White and Purple/Black Tomatoes 

WHITE

Cream Sausage  $3.00
80 days - Determinate, 3 oz., regular leaf, paste
Here is a new and stunning tomato, an elongated paste tomato that is creamy white to pale yellow in color. With its sweet flavor, this should be a hit with gourmet chefs. Bushy plants are quite productive. Think of the new sauce colors this beauty will create!

Dr. Carolyn  $3.00
75-85 days-Indeterminate, regular leaf. Large yields of cherry sized fruit. Ivory to pale yellow with a lemon blush on the shoulders. Sweet complex flavor balanced with acid. This tomato was named for Dr. Carolyn Male, who first saved the seed. 

Great White  $3.00 
80-90 days - Indeterminate, 1-2 lb., regular leaf, beefsteak: salad/slicing  Giant, creamy-white fruit, this tomato is superbly wonderful. The flesh is good and deliciously fruity.  One of our favorite fresh-eating tomatoes! Fruit are smoother than most large beefsteak types, and yields can be very high. This fine variety was developed by Gleckner’s Seedsmen.

White Beauty/Snowball  $3.00
85 days -Indeterminate, 8 oz., regular leaf, salad/slicing/canning/juice Parchment-white tomatoes are extra smooth, beautiful, and are renowned for their sweet, citrus taste that is stronger than many white types. This variety is perfect for making a delicious white sauce or fresh out of your hand. In 1927, Isbell's Seed Co. of Jackson, MI, said that this was the best white variety they had ever grown. Some sources say it may have been introduced as early as 1850. This variety is a wonderful piece of American history that is just too good to be lost and should become popular with chefs.

White Currant  $3.00 
70-75 days - Indeterminate, 1/2"-3/4", regular leaf, cherry  
Tiny and creamy-white fruit, with skins having a yellow tint. Very sweet, superb flavor, even better than 'Matt's Wild Cherry.' The fruit grow in clusters, and the yield is huge! More than you can pick right up to frost. Large, vining plants. A perfect cherry tomato for home and market gardeners. A wild type.

White Oxheart  $3.00
85 days - Inderminate.   Cream colored Oxheart that can weigh up to 1 pound.  Complex flavor, with fruity overtones.  A wonderful addition to grow in your garden.

White Queen  $3.00 
80 days - Iindeterminate, 6-8 oz., regular leaf, salad/slicing    
The favorite white variety with many tomato collectors, this heirloom appeared at least as early as 1941, when it was offered in the Earl May Seed Co. catalog. Fruit have one of the best flavors of all tomatoes, being fragrant, fruity, and intensely sweet. It is creamy white in color and very attractive. A productive variety that has become very rare.

White Tomesol  $3.00   Sorry, not available
80 days - Indeterminate, 8 oz., regular leaf, salad/slicing   An amazing heirloom that is bursting with fragrance and natural goodness that’s hard to beat. The cream-colored fruit are beautiful and smooth. For taste, it’s one of the best, being both sweet and rich. The vines set heavy yields of this rare treasure that is sure to become a favorite of gourmet growers.

White Wonder  $3.00
84-85 days - Indeterminate, 10-12 oz., regular leaf, beefsteak:slicing 
Medium/large-sized, creamy-white fruit are very sweet! They have a very high sugar content. A very popular white type. 

Purple/Black Tomatoes

Amazon Chocolate  $3.00 New
75-80 days - Indeterminate, slicer, fruits to 1 lb+. Recently introduced by Amishland Seeds, this large-fruited "purple" tomato is destined to become a classic. Extremely productive over a long season, the flavor has been described as sweet, rich, complex, and having wine-like overtones. The vigorous plants tolerate heat and drought and stalwartly keep on yielding the chocolate-brown, soft and delicate juicy fruits. Originally from Ukraine and apparently from the Black Sea region which has given us so many superlative heirloom varieties.

Black Cherry  $3.00
65-75 days - Indeterminate, 1/2"-3/4", regular leaf, cherry   
Beautiful black cherries, look like large, dusky-purple grapes; they have that rich flavor that makes black tomatoes famous. Large vines yield very well. Very unique and delicious.

Black Krim  $3.00
80 days - Indeterminate, 10-12 oz., regular leaf, salad/slicing/canning    
Dark red-purple fruit, rich sweet flavor. One of the best. It always places high in tomato taste trials. It’s very juicy. An heirloom from Russia with very unique looking, large fruit. Wonderful flavor. It’s popular at many markets on the West Coast; also a favorite of many fine chefs.

Black Prince  $3.00
70 days -Indeterminate,  5 oz., regular leaf,  An heirloom from Irkutsk, Siberia. These tomatoes are round and very uniform; the color is a wonderful deep blackish-chocolate brown. The flavor is as deep, sweet, and rich as the color. A unique salad tomato, the plants produce a large crop. A good tomato for fine markets.

Carbon  $3.00
80-85 days -Indeterminate, 8-12oz., regular leaf, salad/slicing/canning/drying. This variety has won taste awards from coast to coast in the last few years. The fruit are smooth, large, and beautiful, being one of the darkest and prettiest of the purple types. They also seem to have an extra dose of the complex flavor dark tomatoes are famous for.

Cherokee Chocolate  $3.00  
75 - 80 days. Indeterminate.  Plants are vigorous and productive producing large mahogany-colored fruit.  The same wonderful flavor associated with Cherokee Purple in this stabilized version.

Cherokee Purple  $3.00
80 days - Indeterminate, 1 lb., regular leaf, salad/slicing/canning/drying    An old Cherokee Indian heirloom, pre-1890 variety; beautiful, deep dusky purple/pink color, superb sweet flavor, and very large-sized fruit. Try this one for real old-time tomato flavor. The favorite dark tomato of many people!

Japanese Black Trifele  $3.00
85-90 days - Indeterminate, 3-5 oz., canning.  Attractive tomatoes are the shape and size of a Bartlett pear, with a beautiful purplish-brick color; the fruit are perfect and smooth with no cracks. The flavor is absolutely sublime, having all the richness of fine chocolate. A heavy producer, with the plants producing loads of fruit all summer long. It has become a favorite with many seed savers.

Paul Robeson   $3.00
75-80 days - Indeterminate, 7-10 oz., regular leaf, 
This famous tomato has almost a cult following among seed collectors and tomato connoisseurs. They simply cannot get enough of this variety’s amazing flavor that is so distinctive, sweet, and smoky. Fruit are a black-brick color. Named in honor of the famous opera singer Paul Robeson.  This Russian heirloom was lovingly named in his honor. We are proud to offer such a wonderful variety.

Pierce's Pride   $3.00
90 days - Indeterminate, regular leaf.  Bred by our friend Larry Pierce, of Cabool, Missouri. A lovely black/red fruit with a wonderful rich flavor. Can grow to over one pound. A local favorite.

Purple Calabash  $3.00
85 days - Indeterminate, 3 inch,  regular leaf.  This may be the most purple of all purple tomatoes, a deep purple/burgundy, and very colorful! The shape is also exciting, with the fruit being very flat, ribbed, and ruffled. Flavor is intense, sweet and tart, with a citrus taste.  A very uniquely-flavored tomato. The plants give huge yields. This tomato resembles tomatoes pictured in 16th-century herbal diaries.

Purple Russian  $3.00
80 days -Indeterminate, 6 ounce, regular leaf,  This Ukrainian heirloom is at the top of its class with delicious purplish, egg-shaped fruit which are smooth, perfect, and blemish free. With superb flavor, it is one of the best varieties we carry for fresh eating, salsa, and preserving. This variety will make market gardeners and chefs happy, and is a favorite of our growers. The plants are very productive. Introduced to the USA in 1980.

True Black Brandywine  $3.00 
80-80 days - Indeterminate, potato leaf, beefsteak fruits to 12 oz. Reputedly the original strain, bred in the late 1920's by Dr. Harold E. Martin. There are those tomato purists who will argue that no Brandywine worthy of the name could ever have any but potato leaves, and True Black Brandywine has them! Fruit not dissimilar to the regular-leaf version offered above; but not having trialled them together  we aren't certain how the flavors might compare. Certainly the man responsible for this strain's introduction, famed author William Woys Weaver, feels strongly that this strain is superior. In a fascinating descent into heirloom tomato lore (in the Winter 2006-2007 issue of Heirloom Gardener magazine) he wrote of the regular-leaf strain: "...frankly, it does not have the same distinction of flavor as the original creation [meaning the one offered here]..."  And he wrote of the True Black strain that it "...is probably the caviar of all the brown/black tomatoes." 

 

Vorlon  $3.00  New
70-80 days - Indeterminate, slicer to 12 ounces or so, potato-leafed plants. Very smooth, round, deep purple fruits. Acclaimed for its outstanding flavor--rich, complex, smokey...just what discerning growers have come to expect from the purple/blacks! Stories describe its origins variously, but we're betting on its being a cross between Cherokee Purple and Pruden's Purple, as it certainly appears to combine many of the best traits of these two classic heirloom varieties.

Zigan   $3.00 
75 days - Indeterminate slicing type.  Zigan means "gypsy" in Russian, but what's not clear is whether this is a Gypsy variety, or whether it has merely traveled a lot. This variety is medium-sized, unevenly purple and sometimes shows darker streaks on the blossom end. Very smooth-skinned with a distinctive smoky flavor. Some growers have suggested picking these when slightly under-ripe for the tangiest flavor. Very rare variety.