Large, irregular fruits, often with amusing faces, can break off the branches of this pink variant of the famous beefsteak tomato bred in the 1930's by West Virginia's "Radiator Charlie" Byles. By selling the plants for a dollar each he paid off his $6000 mortgage in six years. The fruit are solid, mild tasting with few seeds and perfect for sandwiches. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This beautiful, tasty, and very rare variety bears chocolate/mahogany brown fluted fruits with ruffled olive shoulders. The tall, regular-leaf plants bear heavy trusses of medium to large, slightly flattened, irregular-shaped, beefsteak tomatoes, that have strong, fruit-sweet, complex tangy flavours. Plant World proprietor, Mr. Ray Brown confirms that it makes delicious sandwiches, and is superb sliced in salads. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This Great Plains heirloom produces clusters of sizeable globes with apricot-golden skin and thick flesh with a wonderful, strong, sweet, well-balanced, tangy taste. The fruits are quite late to mature, but these tough plants adapt well to harsh conditions. In the USA, Nebraskan brides were often given seeds of this valuable food item tomato as a wedding gift! (Cordon) ... Learn More

This handsome beefsteak is an early outdoor variety which is resistant to a variety of diseases including Blossom End Rot, and produces high yields of red medium sized fruits with excellent sweet flavour and soft meaty flesh with few seeds, which is perfect for salads. (Bush) ... Learn More

This robust plant, with an excellent tolerance to blight, produces sizeable, firm and solid fruit over a long and productive season. The fruits contain gourmet quality flesh and are an attractive scarlet/orange colour with a tart, strong, unmistakable, 'tomatoey' flavour. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This old and most attractive and distinctive plum variety of tomato with thick, soft sweet flesh is most versatile in the kitchen. With its astonishing resemblance to a chicken's egg it is useful both for making unusual salads and for cooking. (Cordon) ... Learn More

These valuable late season maturing plants produce unusual fruits resembling little stubby orange bananas with pointed ends. The very tasty fruits have a sweet-tart flavour, good disease resistance, and can even be used for drying. Heavy-cropping and superb in salads!(Cordon) ... Learn More

This tough plant yields a good sized crop of evenly-sized, reddish-orange fruits that have a superlative flavour and are excellent for sauces as they are very meaty with few seeds. Sliced in salads the glowing orange slices are most attractive too. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This valuable very late variety produces high yields of bright orange uniform fruit with yellow-splashed shoulders, which are juicy with very few seeds, a low level of acidity and are perfect for slicing. (Bush) ... Learn More

An adaptable, high yielding, cold-tolerant plant that will do well in colder areas. It produces an early-ripening tomato, with a classic deep red, thick, succulent, meaty, almost seedless flesh, and a juicy full flavour. (Cordon) ... Learn More

These sizeable, perfectly shaped orange-yellow beefsteaks have smooth shoulders, very little core, buttery firm orange flesh with small or no seed cavities and thick gel, with an outstanding flavour evocative of the famous Yellow Brandywine, although this ripens earlier. A vigorous mid to late season potato leaf plant, it stays healthy throughout the entire season. It is said to have originated with Count Aleksei Orlov, the famous animal breeder, horticulturist, and Russian War hero of the 18th century. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This famous Russian tomato, named after the famous singer, has almost a cult following amongst tomato connoisseurs. Large, deepest mahogany, almost-black, solid-fleshed fruits dripping with juice, have a fabulous, strong and distinctive, sweet smoky flavour. This is the true form and is very rarely available. (Cordon) ... Learn More

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

The very long succession of ripe, darker-striped, pale green fruits have been described as having a "sweet" and "tomato-like" flavour, although a tasting committee here described the almost identical-sized medium to small fruits as having a kiwi fruit consistency with sweet but slightly cucumber flavour. A famous American tomato breeder maintains that it is better than many supermarket tomatoes! On trial here it appears to have more cold tolerance than typical tomatoes, and as another remarkable asset, it initially bears most attractive clusters of big yellow flowers, its bold display making ... Learn More

One of the largest tomatoes you can find, these amazing fruits can grow to 2 lbs and average 16-24 oz! The distinctive sweet taste of the thick, solid flesh and fruity, low-acid, and smooth silky texture, makes them superb for eating fresh in salads. (Cordon) ... Learn More