6 Beefsteak size slicers to choose from:

1. Cherokee Green (ripe and sweet when green)

2. Cherokee Purple (rich smokey flavor)

3. German Pink (pink tomato with fewer seeds than Mortgage Lifter, a parent plant of the Mortgage Lifter)

4. Great White (best flavor, low acid, some say this one has melon flavor undertones, you decide!)

5. Hillbilly (orange stripe WV Heirloom)

6. Mortgage Lifter (pink WV Heirloom)

   Now taking pre-orders for heirloom tomato plants from West Virginia residents only. Pick up is available at Bridgeport Farmers Market Sundays, May 15th, May 22nd, May 29th, June 5th, June 12th. Sorry we are not set up to ship these items.

Seasonal availability, like when you’re planting your garden in late May-early June (West Virginia). We grow heirloom tomatoes as a way to keep these classics alive.

These Beefsteak variety tomatoes are selected for their ease of growing, flavor, reliability, and color. We sauce and eat fresh any and all tomatoes. Beefsteaks are excellent in salads, on sandwiches, and are beautiful. For us, a hallmark of summer is to cut one of these large tomatoes off the vine, slice it, and serve it with some mozzarella cheese, fresh basil, and a drizzle of olive oil. What a striking tomato salad when you cut up a few heirloom beefsteak tomatoes.

*Determinate plants are bush shape, no pruning required. All tomato plants will make fruit when grown in a pot! The bigger the pot the bigger your plant. Indeterminate tomato plants will grow into long vines 6-8 feet in length. Pruning and staking helps support the plant and grow healthy tomatoes.

Seeds come from Baker Creek, Southern Seed Exchange, Urban Farmer.

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Poe Run favorites- Amish Paste (plentiful, hearty, most prolific, easy to grow), German Pink (less seeds), Tommy Toe (versatile large cherry), Principe Borghese (versatile grape, excellent for drying and canning), Rutgers and Bonnie Best (excellent for canning), Jersey Devil (meaty, dry, best for peeling and canning). At Poe Run, we preserve ALL tomatoes. Everybody goes in the pot and gets strained. The paste tomatoes we grow are excellent for peeling and canning

West Virginia Tomatoes- Hillbilly, Mortgage Lifter, German Pink (a parent tomato to the Mortgage Lifter but with fewer seeds)

Virginia Tomato- Roma VF Virginia Select

Most versatile- Amish Paste, Principe Borghese

Bush type plants- Cream Sausage, Roma VF, Rutgers, Principe Borghese- they don’t grow as tall, and don’t require pruning, but staking them keeps branches and fruit off the ground