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Cherokee Purple
80 days. An old Cherokee Indian heirloom, pre-1890 variety; beautiful deep dusky purple-pink color, superb sweet flavor, and very large sized fruit. Try this one for real old-time tomato flavor. My favorite dark tomato!
Item Code: TP101
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $11.00
1 oz. - $33.00
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Black Krim
80 days. Dark red-purple fruit, rich sweet flavor. One of the best. It always places high in tomato taste trials. It’s very juicy. An heirloom from Russia with very unique looking, large fruit. I really like the wonderful flavor. It’s popular at many markets on the West Coast; also a favorite of many fine chefs.
Item Code: TP102
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $11.00
1 oz. - $33.00
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Black from Tula
80 days. A unique, large 8-12 oz. dark tomato exhibiting a rich, deep purplish-brown color. Some seed savers say it is the best tasting of all the dark tomatoes. Very rich, old-fashioned flavor, sweet and spicy. A rare Russian heirloom.
Item Code: TP103
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Black Prince
70 days. An heirloom from Irkutsk, Siberia. The 5 oz. tomatoes are round and very uniform, the color is a wonderful deep blackish-chocolate brown. The flavor is as deep, sweet and rich as the color. A unique salad tomato, the plants produce a large crop and early; A good tomato for fine markets.
Item Code: TP104
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz - $11.00
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Black Cherry
Beautiful black cherries, look like large, dusky purple grapes; they have that rich flavor that makes black tomatoes famous. Market growers report that this variety is an incredible seller, large vines yield very well. Very unique and delicious.
Item Code: TP106
Out of Stock
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Japanese Black Trifele
Attractive tomatoes are the shape and size of a Bartlett pear with a beautiful purplish-brick color; the fruit are perfect and smooth with no cracks. The flavor is absolutely sublime, having all the richness of fine chocolate. This was our heaviest producer for 2004. The plants produced loads of fruit all summer long. It has become a favorite with many seed savers and we are glad to be able to offer such a colorful variety. It is believed to have come from Russia, so don't ask me about the name!
Item Code: TP107
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $17.50
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Purple Russian
This Ukrainian heirloom is at the top of its class with delicious purplish, egg-shaped fruit which are smooth, perfect and blemish free. With superb flavor, it is one of the best varieties we carry for fresh eating, salsa and preserving. This variety will make market gardeners and chefs happy, and is a favorite of our growers. The plants are very productive; fruit weigh about 6 oz. Introduced to the USA in 1980.
Item Code: TP108
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Nyagous
A wonderful 'cluster tomato' that produces perfect globe shaped fruit that have smooth shoulders and are borne in clusters of 3-6 tomatoes! They are aromatic and have sweet, meaty flesh that has a rich taste. Another tomato that is superb for markets, and a must for every garden, simply lovely. This variety came to the USA from our friend, Reinhard Kraft of Germany.
Item Code: TP109
Bulk Quantities
1/4 oz. - $18.00
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Paul Robeson
This famous tomato has almost a cult following among seed collectors and tomato connoisseurs. They simply cannot get enough of this variety’s amazing flavor that is so distinctive, sweet and smokey. 7-10 oz. fruit are a black-brick color. Named in honor of the famous opera singer star of ‘King Solomon's Mines’, 1937. Paul Robeson was also a Russian and Equal Rights Advocate for Blacks. This Russian heirloom was lovingly named in his honor. We are proud to offer such a wonderful variety.
Item Code: TP110
Out of Stock
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Pierce's Pride
A stabilized cross that was selected by our seed grower, Larry Pierce. Medium-sized fruit are very flavorful and rich. Nicely shaped, deep, dark black-red in color. This is certainly one of our tastiest tomatoes.
Item Code: TP111
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Carbon
Winner of the 2005 "Heirloom Garden Show" best-tasting tomato award. This variety has won taste awards from coast to coast in the last few years, so we were proud to locate a small supply of the seed. The fruit are smooth, large, and beautiful, being one of the darkest and prettiest of the purple types we have ever seen. They also seem to have an extra dose of the complex flavor dark tomatoes are famous for.
Item Code: TP112
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Morado
New!
This very rare tomato produces delicious 1 lb fruit that are dark purplish-pink
in color, with green shoulders. The plants have excellent production,
and fruit is uniform and crack resistant. Another great-tasting "black" tomato
that should be a good variety for the market grower.
Item Code: TP113
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True Black Brandywine
New!
This fine variety was sent to us by our friend, famed seed collector and food
writer, William Woys Weaver, of Pennsylvania. It was passed down to him
from his Quaker grandfather’s collection dating back to the 1920s. As to its
history, Will states "The "true" Black Brandywine was bred sometime in the late
1920s by Dr. Harold E. Martin (1888-1959), a dentist turned plant breeder who
is best remembered today for his famous pole lima with huge seeds. Dr. Martin
lived in Westtown, PA, only a few miles from my grandfather’s place in West
Chester, and the two were gardening buddies. It was
through that connection that his grandfather
managed to wheedle seed out of the good doctor,
as well as the details on how he created it.
Dr. Martin always had a high opinion of his
plant creations and did not like to share
them–he charged 25 cents a seed for his
lima, unheard of in those days. And he
never released his Black Brandywine
to a seed company, nor did he share
it with many people, so I am fairly certain
it never circulated among growers
like his popular lima bean. According
to my grandfather, Black Brandywine
was a controlled cross between Brandywine
and the original brown Beefsteak
tomato otherwise known as
Fejee Improved. Fejee Improved is
probably extinct." We thank Will for
entrusting us with this great-tasting
tomato that is extra large in size and
full of the deep, earthy and sweet flavor
that has made blackish-purple tomatoes
so popular. Some fruits tended to crack, but
the yield was heavy, and the plants were vigorous
and did well in our hot Missouri summer.
Superior for salsa and cooking. We enjoyed these
all summer, both fresh and in countless recipes. A
great home garden variety that will surely become
a favorite. See Mr Weavers' article about this tomato in the Winter 06/07 issue
of "The Heirloom Gardener" magazine.
Item Code: TP114
Bulk Quantities
1/8 oz - $13.00
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Sarah Black
New!
Attractive, fairly uniform and crack-resistant, purplish-brown fruit have darker
streaks in the flesh, and are large in size. Earlier than some of the other "black"
types. Very rich flavor that is both sweet and spicy, with a hint of earthy overtones
that make the flavor so good, many consider it to be among the best-tasting
tomatoes. Introduced by Joe Bratka in the 1990s, who received seeds
via his great-aunt who lived in Germany.
Item Code: TP115
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Cherokee Chocolate
New!
The chocolate-colored sister to Cherokee Purple. Fruit are a unique brownish-
chocolate color, with succulent flesh that is tangy and sweet. Like its sister,
this variety also produces great yields of 12 oz fruit. Developed from a
mutation of the purple variety. Delicious!
Item Code: TP116
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