Early Wonder

Early Wonder is a really great tomato. It has larger and tastier fruits than some of the other early tomatoes. They are a pretty pink and they did well in my garden. I would also recommend this for container planting as it is not a huge plant. It is one of my faves for an early tomato, along with Stupice, Subarctic Plenty and Jetsetter.

Extra-early maturing and compact variety that yields an abundant crop of round, dark-pink, great-tasting fruit. Perfect for gardeners in shorter season growing climates.

Determinate, 55 days

El Dorado

I have not grown this one as of yet but I have tried other yellow paste tomatoes such as Roman Candle. They make the most lovely soup although I had toclose my eyes when tasting it. Even though it tasted the same as a soup made with red tomatoes, I just couldn’t wrap my mind around it. Yummy though. Click on this link “Best Tomato Soup Ever” for a recipe I use on my website. You can interchange any tomatoes.

Uniquely colored yellow paste type fruits with pointed ends are 3 inches long and weigh 4 ounces. Excellent for drying or making colored pastes and sauce. Also perfect for fresh use, adds interesting color to salsas.

Indeterminate, 65 days

Delicious is a geat tomato that most of never heard of. It is known also as Burpee Delicious in some circles. In my garden it produced reliably and for a long time. The fruits were large and a beautiful dark red. This is good tomato for canning and hamburgers. Yummm. Below is the description from my website.

An excellent slicer, with most fruits over 1 pound – many 2 to 3 pounds – and still holds the world record of 7+ pounds for a single fruit! Produces smooth and solid fruits that seldom crack, with small cavities, nearly solid meat, and excellent flavor. Developed from Beefsteak after 13 years of careful selection. This is a very reliable tomato, not unlike Rutgers although Delicious gets considerably larger. Alas, I have no peppers that start with “D” today

Delicious

Rutgers

Cosmonaut Volkov

This is an excellent variety with a sweet/tangy flavor. It has heavy yields of big fruit of around 4-5 inches in diameter–great for fresh eating!

Early enough for a quick Russian summer and with a taste that’s positively celestial, Cosmonaut Volkov Tomatoes will land a regular spot in your garden. The variety is of Ukrainian origin, but was selected by Russian space engineer turned avid gardener Mikhailovich Maslov. He thought it one of the best of his garden and named it after his comrade Vladislav Volkov, a Russian astronaut who perished while returning from the first visit to the Earth’s first space station. This exceptional variety will keep the spirit of adventure alive in your garden.

I am looking forward to trying this for the first time. I heard about it from a customer who requested it. 

In doing research online I found some info about seeds going to space for experimental purposes. They want to find out how they would react to radiation and low gravity. Some mutations were noted but otherwise they seemed to be fairly healthy. For more information, follow this link. http://nyti.ms/1h9vm1O 

Quite fascinating

Chinese 5 Color

Although I haven’t grown this one yet, it looks to be very promising. I don’t eat hot peppers but it would be gorgeous in a pot mixed with petunias and lolelia. This plant produces screaming hot little peppers that turn a rainbow of vibrant colors; from purple, cream, yellow, orange to red as they ripen. Plant them in your flowerbeds for more impact, guaranteed to elicit comments.

Blush is a beautiful heirloom tomato that I grew for the first time last year. When I ordered it from Baker Creek Seeds, for some reason I thought it was a paste tomato. After further reading (the seed packet) I realized it was actually a small grape shaped cherry. What attracted me to it was, of course, it’s light golden color blushed with red streaks. I am crazy about stripes! The plant grows about 5-6 feet high and was absolutely loaded with these tomatoes. Finally they ripened and I couldn’t wait to try them.

 My first impression was that they were tart. As I bit into it, my mouth was flooded with sweetness. after about three of them I figured out what made them so unique. The skin (first impression) was tart and the inside (second impression) was sweet for a pleasant combination.

My only observation is that they have thin skins and tend to split which is not uncommon in a cherry tomato. The taste and appearance make it worth growing.

Bhut Jolika (Ghost Pepper)

Ah, the infamous ghost pepper that everyone is talking about. Also known as Naga Morich. Legendary variety, one of the world’s hottest peppers, if not the hottest, with readings in excess of 1,000,000 Scoville units! Bhut Jolokia starts out slow but eventually makes tall plants, exceeding 4 ft in favored locations. The thin-walled, wrinkled, pointed fruits reach 2-3” in length, ripening mostly to red.

I would advise caution if you are going to eat these. I am selling a limited amount of these and wonder if should buyers sign a disclaimer!