06/01/2025
It's JUNE! Which means it's (finally) time to get tomatoes in the ground! We have a large selection of heirloom tomato starts available. Grown from seed saved from local plants, they are acclimated to the climate of the front range of Colorado. In Englewood, near Broadway and Hampden. Feel free to message with questions!
42 ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ: Earliest tomato Iโve grown (a must in a short Colorado growing season)! Iโd classify these as small salad tomatoes, about an ounce or two. Determinate variety well suited to container growing, classic tomato flavor profile.
๐ฝ๐ง๐๐โ๐จ ๐ผ๐ฉ๐ค๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐: These are about the prettiest tomatoes Iโve seen (although they have some fierce competition) with lavender, purple, olive-green, red, and brown/blue stripes when fully ripe. An original from breeder Bradley Gates at Wild Boar Farm, these wispy plants are nevertheless good producers.
๐ฝ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ฎ: A tomato as black as my soul. Or, rather, significantly blacker. I LOVE these. They are beautiful, and the darkest black variety Iโve personally come across. 4-5 oz fruits darken to near black on the shoulder, and are a deep red where they do not have direct sun (IE, the bottom). Rich, smoky umami flavor profile, 4-5 oz. Indeterminate and productive. Mine grew about 12 feet tall last year.
๐พ๐๐๐ง๐ค๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ง๐ฅ๐ก๐: A favorite amongst heirloom tomato growers, the flavor is highly ranked, and many growers consider it the โtastiestโ tomato. Rich, smoky and sweet, they ARE delicious. Not the most productive, but the fruits they do produce are good sized, around 10-14 oz.
๐พ๐๐ค๐๐ค๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐ฎ: A large, brown, cherry variety, 2-4 oz fruits. I know Iโve said this before, but โrich, smoky umami flavorโ. Indeterminate, middling production. They were my favorite salad tomato in 2021.
๐ฟ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง'๐จ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฎ: Large and productive Oxheart variety with a sweet backstory. These seeds came from Laurie McDowell. Her father Dieter smuggled them over from Australia around 35 years ago when they moved into the United States. He had been growing these tomatoes for as long as Laurie could remember, and before he passed in 2021, his wish was that his tomatoes would live on after he was gone. I grew them in a container last year (I ran out of space, but wanted to get some seeds to spread around and donate back to her to spread) and they still were admirably productive. If you grow this variety and are willing to save seeds to further the project, that would be awesome!
๐๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ : Pink beefsteak variety, originally brought over from Bavaria in the 1800โs. Easily grows fruits that can top out over a pound each. Tender skinned and meaty. Similar to German Johnson, but larger fruit that takes longer to ripen.
๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐: Our favorite tomato from the 2024 growing season. Large, pale-yellow-practically-white beefsteaks, very productive! Tangy and fruity flavor, a bit reminiscent of a pineapple. Striking, unique, and tasty!
๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐๐ก๐ก๐ฎ: big old yellow and orange bicolor beefsteaks. Delicious, sweet and slightly fruity (kind of a hint of apricot?). My biggest one was almost a pound and a half. I have a special place in my heart for Hillbilly, because it was what got me into heirloom tomatoes and seed saving. A pottery student of mine brought me one from his garden, and I scraped the leftover seeds from the cutting board onto a King Soopers ad. (Not the preferred method of seed saving, but hey, it worked :D)
๐๐๐ก๐ก๐ค๐๐'๐จ ๐ฝ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ: An orange beefsteak variety, preserved by Darrell Kellogg, a railroad supervisor from Redford, Michigan. (IE, not ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต Kellogg). Sweet and mild fruit, often weighing over a pound and up to two pounds, these tomatoes will mature in 80-85 days. These were my favorite tomato in my 2023 gardening season, and my biggest one was (frustratingly) just shy of a pound at 15.6 oz.
๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐ฎ: productive, classic cherry tomato.
๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ฃ๐ค: A favorite sauce tomato. Indeterminate.
๐๐ฅ๐ค๐ค๐ฃ: The worldโs smallest tomato! At least a dozen fit on a standard teaspoon (hence the name). Incredibly productive (our plant produced many hundreds) pop in your mouth, itty-bitty classic red tomatoes! A word of advice: The fruits are small, the plant is NOT.
