Heirloom Tomato, Pepper and Onion Varieties We are Trying This Spring

Reader Contribution by Jenny Underwood
Published on March 15, 2022
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by Hudson Valley Seed Company
Hudson Valley Seed Company offers 'Amish Paste': https://hudsonvalleyseed.com/products/amish-paste-tomato

We are now in early planting season. Unfortunately, it is way too wet right now to break our garden and really still a bit chilly (still chances to drop into the 20-degree Fahrenheit range at night), but I’m itching to get in the dirt. Yet, we can still actively work on our gardens.

First, we have our vegetable seeds started in pots under a grow light in our warm living room. In fact, our tomato seeds sprouted yesterday!  The peppers take a bit longer and the native flower seeds will take even longer but so far, everything is off to a good start. The varieties we planted this year are listed below.

Tomatoes

‘White Tomosil’, ‘Amish Paste’, ‘Dad’s Sunset’, ‘Rainbow’, ‘Mountain Man’.  All but the ‘Mountain Man’ are heirloom tomatoes. The Mountain Man tomato did surprise me last year and produced extremely well with delicious, pretty tomatoes.  Its only downside was that it didn’t keep well (it would start to get spotty very quickly).

The ‘Amish Paste’ were absolutely wonderful and produced huge paste tomatoes.  I had many that weighed over 12 ounces each. The ‘Dad’s Sunset’ and ‘White Tomosil’ were both delicious fresh eating tomatoes and seemed to keep nicely. The ‘Rainbow’ is a new variety for this year but from the looks of it I’m going to love it.

Peppers

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