With over 600 potpourri of heirloom , or old - fashioned , tomatoes in macrocosm , and uncounted cross offered by cum companies , you have your pick of just about any size , frame and color tomato you may imagine . Tomato varieties diminish into several categories , range from flyspeck cerise tomatoes to giant beefsteaks . For have tomato sauce or juicy salsa , a spread , or plum , tomato is best . If you need an strange colouration with old - fashioned flavor , pick out an heirloom .

Cherry Tomatoes

Small cherry red tomatoes vary from the tiny Sweet 100 variety to large down - in - your - back talk tomato such as the Chadwick . None of the cerise type weighs more than 2 or 3 oz . flyspeck Tim , Cherry Gold , Small Fry , Peacevine , Yellow Canary , Red Currant and Thai Pink are other cherry tomato variety . Cherry tomato are ready for harvest sooner than the larger mixture , often within two month of set out plants .

Paste and Plum Tomatoes

The common Roma tomato is often available at foodstuff stores and granger ’s market . It ’s " deep and meaty , " as described by Seeds of Change , with fruits that weigh up to 3 oz . It has long been used in tomato sauces and paste and is a good tomato for dry . Other paste and plum varieties admit Ropreco , San Marzano and Black Plum , which win the 2002 tomato taste examination , TomatoMania , in Los Angeles . This heirloom type is drab mahogany colored with immature stripe at the radical end . It get an abundant craw of sweet and sharp 2 - in yield .

grape vine types of Lycopersicon esculentum are small , oval shaped and have less water content than other varieties . The heirloom called Sweet Olive was also a winner at the 2002 TomatoMania competition . Its vines are compact , yet rich , and fruit count 1 to 2 ozs . Other grape type include mixed bag call Elfin , Tami - G , Chiquita , Green Grape , Agriset Grape and Red Grape .

Medium-Sized Tomatoes

Maglia Rosa , from Italy , is an egg - work heirloom tomato with fruit weigh up to 3 oz . The hybrid get it on as former Girl , which can grow as large as 6 oz . , was develop by Burpee Seeds and is a common backyard potpourri . Another Burpee tomato plant that is average sized is the 3 oz . Ensalada hybrid , which is recommended for salads . Sunset ’s Red Horizon is an heirloom that produces pear tree - shaped fruit mensurate 4 to 6 inches across . The Creole is the Louisiana country vegetable , with firm flesh and texture . Celebrity tomatoes can weigh up to 8 oz . and are good for use as a sliced sandwich tomato plant .

Large Varieties

The beefsteak varieties of tomatoes can sometimes grow bombastic than 2 pound . Some beefsteak varieties are Big Boy , Better Boy , Chocolate Stripes , the glowering - colorize heirloom called Carbon , the Russian heirloom Black Krim , Aker ’s West Virginia , Beefmaster , Brandywine , Aunt Ginny ’s Purple , Big Beef , Brandy Boy , Andrew Rahart ’s Jumbo Red , and Giant Belgium , which can produce fruit up to 5 lb . Beefsteak varieties usually grow on determinate plant life , which produce most of their crop in one outburst , with a few more fruits ripening afterwards in the season .

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