Mid-Season Red Slicers

(Lycopersicon esculentum) Captain Lucky is perhaps the best known and most commercially successful of the many wonderful varieties to come from the late North Carolina tomato breeder, Millard Murdoch's garden over the years. Green fruits streaked with bronze and red are sliced to reveal a kaleidoscopic marbled interior. The juicy...

(Lycopersicon esculentum) We’ve looked at many new-to-us varieties of tomatoes over the years, and few have left us as excited as this Cuor di Bue (“ox heart”) type tomato from Ligurian coast town of Albenga, just west of Genoa, in Northern Italy. When most people think of saucing or roasting...

(Lycopersicon esculentum) The gangly vines will grow 6- 8’ tall. They will be covered in flowers and hang heavy with green fruit. Big, 3/4 - 1+lb fruit. You will taste the first one and there will be no going back. Suddenly you will notice more flowers, more vines, and more...

(Lycopersicon esculentum) Kurtovo Konare is a village in the south of Bulgaria with a rich agricultural history. Set in the fertile area between the Vacha and Maritsa rivers, it is one of just a handful of Slow Food Presidia in the country and has listed several threatened regional specialties in...

(Lycopersicon esculentum) Nepal was a very pleasant surprise for us, producing the earliest and heaviest sets we’ve seen for a tomato of its class and quality. Nearly beefsteak-sized 1/2lb fruits hung in abundance and delivered the season's first glimpse of that ripe complexity of flavor we celebrate during the main-season...

(Lycopersicon esculentum) Perfect! Originally bred by long-time biodynamic market farmer Ruth Zinniker of Wisconsin, Ruth’s Perfect is another strong, vigorous grower bearing simply gorgeous blemish-free half-pound fruits. During one pretty mediocre summer for tomato growing, we were very impressed with the yield and quality of this new-to-us variety. From field-grown...

AKA Super Lakota. We've been working with this seed for over a decade now and decided it was high time to change the name. As far as we've researched, the original breeding has nothing to do with the Lakota Nation, and enough indigenous names have been co-opted for marketing purposes....

(Lycopersicon esculentum) This might be the most consistently enormous tomato we’ve ever grown, occasionally topping out over 3 pounds (field grown in northwest WA, no less!). An innkeeper and gardener in the village of Vernazza (one of the five villages that make up the “Cinque Terra” on northern Italy’s Ligurian coast)...