Heirloom Slicer Tomato Plants
Grow your own tomatoes. Slicers are great on sandwiches, salads, and in a nice fresh sauce
3 Slicers to choose from:
Dad’s Sunset - for people who don’t like tomatoes, Dads has awesome flavor, low acid, one of the best tasting yellow tomatoes we’ve had
Bonnie Best- firm round tomatoes in clusters, uniform shape, old fashioned tomato, this is actually a canning tomato that became famous in the early 20th century, but she’s also packed with flavor with thick flesh and fewer seeds.
Rutgers* - a determinate plant, doesn’t sprawl all around. The tomato is a uniform globe shape, one of our most versatile tomatoes. An old canning tomato, makes it into the slicer list too.
Behold the versatile slicer, easy to grow, and super tasty. These Slicers are selected because they are medium size and prolific. Sliced up they fit perfectly on a sandwich. Slice into wedges for a salad, or cook them in a fresh tomato sauce. Medium size tomatoes are easy to grow because they don’t spend as much time on the vine in the elements. Great plants for beginning gardeners.
CHECK OUT OUR OTHER TOMATO PLANTS—
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 - 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
READ ON FOR SPECIAL NOTES—AND CLICK TO OUR OTHER TOMATO PLANT OPTIONS TO FIND THESE AWESOME VARIETIES.
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.
*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.