![]() ![]() ![]() Rutgers - heirloom, a legendary Jersey tomato, red fruit is slightly flattened, averages 5 ounces each, ready in 74 days, great flavor and plump and juicy.Cherokee Purple - this heirloom variety features reddish-purple skin and red flesh, tomatoes average 5" across and 3.5" tall and are 13 ounces, ready in 85 days, rich and full flavor.Mortgage Lifter - heirloom created by a gardener in the 1930s, very large red fruit with texture similar to a beefsteak, fruit average 24 ounces each, big flavor, ready in 80 days. ![]() ![]() Black Krim - this heirloom variety averages 8 ounce fruits that are round and burgundy in color, rich and sweet, ready in 80 days, one of the more popular heirloom varieties.Best Boy - round red/orange fruit average 8 ounces, good disease resistance, firm and meaty, smooth skin, ready in 70 days.Enchantment - bright red fruit are plum-shaped, average 4 ounces each, good yields and disease resistance, make excellent sun-dried tomatoes, meaty and sweet, ready in 70 days.Bloody Butcher - smaller slicing variety, rich red color and big taste, round fruit average 2" across and 3-4 ounces each, extremely early variety, ready in just 55 days, fruit appears in clusters for easy harvest.Marglobe - large and uniformly round, ready in 73 days, red fruit average 6-7 ounces each, good combination of sweet and tart.Delicious - this variety is ready in 77 days, slightly flattened fruits average 1 pound each, smooth and bright red, big flavor.Super Beefsteak - very flavorful, sweet and meaty, smooth and round fruit is bright red, average 1 pound each, ready in 80 days, good yields.Early Girl - high yields, round and red fruit average 5 ounces each, sweet and meaty, ready in just 65 days.Beefsteak Organic - certified organic, large fruits average 24 ounces each, round and red and very meaty, ready in 85 days, sweet and juicy.Celebrity - ready in 70 days, round fruit are red-orange and average 7 ounces, excellent disease resistance, heavy yields, sweet and juicy.Big Pink - this tomato variety features a bright pink color, squatty fruit average 8-10 ounces, good slicing variety, big tomato flavor, ready in 75 days.Big Beef - All-America Winner, bright red fruit is firm and juicy and sweet, average 10-12 ounces, high yields, ready in 73 days.Fresh Salsa - this variety is available exclusively from the Burpee Seed Company, tomatoes are egg shaped and bright red, average 4-5 ounces each, can be chopped into tiny cubes that hold their shape, less seeds than other varieties, ready in 70 days.Sweet Seedless - this seedless tomato variety is very sweet and juicy, muted red fruit are round and average 8-10 ounces, ready in 70 days.Big Boy - this variety is about the size of a baseball, bright red and very round and sweet, ready in 78 days, tomatoes average 10-16 ounces.Standard - these are the classic round or flattened, mostly red tomato varieties, includes very large beefsteak tomatoes and slicing tomatoes Please note - the days to maturity are counted from the time the seedlings are transplanted. We've included fruit descriptions and plant information, and heirloom varieties have been identified as such. For our purposes, we have grouped tomatoes into 3 different categories:Įach of these categories are detailed below, and several of the more common varieties of tomatoes from each category are listed. ![]()
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