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Ananas Noir
(aka Black
Pineapple)
($9.95
)
A hugely popular tomato, Ananas Noir, French for Black Pineapple, is a stunning fruit -- incredibly beautiful. But what about flavor?
What good is all that
flashy gorgeousness if the flavor is dull?
Fragrant and sweet, juicy, ambrosial with lingering notes of tropical fruit, and sunshine, luscious elaborate, unending flavor that lingers on the palate. One of my all-time favorites, I want you guys to try this one. It will blow your mind.
Beauty King
($9.95
) 80 days
How often does something this gorgeous live up to its beauty with equally stunning flavor and character?
I'm disappointed when a
beautiful tomato doesn't thrill me with flavor. I grow out many,
many varieties each year to be sure your tomatoes have fabulous
flavor. Sometimes the first bite is a h
NOT THIS ONE!! Beauty King
is
Very sweet and meaty, regularly reaching a pound. Sometimes up to 20 ounces and high production to boot! You'll be harvest lots of Beauty King tomatoes within only 80 days of planting.
Another incredible Brad
Gates cross.
Brad continues to bring unbridled joy to the gardens of the world. YAY BRAD!!!!! WE LOVE YOU!
Berkeley Tie Dye, Pink
($9.95
)
80 days.
This rare and exotic fruit with big, bold, luscious flavors looks just like its name implies with spectacular showy streaks and swirls of green and yellow, red and orange, with green and red patterning inside and out.
From 8 to 12 ounces, chefs nationwide are ordering these plants for their restaurant gardens -- tomato lovers are clamoring for this fabulous variety.
Berkeley Tie Dye Pink, the best of the Berkleey Tie Dye line, is another fabulous variety from talented tomato breeder Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms here in California.
Photograph used here with the kind permission of Brad Gates.
Blue Chocolate
($9.95
)
75 days.
We are crazy in love with these yummy, gorgeous, not a cherry -- a 1½ oz. ping pong ball chocolate-brown fruit with exotic blue shoulders.
These tomatoes hold well on the vine so you can let them stay there when ripe for a few days, they won't get soft and overripe for quite a while.
Blue Chocolate is crack resistant, (yay!) disease resistant (more yay!), easy to grow and a perfect salad and slicing tomato for your family.
This very unusual plant makes a fabulous gift for foodie friends, new and old, looking for something rare and wonderful from the heirloom world to grow in their tomato gardens.
) 75 days
Inside, Atomic Grape glows green with a blush of deep red when fully ripe. Sweet and fragrant, this amazing fruit holds well on the vine and has a long shelf life after picking. Another mind-blowing variety from Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farm, this photograph is Brad's.
Chocolate Stripes
($9.95
)
80 days.
After removing it from the list a few years ago, I was bombarded by horrified customers who could not live without it and were freaked out by not seeing it. So it's back for good. I. Am. So. Sorry.
Among the largest of the black tomatoes, this one was among the top 3 winners of TomatoFest 2007. Reaching 2½ lbs., ripening to mahogany with dark olive green stripes, these fruits have enormous old-time tomato flavor and an appearance similar to Black Zebra, but huge!
A plentiful harvest, stunning beauty and out-of-this-world taste make Chocolate Stripes a rare treat in your garden.
Be sure not to over-water when the fruits are getting ripe because they will crack! Seriously. Be careful. Test the soil, it should be barely damp. If so, turn off the hose and back away.
Cream Cherry
($9.95
)
65 days.
One of the prettiest tomatoes ever. Every Cream Cherry tomato is a golden gem with a dusting of dusky blue at the stem.
Growing in great abundance and ripening early make Cream Cherry a precious little treasure in your tomato patch.
As they ripen, the flavor
becomes increasingly sweet and lovely with vanilla
Lovely thin skin and tender yellow flesh add to Cream Cherry's delightful characteristics.
Growing on a strong energetic plant, hundreds of these precious fruits greet you, sparkling in the sun as they ripen.
Golden Summer ($9.95) 75 days.
Appearing mysteriously a few summers ago on a beautiful end-of-season sunny day, in a patch of tomatoes that were all red or purple, this gorgeous sexy beast grabbed our attention immediately. It was ripening a few days earlier than it's nearby mates. "What is that?! It's not supposed to be gold and red!!"
We think it is a magnificent bee-pollination cross of Ruby Gold and an unknown red variety -- maybe Tati's Wedding, which we'd grown next to it, due to the shape and more-red-than-gold coloration. But the flavor. Oh. My. God. The flavor! is what made us grow it out to save seeds for your plants.
So sweet. So juicy. Elaborate flavors linger in your mouth for a long while. Savor it like fine wine.
Seeds are very rare and limited, these plants will sell out. Order early to reserve your Golden Summer.
Green Zebra ($9.95
)
Visually
enchanting,
Inside, the flesh is beautiful, sparkling green.
Another wonderful variety from Tom Wagner, it is gorgeous to behold, lingering in the senses like fine wine. This exquisite tomato was chosen by chef extraordinaire, Alice Waters, for her restaurant, Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. In my top 5.
) 88 days.
Purple Zebra ($12.95) (H)
Purple Zebra is my hands-down most exciting discovery this century. Maybe ever.
I liken it to Summer Cider (see
below) which completely changed my tomato life 25 years ago. G
I can now call Purple Zebra my favorite tomato of all-time in the world ever ever ever, to the moon and back a million times... plus one.
An artisan hybrid, Purple Zebra has the most perfect, uncontested incredible, passionately desirable flavor I've ever known in a tomato.
I watched my employees when they were watering or feeding the plant to make sure they didn't try to sneak one away... it was tomato madness!
There is no way to adequately describe it, though. Where to start. Sweet. Yes. Tangy, yes... perfectly. Tender, yes. Thin skinned, check.
High production, check. NO disease at all, check. Magic, Yes. Impossible, nope, it's real. Unbelievable? Not now. Otherwordly?
Yup. That's might be the word. Or may just OH. MY. GOD!!
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Ruby Gold
($9.95
) 75 days.
A stunning beauty with thrilling, sweet tropical flavors, this was my hands-down favorite for 2016. I could not be without it.
Ruby Gold has gigantic flavor, rivaling Cherokee Purple and Brandywine -- it may be as good as Paul Robeson. Cut it open, take a bite and prepare to have your mind blown.
I have a special fondness for the multi-hued tomatoes because-- well, look at thisw thing! When I see the multi colored tomatoes on plants ripening into rainbow hues I get lusciously gaga.
Sunrise Bumblebee
($9.95
)
What can I say? I've never seen anything prettier in the cherry tomato world.
This a very special cherry tomato, an astounding artisan variety. Please put this plant into your garden -- but remember -- it will make you way too popular.
Sunrise Bumblebee is plump and bountiful, crammed full of old- time sweet-honey, juicy, pop-in-your-mouth tomato flavors and just as cute as it can be. T
his is the tomato you would steal from your neighbors in the middle of the night. But don't. Just leave an empty bowl at their door with note....they will understand.
