Available starting MID-APRIL at the COMOX VALLEY FARMERS’ MARKET or PICK-UP ON FARM.
ROMA & SAUCE TOMATOES
SAN MARZANO TOMATO
INDETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. Many consider the San Marzano Heirloom Tomato to be THE plum tomato for making sauces. It has exceptionally good flavour. In some Italian towns it is said to be against the law to use any other variety for their pizza sauces.
SPECKLED ROMAN TOMATO
INDETERMINATE “Eye-catching red and yellow streaked roma tomato. Meaty red flesh has little juice, they are great for fresh eating, or cooking into sauce. Excellent flavor. Avg. 6-8 oz. fruits. You won’t ever see another Italian paste type tomato like this one! Stunning and unique; long-pointed red fruit have wavy golden stripes.”
DETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. High yields of 2½”, blocky, pear-shaped tomatoes. This has been our all-purpose canning and salad tomato for years now and we love it! 20-30 lbs per plant. It was originally introduced in 1963 by the Joseph Harris Seed Company of Rochester, New York, who crossed a Roma tomato with a California Red Top VR 9. As a result, the Roma VF is resistant to both Verticillium and Fusarium wilts (hence the “VF”).
PRINCIPE BORGHESE
TOMATO
DETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. This unique plum tomato is extra meaty, but is only 1-2 inches. Their size and fleshiness make them ideal for drying and making sauce, but they are also delicious fresh. Principe Borghese (pronouced prince-eep-ay bor-gae-say) produces masses of fruit clusters, making picking easy. Compact plants that are fairly upright. Most of the fruit will come on all at once. Seeds from Good Earth Farm.
LARGE SLICING TOMATOES
SILVERY FIR
DETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. FIRST TO RIPEN FOR US. Named for its fern-like leaves with a silvery colour. Compact plants. Early and abundant production of rich-flavoured medium-sized scarlet red fruits that are 5-7 cm.
GIANT CRIMSON
INDETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. RED BEEFSTEAK.
STRIPED GERMAN
INDETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. ORANGE STRIPED BEEFSTEAK.
ORANGE YOU GLAD
DETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. Orange beefsteak. This bush plant produces lots of small to medium size deep orange fruit with excellent flavour and disease resistance. Be prepared for a deluge of fruit!
LEMON BOY
INDETERMINATE. HYBRID. LARGE YELLOW SLICER.
PINK BERKELEY TIE DYE
INDETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. STRIPED BEEFSTEAK. This early beefsteak boasts complex flavour that is rich and sweet.
ANANAS TOMATO
INDETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. ORANGE. STRIPED BEEFSTEAK. Pineapple tomato. An old-fashioned variety with fruit that is large, ribbed, and fleshy with few seeds.
BIG BEEF
INDETERMINATE. HYBRID. RED BEEFSTEAK. Classy beefsteak with excellent old fashioned flavour.
BLACK KRIM
DETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. PURPLE SLICER. originates from the Isle of Krim in the Black Sea off the coast of the Crimean Peninsula
MORTGAGE LIFTER
INDETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. RED BEEFSTEAK. Dating back to 1930s West Virginia, this classic heirloom beefsteak has pinkish skin, few seeds, and superb tomato flavour. .
SCOTIA TOMATO
DETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. A favourite from the Maritimes. Abundant medium sized globe-shaped tasty fruits ripen to a deep red with slightly green shoulders. Large amounts of fruit in a contracted time frame.
GET STUFFED
INDETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. LARGE STRIPED TOMATO.
SICILIAN SAUCER
INDETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. RED BEEFSTEAK.
CHERRY TOMATOES
CHERRY FALLS TOMATO
DETERMINATE.OPEN POLLINATED. Red Cherry Tomatoes. Cascading variety perfect for containers, hanging baskets, and small garden spaces. Sweet, juicy cherry tomatoes that ripen to a vibrant red. Compact growth habit and prolific yield.
SWEET MILLION CHERRY
INDETERMINATE. Hybrid. Red cherry tomato. Winner of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Award of Garden Merit. Mature early. needs support for climbing habit. Uniform fruits are 1" average. resistant to, or tolerant of, Fusarium Wilt (Race 1), Tomato (Tobacco) Mosaic Virus.
SUNGOLD CHERRY TOMATO
INDETERMINATE. Hybrid. orange cherry tomato. “Super sweet. A vigorous, indeterminate plant produces fruits which are exceptionally sweet and bright tangerine coloured. High resistance to Fusarium Wilt and Tobacco Mosaic Virus.
CHOCOLATE CHERRY
INDETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. purple cherry tomato. “Deep colour and complex flavour. Chocolate Cherry produces very purple cherry tomatoes in clusters of 6-8. Large trusses of seemingly endless fruit will keep producing until the frost.”
GOLD NUGGET TOMATO
DETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. yellow cherry. FIRST TO RIPEN FOR US. Good luck keeping up with this productive bushy tomato. Just when you think you have picked all the fruits, you pull back the canopy to reveal a hidden treasure of golden deliciousness waiting to be harvested. Great for containers.
WHITE CHERRY
INDETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED pale yellow cherry tomato. These plants produce a heavy crop of medium sized semi-translucent yellowy white fruit. A low acid variety, white cherry is wonderfully sweet and juicy.
YELLOW PEAR CHERRY
INDETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. yellow cherry. - 1800's. “An old time cherry tomato. It's yellow, pear shaped fruit are sweet with a creamy texture. Very prolific.”
STRAWBERRY TOMATO
INDETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. RED CHERRY TOMATO. “Honestly the BEST cherry tomato we’ve ever tasted!”
SALAD AND OTHER TOMATOES
BLUEBERRY TOMATO
INDETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. Named for it’s immature fruit which starts a as bright purple/blue before ripening to a deep red with black shoulders.
Blueberry Tomato immature fruit
GREEN ZEBRA
INDETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. YELLOW SALAD TOMATO WITH GREEN STRIPES.
JAUNE FLAMME
INDETERMINATE. HEIRLOOM. Persimmon colored, apricot- sized fruits, great for salads with a sweet fruity flavor. Prolific!!
Toma Verde Tomatillo
OP. Tangy when fresh, and sweet when roasted. Delicious in Salsa Verde and Pozole Verde! Even though tomatillo means "little tomato" in Spanish, the fruit actually comes from a different plant and is tarter, more vegetal-tasting, and more acidic than most tomatoes. Green tomatoes and tomatillos are different plants and different fruits.
GROUND CHERRY
“Ground cherries, often called "husk cherries", are similar to tomatillos in appearance, but differ completely in flavour! Ground Cherries taste almost tropical and came be used in anything from jams, to ice creams and pies! Allow fruit to fall off the plant, then gather it up. Then allow to ripen a further week or two on the counter, husks on, for full sweetness.”
VENUS OF WILLENDORF
INDETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. A very newly developed variety, genetics may vary.
NOT AVAILABLE THIS YEAR
LATAH TOMATO
“LAY-tah” tomatoes are often the earliest tomatoes ready (along with Merville Rocket). Developed by the University of Idaho. Real tomato flavor too, juicy with bright acidity. Low bushy determinate plants bear 2-3 oz salad size fruits prolifically. Some tendency for green shoulders but, come on... Are you really going to nitpick such an early, delicious tomato? Great for containers. Determinate. 50-60 days.
MERVILLE ROCKET
DETERMINATE. OPEN POLLINATED. Early, prolific, small (3-4 oz) round red fruit with excellent sweet tart flavour. Classic rocket tomato that has been grown by Steve Horel at RockBottom Farm in Merville for 30+ years. Container friendly.
ELFIN
semi- Determinate. OP. “Grape Tomato that has the same wonderful sweet flavor, size, and shape as the original Grape, but has the advantage of shorter plants. Elfin's clusters of delicious, uniquely-flavored grape-shaped cherry tomatoes have a sweetness that is unmistakably 'grape.' “
TUMBLER
Determinate. Hybrid. “True hanging basket tomatoes. Plant three seedlings in a 10" pot and the branches will spread out and droop over the sides for really early tomatoes. Stand back and enjoy lovely 1 to 2" sweet clusters of tomatoes. Tuck some Lobelia, or fill with pansies in the pot for extra visual appeal, water well and fed every four to six weeks with a hanging basket fertilizer. Grow in partial shade and out of the rain for big, sweet, cherry tomatoes at eye level.”
FARTHEST NORTH
Determinate. OP. “Produces very early and abundant bite sized, red cherry-type tomatoes with a nice, full flavour. Great for containers. Rare variety, bred at the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station by renowned horticulturalist, Dr. Albert F. Yeager from a stabilized cross between 'Bison' and a wild current-type, 'Solanum pimpinellifolium' tomato and introduced in 1934.” Seeds from Good Earth Farm.