Stones River Market
Murfreesboro, TN

Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum We have been growing this variety ever since I can remember. The beautiful golden orbs in your garden’s foliage are not only beautiful, but also tasty. The taste lives up to its name – it’s like a burst of sunlight! It also has extremely high disease resistance.
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Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum We have been growing this variety ever since I can remember. The beautiful golden orbs in ... more

Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum The traditional red cherry tomato, this fruit grows in great abundance. (Although in our garden, it rarely stays on the vine long enough to put into salads, as we are constantly picking it for a quick, juicy, sweet snack.) It has very good resistance to many diseases and molds, including leaf mold, TMV, fusarium wilt, verticillium wilt, nematodes, and tobacco mosaic virus. This variety never fails us.
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Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum The traditional red cherry tomato, this fruit grows in great abundance. (Although in our garden, it ... more

The Red Brandywine tomato plant is a Pennsylvania Amish heirloom dating to 1885, with large potato-leaved foliage. It bears large scarlet beefsteak-shaped fruit, popularly considered among the best tasting available. Even when fully ripe, the tomato can have green shoulders near the stem. Brandywine tomatoes can bear fruit up to 1.5 lbs (0.7 kg), requiring 80 to 100 days to reach maturity, making it among the slowest maturing varieties of common tomato cultivars. Brandywine has been described as having a "great tomatoey flavor", (others have called it a beautifully sweet tomato that is offset by a wonderful acidity), leading to heavy usage despite the original cultivar's relatively low yield per plant.
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The Red Brandywine tomato plant is a Pennsylvania Amish heirloom dating to 1885, with large potato-leaved foliage. It bears large ... more

Cherokee Purple develops a fruit with a deep, dusky-rose color while maintaining a somewhat greenish hue near the stem when mature for eating. The deep crimson interior and clear skin combination give it its distinctive color. An old Cherokee Indian heirloom, pre-1890 variety; superb sweet flavor, and very-large-sized fruit. Try this one for real old-time tomato flavor.
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Cherokee Purple develops a fruit with a deep, dusky-rose color while maintaining a somewhat greenish hue near the stem when ... more

German Johnson (also known as German Johnson Pink) is an heirloom that came with immigrants to Virginia and North Carolina. It is one of the four ‘grandparents’ of the Mortgage Lifter tomato. It is indeterminate with large fruits that are ‘rough’ (not nice and smooth like a Celebrity, but kind of ridged) and weigh ¾ to 1.5 pounds. They have pink skin with yellow shoulders, mild taste, low acidity, and are a very meaty fruit with few seeds. They have heavy yields. They are good sliced or for canning. They have fair disease resistance and a regular tomato leaf. 76-80 days.
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German Johnson (also known as German Johnson Pink) is an heirloom that came with immigrants to Virginia and North Carolina. ... more

85 days. Large, smooth, 1-lb. pink fruit have a delicious, rich, sweet taste. This variety has become very popular in recent years, after being developed by M.C. Byles of Logan, West Virginia. After crossing varieties for 6 years and selecting the best, he introduced this beauty that he named Mortgage Lifter in the 1940's after he sold plants for $1 each and paid off the $6,000 mortgage on his house.
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85 days. Large, smooth, 1-lb. pink fruit have a delicious, rich, sweet taste. This variety has become very popular in ... more

Old German Tomato Plants produce large, 1-2-pound, bi-colored fruits that features golden yellow and reddish stripes coloration and a delicious, old-time flavor. Makes a gorgeous slicer! This heirloom is dated to the mid-1800's and was a favorite of many Mennonite families from the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia.
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Old German Tomato Plants produce large, 1-2-pound, bi-colored fruits that features golden yellow and reddish stripes coloration and a delicious, ... more

The Roma tomato is egg or pear-shaped and red. It has few seeds and is a good canning and sauce tomato. While Roma is an open-pollinated variety, in general it is not considered an heirloom tomato. Maturing in under three months, the plant itself grows to 4 feet in height and the single fruit weighs about 4 oz. The vines are purple and fruit heavily, making Roma a popular variety with gardeners who do a lot of home canning.
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The Roma tomato is egg or pear-shaped and red. It has few seeds and is a good canning and sauce ... more

Heirloom. An old favorite, Rutgers is proven to be highly productive. The large, red fruits have a thick flesh with superior flavor. Strong determinate vines yield a large initial crop followed by several flushes of fruit. This is one of those classic tomatoes that has been used as a parent in the breeding of many other hybrids. Seldom has problems with cracking. Resistant to verticillium wilt (V), fusarium wilt (F), and alternaria stem canker (A).
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Heirloom. An old favorite, Rutgers is proven to be highly productive. The large, red fruits have a thick flesh with ... more