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. Please visit our Community Portal if you are interested in contributing your growout notes and pictures.
- Our secondary goal is to collect and preserve endangered open-pollinated vegetable varieties and make them available to home gardeners. If you are looking for some unusual vegetable varieties, please visit Tatiana's TOMATObase Seed Store. The proceeds from the seed sale help us to maintain and enhance this website.
Thank you for visiting!
Tatiana Kouchnareva
Ordering Seeds Online
- Warning: for users with dial-up connection, it may take a while to load up the first page. If you experience slow response time, you can still order seeds via the old system: Old order system (recommended for dial-up users).
- Download the electronic version of Tatiana's TOMATObase 2012 Seed Catalog (PDF format, 16MB)
Contact us
What's New
- Tatiana's TOMATObase 2012 Seed Catalog (PDF format).
- There are 3954 tomato varieties in the TOMATObase.
- 7 new tomato articles have been added since March 1, 2012.
- Last chance seeds.
- Growing Tomatoes in Containers - Tatiana's presentation at Seedy Saturday on January 28, 2012 (Ladner Baptist Church).
- Newspaper articles about us
- Gardener promotes heritage seeds by Todd Coyne, Tri-City News (July 12, 2011)
- Saving the seeds of tomorrow. Heirloom gardener preserves thousands of varieties of tomatoes in Anmore garden. by Jennifer McFee, 'The Now' newspaper (August 18, 2011).
- 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 the 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 the list of heirloom tomatoes, described in the Amy Goldman's book that was released on August 5, 2008: The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table.
- Click here to view the 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
- Seed Savers Exchange - Yearbook: the online searchable database that contains descriptions of all vegetable varieties listed by SSE members. (SSE members only)
- Canadian Seed Catalogue Inventory - lists Canadian seed vendors that carry each variety.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- Frogleap Farm - a tomato breeding blog.
- FruitLent - a hobby website featuring tomatoes, peppers, melons, and eggplants, by Marcel Joosten, The Netherlands.
- Tomato Dirt website has a lot of very good basic information about starting and saving seeds, transplanting, staking, pruning, mulching, fertilizing, and watering tomatoes.
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.
- Grow Tomatoes At Home by Annette Welsford & Lucia Grimmer.
Recommended Tomato Forums
- 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
- Tomato Discussion Forum at Dave's Garden. This forum is accessible only to subscribing members of Dave's Garden.
- The Helpful Gardener. A tomato forum founded by Scott Reil, a Master Gardener instructor who has been a gardening professional in the nursery business for over two decades.
- The Tomato Garden - a new tomato discussion forum opened in 2010.
- Not Just Tomatoes A new forum opened by Richard Parker in 2011.
