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Get your seeds for Spring 2022 planting now!
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Greetings!
heirloom tomato varieties on sale now through January 3, 2022.
Now is the perfect time for the best price, to get your favorite tomato varieties and to try some new varieties. Take advantage of this opportunity while our limited seed inventory lasts.
Get your order in as soon as possible as we expect a very busy season.
We normally ship with in 2-5 business days.
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We selected many of our most popular and rare heirloom tomato varieties for this sale pricing. Up to a 50% savings off our regular price.
Take advantage of this Tomato Seed Sale to acquire tomato seeds for varieties that you want to grow, even if you do not have the space to grow them this year, because some varieties may not be offered in the future.
Tomato seeds will last 3-7 years if stored properly.
(Note: The balance of our 650 varieties will be at our regular price and we still require a $15 minimum order. Your order may mix sale items with regularly priced items)
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This is the 3rd year we've offered dwarf varieties in response to our customers who are challenged with limited space in their gardens and those who are limited to growing only in containers.
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Indeterminate, dwarf (tree-type) plants with rugose potato leaf foliage produce very high yields of 6-18 oz., large, meaty, light- yellow beefsteak fruits,
some with pinkish blush at the blossom end.
Outstanding sweet and full flavors.
This is one of the best flavored of all the dwarf tomatoes.
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Choose from our selection of 19 Heirloom Tomato Seed Collections
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A natural cross by Jeff Dawson. Jeff gave me these tomato seeds around 1990 and I've included them in our seed trials every year since then.
Indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that yield a generous crop of 2-inch, round, lime-green, tomatoes with darker green shoulders.
The wonderful, tangy-sweet flavors make this tomato variety a great addition to a tomato salad.
Rare tomato seeds.
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Italian, heat-loving, heirloom tomato that has been enjoyed for many generations along the Mediterranean. Large, deep-red fruits have a singularly fluted profile,
are deeply ridged, and heavily lobed.
Meaty, full-flavored, slightly tart, and delicious.
Because of its scalloped edges, this variety is perfect for use in an arrangement of different colored sliced tomatoes. Costoluto Genovese has been favored by chefs in Italy and America for its rich flavors for wonderful pungent pasta sauce.
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A cross between
Amish Paste and Sungold,
created by respected tomato breeder,
Jeff Dawson.
Indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that yield huge crops of 1 1/2"-2" long, oblong shaped, gorgeous golden tomatoes with sharply-pointed end.
Fruit has the gold color and flavor of the Sungold,
the meatiness of the Amish Paste
and delicious, sweet/tart tomato flavors that will have you want this as a favorite tomato in your garden.
A rare tomato variety.
TomatoFest is one of the only sources for this wonderful tomato seed.
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Big, sprawling, indeterminate, potato-leaf tomato plant that can grow to 15-feet, produces an abundant yield of meaty,
1-2 pound, 4-5-inch, red tomatoes
with superior sweet flavors perfectly balanced with just the right amount of acid to make your want to shout,
"Now that's old-fashioned tomato flavor!"
This tomato plant should be trellised as each plant can bear bushels of fruit. This has been selected as one of the best tomatoes for supplying farmer's markets or entering in the County Fair.
A good tomato for eating fresh off the vine or in salads.
A great sandwich tomato.
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A rare Russian heirloom 'cluster tomato.' Indeterminate, regular leaf plant producing beautiful, smooth,
6 oz., round, "black" tomatoes that are dark mahogany with
dark, grey-green shoulders.
A wonderfully firm and blemish-free tomato with lots of sweet, complex fruit flavors and a clean acidic finish.
A good market variety that has become a favorite of the Russian varieties. Resistant to cracking.
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A bi-colored version
of the old favorite heirloom
Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter.
Tall, indeterminate, regular leaf plant produces beautiful,
large (1 to 2 lb.) golden-yellow beefsteak tomatoes
with red marbling
and lots of rich, delicious,
fruity flavors.
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This heirloom tomato dates back 100 years.
Original seed was collected from West Virginia,
where it had been grown by a few mountain families,
by the famed seedsman, George Gleckler, who introduced it in 1958.
This is the true Watermelon Beefsteak.
Indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants yield HUGE, 1-2 lb., pink,
beefsteak tomatoes that are lightly scalloped
and loaded with deliciously rich and complex,
old-time tomato flavors.
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Three-Star Michelin Awarded, The French Laundry, one of the world's best restaurants is a TomatoFest customer.
"We have been ordering TomatoFest tomato seeds for many years because the genetics and quality of your tomatoes provide us the dependable and excellent flavors we seek for our chef, Thomas Keller." - Aaron Keefer, Culinary Gardener, Yountville, CA
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Since 1998 TomatoFest®
continues to donate FREE tomato seeds to established community and educational non-profit organizations who share their harvest with others in need. We invite school gardens and community gardens to contact us.
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Our youngest of eight children, Jessica. |
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Thank You
for your ongoing support throughout the years.
Wishing you an abundant harvest!
Your Gardening Friends,
"Every Seed A Possibility"
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After a several year hiatus, Dagma and I have now returned photos
of the former
(1991-2008),
to provide tomato lovers everywhere the opportunity to visually visit what was a one-day event that
attracted 3100 tomato lovers
from around the world.
Each year, for seventeen years, 350 tomato varieties were on display for tasting, and 50 celebrity chefs competed to create the
From appetizers to desserts, chefs showcased their culinary skills and imagination to utilize the diverse colors and flavors offered by
tomatoes.
Check out what was
“America’s Favorite Tomato Festival,” the most extensive and heralded tomato tasting and tomato culinary event in the nation held at the famed Quail Lodge Resort in Carmel Valley, California.
This celebrated community event had a national impact upon the burgeoning heirloom tomato landscape in the 1990s.
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Chef: Bart Hosmer, Parcel 104, Santa Clara, CA
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