Tomatoes

Pisanello produces mid-sized fruits of around 100-150grams each. Very flattened and heavily ribbed fruits in a shiny, bright red color. Strong, traditional, well-balanced tomato flavor. From Italy. Indeterminate. 75D. 10seeds/pack

Krymskaya Roza, “Crimean Rose”, produces regular-sized fruits of around 80-150grams each. Very pretty, dark-pink, slightly pear-shaped fruits. Pink flesh with a good, sweet tomato flavor. From Russia, bred by the Russian SC Gisok. 75D. Indeterminate. 10seeds/pack

Gulliver is a bush variety, producing good yields of mid-sized tomatoes around 100-250grams each. The fruits in the picture are around 170 grams. Bright red, slightly heart-shaped fruits with a good, slightly acidic tomato flavor. Commercial Russian variety. Regular leaf. 75D. Semi-determinate, around 50-70cm high. 10seeds/pack

Beauté Blanche produces mid-sized beefsteak tomatoes of around 100-400grams each. Beautiful, cream white fruits with white flesh. Slightly flattened fruits with some ribbing. Fleshy and juicy with a very sweet tomato flavor. Beauté Blance at the bottom of picture 2, 142 grams. The other varieties in the picture are American Ribbed Red on the top left, 225 grams. And Alice Egypt on the top right, 228 grams. Other names for this variety are White Beauty, White Wonde,r among others. Old variety, was introduced in the USA in the 1850s. 75-80D. Indeterminate. 10seeds/pack

Dikaya Roza produces mid-sized to large beefsteak tomatoes of around 200-700grams each. The fruits in the picture are around 250grams each. Flattened and slightly ribbed fruits with plump, slightly ribbed shoulders. Pretty bright pink color and pink flesh. Dense and firm with an excellent, well-balanced tomato flavor. The other variety in the picture, top right, is Bear Claw, 420 grams. From Moldova, developed by "Pridnestrovie Agric. Res. Institut". 80-85D. Indeterminate. 10seeds/pack

George's Greek produces mid-sized beefsteak tomatoes of around 200-500grams each. Slightly flattened and ribbed fruits in a shiny red color. Meaty and juicy flesh with a traditional, sweet tomato flavor. George’s Greek is front left in the picture. The other varieties in the picture are ‘Big Italian Plum’, ‘Arkashin’, and Jantar (yellow). George (of Greek descent), in Vancouver, British Columbia, grew the variety for several years. Seeds were later obtained by his daughter Tina Exarchoulis. Was featured in the Seed Savers Yearbook, 2007. 80D. Dense foliage. Indeterminate. 10seeds/pack

Gigante Farina produces large beefsteak tomatoes of around 350-600grams each. It can also get larger, over 1kg. The fruits in the picture are around 350-400 grams. Bright red, shiny fruits, flattened and ribbed. Dense and meaty fruits with little gel and few seeds. From the Bleggio Region in Italy. Variety originates from Remo Farina, who holds the record for the largest tomato in Italy. 85D. Indeterminate. 5seeds/pack

Gospozha Udacha, “Lady Luck”, produces mid-sized beefsteak tomatoes of around 200-300grams each. Pretty raspberry pink fruits with a slight heart shape. Fragrant flesh with sweet tomato flavor. Gospozha Udacha is top right in the picture; the other varieties are Liften Yellow and Bisonhertz. 80D. Determinate. Bush, around 80-100cm high. 5seeds/pack

Bisonhertz produces large beefsteak tomatoes of around 400-1000grams each. The fruit in the first picture is 534 grams. Slightly ox-heart-shaped fruits in a red-pink color. Meaty fruits with an excellent tomato flavor. The other varieties in picture number 3 are Liften Yellow and Gospozha Udacha. 85D. From Russia. Indeterminate. 5seeds/pack

Arkashin produces mid-sized to large beefsteak tomatoes of around 250-400grams each. Bright red fruits with slightly green necks. Round-ish fruits with rounded, slightly ribbed necks. Dense and fleshy fruits with a well-balanced tomato flavor. Arkashin is in the back, to the left. The other varieties in the picture are ‘George’s Greek’, ‘Big Italian Plum’, and ‘Jantar’. From Russia, from the collection of Tamara Yaschenko. Indeterminate. 80-85D. 5seeds/pack

Helen’s German produces mid-sized to large beefsteak tomatoes of around 250-500grams each. The fruits in the picture are around 300-330 grams. Dark-pink fruits, slightly flattened with bulky ribbed shoulders. Meaty flesh with an excellent, sweet tomato flavor. From Germany. It was grown for about 20 years in Iowa. Passed on to relatives by the Navarre family in Madison, Wisconsin. Helen Navarre gave seeds to Sue Gronholz in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Gronholz introduced it in 1997 in the Seeds Savers Yearbook. Indeterminate. 80-85D. 5seeds/pack

Honey Giant produces large, flattened, and slightly ribbed beefsteak tomatoes of around 300-700grams each. The fruit in the picture is around 600 grams. Beautiful golden fruits with a red blush, both in the skin and the flesh. Meaty fruits with few seeds. Complex, sweet tomato flavor. 80-85D. Indeterminate. 5seeds/pack

Jantar, “Amber” in Polish, produces mid-sized to large beefsteak tomatoes of around 250-500grams each. Round-ish, slightly flattened fruits with plump and slightly ribbed shoulders. Dense and meaty flesh with sweet and tasty tomato flavor. The other varieties in the picture are ‘George’s Greek’, ‘Big Italian Plum’, and ‘Arkashin’. Commercial variety from Poland. Not the same variety as ‘Yantarniy’. 75-80D. Indeterminate. 5seeds/pack

Liften Yellow produces mid-sized to large beefsteak tomatoes of around 200-500grams each. Pretty bi-colored golden-pink fruits with golden-pink flesh. Very sweet and fruity tomato flavor. Good disease resistance. The other varieties in the pictures are Bisonhertz (red-pink) and Gospozha Udacha (raspberry pink colored) 80-85D. Indeterminate. 5seeds/pack

Cuban Like Pepper produces quite large paste-type tomatoes of around 100-300grams each. The fruit in the picture is 125 grams. Beautiful fruits in a dark, brick-red-brown color. Thick and firm flesh with few seeds. Sweet and tasty tomato flavor. The other variety in the picture is ‘Grandma Viney's Yellow and Pink’, 275 grams. From Russia. 80-85D. Indeterminate. 5seeds/pack

Meraki’s Red Heart Cherry produces large, heart-shaped cherry tomatoes with ribbed shoulders, around 4-5cm in diameter. Beautiful, shiny red fruits with pink-red flesh. Firm and dense fruits with few seeds, almost like a paste-type. Crack-resistant. I grew this variety in 2025 as ‘Terracotta Cherry’. It later came to our attention that ‘Terracotta Cherry’ was not stable and produces several different offspring. This one was a real gem, well worth keeping. These seeds should be an F4-F5. Regular leaf. Indeterminate. 75-80D. 5seeds/pack

Meraki’s Green Boy, previously called ’Purple Boy Green’, is a micro dwarf variety growing up to around 25cm in height, like ‘Purple Boy’. One of our plants in 2024 turned out to produce green fruits instead of the normal red-purple fruits of ‘Purple Boy’. Compact and sturdy little plants with rugose, dark green leaves. Produces round, large cherry tomatoes in green, slightly translucent fruits. Fruity and mild tomato flavor with a hint of acidity. Similar to Fat Frog. In 2025, I grew around 20 plants from my own seeds of 2024; all turned out the same, as the description above. 10seeds/pack

Meraki’s Pink Paste is a paste-type tomato, containing less water than “regular” tomatoes, perfect for cocking and sauces, etc. It produces elongated, pear-shaped fruits with a small nipple, around 60-80 grams each. Pale-pink fruits with some pale-green coloring on the necks. Meaty flesh with a sweet tomato flavor. The seeds of this variety were given to me as ‘Sinister Minister’, and clearly, it is not. The ‘Meraki Pink Paste’ was a great variety though, so we decided to keep it! 75-80D. Indeterminate. 10seeds/pack

Meraki’s Striped Zula produces multi-colored, striped fruits in metallic-green-red with green-pink flesh. The fruits are flat-round and ribbed, weighing around 100-200 grams each. Great slicing tomato with a juicy and sweet tomato flavor. We grew this variety in 2022 as ‘Kozula 139’, which it is clearly not, since ‘Kozula 139’ is a paste-type variety. Meraki Striped Zula turned out to be an awesome variety, though. Indeterminate. 75-80D. 10seeds/pack

Meraki’s Ivory Beef produces flat-round, mid-sized beefsteak tomatoes of around 150-350 grams each. Some fruits are less ribbed, and some are heavily ribbed. Ivory-white, very beautiful fruits. Some fruits also get a slight anthocyanin coloring on the neck where the fruits are exposed to the sun. Dense and juicy flesh with a fruity and sweet tomato flavor, with a hint of citrus. We grew this variety in 2024 as ‘Dirty Curty’, but apparently, it is not. Since this was such a beautiful and tasty variety, I had to keep it! Indeterminate. 80D. 10seeds/pack