The Bountiful Garden Foundation's Heirloom Tomatoes

Whether it is our Spring Tomato Seedling sale or our produce in Farmer's Markets or Harvest Festivals, BGF specializes in over 100 varieties of delicious, vintage, heirloom tomatoes (some varieties dating back over 150 years).

What's an Heirloom Tomato?

Heirloom  tomatoes are so-called because of the fact that these strains pre-date industrialized commercial farming cross-pollination techniques that created the modern tomato.  In the 1950s, biologists from U.C. Davis University, in a effort to create tomatoes that were machine pickable, disease and insect resistant, possessing a longer shelf life, easily stackable (perfectly round) and red in color, they managed to inadvertantly breed the flavor out.

Heirloom tomatoes on the other hand have short shelf lives, are labor intensive and can be butt ugly but they are packed with flavor and are worth every penny.  If you're going to go through the time and effort of growing your own tomatoes, don't bother with Hybrid tomatoes from your local hardware store, plant some of our Heirloom Varieties.  You'll never go back.

Seedling Varieties

All of our strains are open pollinated.  We do our 100% best to preserve strain integrity but some cross pollination has been known to occur and create unique new fruit.  Choose from one of the many categories below to review our selections.  

Our 2009 varieties for sale are: 

1884, Bountiful Garden's Dark Horse, Abe Lincoln, Amana Orange, Amish Paste, Ananas Noire, Anna Russian Pink Heart, Aunt Ginny's Purple, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Aunt Ruby's Green Cherry, Aussie, Azoychka, BGF Black, Big Rainbow, Big Zebra, Billy Berrou, Black, Black Cherry, Black Ethiopian, Black Sea Man, Black from Tula, Black Plum, Black Prince, Black Zebra, Blue Fruit, Blue Ridge Mountain, Boondocks, Bountiful Garden Pink Beefsteak, Bountiful Garden's Black PL,  Bountiful Garden's Dark Pink Beefsteak, Bountiful Garden's Orange Heirloom, Bountiful Garden's Pink, Bountiful Garden's Yellow Giant,  Bountiful Garden's Yellow Grapes, Bradley, Brad's Black Heart, Brandywine, Brandywine Sudduth Strain, Brandywine OTV, Brandywine Purple, Brandywine, Yellow (Platfoot Strain), Brown's Yellow Giant, Carbon, Cherokee Chocolate, Cherokee Green, Cherokee Purple, Chocolate Stripes, Chuck's Yellow, Chuck's Yellow,  Copia Zebra, Coustralle Big Red Beef, Croatian Brandywine, C-Tex, Dave's Double D's, Dogcreek Purple, Dona, Earl Fanx Pink Beef, Earl Of Edgecombe, Ed's New Millennium, Elbe, Elmer's Old German, Ernie's Plump, Ernie's Round, Evergreen, Fred Limbaugh Potato Top, Galina's Grand, German Giant, German Red Strawberry, Gigantesque, Gold Medal, Grandfather Ashlock, Grandpa Pete's Polish Pink, Granny Cantrell's German Pink, Grape Tomato, Green Giant, Green Red Zebra, Green Zebra, Grubbs mystery green, Hawaiian Pineapple, Heart of Compassion, Hillbilly, Mr. Stripey, Hippie Zebra, Homer Fikes, Indische Fleish, Isis Candy, Italian Heirloom, Yugoslavian Heirloom, Italian Tree, Japanese Black Trifele, Jaune Flammee, Jersey Devil, BGF Red Beefsteak, Julia Childs, Kellogg's Breakfast, Kentucky Beefsteak, Lemonee, Livingston's Mangus,  Livingston's Paragon, Long Tom, Love Apple, Mariana's Peace, Matina, Mexico, Mortgage Lifter Bi-Color, Mortgage Lifter Radiator Charlie's, Mr. Brown, Nancy's But Ugly, Neves Azorean Red, Nirvana, Old German, Omars Lebanese Pink Beef, Orange Cherry, Orange Globe, Orange Oxheart, Orange Russion 117, Orange Strawberry, Orlov Yellow Giant, Paul Robeson, Peace Vine Sweet Red Cherry, Persimmon orange, Pruden's Purple, Purple Prince, Purple Wonder, Red Rose, Red Zebra, Roman Speckled, San Marzano, Schwarze Sarah, Shakti Bliss, Southern Night, Spear's Tennessee Green, Spitze Tomato, Striped German, Sudduth Brandiwine, Super Choice, Surender's Indian Curry, Sweet Horizon, Tennessee Surprise, The Godfather, Tidwell German, Tim's Black Ruffles, Tobolsk, Todd County Amish, Tree, Vinson Watts, Wapsipinicon Peach, White Cherry, White Oxheart, White Tomesol, Yellow Pear. BGF YEllow Pear

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