It’s Time to Pre-Order Seedlings!
$5.55/ 4” pot
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE LIST BY CLICKING HERE
Please Pre-Order by March 1. You can either stop into the shop with your list, or email it to us at shop@thecuttinggarden.org.
There is no need to pay in advance, but if you don’t receive confirmation by email, please call to make sure we have received the order. 845 482 3333.
Plants will be available for pickup around Memorial Day weekend, depending on the weather.
We change tomato varieties a bit each year. Determinate varieties typically stop growing after they reach a certain height. They also tend to produce most of their fruit at about the same time. Indeterminate varieties, on the other hand, tend to grow and produce fruit throughout the season. All the tomatoes listed here are indeterminate unless specifically marked otherwise.
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Dwarf Tomatoes are an expanded option this year. The plants grow only from three to four feet tall but produce fruit that is 4 to 6 ounces or more. These tomato plants can be grown in 3 or 5-gallon pots, or in the ground.
Chocolate Champion: The Dwarf Tomato Project says the plant, “produces oblate medium to medium large fruit that ripen to a brick red chocolate hue … and the variety is quite prolific.”
Dwarf Beauty King: A productive, regular leafed plant with medium-sized fruit. The tomatoes are f Its fruit are red with vertical, gold striping.
Dwarf Dainty Isabel: These potato leaf plants grow three to four feet tall and produce lots of small, two-to-five-ounce, dark pink, flattened-globe shaped fruit.
Dwarf Metallica: Four to eight ounces. The Dwarf Tomato Project says the plant produces “globe- shaped purple tomatoes with distinct green stripes.”
Kookaburra Cackle: A vigorous, high yielding, regular leaf Australian dwarf plant that produces lots of oblate shaped, brown colored fruit with a bit of a tart taste.
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Cherry Tomatoes
Black Strawberry: striking cherry-sized hybrid fruit with a lot of purple.
Chocolate Cherry: large heirloom cherry with lots of chocolate coloring and very good flavor.
Chocolate Pear: similar to chocolate cherry but pear-shaped and a hybrid.
Gardener’s Delight: one of the larger cherries, and an heirloom.
Jasper: one of the smaller cherry tomatoes.
Sun Gold: A favorite of gardeners, this hybrid is orange or gold, ripens early and is very sweet.
Super Sweet 100: small sweet and prolific hybrid.
Yellow Pear: bright yellow and pear-shaped heirloom tomato.
Spoon: the very smallest cherry tomato but on big plants.
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Grape Tomatoes
Brad’s Atomic: Multi-colored hybrid grape tomatoes that are fun to grow.
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Determinate Tomatoes:
Celebrity: Hybrid, a long-time favorite with home gardeners, mid-sized and red.
Galahad: a hybrid that is very early and productive.
Rutgers: Also known as the Jersey tomato, Rutgers was a popular heirloom before the era of mechanized farming.
Skyway: Hybrid plant produces 8 to12 ounce fruits, with good disease resistance.
Sub Arctic: Early and fairly productive.
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Small Indeterminate:
Black Vernissage: A 2- or 3-ounce heirloom tomato with very good flavor. Like most of the so-called black tomatoes, these tend to be less resistant to diseases than the red and yellow varieties.
Jaune Flammee: A prolific French heirloom that has been a favorite of Cutting Garden customers over the years.
Piglet Willey: an heirloom variety, about three inches with red and mahogany coloring.
Purple Russian: an open-pollinated variety about three inches long with deep purple coloring.
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Medium Indeterminate
Black Beauty: Said to be the darkest tomato on the market with deep red flesh and good flavor.
Damsel: A pink hybrid tomato with an heirloom taste that was bred to be disease resistant.
Early Girl: A long-time gardener favorite, this hybrid tomato ripens earlier than many others.
Martha Washington: Another pink hybrid bred for flavor and sturdiness.
Purple Heart: This hybrid produces heart-shaped, deep purple fruit.
Queen of the Night: Deep purple skin with red streaks.
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Large Indeterminate
Beefsteak classic: Meaty heirloom fruits reach one to two pounds.
Big Zac: An heirloom that can produce tomatoes of more than two pounds each.
Black Krim: an early Russian heirloom with a flavor that’s been described as smokey.
Brandywine: an open-pollinated variety that has been around for generations.
Carbon: a popular heirloom variety with deep purplish-brown skin and red flesh.
Carolina Gold: A large, yellow hybrid tomato with a great flavor.
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Costoluto Genevese: A large, ribbed, red, heirloom tomato that dates back about 200 years.
Dad’s Sunset: Large yellow/orange hybrid, sometimes streaked with red, and very mild flavor.
Dester: A large pink beefsteak variety with sweet flavor that reaches 1 to 1-1/2 pounds.
German Johnson: Large pink heirloom produces a prolific amount of fruit.
Giant Belgium: Another large, pink, heirloom, this one from Belgium.
Hot Streak: Firm red fruit with yellow stripes and good flavor. Fruits avg. 6–12 oz.
Kellogg’s Breakfast: This large, yellow, heirloom was bred in Michigan, and like most yellow tomatoes, has a milder flavor than red ones.
Martha Washington: A slightly purple dependable hybrid.
Mortgage Lifter: An old heirloom variety, the man who developed this tomato, according to gardening lore, sold enough of the plants to pay off the mortgage on his home.
Paul Robeson: A large heirloom variety that is red with lots of purple throughout and a lot of deep flavor.
Pineapple: A large, yellow heirloom tomato shot through with red coloring. The flavor is similar to Striped German and is among the best in the garden.
Pink Brandywine: Heirloom variety of an old favorite.
Prudens Purple: A pink/purple heirloom that tolerates a variety of conditions.
Rebekah Allen: Big, red, tasty heirloom slicer.
Striped German: A large, yellow heirloom tomato shot through with red coloring. The flavor is similar to Pineapple and is among the best in the garden.
White Tomesol: indeterminate heirloom tomato producing 6-14 oz, creamy white-to-pale-yellow fruits.
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Paste Tomatoes
Amish Paste: Large paste/sauce tomato.
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Gilbertie Paste: The largest paste/sauce tomato.
Hog Heart: A large red bull-shaped fruit.
San Marzano: smaller, most popular paste/sauce tomato.
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Peppers
Sweet Peppers
Carmen: Hybrid bull-type, dependable sweet red pepper.
Cubanelle: Early-ripening heirloom, normally used when green, often used in cooking.
Costa Rican: Sweet bull hybrid red pepper.
Nardello: slim, sweet heirloom peppers about six inches long.
Poblano: Open pollinated, heart-shaped fruit with a gentle bit of heat.
California Wonder: Large hybrid sweet red bell pepper.
Shishito: Open-pollinated, small, wrinkled fruit sometimes with a bit of heat.
Sweet Banana: Early ripening, six-inch peppers normally picked early when yellow, often pickled and used in sandwiches.
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Hot peppers
Carolina Reapers, said to be the hottest pepper available, use caution when handling.
Cayenne, large: six-inch red cayenne peppers, often used for drying.
Ghost peppers: a Bhutanese pepper with extreme heat.
Habanero: small orange very hot peppers also called Scotch Bonnets.
Jalapeno: normally harvested when green, hot but not as fiery as others.
Lemon drop: bright yellow when ripe, two-inch hot peppers.
Pepperoncini: Mildly hot four-inch peppers that can be used green or red.
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Ground Cherries: Sweet marble-sized fruit that grows on plants that need about as much space as a tomato. When the fruit are ripe, they fall off the plant and are protected by a thin husk.
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Cucumbers
$3.00/ 3” square peat pot
Diva: A sweet fruit when harvested at six to eight inches, with very few seeds.
County Fair: A productive pickling type that can also be sliced fresh for salads and so on.
Mini Me: A mini-Beit-Alpha (Persian) type, Mini-Me produces shiny green, spineless fruits that are best harvested when they reach 3 to 3.5 inches in length.
Muncher Cucumber: Muncher’ is of Middle Eastern origin (Persian) and is typically harvested at 4 to 7 inches.
Parisian Gherkins: A pickling cuke that can be harvested when the fruits are very tiny, or three to four inches.
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Herbs
Parsley – Giant of Italy – a large leafed Italian strain with great flavor.
$4.25/ 3” square pot
Basil – Noga Prospera – a fast-growing traditional Genovese type basil with heightened resistance to downy mildew.
$4.25/ 3” square pot
Lavender – Annet – an English lavender with sturdy stems and full flowers.
$6.25/ 4” square pot
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Flowers
Delphinium – Pacific Giant Mix – a tall, perennial known for its dense flower spikes and vibrant colors.
$5.99/ 4” square pot
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Leucanthemum – Crazy Daisy – a Shasta daisy cultivar that typically grows 2-2.5’ tall and is a perennial. It is noted for its large double blooms (2.5” diameter) with frilly, twisted white rays and yellow center disks. A beautiful version of a nostalgic favorite.
$5.99/ 4” square pot
Zinnia – Persian Carpet – a dwarf variety ideal for the front of the bed or in pots. It sports gold, red, chocolate, orange, and cream blooms.
$5.99/ six pack
Rudbeckia – Indian Summer – a cultivar of the ageless black-eyed Susans, this tender perennial self seeds and has extra-large golden flowers with mahogany stems.
$5.99/ six pack
Viola – who doesn’t love these dainty and delightful pansies? Colors range from violet to lemon yellow and plum purple.
$5.99/ six pack
