Tomato Varieties
Hundreds of popular hybrid and heirloom tomato varieties are listed by several groupings:
- Varieties by size/shape of the fruit
- Best tasting varieties
- Early-maturing varieties for short growing seasons
- What is your favorite tomato variety?
Your local gardening expert will know what varieties grow best in your vicinity. If you like to shop online one of my favorite sources is Burpee.
Tomato varieties by size and shape
Included in the following list are hundreds of varieties I've encountered either through personal experience, seed catalogs or other sources. Because there are so many tomato varieties and new ones appearing all the time, there are certain to be many omissions. Are your favorite varieties in this list?
| Globe | Cherry | Beefsteak |
|---|---|---|
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Alicante Alisa Craig Angora Applegate Aunt Gertie's Gold Bison Black Zebra BOA Bonny Best Burbank Burpee's Big Early Hybrid Burpee's Globe Burpee's Globemaster Hybrid Canabec Rose Carters Fruit Cobra Cristal Czech's Excellent Yellow Defiant Djena Lee's Golden Girl Druzba Earl of Edgecombe Early Girl Elberta Girl Elegance Essex Wonder Eva's Purple Ball Ferline First In The Field Flamme Fordhook First Geronimo Glacier Golden Bison Golden Sunrise Grosse Lisse Harzreuer John Baer Jubilee Lemon Boy Lime Green Salad Livingston's Honor Bright Long Keeper Manitoba Manyel Moneymaker New Yorker Orange Pixie Oregon Spring Peach Blow Sutton Peche Pink Peach Pink Ping Pong Potentate Ramillette De Mallorca Red Alert Red Delight Red Rose Roncardo Russian Black Rutger's Improved Scotland Yellow Shirley Siletz Silvery Fir Tree Sioux Stupice Sub-Arctic Plenty Sungella Sun Ray Tamina The Amateur Tigerella Totem Trust Valley Girl Variegated Victory White Beauty White Tomesol Willamette Yellow Alisa Craig Yellow Peach Yudum |
Alberto Shatters Amber-Colored Amoroso Apero Balconi Red Balconi Yellow Black Cherry Blondkopfchen Broad Ripple Yellow Currant Brown Berry Burgess Early Salad Cherrola Chocolate Cherry Dr. Carolyn Dr. Carolyn Pink Extra Sweetie Favorita Fox Cherry Galina's Gardener's Delight Gartenperle Gold Nugget Gold Rush Gold Rush Currant Golden Cherry Golden Gem Golden Nugget Golden Pearl Green Doctors Green Grape Green Tiger Hartman's Yellow Gooseberry Jasper Jelly Bean Large Red Cherry Loveheart Maskotka Matt's Wild Cherry Micro-Tom Nectar Oregon Cherry Pepe Piccolo Picolino Red Cherry Red Currant Red Pigmy Riesentraube Ruby Sakura Sara's Galapagos Snowberry Striadel Suncherry Premium Sunset Sun Sugar Sweet Million Sweet 'N' Neat Sweet 100 Sweet Pea Sweet Pea Currant Tiny Tim Tomatoberry Tommy Toe Tumbler Tumbling Tom Red Tumbling Tom Yellow Velvet Red White Currant Wild Sweetie Yellow Pigmy |
African Queen Aker's West Virginia Amana Orange Ananas Noir Aunt Ginny's Purple Aunt Ruby's German Green Believe It Or Not Bicolor Mortgage Lifter Big Ben Big Rainbow Black Russian Blue Ridge Mountain Carter's Mortgage Lifter Cartwright's Mortgage Lifter Chianti Rose Costoluto Fiorentino Country Taste Cuostralee Delicious Diener Dr. Wyche's Yellow Early Santa Clara Canner Estler's Mortgage Lifter Evergreen Faworyt German Mortgage Lifter German Pink Gold Medal Golden Jubilee Great White Green Giant Halladay's Mortgage Lifter Hillbilly Potato Leaf Hugh's Ilya Muromets Jack Hawkins Kellog's Breakfast Kentucky Heirloom Legend Mammoth German Gold Marvel Striped Mary Robinson's German Bicolor McClintock's Big Pink McGarity's Mortgage Lifter Mortgage Lifter VFN Mullens' Mortgage Lifter O'Driscoll's Mortgage Lifter Pantano Pesta's Mortgage Lifter Pineapple (Ananas) Pink Accordion Polish Giant Beefsteak Pruden's Purple Purple Calabash Purple Smudge Quali T23 Queensberry's Mortgage Lifter Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter Red and Yellow Mortgage Lifter Red Brandywine Rieger's Mortgage Lifter Rose de Berne Santiam Sudduth's Brandywine Supermarmande Tidwell German Watson's Mortgage Lifter Yacalo Yellow Brandywine Yellow Jumbo Yellow Mortgage Lifter |
| Plum & Pear | Ribbed |
|---|---|
|
Alaskan Fancy Anna Russian Antique Roman Apero Auld Sod Aviro Black Pear Black Plum Blondkopfchen Chili Verde Chiquita Cornue des Andes Cream Sausage Dasher Doucet's Plum Producer Elfin Floridity Golden Fresh Golden Rave Golden Sweet Goldman's Italian American Grandma Mary's Green Sleeves Hungarian Italian Ildi Jersey Devil Jersey Giant King Humbert Long Tom Monica Mini-Charm Old Ivory Egg Olivade Opalka Orange Banana Oroma Patrona Pink San Marzano Polish Linguisa Principe Borghese Purple Russian Red Pear Rio Grande Roman Candle Roman Holiday Rosada Rudolph San Marzano San Marzano Lungo Saucy Specked Roman Sunstream Super Italian Paste Tegucigalpa Thai Pink Ukrainian Pear Vilms Yellow Bell Yellow Butterfly Yellow Santa Zuchello |
Ceylon Costoluto Genovese Gezahnte Tomate Mr. Brown Purple Calabash Red Cup Reisetomate Rosso Sicilian Supermarmande Ugly Yellow Ruffled Zapotec |
Best tasting tomato varieties *
Garden writer Barbara Pleasant consulted experts for her Mother Earth News article in which she came up with a list of some especially great tasting tomatoes.
| Early Maturing | Paste | Main Season |
|---|---|---|
|
Glacier New Girl Stupice |
Opalka Orange Banana |
Beefy Boy Big Rainbow Lucky Cross Crimson Fancy |
| Greens & Zebras | Orange & Yellow |
|---|---|
|
Aunt Ruby's German Green |
Aunt Gertie's Gold Kellog's Breakfast German Red Strawberry |
* Pleasant, Barbara, "America's Favorite Tomatoes." Mother Earth News, Jan/Feb 2008: 62-66. Print.
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The following list of early tomato varieties, which are generally considered to be those maturing in 65 days or less, will be useful if your growing season is shorter than average. Most of these are red tomatoes. "Days to maturity" is the number of days after transplanting seedlings into garden or container. The number of days is an average and will vary according to your specific growing conditions but the divisions should allow you to compare one variety to another.
| 50 Days and Under | 51 to 60 Days | 61 to 65 Days |
|---|---|---|
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Burgess Early Salad German Dwarf Bush Imp Johnny Jumpup Pretty Patio Rocket Subartic |
Beaverlodge Burpee's Gloriana Burpeeana Early Hybrid Burpee's Sunnybrook Earliana Calmart Earliest of All Early Bird Early Delicious Early Girl Early Red Cherry Early Red Chief Faribo Hybrid EE Faribo Springtime Fordhook Hybrid Gardener Geneva Glacier Golden Delight Grape Hybrid Pickle Hybrid Red #22 Jetfire Manitoba Maritimer Northern Delight Outdoor Girl Paul Bunyan Pixie Hybrid Porter Presto Pusa Ruby Quebec #314 Queen's Certified Red Knight Red Sugar Scotia Selandia Sleaford Abundance Small Fry Starfire Starshot Stokes Alaska Stokes Early Hybrid Summer Sunrise Swift Tanana Tiny Tim Tom Tom Veemore Vivid Vogue Wayahead Yellow Tiny Tim |
Atom Bonny Best Burpee's Big Early Hybrid Burpee's Globemaster Hybrid Bush Beefsteak Coldset Currant Doublerich Droplet Dwarf Champion Early Red Chief Early Stokesdale Early Twilley Big Hybrid Early Wonder Fireball Firesteel Galaxy Gardener's Delight Hybrid Pink #1 Hy-Top Mandarin Cross Marmande Mixed Ornamental New Yorker Park's Extra Early Hybrid Patio Primabel Red Cloud Rideau Sioux Springset Sugar Lump Sugar Red Sugar Yellow Sunset Surecrop Sutton's Alicante Tangella Tigerella Tiger Tom Valiant Vigor Boy Window Box |
What is your favorite tomato variety?
Tell us why you like it? Did you win a contest? How was the flavor, size, and yield? Will you share a growing secret? How about a picture? Everyone would love to hear your opinion!
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Zapotec Tomatoes are Very Tasty! 
Greetings from Melbourne, Australia.
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Sungold
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Better Bush Tomato 
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Intrigued by the name, I grew these from seed and they were marvelous!! Big, rosy, and with hardly any seeds. Did I mention that they were delicious …
Belgium Heart Tomatoes a Winner Not rated yet
A friend gave me some seeds and asked me to start them in my greenhouse.
I have never really cared for tomatoes but theses are a real winner.True to their …
Paul Robeson Tomato Not rated yet
3 summers ago I had an amazing crop of heirloom tomatoes.
Plenty to give away to friends. the last 2 years powdery mildew has destroyed my poor tomatoes …
Paul Robeson Not rated yet
I raised this one last year. I planted it late and it died around August. It produced about 5 black tomatoes. I raise about 30 varieties. This Russian/ …
San Marzano Not rated yet
I decided to try this variety for my first tomato plant because it makes the most amazing sauce, paste and purée. Buying pure San Marzano products at the …
Beefheart Not rated yet
Grows large, meaty tomatoes but not a large quantity per plant. Best tasting if you like more meat and less seeds in your tomato.
Cherokee Purple Not rated yet
I had to replace a tomato in the spot of one that died. I looked at the Best Tasting list briefly. Drove to the local nursery and there it was. I could …
Pink Lady Tomato Not rated yet
My son has given me some seeds of Pink Lady tomato that have very few seeds so hoping that I will have a great season this year. I have always grown mighty …
Garden Peach Tomato Not rated yet
They rock and are prolific!
Pink Gulf State Not rated yet
When I was a kid ,We planted 1500 Gulf State tomatoes. Back in 1965; where we lived no one did that ,,,,, My mother and I washed them in the creek by …
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