Tomato Varieties
Compare 32 tomato cultivars. Find the perfect variety for your garden based on how you want to use them, growth habit, and days to maturity.
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Ace 55
Determinate 1950s variety with meaty, low-acid flesh that performs exceptionally well in hot climates. Versatile enough for both fresh slicing and canning.
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Amish Paste
Large oxheart-shaped paste tomato from the Wisconsin Amish community with rich, sweet flavor. Versatile enough for both fresh eating and making thick, flavorful sauces.
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Beefsteak
The classic large red heirloom with meaty, ribbed fruit perfect for thick sandwich slices. A quintessential backyard tomato valued for its size and old-fashioned flavor.
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Better Boy
Classic all-purpose hybrid slicer that combines high yields with balanced flavor and strong disease resistance. Dependable producer of large red fruit throughout the season.
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Big Boy
Popular hybrid slicer since 1949, producing large, smooth, crack-resistant red fruit with classic mild flavor. A high-yielding workhorse for home gardeners.
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Black Krim
A Russian heirloom from the Crimean Peninsula with striking dark maroon-purple skin and green shoulders. Complex, rich flavor with smoky-sweet notes and a distinctive salty-mineral tang.
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Brandywine
The benchmark heirloom since 1885, renowned for its rich, intensely sweet flavor and distinctive potato-leaf foliage. Large pink beefsteak fruit that consistently wins taste tests.
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Campari
Cocktail-sized hybrid with exceptionally high sugar content (8-9 Brix), bridging the gap between cherry and full-sized slicers. Deep red cluster-fruiting variety popular in grocery stores.
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Carmelina
Compact paste tomato with thick, low-moisture dark red flesh ideal for making rich sauces. AAS winner with good disease resistance and a manageable plant size.
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Celebrity
AAS-winning semi-determinate hybrid with exceptional disease resistance and wide adaptability. Produces uniform medium-sized red fruit that performs reliably in nearly any climate.
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Cherokee Purple
Tennessee heirloom prized for its complex smoky-sweet flavor and distinctive dusky purple-brown skin. One of the most popular dark-colored heritage varieties.
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Costoluto Genovese
19th century Italian heirloom with deeply ribbed red fruit and rich, complex flavor. Holds D.O.P. status and excels both sliced fresh and cooked into sauces.
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Early Girl
One of the earliest slicing tomatoes to ripen, delivering good balanced flavor weeks before most varieties. A reliable hybrid choice for gardeners eager for the first harvest.
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Gardener's Delight
Reliable open-pollinated cherry tomato cherished since the 1950s for its sweet-tangy flavor and prolific production. A dependable performer in any garden.
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German Johnson
North Carolina heirloom beefsteak with sweet pink-red flesh and very few seeds. Notable as the parent variety used to create the famous Mortgage Lifter.
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Green Tiger
Visually striking small tomato with green and yellow striped skin and mild sweet flavor with citrus notes. Adds dramatic color contrast to salads and fresh plates.
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Green Zebra
Distinctive specialty slicer that stays green with yellow stripes when ripe, bred in 1983 by Tom Wagner. Offers a bright, tangy, zingy flavor unlike any red tomato.
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Indigo Rose
Bred at Oregon State University in 2012, featuring striking purple-black skin loaded with health-promoting anthocyanins. The color deepens with sun exposure, revealing red flesh inside.
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Jet Star
Classic mild, low-acid hybrid slicer popular throughout the eastern US since 1969. Smooth globe-shaped fruit with excellent crack resistance and reliable performance.
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Juliet
AAS-winning grape tomato hybrid that produces prolific clusters of sweet, elongated red fruit. Exceptionally crack-resistant and keeps producing heavily all season long.
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Mortgage Lifter
Legendary 1930s heirloom developed by Radiator Charlie in West Virginia, producing enormous sweet meaty pink fruit. Named because its sales paid off his mortgage.
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Mr. Stripey
Stunning bicolor heirloom with yellow and red striped skin and sweet, mild, low-acid flavor. Also sold as Tigerella, it adds visual interest to any fresh tomato platter.
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Oxheart
Russian heirloom producing massive heart-shaped pink fruit that can reach nearly a kilogram. Sweet, low-acid flesh with thin skin makes for impressive fresh eating.
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Paul Robeson
Dark-fleshed Russian heirloom beefsteak named after the civil rights icon, offering rich earthy flavor with smoky undertones. A favorite among heirloom tomato collectors.
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Red Grape
Small oval red grape tomato with firm, sweet flesh produced in generous clusters. Crack-resistant skin makes it ideal for snacking straight from the vine.
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Roma
The standard Italian canning and paste tomato. Compact determinate vines produce large harvests of thick-walled, pear-shaped red fruit with few seeds and low moisture — ideal for batch canning.
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Rutgers
Historic 1934 university release with perfectly balanced sweet-acid flavor, bred for both fresh eating and processing. A true dual-purpose variety with semi-determinate habit.
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San Marzano
The gold standard Italian paste tomato with dense, sweet flesh and very few seeds. Prized by cooks worldwide for making the finest sauces and canned tomatoes.
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Sun Gold Cherry
Exceptionally sweet orange cherry tomato that produces abundant clusters all season long. Widely considered the gold standard for cherry tomato sweetness.
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Sweet 100
Hybrid cherry that produces incredibly sweet red fruit in long cascading clusters. One of the most prolific cherry tomatoes available, bearing continuously until frost.
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Yellow Pear
Pre-1800s heirloom cherry tomato with charming pear-shaped yellow fruit and mild sweet flavor. Extremely prolific plants produce hundreds of small decorative tomatoes.
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