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 ($5.50)
(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.
Austin's Red Pear ($5.50) 75 days.
Top Seller! This delicious, prize-winning, vigorous, bushy plant
produces baskets full of sweet, juicy 1½" to 2" deep-red, pear-shaped, cherry size tomatoes with
rich, outstanding flavor and great disease resistance. This precious little variety
keeps pumping out sweet yummy little tomatoes right up until
frost. Perfect for salads and snacking! The perfect variety for introducing
children to real old-time tomatoes. Austin's Red Pear is one of the top 10 selling cherry varieties
of all-time.
Black
Cherry ($5.50)
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, Gardener's Delight 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.
:)
New
for 2012!
Brown Berry ($5.50)
What a treat! This very sturdy plant produces hundreds of
perfectly round, chocolate colored cherry tomatoes. Mistakenly called
Chocolate Cherry in some arenas, Brown Berry's rich flavors are
reminiscent of Chocolate Amazon and Chocolate Stripes, not cloyingly
sweet -- but an elegant balance of sweet and tang in a perfect little
mahogany morsel. Really juicy and prolific, this garden candy makes a
delightful presentation on a colorful cherry tomato platter.
Disease resistant and easy to grow.
Not to be missed!
Blondkopfchen ( Blond- kopf-chen) ($5.50) 75 days. Easily the finest
tasting cherry tomato in existence, the name of this marvelous German heirloom
cutie means 'Little Blond Head or Little Blond Girl. The big leafy plant
produces thousands of 1/2 " grape-size sparkling yellow-gold cherry tomatoes in
phenomenal clusters of 30 fruits per bunch! Delightfully sweet with a citrusy
finish, this is the one to try with children who don't think they like tomatoes.
As Gary says, " Just put one in your mouth and try to keep from smiling!" No
cracking, with great disease resistance, this little sweetie grows anywhere and
produces right up until frost.
New for 2012!
Foxy Lady
($5.95)
(E)
(HG) 
(70
to 75 days). This rapturous little cousin of Purple Haze is the newest
addition to our heirloom tomato selection. My seeds for this exquisite 1”
deep purple cherry tomato come from Dana Ferrin of Seattle, who grew out the
Original Purple Haze for four generations to see if it would grow
true-to-variety. He sent me some seeds to grow out and to our delight, the
resulting fifth generation fruit is a half-sized, full flavored, sweet and
sassy little 1 oz. cousin to Purple Haze which I’ve named Foxy Lady. The
flavor, very much like Purple Haze, is energizing, elaborate and dazzling
with a sweet, seductive background and earthy nuance with lingering flavors.
I was mesmerized by the flavors of these cute little heartbreakers.
Early ripening and growing in
mass abundance on big plants in clusters of 5 to 7 fruits, Foxy Lady ripens
in only 70-72 days from plant out. Unlike the regular-leafed Purple Haze,
Foxy Lady has some of the biggest potato type leaves I’ve ever seen, they'll
make you wanna get up and scream...
and just like the Original Purple Haze, which is also available for 2012,
Foxy Lady has a muted, subtle saltiness along with a tiny touch of tang to
balance its big full-bodied sugar.
Got
to be all mine, all mine….
Dana has donated the seeds so we
can grow and offer this very rare plant to our customers and donate part of
the proceeds to TACA, Talk About Curing Autism.
www.talkaboutcuringautism.org. Supply is limited, please order early.
A Laurel's exclusive.
Thank you, Dana!
Gardener's
Delight (AKA Sugar Lump)($5.50)
(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
($5.50)
(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 ($5.50)
(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.
NOTE: How to tell
if a green-when-ripe tomato is ripe and not just a bitter unripe fruit?
Close your
eyes and feel it; if it's soft, it's ripe. Ripe green tomatoes are
sweet, luscious and a little tangy, just like a perfectly ripe red or
pink or orange tomato.
New for 2012!
Golden Grape ($5.50)
This beautiful, extremely productive
grape tomato is a favorite at Farmers Markets and fine restaurants.
Sweet and golden, slightly elongated, these beautiful fruits will not last
long on the counter, pop one in your mouth and try to keep from smiling.
This is a good 'first heirloom' tomato for kids who think they don't like
tomatoes.
Intensely flavored and very
prolific, scattered in salads and paired with our red Grape Heirloom and the
other colorful cherry varieties, Golden Grape makes a winsome and yummy
display on your table if they make it into the house. Very sweet with a tiny
point on the blossom end. Easy to grow in all climates.
Hartman's Yellow Gooseberry ($5.50) 75 days.
This very old variety from the 1860's is a
brilliant 1" to 2 " larger-than-average 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
($5.50)
(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.
Isis
Candy ($5.50) (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
($5.50)
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.
Snow
White ($5.50) 70
days.
F/C
(E)
A gourmet's delight. I can't say enough about this exquisite little white cherry
tomato which ripens from white to ivory to palest yellow with a bright, rich and
sweet juicy flavor. Luscious. Very prolific, easy to grow, pretty as starlight and a top
seller.
Sun
Gold ($6.25)
(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
($5.50) 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!
