70 - 80 days - Determinate vines
This heavy fruited, heirloom variety dates back to the early 1900's! and is my personal favourite.
The skin and flesh are a beautiful, dense red to green. The black colours up with maturity and sunlight.
Best planted either very late winter or late summer.
It has a good acid taste as a salad tomato and is best served sliced to appreciate the tone.
They do well in cool areas and we have them growing right through winter until the frosts hit.
This 'designer' tomato is supposedly an old Russian heirloom, with fruits that are a deep red, almost black colour with green shoulders.
The round fruit are reasonably small in comparison to the Beefsteaks, and have a distinctive, salty flavour that is different to any other tomato we have ever tasted!
20 seed packet - $3.50
85 days – Indeterminate vines.
This is a West Virginian heirloom, named after it's creator, Darrell Kellogg of Redford, Michigan, and is a very distinctive orange beefsteak tomato that grows very well here in Australia.
As a salad tomato it has an outstanding taste and is very productive.
Kellogg's Breakfast bears fruit that can weigh as much as 400 gm or more.
They look fantastic in the garden as well, and there is no need to wonder when they are ripe. The colour says it all.
80- days – Indeterminate vines. The beautiful red fruit of this variety has stripes in green and yellow hues, and are a nice, medium sized tomato.
They have large vines that bear a huge crop of this impressive 'old time' tangy and tart favourite!
This is another one of those plants that make the garden look a touch exotic and the salad plate very interesting.

90- days – Indeterminate vines.
The vines on this variety have rich, bushy foliage, and fruits that vary in size according to watering.
The rich green gold coloured fruit is large, oblate shape, sometimes green shoulders, sometimes ribbed shoulders.
They have a meaty flavour, intense and on the tart side.

85- 95 days – Indeterminate vines.
Reportedly from Ruby Arnold of Greenville, Tennessee. These beefsteak fruits are huge and weigh 500 gm or more. Sweet juicy flesh, generally quite firm, refreshing spicy flavour.
Almost always in in clusters of two or three.
They turn from deep green to light green when ripe, with just a hint of yellow and a pink blush underneath.