Rare, Open-pollinated & Heirloom Garden Seeds

Azoychka
60 days, indeterminate — This is a variety that Kent Whealy brought back from Russia on one of his collecting trips. It first became available in 1995. It is regular leaf plant, matures very early, good sized (five to eight ounces) oblate shaped, yellow (not golden or orange) fruit with bright yellow interiors and a nice tart taste. Not the typical sweet or fruity flavor people associate with yellow fruited varieties. Pleasant tartness more closely approximates the flavor of a good red tomato.

NOTE: Much of the seed that is currently being offered by other seed companies and collectors is reportedly crossed.  We have grown it out for several years and believe ours is true-to-type.

Very prolific, low acid taste, meaty and averaging 1½ inches in diameter by four inches in length.  Reportedly stabilized from a single plant in a batch of unnamed crosses called 'Mixed Long Toms' from Tater Mater in 1984.

Brandywine, Yellow
90 days, indeterminate — Fuzzy, potato leafed vines produce large fruits, weighing up to two pounds.

The tomatoes have an excellent flavor and creamy texture.  Click here for more Brandywine history.

See also Brandywine Red and
Brandywine Pink

Good flavor, juicy, thick walls with few seeds.  It held up well for us in the wet late fall weather.  Flavored like a red tomato (slightly tart) and not sweet and mild like the color might suggest.

Released by the Farmer Seed Company of Faribault, Minnesota in about 1955.  Our parent stock grown from USDA ARS accession number NSL 5817.

We received this variety from heirloom tomato collector Craig LeHoullier who received them from a collector in Germany.

It is the result of several generations of selective breeding of a superior specimen of Yellow Ponderosa. Fruits are very large.  See also 'Improved Colossal Red'.

Listed in the 1915, S. M. Isbell & Co. seed catalog. Our source was USDA ARS accession number  NSL 27354.

Jubilee (Burpee's)
80 days, indeterminate — The eight ounce fruit is bright orange colored, solid, smooth, sweet, with meaty flesh that is not acidic.  The plants, although indeterminate, tend to be short-stemmed and stiff.

'Jubilee' makes a unique and attractive tomato juice.  It was bred by W. Atlee Burpee and were the result of a stabilized, six-generation selection from a 'Tangerine' x 'Rutgers' cross.  An "All-American Selection^®" in 1943.

The inside flesh is lime green. Mild sweet, slightly tart after taste, very juicy, two to five celled fruits.

From heirloom tomato collector Craig LeHoullier who stabilized it from an accidental cross between Brandywine and an unknown variety. It is a sister variety to the larger fruited ‘Lucky Cross’.  A 2004 Victory Seed Company introduction.

Long Keeper (Burpee's) - Click link to go to red tomatoes.

Although it shares the same pedigree as 'Little Lucky', with the help of Craig's local gardening friend, Larry Bohs, it has been stabilized and selected for oblate shape and larger size.  A 2004 Victory Seed Company introduction.

Mountain Gold
80 days, determinate — A yellow-fruited tomato superior in disease resistance, plant habit and certain fruit characteristics to standard cultivars.

This open-pollinated variety was released in 1993.  Bred by Dr. Randolph G. Gardner at the North Carolina State Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station.

It is a mid-early variety that is productive with fruits that are beautiful, smooth orange skinned, globe to slightly flattened shaped, two to eight ounce, and good flavored.

days, semi-determinate — Bred as a cross of 'New Hampshire Victor' and Orange sport of 'Scarlet Dawn' by Dr. A. F. Yeager, Department of Horticulture, University of New Hampshire.  Released about 1943.

A beautiful, compact plant. Hundreds of flowers!  Taste like a good red tomato - mild but tart not sweet like you might expect. The fruits are four to eleven ounces, oblate-shaped, and a bright orange color inside and out.  The juice looks like orange juice.  Sent to us by David Pendergrass from USDA ARS accession number NSL 6884.

Please note that our parent seed source was a commercial packet mislabeled as 'German Orange Strawberry'.  Thanks to Dr. Carolyn Male for catching and alerting us to this error.

Our seed source was the USDA ARS accession number PI 914580.  They reported that the variety was collected in 1931 from Dobbie & Company, Ltd. of Edinburgh, Scotland.

We received this variety from heirloom tomato collector Craig LeHoullier who simply described it as a curiosity from Canada.  It should be noted that although it had a maturity date of 90 to 95 days here in Oregon, in North Carolina it is closer to 70 days.