Tatiana's TOMATObase - Heritage Tomatoes
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Mission Statement
- Our primary goal is to collect and share characteristics and historical information for heirloom and open-pollinated vegetable varieties, with focus on tomatoes. The data has been provided by TOMATObase members - please visit our Community Portal if you are interested in participating.
- Our secondary goal is to preserve heritage vegetable varieties and make them available to home gardeners. If you are interested in ordering vegetable seeds from Tatiana's TOMATObase, please check out our 2010 Seed Catalogs (see Navigation Bar on the left). The proceeds from the seed sale help us to maintain and enhance this website.
Thank you for visiting!
Tatiana Kouchnareva
What's New This Month
- *NEW* - Order seeds online
- *NEW* - Download an electronic version of Tatiana's TOMATObase 2010 Seed Catalog
- There are 2969 tomato varieties in the TOMATObase.
- 25 new tomato articles have been added since February 1.
- New reports:
Tomato Database - Most Popular Links
- Click here to view the Tomato Variety List in alphabetical order
- Click here to view the list of Early Tomatoes
- Click here to view tomatoes by categories (i.e., growth habit, origin, fruit size, leaf type, etc.)
- Click here to view a list of the 100 heirloom tomatoes, described in the Carolyn J. Male's book "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden".
- Click here to view a list of the heirloom tomatoes, described in the Amy Goldman's new Tomato book that was released on August 5, 2008: The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table.
- Click here to view a list of tomatoes, described in the "The Great Tomato Book" by Gary Ibsen.
- Click here to view Tom Wagner's tomato and potato varieties.
- Click here to view Brad Gates' tomato varieties.
Other Tomato Resources
- Wikipedia:Heirloom Tomatoes
- Seed Savers Exchange - Yearbook: the online searchable database that contains descriptions of all vegetable varieties listed by SSE members.
- Reinhard Kraft: 1000+ tomato varieties maintained by Reinhard Kraft (picture captions and descriptions in German)
- Vent Marin. 12 000+ variétés ou appellations locales ou commerciales classées par ordre alphabétique.
- TolleTomaten German website that features tomato varieties search engine.
- Tomodori: a French website dedicated to all aspects of growing and cooking heirloom tomatoes. Features a search engine you can use to search for tomato varieties. You do not need to know French to browse Tomodori Photo Gallery!
- Semences-partage website. New searchable Tomato encyclopedia, launched in 2009. In French.
- Encyclopédie de Semeurs. French wiki website that describes many edible crops, including tomatoes, as well as facilitates free seed exchanges between members. Launched in July 2009.
- Dwarf Tomato Project website run by Patrina Nuske Small, Ray South, and Craig LeHoullier.
- Craig LeHoullier's website: Craig has a very informative Tomato Information page, with pictures, origin information, and much more! He helps coordinate a large project working on breeding improved dwarf tomato varieties and with the help of other heirloom growers has a great tomato tasting party in the Raleigh NC area each summer.
- Keith Mueller's On-line Tomato Vine website - Keith Mueller is a tomato breeder, who developed several excellent open-pollinated and hybrid varieties, such as Purple Haze F1, Dora, Gary'O Sena, and others.
- Tomato Anatomy Atlas - This is a very good educational site that helps gardeners to get familiar with proper terminology when talking about various parts of tomato plant anatomy.
- Angelo Dorny's Tomato website: pictures of some European tomato varieties maintained by Angelo Dorny from Belgium.
- Tomaten-Atlas - a German website with tomato pictures and descriptions in German.
- Tomaten Garten - a website of Klaus-Peter Schurz of Germany, who contributed lots of his beautiful tomato pictures for Tatiana's TOMATObase.
- Website of Ake Truedson, Sweden.
- VIR - Database of tomato accessions at Vavilov All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Plant Industry.
Tomato Books
- Carolyn J. Male's book "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden" (Workman Publishing, NY, 1999) provides excellent descriptions of a selection of wonderfully tasty varieties.
- Amy Goldman's new Tomato book that was released on August 5, 2008: The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit.
Tomato Forums
- Tomato Discussion Forum at Dave's Garden. This forum is accessible only to subscribing members of Dave's Garden.
- The Tomato Garden - a new tomato discussion forum opened in 2010.
- TomatoLand: This is an online forum for the serious and casual tomato grower to discuss favorites, failures, successes, surprises, and the general fun of growing tomatoes."
- Tomatoville: 'All about Tomatoes' online forum for discussing tomato growing, seed sources and vendors, new and old tomato varieties, and the Dwarf Tomato Project.
- Growing Tomatoes forum on Garden Web
