I decided to grow exclusively what is the most rare. Once I decided on that criteria I was off and running. Before that lost in dreamy thoughts about all these tomatoes. And boy have I created a backlog of these over the years. It'll be a couple seasons of indecision & anticipation.
I'll post a list in the next bit. Off the top of my head a few of them have already captivated my imagination; Tupelo Honey, Marshmallows in Chocolate, Judy's Good Heart, Taiga, Orange Ghabana, Bogeywine. Man, there are just so many good tomatoes to choose from in the world. And I love this new tomato color designation I've seen around 'bamboo mustard'!
The 2026 tomato list, after much pondering and angst, lol. I'm staggered to think I need to actually start putting these seeds in the ground in less than a week! How does the time fly like that? And it seems every year that passes, it goes even quicker. I'm debating what to do for peppers still ....
Tomatoes 2026
Mini’s
Mini Dwarf Bonsai Black Pearl
Mini Dwarf Candy Berry
Mini Dwarf Tigret Yellow
Mini Dwarf Orange Hat
Mini Dwarf Lil’ Peeps
Mini Dwarf Blaue Zimmertomate
Mini Dwarf Carrot Top
Mini Dwarf Hardin’s Miniature
Cherry Tomato
Strawberry Cherry - supposedly the best cherry ever
My Dancing Green Fingers & Venus of Willendorf (to compare) - both very elongated green shiny cherries
Ampoules Cherry Waterfall, hanging basket type tomato
Angora Super Sweet Cherry
Garnet Cherry
Berry tomato - 5 seeds, mini mini fruits
Amethyst Cream Cherry
Cinnamon Girl Cherry - from the ‘True North’ breeder
Demeter’s Tears Cherry - Olivia’s named tomato, will see if it’s actually stable
Indigo Orange Supertruss Cherry
L 1 10 K54 84 - Burnt Orange Color, needs a better name
Dark Orange Muscat Cherry
In ground
Butterscotch Stripes (beefsteak)
Minusinsk Lion (big beefsteak)
Taiga - multicolor oxheart, part of the ‘True North’ series
Tupelo Honey - Bamboo mustard color
Copper Olive (cocktail) - green/yellow/orange with blue shoulders
Chadd’s Ford (Lg. Cherry or Cocktail) - seems like a lot of variation, not sure what to expect
Orange Ghabana - orange & green
Black Strawberry - large cocktail, blue shoulders
Feejee Improved - brown, small, mini beefsteak
Woodstock Girl - Russ’s tomato
Marshmallows in Chocolate - deep brown small beefsteak
True Colors - multicolor, from ‘True North’ breeder
Micek’s yugoslavian - big roma type
Fiaschetto di Manduria - roma type tomato
Romovay Baba GWR - green beefsteak
Orange Cream - creamsicle color in light apricot
Kanner Hoell - red slicer, processing
Minusinsk Mango - large true yellow beefsteak, top quality
Damskie Palchiki - one seed left….
Atomic Sunset - stable cross of orange banana X atomic grape
Dina Tomato - apricot color small slicer
Lyana Rozowy - pink large cocktail
Oh Canada - red beefsteak, from ‘True North’ breeder
Jabloki Snegu - means ‘apples in the snow’
Judy’s Good Heart - pink, oxheart type, clunky
Pots
Dwarf Leprechaun Gosha
Dwarf - Purple Rain (by Bill Yoder)
Dwarf Great Scott
Dwarf Arctic Pot ‘n’ Patio
Dwarf Johnny jump up - 18 inches
Dwarf Prairie Fire - said to be very sweet
Dwarf Tatura - means tattoo, ghastly name, hope toms are better
Dwarf Jaobloki Snegu ‘Apples in the Snow’
Dwarf Uluru Ochre - soulmate tomato
Dwarf Lady Madonna
Ladybug - 1 to 3 feet
Still on the table:
Parker Hatlee - roma type
Abrikos - very fuzzy, oddball for sure
Bogeywine - red beefsteak
Tons of green varieties that need to be grown
Piennolo del Vesuvio, in yellow - storage tomato
All the Bill Minkey tomatoes....
