Tomato seed for your garden - Online order processing. Tomatoes of every description are available here - from seed for small cherry tomatoes like Sunshine and Yellow Pear to large beefsteak tomatoes that cover a slice of bread like Brandywine, from seed of early tomatoes like Glacier and Forest Fire to heavy producing Lisa King.  Peters Seed and Research specializes in a wide variety of tomatoes to suite every gardeners need. Tomatoes are one of the most commonly grown garden vegetables. Tomatoes of a different color are becoming increasingly more popular with home gardeners as well as in specialty markets. Peters Seed and Research has done extensive breeding work and development with a wide variety of tomatoes. Some of the desirable characteristics that we look for in tomatoes are: uniform ripening, crack resistance, earliness in short growing seasons, long storage as well as others. Listed below is our listing of tomato seeds for sale. You can select the tomato seed that you would like to purchase by clicking on the Add to Cart button that is shown by each tomato variety.

Click Online Seed Catalog to view more garden seeds. When finished click on "CheckOut" at bottom of page. Each seed packet contains 20 - 30 tomato seeds. Early Red Tomato Seed Forest Fire Extra early and attractive tomato with 3" red fruit mature as fast as Prairie Fire but are much firmer and more crack resistant. The small Determinate vines are vigorous when well manured, producing fruit earlier, larger and better flavored than Sub Arctic Maxi. Excellent concentrated yields. Good multi-use tomatoes for coastal, high mountain, or first-of-season situations. (45-50 days) Seed Origin: PSR Breeding Program Pkt $1.50   Glacier This Swedish cultivar is very early and tolerates cool weather. Bears 2-3 oz fruits on semi-determinate plants that have an open habit making picking easier. An excellent choice for northern gardeners. Pkt $1.50   Silvery Fir Tree One of a kind Very unusual looking plants with very thin narrow carrot like foliage. Also early maturing with bright red slightly flattened fruits. Another bonus is that it has good general disease resistance and withstands drought. Determinate, but does best with stakes or in cages. Pkt $1.75   Stupice An extra-early, cold-tolerant tomato similar to Glacier, Kotlas and IPB. The vines are more vigorous than other extra-early, potato-leaf tomatoes; and this may account for the consistently good, sweet and tangy, tomatoey flavor that you get from the first juicy fruit to the last. From north to south, east to west, this 2-4 oz tomato is on the "Best Choice" list for its flavor and season-long production. (55 days) Indeterminate Temporarily Unavailable Main Season Red Tomato Seed Big Rainbow A bi-colored tomato with red streaks in yellow flesh that are excellent for slicing with other tomatoes for color contrast. Truly a beautiful tomato with a very mild flavor. These can reach up to two pounds in size and are born on large plants. Pkt $1.75   Big Old Fashioned Beefsteak Tomato Seed Brandy Wine Heirloom Tomato Seed Early to midseason maturity. Huge (1-2 lbs.) tender Beefsteaks with a most intriguing fragrance and delightful tomato flavor. This heirloom tomato is favored by many as being one of the best tasting tomatoes of all time. Vigorous and relatively productive Indeterminate vines. (75 days) Pkt $1.00   Floradade Originally developed for commercial tomato production in Florida, it has gained wide acceptance in many parts of the world as a very reliable tomato. Floradade has disease resistance to Alternaria, Fusarium 1 & 2, Stempylium and Verticillium wilt. It has also been shown to be very saline (salt) tolerant and resistant to blossom end rot as well. Pkt $1.25   Legend   Late Blight Resistant A recent release from Dr. Bagget at Oregon State University. A very good flavored tomato with an added bonus on resisting late blight. Fruits are uniform - nearly picture perfect - and make good slicing tomatoes. The plants are determinate. Pkt $1.85   Variegated Totally unique looking heirloom from Ireland with beautiful bi-colored foliage that contrasts with the red fruits. Pkt $1.75   Roma Tomato Seed Debarao A mid sized plum tomato suitable for paste and processing as well as fresh eating right from the garden. Pkt $2.00   Martino's Roma A high yielding 2 oz. roma tomato with a rich flavor well suited to making sauces and tomato paste. The tomatoes tend to fall from the vine when ripe. Determinate. Pkt $1.85   Roman Candle A beautiful bright yellow roma tomato with good taste that is becoming a specialty item with market growers. Can be used for salsa or eating fresh. Pkt $1.95   Striped Roman   An incredibly beautiful roma shaped tomato with alternating light and darker red stripes that run the length of the tomato. Has few seeds and is great for making tomato paste or salsa. Pkt $1.85

Cultural Information about Tomatoes Determinates - Bush Types: Good for high yields over a 3-5 week period, especially good for early yields. Make successive plantings in long-season areas. Indeterminates - Viney Types: Good for even yields over a long period of time. Excellent for staking and trellising. Good choices for greenhouse production, especially the crack-resistant selections. Days to Maturity: Our days to maturity are for healthy typical plants in our area. Typically our temperatures are warm during daylight hours but rapidly drop, as the sun sets, into the 40's and 50's (F), staying there all night much of the summer. A "65 day" tomato in our climate may be a "45 day" tomato in climates where nights are warm. Other factors that can dramatically affect days to maturity are: light intensity and daily duration; soil volume, tilth, composition and fertility; moisture availability, lacks and excesses; and in enclosed areas like cold frames and greenhouses--air composition can be critical. It doesn't take much talent to adversely affect the environment and turn a "65 day" tomato into a "90 or 100 day" tomato, all it takes is ignorance or adversity to produce such "magic"! Fruit Size: Our fruit sizes are for healthy plants in our environment. You, the gardener, possess the awesome power to shrink or enlarge the fruit size of nearly every tomato described in this catalog (currant tomatoes may be the exception). Fruit size is genetically controlled but those genes are completely at your mercy. You, in wisdom or ignorance, provide the cultural and environmental experience that these tomato genes must pass through. The entirety of this genetic manipulation can result in "1 lb fruits" swelling into "2 lb fruits" or shrinking into "5 oz fruits". The entire cultural and environmental experience you provide a tomato--from seed sowing to fruit harvest--that entire experience will dramatically reveal itself in plant size, fruit size, and the health of both. Anything that stunts a plant or slows it down will tend to diminish fruit size, quantities, and alter the flavor. This is especially true of early and extra-early determinate vine selections. Contrary to popular opinion it is best to fertilize (manure) your plants generously from the start. Keep your plants warm but don't roast them in unvented plastic tunnels and covers. Excess heat can be as bad as not enough--try it on yourself! Water your plants regularly, when they need it, like you they are more productive when they're not thirsty. Storage Tomatoes These varieties are generally very firm, especially in the early stages of ripeness. The flavor of most storage tomatoes is decidedly acidic in early storage; the longer the tomatoes are stored the less acidic they become. Harvest all fruit, green and red, before frost damages them. For the longest storage, place the tomatoes in a single layer in boxes (like strawberry boxes), stack in a cool place that isn't so damp that moisture condenses on the fruit and isn't so dry that the fruit dehydrates. Best long-term storage is at temperatures of 40-50F and a relative humidity of over 70%. Check the fruits every 1-2 weeks removing any beginning to spoil. The fruits must be blemish-free if they are intended to store very long. Don't waste your time on fruits with bug pecks, tiny rot specks, cuts, bruises, and the like. Remove all stems. Soaking the fruit in a light Clorox bath will often greatly decrease rotting. Your garden soil can dramatically affect the storage life of a tomato. Certain types of very sandy or gravely soils, when supplied with adequate nutrients, especially phosphorous and calcium and sulfur have proven to produce exceptionally rot resistant tomatoes. We know that hydrogen peroxide can form when some soils are watered during sunlight hours, but don't know if that is a factor. High silicon levels may have some but unknown ability to impart rot resistance when other factors are right. Certain clay soils and fertilizing schemes can dramatically reduce storability of tomato fruits. Eliminating the water to the plants 2-4 weeks before harvest of storage tomatoes has often proven to extend storage life and increase flavor. Your garden soil can dramatically affect a tomatoes' storage life. Storage Tomato Seed (long keeping tomatoes) Golden Treasure UR Larger, nearly uniform-ripening Golden Treasure type. Similar to our original Golden Treasure, except the fruits average 20-30% larger and are virtually uniform ripening (free of green shoulder). Good very tangy flavor. Crisp textured and very long-keeping. Indeterminate Seed Origin: PSR Breeding Program Pkt $1.50   Information about tomato culture and seeding from Oregon State University. Tomato diseases and common disorders. Has excellent photos of tomato plants (leaves, stems, fruit, etc) Cherry Tomato Seed Tiny Tim   A very small dwarf red tomato that can be grown indoors or outside in the garden. The determinate plants only reach 15 inches tall. Can be grown in windowsills or in hanging baskets. Pkt $1.50   Yellow Pear Bite-size, pear-shaped cherry tomato. Perfect for those who like a meaty, mild-flavored small tomato. The attractive, lemon-yellow fruit are nice halved in salads or whole in lunches. Big, vigorous vines; either trellis or give lots of space. Shape can vary with cultural practices and environmental differences.  Indeterminate Pkt $1.50   Green Tomato Seed Aunt Ruby's German Green This green beefsteak will surprise you as it has beaten many red tomatoes in taste tests. It has a rich tangy, zingy flavor and the fruits reach a pound in size. Pkt $1.75   Orange Tomato Seed Orange Banana Bright orange. Can be used for paste or drying and is also good for fresh use. Pkt $1.95   Purple Tomato Seed Black Krim This tomato scores high in the flavor trials with other heirloom tomatoes and is in the Top Ten List of many gardeners favorites. The flavor is sweet and rich with a hint of honey. It is fairly early maturing for its size. Pkt $1.75   Cherokee Purple A fine flavored heirloom with 8 to 10 ounce fruits with a purplish or sometimes brownish appearance. Tolerates drought better than many other varieties. Pkt $1.50

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