An excellent meaty 3oz pink fruit said to have twice the vitamin C as other tomatoes has good yields of 3” fruits on medium vines.

Introduced in 1910, a good reliable producer of thin skinned fruits with a terrific flavour. Does well in cool climates.

A rare classic French heirloom slicing tomato with irregular shapes is very good for stuffing, cooking or eating fresh. Heavy yields of 6-7oz fruits on a bushy plant.

This heirloom from Quebec is a great slicer with a tangy old fashioned flavour high in sugars. Good yields on 4’ compact plants the misshapen fruits sometimes fuse together forming large fleshy fruits.

This unique tomato is from the Himalaya Mountains, brought from India by Farmers Seed Co, a long vined sprawling plant with abundant unblemished 7-10oz fruits and an intense unique flavour with little crackling. A very good keeper when the tomatoes are picked green late in summer and then wrapped in paper to ripen.

Developed in Edmonton Alberta, a heavy producer though a compact 18” plant. A great flavour in 6-8 oz fruits, sets fruit very early, good for a short season and tolerates drought very well.

Pre 1900’s. Excellent tasting full of flavour, dark pink 5-7oz fruit, dependable, tolerates high heat and humidity, resistant to crackling and disease, drought resistant. Very reliable.

Though discovered in a French market place this is a beautiful Swiss heirloom. Rose-pink the 4-8oz blemish free tomatoes are thin skinned with a rich zingy-sweet flavour that has consistently won taste tests. The vines are prolific and have good disease resistance.

An old traditional Russian heirloom 3-4” slightly flattened fruit is a dusky deep maroon with a greenish top and the inside is brick red. It is named from the dark colour reminiscent of the black nights of the Southern Territories of Russia. The hotter the summer the darker the fruit will become. An unusual colour and outstanding smokey tart flavour makes this a real winner. This large plant requires staking.

This old Mennonite variety has a lovely orange colour and sweet flavour, is firm and meaty (small seed cavity) making this an excellent slicing tomato. Introduced to Ontario from Pennsylvania around 1910.

Deep orange has a high beta carotene content, the highest vitamin A of any tested. Very prolific the large bushy plant does not need trellising and is hardy. The low acid and sweet flavoured 3” fruit look wonderful on a very pretty plant.

Tangerine shaped orange tomatoes have an excellent tangy flavour. A large and very prolific plant of 8-12 oz fruits, though some have reported harvesting fruits up to 1 lb.

This is an old Ukrainian heirloom, the seeds of this variety originally came from Irma Henkel of the Ukraine. The long plum shaped 2-3” tomatoes are blemish free and have a wonderful very sweet flavour. It is very productive and highly recommended. The grower who supplies these to me is in southern Manitoba and has had very good results even through an extremely wet summer with flooded fields.

A Yugoslavian oxheart type tomato with a lower acid content, good heavy flavour and average yields.