Heirloom Tomatoes are becoming more and more the favorite choice of the home gardener.
There are many varieties to choose from and they all have there own unique characteristic.
There are varieties that you can enjoy the flavor when wanting a slice to eat with your meal or by itself, ones for canning and others that are ideal for making a sauce.
Whatever reason you choose to grow your own tomatoes you can be sure that there is a heirloom variety that you will be pleased with and call your favorite.
If you are looking for a tomato that that has it's own unique quality and taste, then try Pink Brandy Wines, Cherokee Purple or the Green Zebra.
The Pink Brandywine Tomato has a potato-leaf foliage with very large, reddish-pink fruit that average between 16 and 24 ounces each.
It's exceptional flavor and gourmet quality puts it in a class of it's own.
It's fruits ripens gradually over the season and is an indeterminate plant with a maturity of 85 days.
The Cherokee Purple is a heirloom variety that produces a high yield of 6 to 12 once fruit.
It has a sweet rich flavor and turns deep pink to purple with green shoulders.
A indeterminate plant with a maturity of 90 days.
The Green Zebra has a green 1½ - 2½" fruits with various shades of yellow to yellowish-green stripes and a sweet zingy flavor.
It is a very productive plant that was introduced in 1985 by Tater Mater Seeds.
It is an indeterminate plant with a 75-80 day maturity from when transplanted.
Sauce or paste tomatoes are another variety of the heirloom tomato that has it's own qualities.
Opalka and Martino's Roma are two of the choices that are a favorite of most.
The Opalka is a heirloom variety originally from Poland and is the preferred paste tomatoes of most, primarily because it makes such a good sauce and sweet that you don't have to add any flavoring.
This fruit is large, about least 5 inches long, and shaped like a banana pepper with a pronounced tip on the bottom.
The plant has a wispy-type foliage, vigorous and very productive.
There are very few seeds and it is extremely meaty with a rich, but sweet flavor, outstanding for making sauce.
These tomatoes are even good enough to eat fresh from your garden.
It is a indeterminate plant with a maturity of.
75 days.
The Martino's Roma has incredible yields of a very richly flavored pear shape tomatoes that weighs about 2 once's, and are about 3 in.
long.
It's paste-type fruit is meaty with few seeds and not much juice, perfect for cooking and delicious enough to eat fresh.
It's compact plant has rugose, dark foliage.
This heirloom variety is an extremely productive determinate plant with a maturity of 75 days.