Tomato Plants
Heirloom tomatoes grown from seed. All natural: Soil. Seed. Sun.
Antique Recipes: Fried Tomatoes (1912)
Cut six smooth tomatoes into slices about 1/8 of an inch thick; dry each slice carefully the dust thoroughly with salt and pepper; beat egg until light, add to it a tablespoon of boiling water; dip each slice first in this, then in bread crumbs; put 3 tablespoons of lard in pan; when very hot cover the bottom with the slices of tomatoes; fry brown on one side, then turn and brown the other. Take up carefully and serve with any kind of meat having sauce or gravy.
Giant Golden Dixie: A huge, lemon-yellow beefsteak-type fruit, often with some blushing at the blossom end. The mild and sweet fruits often reach 2-lbs! Old Amish type grown and preserved since at least as early as the 1930's. Very productive, as Amish-held varieties tend to be; deserves to be much more widely grown. 85 days.
Indigo Apple: Immature fruits show deep purple, almost black coloration, which is caused by high anthocyanin (an anti-oxidant). The 2- to 4-ounce, cherry-type fruit turn red when ripe, have a good, complex yet sweet tomato flavor. 75 days.
Golden Sunray: Uniform, golden-orange globes are so smooth and uniform they look like a commercial variety, but these have a rich, full, tomato flavor that is missing in modern varieties, being both sweet and tangy. Productive vines yield lots of 8 to 10-oz. fruit that excel at markets; great for fresh use and sauce. 80 days.
Emerald Green: Looking for a wonderful green tomato? This is it. Medium-large fruit that stay "evergreen." Introduced by Glecklers Seedsmen around 1950. Heavy yielding, sweet and rich. 80 days.
Rosso Sicilian Italian: This red beauty has deeply ribbed, intensely red fruits reach up to 5 ounces. Firm, solid flesh and somewhat hollow seed cavity. Wonderful for stuffing or paste. First grown in the USA by Ann Fuller of Mitchell, Indiana, who received seed from a Sicilian man in 1987. 80 days.
Dad's Sunset: An orange tomato. Average size about 10oz. Smooth, uniform, not alot of blotching. Keeps well. Lovely flavor. 90 days.
German Pink: A heirloom with Bavarian origins is a large, meaty fruit; weighing 1 to 2 Indeterminate. Sweet. She enjoys loving care: great soil, support and water. Sweet flavor.
Giant Green: Large emerald-green fruit with potato leaf are over one pound in weight; they are uniform, very smooth and blemish-free. Extremely productive. Color stays pure green. Sweet & juicy. 85 days.
Pilcer Vesy: A classic, huge, yellow beefsteak received from Russia. Lemony yellow with wonderful flavor and thick flesh. Productive.