Grow Your Tomatoes

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Popular varieties

Some well-known heirloom and hybrid varieties. Each variety is labeled with taste and/or production to indicate what quality the variety is most known for. If a variety is marked with both labels, the first one is the better quality. Also noted is the color and type of fruit each variety produces.

Heirlooms

Brandywine - taste pink beefsteak
Cherokee Purple - taste purple beefsteak
Green Zebra - taste production green striped regular
Stupice - production red regular
Yellow Pear - production yellow pear/cherry

Hybrids

Sungold - taste production golden cherry
Early Girl - production red slicer
Better Boy - production taste red slicer
Brandy Boy - taste production red beefsteak
Big Beef - taste production red beefsteak

More tomato varieties

Dave's Garden "PlantFiles" is the most extensive database of tomato varieties I have seen. Users can submit photos, comments, and other info on over 3,000 listed varieties. If you want to do research on any variety, PlantFiles should be the first place you look.

PlantFiles Cultivar Finder: Tomatoes

Tomato photos

Here is a collection of photos of some of my tomatoes as well as user-submitted pics.

Click here to email me your tomato photos

Good photos will be added to this gallery. Be sure to include the variety name of each tomato, and any additional information you can provide about them.

Caspian Pink Photo coming soon

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