From The Vine
Grow Something Out of the Ordinary in your garden
this year….
From The Vine
is
a hobby of Craig and Susan LeHoullier of
Updated Saturday, May 3, 2008
· There is
a slight possibility we will be at the market for the morning of Saturday 17 –
watch this web site for an update.
· We are
out of town for a week starting tomorrow.
· We still
have plenty of great seedlings, though the selection is beginning to slim down
a bit. Call me – 919-271-0785 – from Tuesday
May 13 onward to come by the house and get plants – or perhaps we will see you
at the market the following Saturday, if we choose to go.
· Of course, if
Saturdays don’t work for you, give us a call or send an email to set up a time
to come to our home to get your plants.
Note that we will be out of town from Sunday May 4 until Monday May 12.
· We can be
found on Saturdays from mid April through mid May at the NC State
Farmer’s Market,
· Tomatopalooza 6 will
take place on Saturday, July 26, and with the location at a friend’s farm in
Efland. For further info (which will
develop as the season progresses), see our main web site, http://nctomatoman.topcities.com .
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The variety descriptions
below can be found here by category, so you can print them out (please note
that these are the 2007 lists; I will update them as they become revised
following germination and transplant)
2008 Tomato List
2008 Pepper List
2008 Eggplant List
Variety List for
2008
Tomatoes (74
varieties)
Red Fruited:
Abraham Lincoln – from 1923, large oblate red, delicious
Aker’s West Virginia – very large fruit,
great flavor
Amish Paste – elongated, not a paste, all uses, delicious ….gone
Andrew Rahart’s Jumbo Red –
another great large fruited red
Box Car Willie – uniform, medium round fruit,
productive, delicious …gone
Cuostralee – huge red fruit, one of the largest,
tasty, very tall vigorous plant nearly gone
Druzba – reliable medium sized, perfect
fruit, very tasty and productive
Dwarf Stone – medium red fruit on a compact dwarf
plant, great for pots 6 left
Kimberly – best flavored early red – potato leaf, medium
small fruit
Marmande – determinate, from France, prolific
medium oblate red, nice flavor
Martino’s Roma – a great Roma type, prolific
Mexico Midget – pea sized fruit, wildly productive plant, make room for this one!
Delicious! Just a few left
Mule Team – similar to Box Car Willie – medium sized, round,
productive, tasty
Nepal – one of my favorite tomatoes, medium round red fruit,
very flavorful just a few left
Neves’ Azorean Red – another huge oblate red
tomato with great flavor
Opalka – very long red paste type fruit, tall
plant, flavor superior to Roma types…nearly gone
Ozark Cherry – nice old fashioned large red cherry tomato
Rasp Red – another fine medium sized productive red, great
flavor
Red Brandywine – very productive medium sized, slightly
oblate red, delicious, reliable
Red Robin
– very short plant perfect for pots, a first early cherry tomato
…sorry – sold out!
Shannon’s – new this year, family heirloom, large plum
shaped red for eating as well as sauce. Sold out
Sophie’s Choice – compact, short plant produces quite large
red fruit, good for pots, tasty… nearly gone
Sweet Million F1 – the classic red cherry tomato, produces
like crazy
Veeroma – another good compact growing red
Roma type, prolific …nearly gone
Pink Fruited:
Anna Russian – medium to large tasty pink heart shaped
fruit, a favorite ….nearly gone
Arkansas Traveler – medium sized round pink, prolific, mild
sweet flavor
Brandywine – large pink, potato leaf plants, many people’s
favorite tomato nearly gone
Earl’s Faux – similar to Brandywine – large delicious pink
potato leaf nearly
gone
Eva Purple Ball – perfect medium smooth pink globes, very
tasty
German Johnson – familiar large pink tomato, NC
heirloom nearly
gone
Granny Cantrell – family heirloom, large tasty sweet pink fruit nearly gone
Hege German Pink – new this year, family
heirloom, large oblate pink, superb flavor… sold out
Mortgage Lifter – huge pink sweet fruit on a huge plant….sold out
Mortgage Lifter, pale leaf mutant strain – same
fruit, but on an odd pale green leaf plant…nearly gone
New Big Dwarf – surprisingly large oblate pink fruit on a
very compact plant perfect for pots, delicious….5 left
Rose Quartz – super productive small
pink cherry tomato, amazing number of flowers in a cluster. …just a few
left
Winsall – famous tomato from 1924, large pink
sweet fruit, does very here in this climate….1 left
Purple/Brown Fruited:
Black Cherry – true purple cherry tomato, absolutely
delicious
Black Krim – large oblate purplish
fruit, on the tart side, productive and early
Black from Tula – another good medium large early purple,
delicious
Cherokee Chocolate – brownish large fruit, tall plant,
wonderful flavor, mutation of Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Purple – my favorite tomato – named by me in 1990 –
large delicious purple fruit, thrives in NC nearly gone
JD Special C-Tex – very similar to
Cherokee Purple (a relative), large flat purple firm delicious fruit.
….sold out
Paul Robeson – medium oblate brown tasty tomatoes on a
vigorous plant, quite early ….4 left
Purple Russian – delicious purple long fruited paste type,
plant is wispy looking, prolific ….4 left
Green Fruited:
Aunt Ruby’s German Green – large smooth oblate green fruit,
delicious, fruit barely changes color when ripe!...1 left
Cherokee Green – descended from Cherokee Chocolate, amber
skin, green flesh when ripe, superb flavor
Green Giant – very unusual large green fruit on a potato
leaf plant, winner of taste contests, superb …sold out
Green Grape – small bushy plant, loads of large grape sized
green fleshed fruit with an amber skin, snappy flavor
Green Zebra – well known variety – medium, green with gold
stripes, green flesh – tart, snappy flavor
Lime Green Salad – very compact plant, great for pots, loads
of tasty medium small green fleshed fruits!
Spears
Yellow/Orange/White Fruited:
Anna Banana Russian – brand new this year, bright yellow
version of Anna Russian – heart shaped, delicious 5 left
Aunt Gertie’s Gold – famous large
golden variety, potato leaf plant, superb flavor…..sold
out
Coyote – tiny, pea sized, ivory fruit, rampant plant, nice
flavor, produces tons sold out
Dr. Wyche’s Yellow – very nice,
pale orange, oblate fruit, green shoulders, large size, tasty 8 left
Elbe – another potato leaf, large fruited, delicious golden
colored tomato sold out
Golden Dwarf Champion – compact dwarf plant great for pots,
bright yellow round medium delicious tomatoes
Hugh’s – immense pale yellow fruit on a very tall plant,
superb flavor, one of the best yellow tomatoes
Jaune Flamme –
large cherry size, pale orange, flesh is pink in the center, on the tart side, prolific 9 left
Kellogg’s Breakfast – very large orange beefsteak type
fruit, mild delicious flavor, productive, impressive
Lemon Boy F1 – prolific bright yellow medium sized tomatoes,
delicious, a long time favorite
Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom – best flavored bright yellow
fruit, large, potato leaf, late, one of my favorite tomatoes sold out
Malschor Isura –
immense yields of small, grape shaped bright yellow fruit, mild and sweet
Orange Heirloom – similar to Kellogg’s Breakfast, very large
orange fruit, delicious, western NC heirloom 7 left
Sungold F1 – hands down best cherry to my
taste, prolific, orange fruit, indescribable flavor!
Taxi – nice short compact plant, bright yellow fruit, very
early, tasty, perfect for pots just a few
Yellow
Yellow Pear – old timer, plum shaped bright yellow fruit and
lots of them, mild flavor
Striped or streaked:
Hillbilly – by request, old heirloom, large
sweet yellow/red bicolor fruit…sorry – sold out
Little Lucky – potato leaf, small to medium red/yellow
bicolor, superb flavor, my own creation
Lucky Cross – large fruited sister tomato to Little Lucky – tastes like a bicolored
Rainbow Bicolor – very productive bicolored cherry sized tomato, unusual oblate shape, tasty.
Just a few
Regina’s Yellow – another large fruited yellow/red bicolor,
nice fruity, sweet flavor. Sold out
Tiger Tom – very prolific, small golf ball shaped tart
fruit, red with gold stripes, a favorite
Sweet Peppers (24 varieties)
Blue Jay F1 –lavender purple bell shaped fruit ripen through
orange to red – striking!
Chervena Chusaica –
prolific carrot shaped, long, green fruit ripen red, very sweet
Chocolate Beauty F1 – blocky dark green bell ripens
chocolate brown, sweet
Chocolate
Corno di Toro –
large, long deep green peppers ripen red, very productive
Cubanelle – also prolific, pale, lime green
frying peppers ripen orange
Early Sunsation F1 – blocky green
bell ripens a rich yellow, productive, sweet
Golden Marconi – similar to Corno di Toro, but ripens from green to bright yellow
Gypsy F1 – appears to be a hybrid version of the Cubanelle type – yellow, ripens to orange red, prolific
Islander F1 – similar to Blue Jay – amazing color changes as
it ripens from lavender to red!
Italia – classic long Italian frying pepper, dark green
ripening to red, very sweet
Jimmy Nardello – insane
yields! Tall plant yields dozens of
long, slender, twisty green fruit that ripen red
Jupiter – large blocky green bell ripens red, very popular
variety from the 1950s
Lipstick – compact plant, loads of elongated dark green
fruit ripen deep red, very sweet
Marconi Red – similar to Corno di Toro – similarly flavorful, productive – green to red
Orange Bell – blocky green fruit ripens deep orange,
incredible flavor, my favorite bell
Purple Beauty – blocky dark green fruit ripen to nearly
black purple, then deep red, very prolific
Red Belgium – very early and compact, pale yellow long bells
ripen red orange (very few available)
Sarga Czeresdyne –
very unusual; small top shaped green fruit ripen to deep orange, spicy, sweet,
peppery
Super Shepherd – a great long frying type pepper, ripens
deep green to deep red
Super Stuff – new this year, pale yellow long bell type
ripens red orange, great flavor
Sweet Hungarian – the classic long pale yellow sweet banana
pepper, ripens orange to pale red
Tawny Port F1 – long bell shaped green fruit ripen to rich
brick red/brown, very prolific
Yellow Belle II – also new this year, green bell ripens
yellow, tasty
Hot Peppers (26
varieties)
Note – many are getting low in number!
Ancho – (aka Poblano)
– heart shaped deep green fruit ripen brown to deep red, mildly hot sorry – out for this
year
Billy Goat – deep green, top shaped, Habanero
relative, incredible heat, ripen red (just a few)
Bird – tiny, pea shaped lime green fruit, blush purple in
the sun, ripen gold, Habanero
heat!
Bolivian Rainbow – small flame shaped peppers, purplish
foliage, peppers go yellow, purple, orange, to red
Bulgarian Carrot – new this year, medium long green fruit
ripen rich orange, rich but spicy flavor sorry – sold out
Centennial Rainbow – green leaf, white flowers, bullet fruit
pale yellow to lavender to orange to red, very hot! – sorry, sold out
Festival – purple/green foliage, purple flowers, multicolored bullet shaped fruit
Fish
–
foliage green and white; Jalapeno shaped peppers green/white striped, ripen red
sorry, sold out
Five Color - tall plant, purplish
foliage, very hot, purple to ivory to yellow to orange to red!
Gemstone – small compact plant, purple foliage, five colored fruit,
lovely
Golden Cayenne – longer than the red Cayenne – deep green
ripens to bright yellow sorry, sold out
Gumdrop – green leaf, white flowers, round yellow fruit
ripen lavender through red, very hot!
Jalapeno M – just a good productive strain of the classic sorry – sold out
Kung Pao – big bushy plant
provides loads of slender green chiles that ripen red sorry, sold out
Leslie’s Anaheim – very nice version of the long chile pepper, mild, green ripening red, prolific
Little Nubian – great plant – purple foliage and flowers,
mini black bells ripen red, very hot
Malu Miris – from
a friend from Sri Lanka – long pale green, ripen orange, delicious sorry – sold out
Peter – wrinkled, somewhat obscene shaped green fruit ripen
red, extra hot (very few available)
Pretty Purple – plant is all purple
– foliage, flowers, fruit black purple ripening deep red. Great ornamental.
Purple Robe – similar color to Pretty Purple, but plant is
taller, peppers smaller cones.
Scotch Bonnet – wrinkled green top shaped fruit ripen golden
yellow orange. Fiery hot sorry – sold out
Skinny – very small plants with tiny upright green peppers
ripen red, plant is loaded – great for containers
Spectral – deeper foliaged version of Five Color – lovely plant.
Trifetti – small, spreading variegated foliage
plant with small dark purple peppers, ripen red, very ornamental
Variegata – darkest purple foliage of all,
especially in full sun, small black cones ripen red.
Vietnamese Multicolor – dark foliage, multicolored fruit,
lovely plant, very hot
Eggplant/Other (22
varieties)
Batu – from a friend from Sri Lanka,
prolific, long white fruit blushed with pale violet, similar to Bride
Bianca di Imola
– long oval shape, pure white, very tender, sweet and mild, rare
Bride F1 – loads of slender white fruit blushed with pale
lavender
Calliope F1 – small round eggplant that are white with
distinct purple stripes. Striking (just
a few, though)
Casper – smooth oval pure white fruit, productive, sweet
mild flesh
Early Green Giant – large oval medium green fruit, prolific
and delicious
Lavendar Touch F1 – very beautiful white oval
fruit blushed with pale lavender
Louisiana Long Green – long, slender green skinned fruit are
tender and sweet
Machiaw F1 – an improved Asian type, very long
and slender, medium purple fruit
Neon F1 – bright, intense lavender fruit, oval shape, productive sorry – sold out
New York Improved – the classic bell shaped black eggplant,
grows quite large, tall plant, superb for slicing
Ping Tung Long – slender medium purple Asian type, prolific
and tasty sorry –sold out
Prosperosa – old Italian variety, round, large
purple fruit, tall vigorous plant, large leaves
Ripples - oval white fruit are striped with dark purple,
lovely variety, very productive
Rosita – lavender bell shaped large fruit are tender and
delicious
Zebra F1 – one of the most beautiful, lavender with white
marbling, oval shape, all purpose, prolific
Other
Cossack Pineapple ground cherry – large spreading plant
loaded with fruits that form in husks that dry to brown and fall off, fruits
are small and pale orange, unique fruity flavor – many uses.
Information Resources on the Web:
A good
resource for pictures of varieties that we carry, but have yet to photograph:
Is the link to the web
site for the Tomato Growers Supply Company. They have
pictures of most of the varieties we carry. They are also a superb source for
seeds.
Other seed companies that I highly recommend
Johnny’s Selected Seeds – http://www.johnnyseeds.com/welcome.html
Victory Seeds – http://www.victoryseeds.com/
Sandhill Preservation - http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/
Seed Savers Exchange - http://www.seedsavers.org/Home.asp