Tatiana's TOMATObase - Heritage Tomatoes

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This site is intended to provide variety characteristics and historical data for the open-pollinated and heirloom tomato varieties that are grown and maintained by TOMATObase members - tomato enthusiasts around the world. Please visit our Community Portal if you are interested in joining us.

This is a work in progress, and we will continue adding varieties and articles to the list. Please check for the recent updates by following the "Recent Changes" link in the Navigation box.

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Tatiana

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Contents 1 What's New This Month 2 Tomato Varieties 3 Contributors 4 Other Tomato Resources

What's New This Month

• There are 1875 tomato articles in the TOMATObase as of September 1, 2008.
• 2 new tomato articles, 4 new garlic articles, and lots of new pictures have been added since September 1, 2008.
• 3 new reports have been added since August 1:
  • Surprises in Tatiana's Tomato Garden
  • Tomatoes for container growing
  • Tatiana's Garlic Collection

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Tomato Varieties

• Click here to view the Tomato Variety List in alphabetical order
• Click here to view tomatoes by the country of origin.
• Click here to view tomatoes by fruit color.
• Click here to view tomato listings by other categories (i.e., growth habit, fruit size, leaf type, etc.)
• Click here to view 100 heirloom tomatoes, described in the Carolyn J. Male's book "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden".
• Click here to view Tom Wagner's tomato and potato varieties.
• Click here to view Brad Gates' tomato varieties.

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Contributors

Please visit our Community Portal to learn about the contributing members and tomato varieties maintained by the members.

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Other Tomato Resources

1. Wikipedia:Heirloom Tomatoes
2. Seed Savers Exchange - Yearbook: the online searchable database that contains descriptions of all vegetable varieties listed by SSE members.
3. Tomato Anatomy Atlas - This is a very good educational site that helps gardeners to get familiar with proper terminology when talking about various parts of tomato plant anatomy.
4. Reinhard Kraft: 800+ tomato varieties maintained by Reinhard Kraft (picture captions and descriptions in German)
5. Vent Marin. 12 000+ variétés ou appellations locales ou commerciales classées par ordre alphabétique.
6. TolleTomaten German website that features tomato varieties search engine.
7. Luc Fichot's Tomato website: tomato varieties (pictures) originally maintained by the late Luc Fichot, who was the largest tomato seed collector in Belgium.
8. Tomodori: a French website dedicated to all aspects of growing and cooking heirloom tomatoes. Features a search engine you can use to search for tomato varieties. You do not need to know French to browse Tomodori Photo Gallery!
9. Craig LeHoullier's website: Craig has a very informative Tomato Information page, with pictures, origin information, and much more! He helps coordinate a large project working on breeding improved dwarf tomato varieties and with the help of other heirloom growers has a great tomato tasting party in the Raleigh NC area each summer.
10. Keith Mueller's On-line Tomato Vine website - Keith Mueller is a tomato breeder, who developed quite a few excellent open-pollinated and hybrid varieties, such as Purple Haze F1, Dora, Gary'O Sena, and others.
11. Angelo Dorny's Tomato website: pictures of some European tomato varieties maintained by Angelo Dorny from Belgium.
12. Tomaten-Atlas - a German website with tomato pictures and descriptions in German.
13. Tomaten Garten - a website of Klaus-Peter Schurz of Germany, who contributed lots of his tomato pictures for Tatiana's TOMATObase. Thank you Klaus-Peter!
14. Tomato Index: Tasting and Rating Heirloom Tomatoes: a website to post your tasting opinions and view the list of Top Rated heirloom tomatoes.
15. TomatoSite: a Tomato search engine that allows to search varieties based on plant and fruit characteristics. Offers information about tomato cultivation, some tomato recipes, and a list of tomato seed vendors.
16. Tomatoville® Gardening Forum: It is all about Tomatoes - Discussion forum.
17. Carolyn J. Male's book "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden" (Workman Publishing, NY, 1999) provides excellent descriptions of a selection of wonderfully tasty varieties. Here is a description of the book at Amazon.
18. Amy Goldman's new Tomato book that was released on August 5, 2008: The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit.