Heritage Varieties

Tomato 'Golden Queen' is one of the oldest heirlooms from Germany, known since 1886 where it is known as 'Goldene Königin'. It produces golden-yellow fruit, with a thin skin and a mild, sweet and aromatic taste. It ripens early and has moderate burst-resistance. A great salad tomato variety that will not disappoint.

This is a lovely variety of tomato which, whilst you would describe it as a cherry tomato, produces fruits in the shape of a pear. Tomato ‘Red Pear’ produce small, solid-bodied fruits that are have a sweet and flavoursome with soft and velvety textured flesh. Perfect for salads, the shape creating additional interest to any dish.

Roma VF is a traditional plum tomato that gives incredible yields of very richly flavoured, pear-shaped fruit. These fruits are meaty with few seeds and not much juice, perfectly suited to cooking, but delicious enough to eat fresh. The vines fruit heavily, occasionally needing some support.

'San Marzano' is a classic plum/paste type of tomato from Italy, it produces clusters of delicious, elongated fruit.. This variety is a compact and prolific producer and performs best if staked. This heritage tomato is one of the jewels in Campania's crown.

Tomato 'St Pierre' has been named after the French island off the southern coast of Newfoundland which explains this tomatoes cold hardiness. Reliable and disease resistant it produces superior quality, full flavoured fruits. Often the first standard tomato to fruit and will continue right up until the first frost of the season.

This French heritage variety is famous throughout Europe, Marmande is the favourite large-fruited tomato of Provence. A classic beefsteak variety, 'Super Marmande' is large, juicy, well flavoured fruit and a great improvement over an already excellent variety.

Bred specifically to be grown in containers.'Tiny Tim' is a surprisingly tiny plant, growing to around 30 to 35cm tall. It can be grown as a potted plant any time of the year and doesn't need support. Perfect for wherever garden space is limited and outstanding for growing in containers. A very attractive plant that looks beautiful in hanging baskets or window boxes.

Tomato 'Yellow Pear' is a popular pear shaped cocktail tomato, an open-pollinated heirloom variety that produces large indeterminate plants that are very productive, the fruits grow in large luscious clusters. They have a sweet fresh taste and a beautiful yellow colour, perfect for salads or for snacking.

Purple Top Milan is a classic Italian heirloom variety and is still as popular as ever. Highly ornamental, it has smooth creamy-white flat roots with bright purple shoulders and pure white flesh. A strap-leaved variety, quick to mature and early cropping, it is an ideal 'catch crop' between slower growing vegetables.