A lovely hard-to-find heirloom from the mountains around Crab Orchard, Tennessee, producing large, meaty 1lb tomatoes, that are beautifully striped with red and orange with a low acid and sweet and mild flavour, making them perfect for eating like fruit. This good yielding variety is both attractive and delicious. An American grower says: "This tomato has a great taste and I don't like tomatoes that much, but this is my favourite and yes I do eat this one like fruit, you can't get this taste in the stores!" (Cordon) ... Learn More

A disease-resistant, South American plant producing absolutely masses of long, herring-bone bunches of small, crisp and tangy cherry-sized fruits which 'pop' deliciously when eaten whole. Very long-cropping, and the tallest and widest plant we grew! (Cordon) ... Learn More

A new, rare, very heavy cropping, and exceptionally attractive variety which produces tumbling cascades of pear-drop-sized fruit, which are yet another size down from Austin's Red Pear, and which taste as good as they look. We eat them off the vine as they ripen! (Cordon) ... Learn More

This rare plant yields hundreds of 2.5 centimetre, pear-shaped, bright-red cherry tomatoes that have wonderful, delicious, sweet flavours with a very sweet skin, making this a delightful snacking tomato. It is a tasty and colourful complement to Beam's Yellow Pear, a perfect choice to serve in a tomato salad or as a tasty decoration to culinary creations. These seeds are rarely offered. The Red Fig heirloom tomatoes have been grown in America since the 18th century, when they were dried and packed away for winter use as a substitute for figs. To make the "figs", boiling water was poured ove ... Learn More

Astonishingly attractive, and of unusually consistent size, the bright red fleshy fruits are overlaid with green-gold stripes which deepen to orange when the fruits become really ripe. They are perfect, when sliced in a salad, for astonishing your guests. Probably the best flavoured of all of the striped varieties, these are able to grow to the size of a small tennis ball. (Cordon). ... Learn More

Vigorous plants produce heavy yields of good quality, largish, but variously-sized, slightly flattened, non-splitting, uniformly deep red-pinkish fruit with very thin skins. These are very juicy with an excellent, full flavour that is somewhat mild and low in acidity. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Renowned as the finest-tasting cherry tomato available, with a rich, meaty flavour, this gem is distinguished from other cherry varieties by its slightly elongated form and a tiny point at the blossom end. Very high yielding, it produces long trusses of large cherry tomatoes with a sweet, rich taste. If you have ever grown 'Sun Gold' tomatoes, the tangerine-coloured cherry, this must be the red form! A very abundant plant, it can be absolutely gigantic, and sets thousands of blossoms in large clusters producing hundreds and hundreds of gorgeous little tomatoes. Riesentraube, a classic Germa ... Learn More

A rare, old traditional Russian potato-leafed plant with enormous black-shouldered, slightly-flattened, blackish-red fruits which are packed with dark, juicy, strong-flavoured flesh. Reputed to be darkest of all when grown in very warm conditions. (Cordon) ... Learn More

These old American heirloom potato-leafed plants bear a heavy crop of big, deepest darkest maroon-red beefsteak fruits with excellent flavour balance and the perfect ratio of sugar to acid. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This old traditional French tomato variety produces hardy, indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that bear moderate to high yields of medium-sized, 3-inch, red, round, tomatoes with soft, thick, meaty flesh with an excellent flavour. Although this looks superficially like a supermarket tomato, it has a truly great flavour, producing well in cooler growing regions right up to the frost. It was given a glowing report in BBC Gardeners' World Magazine in March 2008 by Pippa Greenwood. (CORDON) ... Learn More

One of the most unusual tomatoes you can find, this stunning, red, bell-pepper-shaped tomato has vibrant yellow stripes, and a semi-hollow interior with a mild sharpish flavour, the seeds forming what looks like a shiny strawberry inside! They have a very long cropping season, are drought-resistant, store unusually well for very many weeks in a refrigerator, and are ideal for stuffing or grilling. What more can you ask for? (Cordon) ... Learn More

Very attractive, medium-sized, elongated fruit are produced with a base colour of red with beautiful, wavy yellow-orange streaks. The meaty flesh and excellent but mild flavour, are an added bonus. Excellent sliced lengthways in salads. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This cold-tolerant, potato-leaf heirloom from Czechoslovakia, bears an abundance of very sweet, flavourful, 2 to 3 inch, deep-red fruit. A 1988 comparative tasting in San Francisco gave it first place for its wonderful sweet/acid, luscious, tomatoey flavour and production. It is very high yielding, producing quickly, heavily, reliably early, and continuously throughout the long fruiting season, and is still producing well here in mid-September. It is the first non-cherry to ripen, setting well at very low temperatures, and become even sweeter with colder autumn weather. Finally it is very di ... Learn More

From Rostov via Oregon come these very big, very strong-flavoured, thin-fleshed, meaty, heart-shaped, yellow-blotched tomatoes. These amazing plants, which cropped very heavily here, are resistant to frost, blossom end rot and cracking. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This rare and fabulous performer produces thousands of pea-sized, sweet red berries like beads on a necklace, the largest number on any tomato! It makes absolutely irresistible eating, truly 'once popped you can't stop!' It can be easily trained on a pole to make a 1.8 metre waterfall, and if fed and watered constantly it will be eternally dripping with fruit. (Cordon) ... Learn More