Some Varieties

Some Varieties

Big Rainbow: Large fruited yellow tomatoes with red swirls and a mild sweet flavor.

Big Zebra: Striking green and yellow fruit.

Blaby Special: Red fruited tomato grown in the village of Blaby in Leicestershire until just after World War II.

Black Krim: Dark red to brown tomato often said to have originated on the Island of Krim, in the Black Sea.

Brandywine: Large fruited pink tomato with red flesh and clear skin, which was passed on from the Sudduth family to an Ohio tomato enthusiast named Ben Quisenberry.

Cherokee Purple: One of the first known black ordeep dusky rose colored tomatoes.

Green Zebra: Bright green with light stripes.

Hillbilly: is of the same variety as the Big Rainbow cultivar.

Jubilee: A heavy yielding golden fruit.

Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom: Collected by Lillian Bruce of Tennessee and became widely collected.

Mortgage Lifter: Enormous sweet pink tomatoes.

Mule Team: Globe shaped bright red tomatoes that average 8-12 oz.

Plum Lemon: A large-yield Russian heirloom which produces 4 ounce lemon-like fruit.