A standard red tomato that was grown extensively by the local farmers in its day. Round with a tendency to a have a little point at the base. Great flavour smooth round fruit and dark red colour.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.
• Most heirloom/heritage varieties take a lot longer to mature compared to standard variety.

Flat ribbed tomato that is yellow and red striped in colour with a marbled interior. Great looking and fun to grow.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.
• Most heirloom/heritage varieties take a lot longer to mature compared to standard variety.

Flattened dark red-purple fruit with delicate skin and green shoulders. For best results in needs to be staked or caged.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.
• Most heirloom/heritage varieties take a lot longer to mature compared to standard variety.

A bright orange tomato with large smooth round fruit.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.
• Most heirloom/heritage varieties take a lot longer to mature compared to standard variety.

I remember this as a child being the onle paste variety grown here at the time. Still a very good paste tomato except it does take a long time to mature.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.
• Most heirloom/heritage varieties take a lot longer to mature compared to standard variety.

This tomato is large and irregular in size and is yellow with red exterior and interior centre when ripe.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.
• Most heirloom/heritage varieties take a lot longer to mature compared to standard variety.

Huge ugly and purple this is a variety that has been around foever.  You will not find a tomato with better flavour.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.
• Most heirloom/heritage varieties take a lot longer to mature compared to standard variety.

Like its counterpart 'Better Bush' this is the best compact 'patio' type tomato but with cherry size tomatoes. Strong vines grow up to about 3 feet tall with minimum staking and produces lots of fruit all season. The perfect plant for patio container.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

We believe this is the best compact 'patio' tomato available. Strong vines grow up to about 3 feet tall with a minimum of staking and produce a steady supply of medium fruit. Perfect for patio planters small garden spaces.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

This variety has been around so long it could almost be called heirloom. Still one of the best staking varieties it produces medium to large red fruit all season.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

The best most prolific yellow cherry type tomato available. It has the same sweet flavoured fruit as Cupid its red counterpart and a bright yellow colour.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

Similar in growth to the Sweet Million but the fruit is grape shaped and has fewer tendencies to crack. The plants just keep growing and producing all season. Probably the best cherry type tomato variety available.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

Once this plant starts producing its clusters of cherry size round red tomatoes you will never keep up. This is the long-time standard for cherry type tomatoes.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

This is a plum shaped paste tomato on a vigorous strong plant. The fruit has great flavour and is perfect for all your tomato paste needs.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

A bright yellow tomato very low in acid. This tomato has a large vigorous plant and an abundance of fruit.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium base fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

For an early tomato this has terrific flavour and will keep producing great medium size tomatoes all season.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium based fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

When we think big ripe tomato we think 'beefsteak'. Big Beef is the best of the best beefsteak type tomatoes.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium based fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.

This has been our favourite tomato for many years. A large round red tremendous garden perfomer that tastes great.

Growing Instructions:

• Tomatoes like to be planted deep into the rich soil for best results.
• Full sun and regular watering.
• A calcium based fertilizer is best along with regular crop rotation.
• Rushing the season by planting too early will slow the plant and delay the fruit.
• Plant fairly deep. I like to pick taller plants and plant deeper. Roots will develop on the buried stem.
• Tomatoes can be staked, caged or just left to grow on the ground. This is personal preference and a space consideration. You get more tomatoes from a caged or ground grown tomato plant but a stakes and pruned plant takes much less space.
• There are an endless number of varieties to choose from.
• Early ones give you fruit first but give up size and flavour compared to regular season varities.
• There are full size table slicing varieties, long thinner thick paste types for canning and cooking, there are cherry types that grow about the size of grapes, there are a number of compact varieties for tight spaces or container gardens.
• There are normal red varieties but also yellow and pink varieties that are low acid, and also varieties that are purple, striped, and orange.
• It is always fun to grow the heirloom varieties. Some say they taste better than the newer varieties. I always loved eating tomatoes and have since my grandfather grew those old varieties years ago. There are great tasting ones from then and great tasting ones now and some from then and now that don't taste as good.
• When growing heirlooms remember most take a lot longer than newer varieties to mature and produce less fruit. The older varieties have less tolerance to fungal diseases and are more likely to suffer from late blight.
• I grow some of each and try new ones every year.
• Since the blight problem of a few years ago and because more heirloom varieties are being grown I put a preventative fungicide spray on all my tomatoes. There are a number of very safe non toxic fungicides available at your garden centre. Remember once you see the problem your ability to control it is just about impossible. Read the label carefully just because a chemical is organic does not mean it is non toxic.