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All our tomato seed, including heirloom and heritage varieties, are open pollinated and grown in Canterbury, New Zealand
Tomato - Early Girl - 145RG87A
Details Determinate regular leaf type.
Bears heavy crop very early of medium-sized globe fruit. Bright red fruit with lots of flavour and aroma. known as a short season variety used as a slicing tomato. These tomatoes require supportive staking when they are planted, and they need to be grown in a sunny area out of the wind in well-conditioned soil.
Bears heavy crop very early of medium-sized globe fruit. Bright red fruit with lots of flavour and aroma. known as a short season variety used as a slicing tomato. These tomatoes require supportive staking when they are planted, and they need to be grown in a sunny area out of the wind in well-conditioned soil.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Green Grape - 147RG83A
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Cherokee Purple - 148RG90
Details A red/ purple skin fruit that can weigh up to 400grams that has a balance of sweet, acid and savory with form skin and flesh, fruit should ripen in about 80 days during the summer months on a indeterminate bush.
Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato Riesentraube 33RW55A
Details A German Heirloom tomato that grows large clusters of pear shape cherry sized fruit.
Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Richard Watson
Tomato - Purau Sweet Cherry - 99RG81
Details A productive taste cherry very sweet red tomato, early to produce fruit. Vigorous grower. Has been a favorite of Ricks for over 30 years.
Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Russian Red - 45RG87
Details A reliable mid size cool-climate type with good flavour,
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Scoresby Dwarf - 78RW18A
Details Determinate - bush - This strain tends to produce variable shapes and sizes, but most are round red from small to mid size fruit makes it ideal for preserves and sauce
Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Richard watson
Tomato - Sunny Grape - 161MT100A
Details Yellow, grape-shaped cherry tomato in abundance with a nice sweet-tangy taste. Perfect for snacking straight from the vine, or halving for salads and snack platters. Kids love the bright colour. Minette originally from a mixed heirloom seed packet, so exact parentage unknown, but dubbed "Sunny Grape" by her kids when they first grew it in 2014.
Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Tomato - Black Brandywine - 157MT98A
Details Brandywine produces regular leafed indeterminate plants. Fruits are a dark chocolate that ripen about 80 days from transplant. The plant produces medium to large purple/black beefsteak tomatoes with rich, earthy complex, tomatoey sweet flavors.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Tomato - Violet Jasper - 160MT100
Details
Violet Jasper
Also known as Tzi Bi U
Oriental in origin, these are jewel like when ripe with a violet purple fruit and irridescent green streaks. Dark purplish red flesh has great taste. It is a very productive vine. Minette rekcons its one of her favourites
favourites
favourites
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Tomato - Tumbler - 159MT99A
Details Tumbler is a red cherry tomato with good tomatoey flavours. It's claim to fame is that it is a dwarf determinate tomato with a cascading habit, meaning it is wonderful to grow in hanging baskets where the plant can tumble over its vines of beautiful cherry tomatoes.
Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Tomato - Tigerella - 130MT63
Details Tomato "Tigerella" is a standard, indeterminate variety, an English heirloom variety that is highly productive and extremely attractive. It has a unique, rich, tangy flavour and the stripes give it outstanding eye appeal. They mature in about 85 to 100 days.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Tomato - Jaune Flamme - 125MT49B
Details The Jaune Flamme is a small round tomato, roughly the size of a golf ball, orange skin tomato borne in elongated trusses
Fruity flavor is a blend of sweet and tart
Indeterminate bears ripe fruit in about 70-80 days from transplant.
Fruity flavor is a blend of sweet and tart
Indeterminate bears ripe fruit in about 70-80 days from transplant.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Tomato - Yellow Brandywine 156MT98
Details The Brandywine tomato plant is an heirloom with large potato leaved foliage and has large yellow-gold beefsteak shaped fruit, considered by many growers as one of the best tasting tomatoes because of It's robust sweet-tangy flavour without being too tart.
An indeterminate type
An indeterminate type
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Tomato - Tiny Tim 154MT97
Details Tiny Tim is a true dwarf determinate plant, with neat compact bushes rarely getting larger than 30cm. For its small stature it is very productive, yielding many small round red cherry tomatoes that are juicy and have a good sweet-tart tomato flavour. Excellent specimen to grow in pots.
Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Tomato - Sub-Arctic Maxi - 13NS73
Details Early-cropping bush tomato, these are the earliest-fruiting tomatoes that I've ever had the pleasure of growing.No pruning, no staking; ultra easy care.
Botanical name Lycopersicon Esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Nev&Sue Sinclair
Tomato - Moonglow - 16RW74
Details A yellow/orange mid size tomato with good to excellent taste, shown to have highest levels of lycopene for cancer prevention
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Richard Watson
Tomato - Broad Ripple Yellow - 15RW84
Details A small yellow currant tomato with a pleasant fruity flavor that is not overly sweet, this heirloom came from Indiana, USA and dates back to the 1900s. It was discovered by John Hartman of Indianapolis, who found it growing in cracks in the street, and it was named for the creek that runs through the area
Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Richard Watson
Tomato - long keeper - 20RW76
Details As the name suggests this tomato has a slow ripening fruit that keeps well into winter, a close relative to Burpee Long keeper,this is tomato that i like to start mid summer and pick green late autumn so they slowly ripen though in the winter.A mid size dark red skin red inside during summer but doesn't get as dark during the cooler months.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Richard Watson
Tomato - Japanese Black Trifele - 19NS75
Details Pear-shaped fruit that are a strange red/orange/purple colour with very good taste. Strong, vigourous plants, that should be allowed to carry 3 or 4 leaders. So put in several stakes for each plant. Excellent yields.
Botanical name Lycopersicon esculentum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Nev&Sue Sinclair
Tomato - Ailsa Craig - 14RG83
Details An old variety, very popular in the UK originating from Scotland in 1908. Named after the island Ailsa Craig near the mouth of the Clyde river.
A vigorous grower with good disease resistance, medium size and good flavour.
A vigorous grower with good disease resistance, medium size and good flavour.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Sweet 100 98RG88
Details An indeterminate that has been stabilized over a few years by Rick Ginders. Long clusters can carry up to 100 small sized fruits each
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Oregon Spring - 97RG80A
Details Semi-Indeterminate - An early ripening tomato that produces mid to large size fruit,
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Marmande - 58RG79A
Details A French Heirloom very popular in Northern Italy with great pest and disease resistance. Fast growing producing early season fruit . Harvest 12-14 weeks from sow
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Duncan Wilson - 12RG82
Details
A great tomato with history. This tomato is a large fleshy one (up to 600 grams ) ,low in acid with very few seeds. Of the 50 plus tomatoes I grow this is number one.
It was given to Duncan by an Italian sailor sometime in the 50's and grown by him for many years and eventually was forgotten. I attained a few old seeds of which only two grew and have a good inventory of seeds now.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Tomato - Purau large red - 30RG77B
Details A very tasty large beefsteak type, good cropper.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders