These plants
produce fruits from ½" to 2".
These little fruits can be red, black, orange, pink, purple, green, yellow,
ivory, white or bicolor and in varying shapes: round, pear, grape, ping pong,
pea-sized and plum-shaped.
Amy's Sugar Gem ($5.25)
(Ch) 65 days.
This
huge, sprawling plant produces heavy clusters of golf ball sized, incredibly
delicious, deep red ambrosial fruit with tiny golden jewel-like sparkles within
the red skin. Very sweet! It was one of my absolute favorite tomatoes at TomatoFest in September--just
knocked me out.
Candy-on-the-vine, not to be missed.
Developed by Jeff
McCormack, it is a cross of Red Cherry and Tappy's Finest. Named for Amy
Boor Hereford whose Grandma Tappy introduced Jeff to heirloom tomatoes more
than 20 years ago.
Black
Cherry ($4.95)
F/C
(Ch)
(VE) 65 days. A perfectly
round cherry tomato with classic black tomato flavor, sweet, yet rich, smoky and complex. Fruit
picks easily from the stem and is produced in abundance on vigorous, tall plants.
These cherries are irresistibly delicious: look like a black cherry, taste like a
sweet cherry-- a unique addition to the color and flavor spectrum of cherry tomatoes for your garden, along with Sun
Gold,
Green Grape, Snow White, Crazy and Reisentraube and our other cherries, it makes an arresting display for any table. Just outstanding. These
guys got eaten moments after the photograph was taken.
:)
Brown Berry
(aka Chocolate Cherry )(4.95)
(Ch)
72 days. The first brown cherry
tomato, Brown Berry yields an exceptionally large crop of chocolate colored
1" cherry tomatoes. Semi-sweet, elaborate flavors finish with a fine hint of
tang just over its fruity sweetness. Wonderfully juicy and a great
snacking tomato! Adds another layer of color and flavor to your cherry
tomato presentation.
Camp Joy ($4.95)
(Ch) This delightful 1”
prolific cherry tomato has big-time elaborate tomato flavor. Along with
excellent disease resistance, it produces an abundance of luscious gems in your
garden all season. Perfect for salads and snacking; Camp Joy is one of Gary
Ibsen’s favorite cherry tomatoes and one of my favorites from our 2007
TomatoFest tasting experience. I give it 5 stars out of 5.
Cerise
Orange
SOLD OUT
($4.95) 70 days.
(E)
(Ch)
Cerise Orange is rapidly becoming a favored cherry tomato among tomato lovers and
especially chefs worldwide, its name is French for orange cherry. From
Norbert Parreira of Helliner, France, Cerise Orange produces a huge harvest of
tiny, luscious, ½" sunny orange cherries with a delicate subtle striping and
flavor just bursting with gratifying deliciousness. Along with Hawaiian Currant,
Bianca, Gold Currant and Peacevine, They are being used by chefs worldwide to
create a spectacular edible miniature tomato display for restaurants and special
events.
Crazy ($4.95)
(EE)
(Ch) 55 days.
This plant produces so early and so well in all climates--it's just crazy. It
grows tall, strong vines bearing bountiful clusters of six 1", round, red cherry tomatoes in only 55 days from planting
out. Sweet, prolific, with a wonderful tangy-sweet balance; Crazy just keeps producing
through cold and hot weather.
Gardener's
Delight (AKA Sugar Lump)($4.95)
(VE)
(SM)
(Ch)
65 days.
You'll get an amazingly heavy production of precious sparkling-red 1" cherry tomatoes,
which are loaded with sugary
sweet tomato flavor. A special treat for tomato fans of all ages for eating
right from the vine or in salads if they ever make it into the house. Gardener's
Delight is also called
'Sugar Lump' for a very good reason.
Grape Tomato
($4.95)
(EE)
(Ch)
55
days (H) This vigorous adaptable plant produces long grape-like clusters of very
sweet, richly flavored, elongated
cherry tomatoes, about 1½"
long, popularly sold in pints at the supermarket. Now you can grow them in your
home garden, in any climate and, rather then being picked green as are
supermarket Grape tomatoes, the taste will be far sweeter and richer. When
homegrown and ripening before your eyes, the flavor is exponentially finer than
those on market shelves; you won't believe the difference.
Green Grape ($5.25)
(Ch)
60 days. These 1" by
1 ½" ripe fruits are yellow-green with an amber blush on the blossom end, and
lovely translucent pale-green on the inside growing on a small yet very prolific
plant. After tasting it again at TomatoFest this year I decided to include it on
the list for 2008. You will love it.
This compact
plant was developed by Tom Wagner who crossed Yellow Pear with Evergreen. Its
fruit has become wildly popular in restaurants and markets because of its unique
and very elaborate flavor, a certain tanginess balanced with just the perfect
touch of sweetness, stunning beauty and marvelous flavor--Green Grape really
stands out as great choice for the discerning tomato maniac.
New for 2010!
Hartman's Yellow Gooseberry
($5.50) 75 days.
This very old variety from the 1860's is a
brilliant 1" to 2 " yellow cherry tomato with big sweet flavors that explode in
your mouth with an elegant irresistible pop! Just try to get more than a handful
into the house after picking them fresh and warm from the summer sunshine.
A rare treat. Huge harvests! Incredibly prolific. Probably the best tasting
yellow cherry and you will have enough to give them away by the basketful.
Hartman's Yellow Gooseberry photograph
courtesy of my good friend Lisa Von Saunder of Amishland Heirloom Seeds
www.amishlandseeds.com in
Pennsylvania.
Hawaiian
Currant ($4.95)
(Ch)
80 days. This magnificent miniature morsel of a tomato amazed
me and the other tasters at TomatoFest in September of 2003. Festival
guests were going back for more, causing a traffic jam in the joyous
meandering line of tomato fans. It grows in abundant grape-like clusters, each cluster holding onto
its little red pea-sized fruits, until all are perfectly ripe. Be sure to pick
the entire cluster as you would with grapes, rather than trying to get these
teeny little guys off one at a time.
The flavor of Hawaiian
Currant is
unbelievably deep, rich, sweet, and lingering on the palette, a tiny terrific
dream of a
tomato.
Ildi ($4.95)
(Ch)
54 days. This is the earliest high-yielding grape tomato we offer. Sold in local
Farmers Markets as Yellow Grape, Ildi grows in huge clusters of 75 bright yellow
oval shaped fruits on a big bold 6 to 7 foot plant. The 1" cherries are very
sweet and delicious, producing right up to frost. With it's extremely high
yield, you will have lots of fruit to eat fresh right off the vine, toss into
salads and share with family and friends.
Isis
Candy ($4.95) (Ch) (VE)
60
days. These precious little 1½" morsels of red and gold garden candy have a dazzling starburst pattern on the blossom end when ripe. Sweet
and fruity, Isis Candy has become a top 10 winner at tomato tastings, rivaling Sun Gold's flavor as a
best-of-show cherry. Crack-resistant, a spectacular top seller. Isis Candy is
one of the parent fruits of our new variety, Rainbow Tears.
Peacevine Cherry ($5.25)
F/C
70-75
days.
The tiny tomato with the gigantic taste. Developed from Sweet 100 by Alan
Kapular of Oregon, the Peacevine currant type tomatoes grow in clusters
of 18 to 20 fruits on a big, strong, vining plant with vines that can reach 15
feet, and ripen in only 50 to 60
days from plant out.
When ripening, these marble-sized tomatoes can range from
deep dark red to orange and yellow. The elaborate sparkling flavor of
Peacevine literally changes from rich and sweet to tart and tangy and back again
as you munch them--the Everlasting Gobstopper of tomatoes.
The
Peacevine name was chosen because of the high amino acid content which has a
calming effect on the body. This indeterminate variety had the highest
vitamin C content in a cherry tomato among 30 varieties analyzed by Rutgers
University.
New for 2010!
Rainbow Tears
($5.95)
70
days.
This delightful little teardrop tomato with a
starburst on the blossom end is a delightful, accidental cross of Isis Candy and
an unknown pear-shaped tomato. Reaching about 1½" to 2" long with a beguiling
shape, the richness and 'big tomato' flavor of Isis Candy along with the famous
productivity of the pear tomatoes, this succulent little gem out-produces most
of the plants in the garden. Another outstanding variety from Elser's
Country Farm.
A Laurel's exclusive.
This photograph of Valhalla is the property of Krystal Elser or Elser's Country
Farms and
used here with her very kind permission.
www.elserscountryfarm.com
Super Snow
White
($4.95) 70
days. (E)
A gourmet's delight. I can't say enough about this exquisite, ping pong ball
sized, white cherry
tomato which ripens from white to ivory to palest yellow with a bright, rich and
sweet juicy flavor. Very prolific, easy to grow, pretty as starlight and a top
seller.
Sun
Gold ($4.95)
(EE)
(H)
55
days. This is the one of
the best cherry tomatoes I've
ever tasted, rivaling Isis Candy, and ready to pick in only 55-60 days. It has the
big, rich flavor
of a full-size tomato, in a beautiful little deep-golden fruit growing in bountiful clusters on a huge plant.
Sweet, rich, so beautiful...just left of center in top photo. Most of them won't make it into your house
from the garden. If you send someone to pick them for you, keep your binoculars trained
upon the picker.
Sweet Baby Girl
$4.95)
(H)
(SM) (Ch)
(VE)
60 days. This vigorous little hybrid plant from Holland has long clusters of
sweet, flavorful dark red 1 oz. cherry tomatoes, producing abundantly on small,
compact
yet indeterminate plants. Its easy-to-pick fruit is produced all season long.
Sweet Baby Girl's long shelf-life,
marvelous taste and disease resistance have made it a new favorite for fitting
into smaller gardens and producing bountiful bunches of fruit right up until
first frost in containers and in the garden. Kids of all ages love it.
Right after shooting this photograph of some of the 150 we picked on February 8th, my
employees and I ate the fruits. Every single one.
Yellow Submarine
($5.25) 70 days.
(Ch)
(E)
My new favorite!
Similar in appearance to Yellow Pear but with a deep, rich flavor and excellent
texture, Yellow Submarine is replacing Yellow Pear for many gardeners who long
for this beguiling shape and color but with big yummy tomatoey taste. Now the cutest little tomato also has great big flavor!
