15 TOMATO SEED SET- $30.00

RARE HEIRLOOM & TRADITIONAL JEWELS

A great variety of rare, untreated, open pollinated & hard to find seeds!

CURRENTLY THE 15 TOMATO SET INCLUDES:

Old Fashioned Large Red Cherry Tomato

75 days, Indeterminate. This is a standard large Red Cherry Tomato from a strong strain that produces small round, red and sweet tomatoes. Great for salads or using in stir-fry and other cooking. A great and prolific producer. Red Cherry was originally introduced way back in the 1880's and has been growing strong ever since! Just like the ones your grandmother used to raise!

20 seeds

Old Fashioned Red Beefsteak Tomato
90 -96 days, indeterminate— A very old standard variety. Red Beefsteak Tomatoes are an old time favorite in the garden and have been popular for many years. Generally, the Red Beefsteak Tomato is the Tomato Pride of most gardens worldwide due to it's excellent producing qualities and excellent tomatoes.

Produces huge, delicious fruit on vigorous vines. Excellent taste and very firm flesh make it an ideal tomato for slicing, using in salads or for canning!

20 seeds

Delicious Tomato
90 days, Indeterminate. A tomato introduction by Burpee's Seeds in 1979. Huge, red meaty fruit with a good taste. Produces tomatoes up to two pounds with regular care. This variety also produced the world's heaviest tomato - a giant weighing over 7 pounds! Can you grow a bigger tomato? 20 seeds

Roma Paste Tomato
60-70 days, Determinate. Roma is an outstanding and disease resistant tomato variety that produces oblong red, plum-like tomatoes of a medium size. Roma is ideal for making tomato paste or for canning. There seems to be some debate about this tomato variety's origin. Though it is typically assumed to be an Italian bred heirloom tomato, this tomato variety has become one of the best known tomatoes in the US. It's popular among gardeners as well as growers due to it's fine taste and resistance against Wilt. It is a very popular & not at all rare, but one of our personal favorites! 20 seeds

Cherokee Purple Tomato

80-90 days, Indeterminate. Cherokee Purple is said to be an heirloom tomato with a history extending back over at least 100 years and is a fine producer of medium sized, purplish brown tomatoes with darker shoulders. Said to be originally passed down from the Cherokee tribe of Native Americans. Tolerant to many common diseases. 20 seeds

Yellow Pear Tomato

70-80 days, Indeterminate.This famous pre-1800's tomato variety is also occasionally known as Beam's Yellow Pear tomato and is similar to the Red Pear tomatoes, except that it differs in color. These are just like the little yellow pear tomatoes that your grandmother once grew in her garden when you were a child.The tomatoes themselves are produced in a large abundance and features a very sweet, mild and fresh flavor. Their excellent color, unique shape and luscious taste make them an ideal tomato for salads, as well as for relishes, sauces and for making tomato preserves. This tomato variety has been documented as being very high in vitamins and other nutrients. With its unusual shape and color, this tomato's a great choice to introduce your children to the benefit of eating healthy vegetables. This tomato is so vigorous that it is notorious for self seeding itself. Yellow Pear is also a great cold tolerant tomato variety and will generally last further into the season than other varieties. Typically, Yellow Pear is the last tomato living in most gardens at the end of the year. As the plants themselves are very vigorous, staking or caging is required. 20 seeds

Oregon Spring Tomato
85 days, determinate— Bred and introduced by Dr. James R. Baggett of Oregon State University in 1984. Early, large, red, nearly seedless fruit. Sets under cool temperature conditions of the Maritime Northwest. Verticillium wilt race 1 resistant.

20 seeds

Homestead 24 Tomato
80 days, semi-determinate— The fruit set under a wide range of conditions, making it popular the world over.

The plants are large with heavy foliage and produce seven to eight ounce red fruits that are meaty, firm, and consistently uniform. Released in 1956 by the Asgrow Seed Co., New Haven, Connecticut. 20 seeds

Moneymaker Tomato
80 days, indeterminate— An old English greenhouse variety and reliable producer of heavy crops of medium-sized, four to five ounce red, globe-shaped tomatoes. Sets fruit well in the greenhouse or outside in many weather conditions. The plants are open with poor coverage. Does well under humid conditions and equally as well in the northwest areas. 20 seeds

Rutgers Tomato
75 days, determinate— An improved, disease resistant strain. Fruit is six ounce, bright red; globular, slightly flattened with smooth, thick walls that are crack resistant. It was originally introduced in 1934. Good for slicing, canning and cooking.

A fine New Jersey heirloom.

20 seeds

Thessaloniki Tomato
60-80 days. Indeterminate. The Greek island tomato that was introduced to the USA in the 1950’s by Glecklers Seedsmen, of Ohio. It is a popular large, red uniform fruit with excellent flavor, high yields and disease resistance. An early variety perfect for home or market, keeps well. Plump, round fruits up to 6-8oz have a rich classic tomato flavor that perform well in taste tests. Great for slicing and in salads. The fruits are crack resistant and the plants bear heartily. 20 seeds

Ponderosa Pink Tomato

80 days, Indeterminate. A longtime favorite variety with pink fruit up to 2 lbs. Firm andmeaty, lower in acid. Grow the large vigerous vines in wire cages. Good for canning. 20 seeds

Red Pear Tomato

78 days, Indeterminate. A cherry type fruit set in clusters of 7-9. These pear-shaped fruit yield plenty of mild, blemish free tomatoes. Great for canning and sauces. 20 seeds

Tomatillo - Grand Rio Verde
65 days- Indeterminate Deep green fruit with papery covering; a standard, richly flavored type. Huge yields as with most tomatillo’s. 20 seeds

Ace 55 VF

75 days, Indeterminate. A standard in the garden for those wanting a dependable producer of abundant crops of 12-14 oz. red globes with good flavor. This variety preferred by those folks who have difficulty with higher acid tomatoes. 20 seeds

A GOOD TOMATO CROP calls for sturdy stakes or cages; the best gardeners make their own cages from wire mesh, available at hardware- and builders'-supply stores. It's sturdy, and six-foot lengths of it can simply be formed into cylinders that support the plants without restricting their growth.

Concrete reinforcing wire is one good choice; the six-inch mesh is large enough to allow your hand to reach through for picking. The experts agree that cone-shaped wire tomato cages sold at garden shops often don't do the job; they're small and flimsy.

When starting tomato seeds, don't fill the seed pots full of potting mix, but fill them only halfway. When the seedlings are three inches tall, then fill the pots to the top. New roots will develop along the newly buried stem, and you will have young plants with stronger root systems.

Don't plant tomatoes too close together. Set plants six to eight feet apart; that way, grasshoppers and other pests can't jump from one plant to the next.

Rotating the crop -- planting it in a different part of the garden each year -- will lessen the threat of soil borne diseases. As an extra precaution in areas that have heavy rains and high humidity, mulch well all around the tomatoes once the plants mature, to keep the soil from splashing up onto the leaves during a downpour- grass clippings work well.

To help tomatoes through periods of drought, find a flat rock (about the size of a sheet of notebook paper) and place it next to each tomato plant. The rock pulls up water from under the ground and keeps it from evaporating into the atmosphere.

If cool weather and high humidity have spelled disaster for your tomato crop in the past, consider cherry tomatoes. Foolproof in any climate, they bear abundant fruit in high orlow temperatures and in rain or drought.

Fertilizers

Sources: compost, manure, fish fertilizer, bone meal (steamed), banana peels, fish, seaweed extract, egg shells, Be careful with manures, since they can burn your plants if not well composted

Four most important nutrients:

(N) nitrogen, (P) phosphorus, (K) potassium and calcium

Nitrogen: leaf and stem growth (not too much, big beautiful leaves not many fruits)
Sources: fish emulsion, blood meal, compost, manure (well rotted)
Symptoms: stunted growth and yellowing leaves

Phosphorous: strong roots, formation of flowers and fruits, and disease resistance
Sources: bone meal, chicken manure (well rotted)
Symptoms: stunted growth , thin stems and a purplish cast in underside of leaves

Potassium: plant growth, disease resistance, health and vigor
Sources: granite meal, greens, wood ashes
Symptoms: stunted growth, poor yields, yellow splotched foliage

Calcium: leaf and cell wall growth. Plants need adequate moisture to utilize calcium
Sources: bone meal, wood aches, ground limestone, crushed eggshells
Symptoms: blossom end rot

Problems

Although tomatoes are easy to grow, you can still run into problems.
VFNTASt are letters that you like to see in the tomatoes description.

They refer to the diseases that they are resistant to.

Verticulum wilt
Fusarium wilt
Nematodes
Tobacco Mosaic
Alternaria Stem Canker
Stemphylium Gray Leaf Spot

Verticulum and fusarium wilt, leaves, curl up, turn yellow and drop off
Nematodes: tiny wormlike creatures that attack a plant’s root system, stunting growth and lowering disease resistance
Tobacco Mosaic, curling stunted leaves don’t smoke or touch plants without washing hands
Early Blight: very common, lower leaves affect first, brown spot surrounded by yellowing, mulch to prevent splashing of spores from ground
Too hot, blossoms fall off or die (extended temps over 90)
Blossom End Rot, black, scabby looking bottom, caused by inconsistent watering and a lack of calcium
Cat Facing, gnarled, abnormal formation of fruit, caused by cold temps, still edible, just ugly
Damping off, a fungal disease that causes the stems to rot at the soil line. Use sterile soil and pots, a dusting of sphagnum moss or vermiculite on the surface, good light and circulation
Pests aphids and hornworms

It is important that you don’t put the infected plants in the compost pile.

Bag them and toss into garbage.

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