Acquinas is a large elongated tomato that was grown by Sister Acquinas OSU at the Bruno Convent.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Indeterminate / Medium Fruited / RedAdda has large smooth beefsteak fruits, late mid-season in maturity. It appears to come from Dr. Graham’s tomato breeding program at the University of Guelph but we would like to know more about it. It has some resistance to late blight as the green fruits picked mid-September actually ripened rather than succumbed to late blight.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Indeterminate / Canadian / Large Fruited / RedAbout 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 / Red
Alpha is similar to Polar Baby but the plants are larger and much heavier producers.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Early Maturing / Medium Fruited / Red
Atom has small plants and is an early, productive, small fruited, bland tasting, light red tomato from the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Early Maturing / Cherry/Plum / RedBellestar (1981) is an early paste tomato and has good flavour eaten fresh as well. The fruits are oval, almost “square”.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Paste / Medium Fruited / Red
Bonny Best is an indeterminate variety with medium-sized round red good-flavoured fruit. Known as a good canning variety.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Indeterminate / 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 / RedBreak O’ Day is a heavy yielder of scarlet red, globe-shaped fruits with a tangy old-fashioned tomato flavour. It was introduced in the USA in 1931, a cross between Marglobe and Marvana.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Indeterminate / Large Fruited / RedBrookpact (1970’s) has medium sized fruits with very compact plants.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Prairie Bred / Canadian / Medium Fruited / RedCabot (1975) is a selection from a Scotia cross. Determinate plants are productive and early under cool growing conditions.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Early Maturing / Medium Fruited / RedCamdown has semi-determinate plants producing medium round red tomatoes.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Large Fruited / RedCamp Joy is an indeterminate beautiful light green coloured plant producing loads of cherry tomatoes and bred by Alan Chadwick.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Indeterminate / Cherry/Plum / RedCanabec Rouge has medium-size red fruits, round to oval in shape, smooth, beautiful and of nice quality, show no cracking and grow on determinate plants. Another of Doucet’s work.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Medium Fruited / RedIn the 1960’s and ’70’s Roger Doucet led a tomato breeding program in Quebec which tried to breed varieties that tolerated cool nights in spring. Canabec Super (1975) produces smooth round fruits of an intense red colour on medium-size determinate plants.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / 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 / RedCasino Chips has indeterminate vines bearing loads of delicious red cherry tomatoes.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Indeterminate / Cherry/Plum / RedRed Staker (Charlie’s Red Staker) (1972) was the last tomato worked on by the late Dr. C. Walkof of the Morden, MB, Research Station.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Indeterminate / Prairie Bred / Canadian / Large 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 / RedEarlirouge (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 / RedEarly Alberta has its origins in Fruno’s Early Alberta which came from a cross Golden Bison X Bounty, made by Mr. Fruno in Edmonton in 1941. Dr. R.J. Hilton of the Department of Horticulture at the University of Alberta did a number of years of selection and released the result in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. It has fairly small sprawling plants, is quite early and produces medium to large smooth red fruits.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Early 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 High Crimson produces fairly early, full-sized somewhat flattened red fruits, and is probably a selection of High Crimson.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Medium Fruited / RedEarly Lethbridge VR was released from the Agriculture Canada Experimental Farm in Lethbridge in 1953, with the verticillium resistance (VR) added shortly after by the work of Denby & Woolliams in Summerland, BC. This is a fairly early cultivar with medium-sized fruits, round to slightly pointed.
Solanaceae/Nightshades (Tomatoes, Peppers, etc) / Tomatoes / Determinate / Canadian / Early 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 / Red
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