2024 Varieties by Category
So many varieties! Which ones to grow? Here are the varieties we intend to grow, divided into categories. Size of fruit does, of course, vary within category. I hope it makes it easier to choose! {Strikethrough indicates the variety is sold out.]
Reminders:
• Plants will be ready for pickup at pop-up locations in the Chicago area in May.
• Please select a pickup location and date during checkout. Thank you!
New for 2024
We’re growing these wonderful varieties for the first time this year. Try one . . . or two or three or four or . . . !
Afternoon Delight
Alice's Dream
Black Hole Sun
Blood Moon
Blue Sun
Blue Zimmer (TT)
Butter Apple (DP)
Canary Kiss (TT)
Chibikko (TT)
Chupa Chups
Crushed Heart
Dynamite Delight (TT)
Emerald Flame (TT)
Fat Frog (TT)
Gothic Princess
Honey Drop
Hoosier Outlaw
Lille Lise (TT)
Limelight (TT)
Lithium Sunset
Michael Pollan
Nano’s Meatball
Napa Chardonnay
Pink Panther
Red Currant
Red Robin
Rosy Finch
Saucy Mary
Slivka Gorman
Spoon
Summer of Love
Taste of Paradise
Terra Cotta
Wine Jug
Zapotec
Container
Plants that thrive in a pots on a patio, porch or balcony. Size of fruit varies. Plants vary from 12 inches to 5 feet tall.
Amber
Audrey’s Love
Beliy Naliv
Black Krim
Blush
Bush Beefsteak
Dynamite Delight
Early Wonder
Emerald City (DP)
Extreme Bush
Fat Frog
Garden Peach
Golden Hour
Hardin's Miniature (TT)
Inkspot (TT)
Jaune Flamme
Johnson’s Cherry (DP)
Karma Purple
Kookaburra Cackle (DP)
Laura 5 (TT)
Limelight
Lucky Tiger
Marong Moon (DP)
Maglia Rose
Martino’s Roma
Mocha’s Cherry Plum
Mohammed Micro (TT)
Monetka Micro TT)
Orange Dream (TT)
Pinocchio Orange (TT)
Principe Borghese
Purple Heartthrob (DP)
Ruby Slippers (DP)
Saucy Mary
Sneaky Sauce (DP)
Sweet Adelaide
Taste Patio (DP)
Tiny Tim
Vilma (TT)
Yellow Brick Road (DP)
Beefsteak
Fruit that range from baseball size to true big’uns (5” wide).
All of these will make your hamburger or BLT taste sensational.
Abe Lincoln
Afternoon Delight
Amalfi Pink
Ananas Noire
Arkansas Marvel
Art Zaino
Benevento
Berkeley Pink Tie-Dye
Black Beauty
Black Krim
Blood Moon
Blue Beauty
Box Car Willie
Brandywine
Bush Beefsteak
Cherokee Purple
Chupa Chups
Creole
Dad’s Sunset
Fire
German Johnson
Hillbilly
Julia Child
Kellogg’s Breakfast
Kookaburra Cackle
(DP)
Lithium Sunset
Lucid Gem
Midnight Sun
Mr. Stripey
Metallica
Mortgage Lifter
Orange Jazz
Orange Accordion
Pantano Romanesco
Paul Robeson
Pink Jazz
Polaris
Purple Calabash
Rainbow Jazz Heart
Rutgers
Sart Roloise
Sgt Peppers
Solar Flare
Summer of Love
Sweet Adelaide
Terra Cotta
Tula Black
Zapotec
Cherry
Fruit around 1” to 1.5” wide. A vast range of truly delectable colors and flavors.
A Grappoli D’Inverno
Atomic Grape
Baselbieter Roeteli
Black Cat
Black Cherry
Black Hole Sun
Black Strawberry
Blue Zimmer
Blush
Canary Kiss
Chadwick Cherry
Chestnut Chocolate
Chibikko
Dark Galaxy
Dynamite Delight
Early Wonder
Emerald Flame
Hardin's Miniature
Honey Drop
Karma Purple
Kryptonite
Limelight
Madera
Marong Moon (DP)
Maglia Rose
Michael Pollan
Mocha’s Cherry Plum
Mohammed Micro (TT)
Monetka Micro (TT)
Napa Chardonnay
Napa Rose
Norwood Meiners
Orange Dream (TT)
Pink Bumblebee
Pink Cherrywine
Pink Panther
Pinocchio Orange (TT)
Queen of the Night
Red Currant
Rosy Finch
Ruby Slippers
Sneaky Sauce
Sunrise Bumblebee
Taste of Paradise
Tiny Tim
Vilma
Paste/Sauce
Fruit that are fantastic for making delicious pastes and sauces. They’re always great for eating in salads, too. Sizes vary.
Amish Paste
Audrey’s Love
Box Car Willie
Costoluto Fiorentino
Costoluto Genovese
Crushed Heart
Evil Olive
Golden Hour
Illini Star
Italian Red Pear
Martino’s Roma
Marzano Fire
Midnight Roma
Nano’s Meatball
Orange Accordion
Pantano Romanesco
Principe Borghese
Purple Calabash
San Marzano
Redorta
Sneaky Sauce
Wine Jug
Zapotec
Early
No waiting ‘til August with these varieties.
Bush Beefsteak
Early Wonder
Extreme Bush
Hardin's Miniature
Maglia Rose
Napa Rose
Queen of the Night
Taste Patio
Tiny Tim
Yellow Brick Road
Dwarf plants (DP)
Plants about 3 to 4 feet tall. Perfect for pots or containers. Fruit range from cherry size up to
mini-beefsteaks.
Audrey’s Love
Beliy Naliv
Butter Apple
Emerald City
Extreme Bush
Johnson’s Cherry
Kookaburra Cackle
Marong Moon
Metallica
Mocha’s Cherry Plum
Nano’s Meatball
Pink Panther
Purple Heartthrob
Ruby Slippers
Saucy Mary
Sweet Adelaide
Taste Patio
Tiny Tim
Yellow Brick Road
Tabletop (TT)
Plants small enough to grow in a 8” diameter pot on a table. The fruit are small, too – marble size but bursting with robust flavor.
Canary Kiss
Chibikko
Dynamite Delight
Emerald Flame
Fat Frog
Hardin's Miniature
Golden Hour
Inkspot
Laura 5
Lille Lise
Limelight
Mohammed Micro
Monetka Micro
Orange Dream
Pinocchio Orange
Rosy Finch
Spoon
Vilma
Saladette
Fruit about the size of a plum or a golf ball. Perfect to quarter then arrange on a salad.
Agi Red
Amber
Amethyst Jewel
Atomic Fusion
Atomic Sunset
Audrey’s Love
Beliy Naliv
Blue Gold
Blue Sun
Butter Apple
Cosmic Eclipse
Creole
Emerald City
Eva Purple Ball
Evil Olive
Extreme Bush
Fat Frog
Golden Cherrywine
Gothic Princess
Garden Peach
Green Zebra
Hoosier Outlaw
Illini Star
India Stripes
Jaune Flamme
Karma Purple
Kryptonite
Lucky Tiger
Marzano Fire
Midnight Roma
Pink Grapefruit
Principe Borghese
Rebel Starfighter
Prime
Saucy Mary
Slivka Gorman
Sunrise Bumblebee
Terra Cotta
Wine Jug
Marble
Fruit smaller than cherries, these are wonderful for adding texture to salads or eating by the handful right off the vine.
Golden Grape
Inkspot (TT)
Johnson’s Cherry (DP)
Laura 5 (TT)
Orange Dream (TT)
Red Currant
Spoon
Tiny Tim
Yellow Pear
Determinate (Bush-type)
Determinate plants are bushes, not vines. They typically set fruit early and all at once, not all season long.
Bush Beefsteak
Early Wonder
Extreme Bush
Martino’s Roma
Principe Borghese
Taste Patio
Tiny Tim
