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RED TOMATOES A - L

RED TOMATOES M- Z

ORANGE / YELLOW TOMATOES

PINK /PURPLE TOMATOES

TOMATOES OF UNUSUAL COLOR:
BLACK, GREEN, WHITE, STRIPED


ALL TOMATOES ALPHABETIZED

TOMATOES A - B
TOMATOES C - G
TOMATOES H - M
TOMATOES N - R
TOMATOES S - Z


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PASTE TOMATOES

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click to see fullsized photo AMISH PASTE - Indeterminate - 74 days – Red. 8 oz, not very acidic, meaty, few seeds. Good for sauces and canning. Heirloom from Wisconsin.


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click to see fullsized photo ANGELINA'S ITALIAN - Indeterminate - 75 days – Red – Regular Leaf. A medium sized squarish paste tomato that is longer than wide. Very nice appearance and taste. Brought from Italy by Angelin Genovese in 1931.


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click to see fullsized photo AZURE PASTE – Determinate - 78 days – Regular Leaf. Fruit is 2" oval plum/paste type with orangish/yellowish skin, and red fruit inside. Prolific yields with a good flavor. Bush habit that grows about 2 ft tall. From Russia


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click to see fullsized photo BELLSTAR - Determinate - 70 days – Red. Compact plants, prolific. 4-6 oz. Resistant to cracking, excellent for paste, canning or juice. Can also be grown in containers.


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click to see fullsized photo BISIGNANO #2 - Indeterminate - 75 days - Red. Short 3 foot vines. Plum to heart shaped, red, meaty fruit. Very productive, great taste. From Italy.


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click to see fullsized photo BULL SAC - Indeterminate - 80 days – Red. Long Pepper shaped type, red, much thicker across than the other pepper shaped ones that I grow. EXCELLENT keeper, imported straight from Germany from R. Kraft. Seed packet is 10 seeds.


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click to see fullsized photo BURKINA FASO - Determinate - 75 days – Red – Regular Leaf . Short plant with a huge crop. Probably should be steak since mine fell over from the weight of the tomatoes! The fruit is about 2.5 inches long with a small pointed end. Very nice flavor. Origin is Western Africa. Very RARE. Seed Packet is 10 seeds.


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click to see fullsized photo CHICO - Indeterminate - 80 days – Red – Regular Leaf. Enormous production of small plum-shaped, rosey-red fruits in clusters. It tastes great to boot.


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click to see fullsized photo CZECH PLUM - Indeterminate - 80 days – Red. 6- 10 oz red plum type. Good production. Origin Czechoslovakia. GS (Seed Packet is 10 seeds)


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click to see fullsized photo DAD'S MUG - Indeterminate -85-95 days – Pink / Red. Kind of square, large, meaty, thick walled and few seeds. Stores well; makes great paste.


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DANA PASTE - Determinate - 90 days - Red. 6 oz fruits, acid in nature. 2 foot bush, Russian Variety. (Seed Packet is 10 seeds)


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click to see fullsized photo DE BARRAO - Indeterminate - 72 days – Red. Medium, 3-4 oz. very smooth oval. Firm, crack free. From Irkutsk, Siberia. Seed Packet is 10 seeds.


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click to see fullsized photo ERMAK PASTE - Determinate - 78 days – Red – Paste - Regular Leaf. Short very bushy plants produce meaty, blocky, oblong fruit. This is a paste type fruit has few seeds and almost no juice. From Russia


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GILBERT ITALIAN PLUM - Indeterminate - 85 days – Red. 11 oz plums, nice flavor, meaty, very good producer. Great sauce & canning type.


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click to see fullsized photo GILES MULLIS PLUM - Indeterminate - 85 days – Red – Regular Leaf. Large plum fruit, deep red. Very prolific and has a good flavor.


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HIMMELSSTURMER - Indeterminate – 85 days – Red. The name translates as "sky climber", and it really climbs. Loaded with pear shaped paste tomatoes, wispy vines, from Germany via trade with R. Kraft. Seed Packet is 10 seeds.


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HORVATH PLUM - Indeterminate - 85 days – Red. Great looking plum shaped fruit with good flavor. Great yield. Origin from an area in Italy on the Adriatic Sea.


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click to see fullsized photo HUNGARIAN ITALIAN - Determinate - 90 days – Red. Nice red paste. VERY prolific.


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JERSEY DEVIL - Indeterminate - 85 days – Red – Regular Leaf. Good yields of long pointy peppers shaped tomatoes. Very similar to Opalka and Long Tom.


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click to see fullsized photo JOE'S FAVORITE - Indeterminate - 80 days – Red – Regular Leaf. A very nice small paste tomato that produced in clusters.


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click to see fullsized photo LONG TOM - Indeterminate - 90 days – Red. Long paste tomato, 8 oz., few seeds, good producer, good to eat. O. S. Ben Quisenberry. Seed Packet is 10 seeds.


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click to see fullsized photo MAMA MIA - Determinate - 70 days- Red. A large red italian plum, nice roma type. Did very well for me during the drought and heat. An American Horticultural Society gift in 1994.


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MARTINO'S ROMA - Determinate - 75 days – Red. Pear tomatoes, 2 oz, 3" long. Meaty with few seeds and not much juice. Compact plants have rugose, dark green foliage. Extremely productive. Heirloom.


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NAPOLI - Determinate - 76 days – Red. Small, pear shaped, 2- 2.5 oz. Italian.


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click to see fullsized photo OPALKA - Indeterminate -85 days – Red – Regular Leaf. Long, 4-6" paste, very productive, ferny, wispy. Red banana pepper shape, green shoulders, sweet flavor. From Poland to Amsterdam, NY about 1900.


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click to see fullsized photo PALESTINIAN - Indeterminate - 80 days – Dark Pink Paste type fruit with few seeds, 6-8 oz.


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click to see fullsized photo PETE'S ITALIAN PLUM - Indeterminate - 90 days – Red. Wide red paste with a good sweet flavor. 6" x 2", good production. Origin Italy. From Tom Tencza, Wallington, New Jersey 1997.


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click to see fullsized photo PIRKSTINE ORANGE PASTE - Indeterminate – 80 days - Orange. These were about three inches long and similar to a hot wax pepper in shape, long and pointy. A very pretty orange color and could be easily used as a paste to make a wonderful orange colored tomato sauce. From Latvia.


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PIRKSTINE YELLOW PASTE - Indeterminate – 80 days – Yellow. These are the same as the Pirkstine Orange, but they are a lovely yellow instead of orange. From Latvia. (Seed Packet is 10 seeds)


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POLISH GIANT - Indeterminate - 85 days – Red. Very prolific, large red. 4"-6" long, with a pointed end. Meaty and excellent flavor.


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click to see fullsized photo PLUM LEMON Indeterminate - 95 days – Yellow. Bright yellow lemons that are really tomatoes. 4-6 oz. Citrus flavored, solid, paste-like, a caterer's dream for garnish. Collected in 1991 from Old Seedsman in Moscow.


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click to see fullsized photo POWER'S HEIRLOOM - Indeterminate- 80 days – Yellow. Clear yellow large paste. Weighs 5-7 oz. and measures about 3.5" long. Very productive and pretty. Sweet, juicy, and fragrant. From Scott County in far Southwest, Virginia. Seed Packet is 10 seeds.


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PRINCIPE BORGHESE - Determinate - 75 days – Red. Plum shaped, meaty. Small. Used for drying. Italian.


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PROMOTEO - Determinate - 90 days – Red. Stocky, 4' bushes, oval 1.5-2" red fruits. Used for canning whole. Russian.


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click to see fullsized photo QUIGLEY'S ITALIAN PASTE - Indeterminate - 95 days – Red. Very late, but heavy producing paste. Mike Quigley obtained the seed from his Italian neighbor who had been growing it for many years in New Jersey. Origin: Italy. Seed packet is 10 seeds.


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RED PLUM - Indeterminate - 70 days – Red. Long paste tomato. Mild, sweet flavor. 2" x 1 1/2". Preserves and canning.


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click to see fullsized photo RIO GRANDE - Determinate - 80 days – Red. Very large, blocky, pear-shaped tomatoes, prolific. About 4" long. Vigorous plants, well adapted to extremes in temperature. 8-12oz.


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click to see fullsized photo ROMA - Determinate - 75 days - Red - Regular Leaf. Good production of a mainstay paste tomato.


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click to see fullsized photo ROPRECO - Determinate - 75 days – Red. Four foot vines, no staking. PROLIFIC. One of my favorites.


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click to see fullsized photo ROSALIE'S PASTE - Indeterminate - 85 days – Red - Regular Leaf. A large bright RED heart shaped paste, and WONDERFUL


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click to see fullsized photo SANTORINI PASTE - Indeterminate - 75 days – Red- Regular Leaf. It has a tremendously high yield of 4 ounce red, seedy flat-ribbed fruit. Good flavor. From the Island of Santorini in Greece. RARE.


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click to see fullsized photo SHEBOYGAN - Indeterminate - 80 days – Pink – Regular Leaf. This is a very pretty pointed pink paste that is very different from all the other pastes that I grow. (Difficult to germinate. I recommend starting them in moist paper towels, in a ziploc baggie in a warm place. Check every day after 6 days. ) Grown since early 1900's in Sheboygan, WI by Lithuanian immigrants. Seed Packet is 10 seeds.


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click to see fullsized photo TOM PATTI'S ITALIAN PASTE - Indeterminate - 85 days – Red. Great tasting red, solid, heart shaped tomatoes. Great production. Seed was brought back from Italy by Tom Patti in the early 1960's. Has been a local favorite ever since. Similar to Amish Paste, but has a better taste. Seed packet is 10 seeds.


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click to see fullsized photo TUSCANINI - Indeterminate - 85 days – Red – Regular Leaf. This plant bears a very large paste tomato with very few seeds. It is meaty and tastes great and weighed about 12 oz.


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click to see fullsized photo VENTURA PASTE - Indeterminate - 78 days – Red - Regular Leaf. Small robust plants produce a HUGE crop of plum / tear-dropped shaped paste tomatoes that have a nipple on the end. They are very different and tastey. From Bulgaria.


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click to see fullsized photo YELLOW BELL - Indeterminate - 62 days – Yellow. Bright yellow paste, "Roma" size, 5-12 fruits per cluster. Ripens green to creamy yellow to yellow. Family heirloom from Tennessee.


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