Heirloom Tomato
Black Cherry
Black Cherry tomatoes are round black balls with red hues fading in and out of their skins. Like most cherry tomatoes, Black Cherry flavor is full and sweet. If your growing season is long, your crop yields can be quite large.
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Black Plum
These mahogany colored tomatoes have a unique, oval shape. The fruit are 2-4 ounces, and the skins are thin. These make for great paste tomatoes, with a sweet, fruity flavor, they are also great off the vine or in salads.
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Stupice
Stupice fruit are perfect salad tomatoes: deep red in color with a full flavor and juicy texture. Stupice tomatoes are round and weigh 3-4 ounces. The plants produce high yields, even in the cold! New York Times columnist Michelle Slatalla confesses that Windowbox.
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Melons for the Passionate Grower
Sale Price: $17.50*
Retail: $25 (30% off!)
(Cooking.com Cookbooks)
This year's heirloom tomato is a melon! Acclaimed gardener Amy Goldman, known to viewers of Martha Stewart and PBS, is a dedicated seed saver working to preserve fast-disappearing varieties of heirloom melons.
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AeroGarden™ 3 Cherry Tomatoes Seed Kit
Grow fresh red heirloom tomatoes year-round in your AeroGarden 3. Kit includes everything you need for a full season’s growth and harvest, including pre-seeded grow pods and organic-based, time-release nutrients.
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Black From Tula
Known in Russia as "Czerno Tulski Tomat, " these beefsteak tomatoes are black with green shoulders. They grow to be about 12 ounces with a 3^i ~n 4^i diameter. Their flavor is sweet and rich, yet smoky. Yields are good, and Black From Tula grow well in the heat.
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