According to one source, the Giant Belgian Tomato was first discovered by a German immigrant named Albert Behnke who entered the nursery business at Beltsville, Maryland in the 1930's. Through Behnke, this tomato of an undocumented origin soon spread like a wildfire throughout the Eastern United States in the 1950's, with many of Behnke's customers driving for many hours to pick up their Giant Belgian Tomato plants. Reportedly, from here, the tomato also found its way into the catalogue of Gleckler's Seed Co. of Ohio in the 1950's, but there seems to be debate as to whether it was Behnke or Gleckler who had the variety first. 

Giant Belgian is an exceptional producer of huge, dark pink tomatoes that feature an exquisite sweet taste. The tomatoes are very large, averaging 1.5 to 2 pounds, with some sources also reporting tomatoes of this variety from 3 to 5 pounds on rare ocassions. Giant Belgian is one of our largest tomato varieties and one of our most recommended. Indeterminate. Matures in about 80-90 days

Open pollinated. You simply cannot believe the flavor of this heirloom tomato. Considered by many gardeners to be the best tasting tomato in the world. Has won lots of taste tests. An old Amish heirloom tomato dating back to 1885 and passed down from generation to generation, Brandywine is a pink beefsteak type tomato, with thin skinned, rich flavored, 3/4 lb - 1 lb. tomatoes. Indeterminate. 80 days. See also Yellow Brandywine Tomatoes at our main office.

Cherokee Purple is said to be an heirloom tomato with a history extending back over at least 100 years and is a beautiful open pollinated producer of medium sized, purplish brown tomatoes with darker shoulders. Said to be originally passed down from the Cherokee tribe of Native Americans. Tolerant to common diseases. Indeterminate. About 80-90 days to maturity. 

Ponderosa Pink is a  heavy yielding, open pollinated tomato variety originally introduced by the famous seedsman Peter Henderson in 1891. Henderson originally reffered to this tomato as the "Great 400", but after holding a contest to name the variety, the name Ponderosa was chosen. The Ponderosa Pink Tomato produces an abundance of large, flattish 9-12 ounce pink red tomatoes. The tomatoes themselves have a sweet and mild flavor with a thin skin and few seeds, but are somewhat subject to cracking if over watered. About 100 days to maturity. 

There is some speculation that Ponderosa Pink and the presumed extinct tomato variety known "Livingston's Buckeye State" (introduced in 1893 by the Livingston Seed Company) may actually be the same tomato variety.  See also Henderson's Golden Ponderosa Tomato on this site.

The Caspian Pink Tomato is a beautiful pink tomato known in Russia as "Caspinski Rosovije" that originated in southern Russia along the shores of the Caspian Sea. It is also known as the Pink Caspian Tomato. An outstanding producer of 1 lb. to 1 1/2 lb. pinkish red beefsteak tomatoes that can rival the famous Pink Brandywine. Caspian Pink was our #4 tomato variety for 2002 and #3 tomato for 2001 out of our extensive collection of tomatoes! This wonderful tomato is an early and prolific tomato carefully selected from Russian imports is and one of the most highly touted and best known of all Russian Tomato varieties. Ideal for cool climates.

85 days to maturity. 

Purple Calabash is a very primitive and very unusual open pollinated tomato variety with unusual crinkled looking purplish black tomato fruits. The tomatoes are literally ruffled in appearance and are a very dark purple in color. Many consider the Purple Calabash to be the darkest and truest purple colored tomato in existence.This unusual tomato variety is excellent when used fresh and features a rich, sweet taste. 

On a side note, although this tomato was likely not being grown there, it is today one of the tomatoes being grown at Thomas Jefferson's preserved historical gardens at his estate at Monticello in the United States. 

The Purple Calabash Tomato is thought to have originated in Mexico.

Good for climates hit by drought.

Indeterminate. 

About 75-80 days to maturity. 

Jerry's German Giant is a huge family heirloom tomato of German origin that has been grown by a Missouri man's family for many years. The huge tomatoes, which can reach up to 3 pounds in weight come in two color phases, either a deep pink or a yellow with red stripes. Considering the variety's tendency to produce multi-colored fruit and its origin in the Ozarks, this tomato is likely closely related to the German Johnson Pink Tomato.

About 80 to 85 days.

This lovely and very rare pink tomato variety was first introduced in the 1920's and produces heart shaped fruits weighing about 12 ounces that feature a mild flavor. The Light Pink Oxheart is a very vigorous variety and an abundant producer of lovely sweet tomatoes that are ideal for slicing or salads. This variety does well in drought, is resistant to cracking and is an asset for those gardeners seeking a true old fashioned tomato for their tomato patch. 

Indeterminate. Matures in about 75 days. This variety is very, very rare!

The Pink Accordian Tomato produces enormous, heavily ruffled pink tomatoes that are very attractive. The interiors of the tomatoes are slighly hollow and are excellent when used for stuffing as their flesh is very sweet and mild to the palate.

Pink Accordian is a truly unusual tomato variety that has been proven to be excellent for stocking at grower's markets, especially if they are displayed sliced. Due to their unusual ruffled shape, tomato lovers just lap them up as fast as you can grow them!

Indeterminate. Matures about 85 days.

The Millionaire Tomato is an old heirloom tomato variety native to the Ozark Mountain region. Very little seems to be known about its origins except for the fact that in 1950, a Mr. Forrester Hutsell of Mountain Grove, Missouri gave some of the seeds to a Mr. Ed Henson of Champion, Missouri who then grew the variety for many years. Today it is believed that what is left of this very rare tomato variety traces back to these two men's gardens.

The Millionaire Tomato produces an abundance of wonderful coral colored pink tomatoes that are most noted for their extrordinairy sweet, rich flavor. Millionaire Tomatoes can be used both fresh or canned and are a very good all purpose tomato variety for the home.

Matures in about 80 days.

The Porter Improved Tomato, also known as the Porter Improved Pink Slicing Tomato, is a tomato variety originally developed by Porter & Son Seed Company of Texas as a pink variation of their famous red tomato variety Porter. Like its forerunner, Porter Improved or Porter Pink, is especially adapted for hot southern states such as Texas. Porter Improved is the best pink tomato variety for areas with extreme heat and low humidity.

Porter Improved produces heavy yields of oval shaped, 3-4 ounce pinkish-red tomatoes bursting with exceptional flavors that are wonderful for slicing, using in salads, canning or for making tomato juice.

An excellent choice for home gardeners and for market growers in hot regions.

Porter Improved is drought tolerant and is resistant to cracking and Verticullum and Fusarium Wilt.

Indeterminate. Matures in 75 to 80 days.

The Traveler Tomato, also sometimes known (incorrectly) as the Arkansas Traveler Tomato, was released by Dr. Joe McFerren of the University of Arkansas in 1971. A pink tomato in the 6 ounce range with an exceptional taste. This very dependable tomato variety that tolerates heat, humidity, cracking and common diseases and regularly succeeds in conditions where the other tomatoes fail.

The Dutchman Tomato is an extremely old variety that dates back to at least the 1920's. By WW2, the variety had all but disappeared and was maintained only by a single family. This wonderful heirloom tomato is a producer of huge, solid tomatoes of a purple pink color with a sweet flavor. The tomatoes weigh up to three pounds or more! Indeterminate. 80 days.

Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter Tomato is a 1940's non-commercial tomato breeding development of a Mr. Marshall Cletis Byles of Logan, West Virginia. Naturally, Byles didn't much appreciate his given name, so he was known locally simply as "Radiator Charlie" as he operated a small auto repair shop at the base of a steep hill that was notorious for making trucks overheat. Naturally he did pretty well for himself by having a regular line of customers in need of radiator repair work due to the hill. M.C. Byles gained an interest in gardening after he began working in the cotton fields of North Carolina at the tender age of four years old to help his family make ends meet. As a result of working hard through his childhood, Mr. Byles had no formal education or actual plant breeding experience, yet he would go on to create a most remarkable variety of tomato that would carry his name.

Sometime during the early 1940's, Radiator Charlie decided that he wanted to develop a very large tomato, so he set about trying to locate the largest tomatoes that he could find. He soon located four varieties of very large tomatoes: German Johnson Pink, Red Beefsteak, an unknown Italian variety and an unknown English variety. From these, he grew ten plants which he cultivated in a very unorthodox, very unique fashion. He planted nine of the plants in a circle and then planted a German Johnson Pink in the center of the circle. Byles then cross pollinated the German Johnson's flowers with pollen from each of the nine plants in the circle and saved seed from the resulting tomatoes. The next year, he planted the seeds and selected the best seedlings. The very best of these again went to the center of a circle, while the remaining were planted in a circle around them. Again, the plants in the middle were hand pollinated with pollen from those in the circle. Byles repeated this process for the next six years until he had created a stable variety that met his needs. After that, he never had another type of tomato on his place. The resulting variety became known as the Radiator Charlie's Tomato and soon established themselves as being very desireable. Every spring, gardeners from as far away as 200 miles came to buy their tomato seedlings from Radiator Charlie, which he sold for one dollar each, which was a substantial amount of money for a tomato plant back then. Mr. Byles sold so many tomato plants of his new variety over the next five or six years that the profits of his tomato enterprise paid off the $6000 mortgage on his home!

After that, the tomato variety became forever known as Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter Tomato! In 1985, Mr. Byles shared some of his seed with the Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, who formerly introduced it to the general public. Ever since then, it has been a very desireable tomato variety.

Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter Tomato can average 2 and a half pounds per tomato, but tomatoes weighing over four pounds are regularly produced. The tomatoes are of a slightly flattened beefsteak type, have a very thick flesh with few seeds and is a brilliant pink red in color.

Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter Tomato is a wonderful producer and is very disease resistant.

Omar's Lebanese Tomato is a rare beefsteak tomato that was considered the best of heirloom tomato authority Carolyn Male's 1995 tomato trials. Originally secured from a Lebanese college student this huge pink beefsteak is truly impressive, weighing as much as three to four pounds. It is an exceptionally sweet tasting variety due to a high sugar content. Disease resistant. Indeterminate. 80 days.

The Amish Salad Cherry Tomato is exactly as its name indicates! It is an heirloom cherry tomato that is perfect for salads which has been grown by Amish gardeners the old fashioned way for many years now!
Features gorgeous little grape shaped pink cherry tomatoes with a super sweet taste! Produced on a large, very productive plant! The best pink cherry tomato in our opinion!