About 1900 W. J. Macoun at the Dominion Experimental Farm in Ottawa started making selections from Sparks’ Earliana, mainly for early maturity and heavy yield. This selection was carried on for about 10 years and resulted in Alacrity, the first tomato cultivar named in Canada. It produces medium to large red fruits and is mid-season in maturity.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedBounty (North Dakota Agricultural Experimental Station, Fargo, 1941) is a main crop tomato producing medium to large red fruits on determinate plants.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedCanada Northstar is in the Canadian gene bank collection but we have no idea what its origins are. It produces round to slightly oval, red fruits, 1” – 1 1/2” in diameter. The fruit has two locules (seed cavities), thick walls, and good flavour.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedDjena Lee’s Golden Girl (1920s) is a large intensely dark golden fruit with a semi-thick skin. Excellent flavour balancing acid to sugar making it sweet yet tangy. We loved the juice from this one!
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Mid-season Maturing / Large Fruited / Yellow/WhiteEarlirouge (1977) and Earlirouge (1980), also from Smithfield, have compact plants and give a good yield of round, red medium-sized fruits, ripening quite early. Earlibright is the earlier of the two but Earlirouge has the larger fruits.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedEarlibright (1980) and Earlirouge (1977), also from Smithfield, have compact plants and give a good yield of round, red, medium-sized fruits, ripening quite early. Earlibright is the earlier of the two but Earlirouge has the larger fruits.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedEarly Chatham (1943) is a mid-season variety with 2” fruit that was bred in Michigan by Dr. Yeager.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedEarly Rutgers is an early selection of Rutgers (New Jersey Agricultural Experimental Station, 1934). It produces medium to large, intense red fruits on semi-determinate plants. At one time most of the processing tomatoes in the USA were Rutgers. The strain we are offering was selected by Ernie Kerr at the Horticultural Experimental Station in Simcoe, Ontario.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedHarrow (1951) was bred by Agriculture Canada at Harrow, ON. The large determinate plants give a good yield of medium-sized fruits that are resistant to cracking.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedHerald (1926), also from Ottawa, is a selection from Alacrity x Hipper. The somewhat flattened red fruits are 2” – 3” in diameter and mature a week or so earlier than Alacrity.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedLarge Red was one of the first commercial tomato cultivars offered in the USA. The Shakers were selling it through their catalogue around 1830 and by the 1860’s it was the most commonly grown tomato in the country. The round, red, medium to large fruits are borne on compact, fairly upright plants, and mature late mid-season.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedMoira (1972) came from the Smithfield (ON) Experimental Farm where Jack Metcalf was in charge of tomato breeding. The very compact plants give a good yield of round red fruits.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedIn 2006 Jim found one cluster of fruits on one plant of Herald that had lighter coloured fruits. He saved this seed separately and planted a patch in 2007 so now we are offering Pink Herald, the same as the original but with pink fruit and therefore a clear skin.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / Pink or PurpleRideau, which was trialed as Ottawa 28, is a selection from Meteor x Urbana made at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa and named in 1962. The determinate vine gives a heavy yield of medium-sized red fruit and ripens mid-season.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedSugawara was bred by James Sugawara, a Japanese immigrant who operated a market garden in Vernon from the late 1920’s until about 1950. He bred his tomato in the late 1930’s. It was one of the local cultivars into which was bred verticillium resistance by Denby & Wooliams (Summerland, BC) in the early 1950’s.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Large Fruited / Red
Victor (AAS 1941) is a mid-season tomato with compact plants and medium-sized fruits.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedVineland Bright comes from the Horticultural Experimental Station (HES) in Simcoe, Ontario, probably released in the 1960’s. It produces medium to large, slightly pointed red fruits with quite solid flesh.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Mid-season Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedYellow Mortgage Lifter gives an excellent yield of very large, tasty, deep yellow beefsteak tomatoes on indeterminate plants.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Indeterminate / Mid-season Maturing / Large Fruited / Beefsteak / Yellow/White
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