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Black Krim is one of the oldest and most popular heirloom varieties, largely responsible for fueling many growers obsessions with heirloom tomatoes. It yields large fruits that are blessed with an extremely rich, earthy true tomato flavour. The combination of the colour, shape and taste is simply gorgeous.

Despite the off-putting name, Tomato ‘Bloody Butcher’ is more than just a novelty, it is a reliably early heritage variety. The name derives from its glorious deep red colour, both inside and out. Famously early, it is often the first variety to ripen in and out of the greenhouse. An excellent choice if you want a very early tomato or live in a cold climate.

The Brandywine tomato is legendary for its delicious taste and the Sudduth’s Strain is considered by many to be the most delicious strain available. The fruit is considered superior in taste and smoothness. Brandywines are the tomatoes of mythology, the seeds that dreams are made of.

Tomato ‘Christmas Grapes’ is an old heritage variety with a splendidly rich, old fashioned tomato flavour. Gorgeous bunches of sweet cherry tomatoes are produced in dense clusters just like bunches of grapes. Highly productive, easy-to-grow and very ornamental, the fruits are produced continually through the season and into late autumn.

With the characteristic bottom heavy, pear shape with well marked ribs, Tomato ‘F1 Albenga’ produces uniform, large and distinctive oxheart/beefsteak type fruits. Not too juicy with perfect texture and superbly tasting meaty flesh, with a medium-late cycle, they are suitable for open field and greenhouse cultivation.

Tomato 'Losetto' is a vigorous semi-determinate variety which shows good resistance to late tomato blight. It produces cherry sized fruits that have excellent flavour, with well balanced sweetness and acidity. Suitable for growing in the greenhouse, in containers on the patio or even in a sunny border.

Tomato 'F1 Modus' is an early maturing 'mini-plum' or 'grape' type tomato. Slightly longer than F1 Rosada with a higher sugar content, they are suitable for loose and cluster picking. The prolific trusses of 14 to 18 attractive fruits have a deliciously sweet, full bodied flavour.

‘F1 Tomatoberry Garden’ is quite unique. Wide at the shoulder and tapering to a blunt point at the blossom end, these grape-sized tomatoes are notably heart-shaped. With low acidity and a high lycopene content, they resemble large strawberries both for sweetness and appearance.

Tomato 'F1 Totem' has an upright habit that is perfectly suited for a patio container. However, this is no mere ornamental. This dwarf stocky bush variety is early and heavy yielding, with large trusses of crimson fruit. From one plant you will be able to harvest several kilos of tomatoes with a delectable flavour.

Garden Pearl has been bred specifically for use in hanging baskets and containers. It has a cascading habit and produces a substantial crop of sweet red cherry tomatoes. Use in large pots, tubs, window boxes, even baskets or garden borders.

The gorgeous, tangy 'Green Zebra' was first introduced in 1983. Since then these beautiful chartreuse fruits have been the centre piece of salads at many top restaurants worldwide and it has become one of the most recognised tomatoes in the Heirloom trade. Rich tasting, sweet but with a tangy taste.

'Indigo Blue Berries' produce trusses of the delightfully delectable little, 12 to 16 grams (1 to 2oz), cherry sized tomatoes. The unripe fruits are amethyst purple and ripen to almost black, with a brick red blossom end and delicious plum-like flavour.

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.