Tomatoes- who doesn't love them? Well my husband for one. That is until he actually tried a heirloom tomato, an Amazon Chocolate to be exact, and declared “this is NOT a tomato. This is too good to be a tomato!”

I didn't wonder that he grew up hating tomatoes. After eating the cardboard red pesticide coated creations that have more travel miles on them then I have, it stands to reason that a true home grown tomato would taste different. We would be content to eat the Amazon Chocolate for the rest of our life. Then I read how there were actually over 4400 heirloom varieties known, and plenty more unknown. So how could we stop with just one?

Luckily we did not stop there. We grew other varieties, a sweet one called Brandywine. The sharp but sweet bite of a Cheesmanni, the oldest known tomato discovered by Charles Darwin. The Garden peach, a fuzzy tomato, and the green zebra, striped and nicely textured for slicing. It got to be a wee bit of a passion, maybe more of an addiction.We read and researched about tomatoes, dried tomatoes, sauced tomatoes and chutneyed the green ones at the end of the season. Come December when the last tomato is taken out of the box which we put the unripe ones to ripe we start to crave them, all over again. Luckily spring comes early to the island!

This season we are offering more varieties of small cherry tomatoes in a mosaic of colors, as well as some others we have fallen in love with, including many black varieties. Where we can, we supply a history of the tomato and where it came from, and if you have time, feel free to visit the table and check out our varieties. We offer plants for your garden or patio in the early season, and follow it with tasty tomato offerings in the season.

Some of the varieties we will be offering include:

Alice Roosevelt: Delicious Old Oxheart, Amazon Chocolate,Anna Assa, Angora, the ghost tomato,Aunt Ruby's Yellow Cherry: Lovely cherry tomato,Baker Family Heirloom tomato,Banana Legs, Baxters Bush cherry, Black bear tomato, Black and brown Boar, Black Cherry, Black Ethiopian, Blonde Kopfchen, Bloody Butcher, Brin De Mugeuet, Brookpact and Boxcar Willie- and that is only SOME of the A's and B's!

Almost all of our tomatoes are heirloom varieties, and all are from sources that do not use GMO's or pesticides. Almost all are varieties can be raised in containers, as we did last year, even with our large ones. If the container is big enough, you can raise a tomato plant of your own. Ask for advice, and we can let you know which ones have the true tomato taste, which ones are sweet and which ones are tart. Not ready to grown your own just yet? We encourage you to sample all our varieties this year, and a pick a favorite for your garden for next time.