja~
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