Common companion plants to grow alongside your tomatoes
Details The following plants are often grown together to help increase pollination, distract and deter pests and generally improve the overall yield.
Borage, Chives, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Basil, Calendula, Carrots, Peppers, Sage, Onions, Garlic, Lettuce
Borage, Chives, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Basil, Calendula, Carrots, Peppers, Sage, Onions, Garlic, Lettuce
Tomato selection
All our tomato seed, including heirloom and heritage varieties, are open pollinated and grown in Canterbury, New Zealand
Tomato - Purau Sweet Cherry - 99RG
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
Packet contents 20
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Scoresby Dwarf - 78RW
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
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest
Grower name Richard watson
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Russian Red - 45RG
Details A reliable mid size cool-climate type with good flavour,
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest Jan 2021
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Purau large red - 30RG
Details A very tasty large beefsteak type, good cropper.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Marmande - 58RG
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
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest Jan 2022
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Oregon Spring - 97RG
Details Semi-Indeterminate - An early ripening tomato that produces mid to large size fruit,
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest Jan 2022
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Lobella - 47NS
Details Lobella, is yellow and hollow very like a capsicum to look at. It is a delicious cooking tomato, which can be stuffed and baked or baked only. It is a low acid tomato and a good cropper. It was bought from a NZ seed company originally but they no longer stock it.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest
Grower name Nev and Sue Sinclair
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Cherry Mix - 186
Details Collection of different cherry type varieties
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Black Krim - 75SS
Details The Black Krim is an heirloom tomato originating from Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula. "Krim" is the Russian word for Crimea. This tomato is open-pollinated, and bears large flattened globe fruits that are dark reddish-purple to black with green/brown. A very good producing plant.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Packet contents 20 seeds
Date Of Seed Harvest
Grower name Sarah Smith
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Yellow Pear 143RG
Details This variety dates back to the 1800s and is a vigorous indeterminate tomato producing generously with an abundance of small yellow pear-shaped tomatoes that are sweet and mild in flavour.
Date Of Seed Harvest
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Cherokee Purple - 148RG
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
Date Of Seed Harvest March 2022
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Green Grape - 147RG
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest 2020
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
Tomato - Broad Ripple Yellow - 15RW
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
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest
Storage Info Seed stock refreshed yearly
Grower name Richard Watson
Price per packet $4.00
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
Packet contents 20
Grower name Richard Watson
Price per packet $4.00
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 has darker red during the cooler months.
Botanical name Solanum lycopersicum
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest Jan 2022
Grower name Richard Watson
Price per packet $4.00
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
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest March 2022
Grower name Nev&Sue Sinclair
Price per packet $4.00
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
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest March 2022
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
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
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest
Grower name Rick Ginders
Price per packet $4.00
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
Packet contents 20
Date Of Seed Harvest Feb 2022
Grower name Nev&Sue Sinclair
Price per packet $4.00