The earliest beefsteak tomato to ripen, it has very soft, thin-skinned, voluptuous fruits with a luscious, gentle flavour, which are best picked quickly before they split. The large, sprawling plants ideally should be staked to keep fruits off the ground. (Cordon) ... Learn More

With a chart-topping smooth flavour and a famous name, these plump, egg-shaped, non-cracking fruits have deepest purple fruit, the dark skins being even darker at the tops. From the Ukraine, they obviously have very good cold tolerance, and are probably the best of all of the original heirloom 'black' tomatoes for keeping. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A good, early plum type tomato with most unusual and attractive, feathery green leaves. An extremely hardy variety from the Ukraine, the fruit has a tangy, strong taste and very juicy soft flesh, whilst its deep purple colour makes it ideal in salads. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This San Marzano plum tomato is perfect for cooking or making into sauces. The sizeable fruit are uniform, weighing 3-4 oz each, and grow in clusters of 12-15, being very crack resistant and tolerant to Blossom End Rot. (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 over the tomatoes to remove the skins and they were then preserved in sugar, when they were said to last perfectly for years! (Cordon) ... 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

The large vigorous vines of this German yellow-cherry variety produce heavy masses of one inch, sweet golden-yellow fruit with a strong taste that are perfect for snacking or salads. (Cordon) ... Learn More

The astonishing appearance of this fruit can be best described as a cluster of knobbly cherry tomatoes fused together. The thick-skinned, very tasty fruits with a good old-fashioned tomato flavour will certainly make quite a talking point! But to really amuse, or even shock your guests, serve up plates of salad with thinly sliced sections of selected fruits. With care you can produce unusual, and strikingly lifelike shapes of e.g. animals...and other, ahem, risky subjects! (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 German heirloom variety, translates as "bunch of grapes". (Cordon) ... Learn More

A specially bred plum tomato with a dense, meaty flesh and low moisture content making it ideal for cooking and preserving. Its deliciously different flavour makes it an excellent choice for eating fresh too. A very heavy cropping and versatile variety that can be grown outside or in the greenhouse. Good resistance to disease. (Semi-Bush). ... Learn More

These fascinating, elongated, plum shaped fruits, with a nipple on the end, have a uniform bright yellow colouration and yellow-white flesh. The fruit are firm and meaty with a mild but tasty flavour, and are ideal for salads or making into interesting sauces. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This rare plant from the lower Ukraine, (Czerno Tomat) produces heavy crops of almost identical, round, firm, exquisite, sweet-salty tasting dark maroon fruits and is probably the best and most sought-after of all of the original heirloom 'black' tomatoes (and N.B. is not the same as 'Black Russian'!) It is absolutely superb sliced in salads. (Cordon) ... Learn More