Abundant Acres

Orange/Yellow Tomatoes

We are closed for the 2010 Season. Thank you for your business. We'll see you next year.

PLEASE READ THE ORDERING INFORMATION CAREFULLY prior to placing your order.

CUSTOM GROWING: Don't see that "must have" variety in our regular offerings? We're happy to do custom sowings of unlisted varieties, often at no extra charge! But you must order early enough to allow the plants to reach shipping size. More Information

Orange/Yellow Tomato plants are $3.00 each, plus shipping. All plants are shipped Priority Mail.

Plants are well established in 2½" square pots that are 3½" deep to provide our customers with larger, healthier plants.

NOTE: Number of days from transplanting until harvest is only for comparison purposes between varieties. Actual number of days varies with location and growing conditions.

TOMATO CULTURE

ORANGE

Amana Orange $3.00
80-83 days - Indeterminate, up to 1 pound plus, regular leaf, beefsteak, good for salads or eating fresh. Large orange fruit have and intense and full flavor that is matchless. This attractive heirloom is named for the Amana Amish Colonies in Iowa.

Dad's Sunset $3.00
90 days - Indeterminate, 4-12 ounce, regular leaf, paste tomato. Tangy yellow flesh with thick but tender walls. A slightly tart flavored fruit that is a good keeper. Reputedly has good insect resistance.

Dr. Wyche's $3.00 Sold out for the Season
75-90 days - Indeterminate, 8 to 20 ounces. This wonderful heirloom was introduced to Seed Savers Exchange by the late Dr. John Wyche. Large beautiful fruit with some green on the shoulders. The flavor has a fruity sweet/tart taste. Excellent for fresh eating. Makes a praiseworthy tomato juice.

Earl of Edgecombe $3.00 New
73 days - Indeterminate, regular leaf, slicer. 3-inch golden-orange fruits, smooth, firm and meaty, are often borne in pairs. Globular to slightly flattened fruits are of a very well-balanced flavor, being neither too sweet not too tart. The story is told that when the 6th Earl of Edgecombe died in the 1960's, his heir was found to be a sheepman in New Zealand. The latter traveled to the Mother Country to claim the title, taking this treasure with him, and presenting seed to the Henry Doubleday Foundation. Introduced to Seed Savers Exchange by Carolyn Male.

Esther's Orange Cherry $3.00
75 days - Indeterminate, regular leaf. Sizable plants yield tons of yellow-orange bite-size nuggets. Sweet and mild-tasting. If a tomato variety can add joy to the garden, this is one that can! (Seed courtesy of John Graham)

Illini Gold $3.00
75 days - Indeterminate, vigorous, regular-leafed plants. An Abundant Acres exclusive! Bred by our friend and gardening mentor Merlyn Niedens. A medium-sized paste-type, a good, clear yellow-orange. Productive and crack resistant.

Jaune Flamme $3.00 New Sold out
70-80 days - Indeterminate. 2- to 3-ounce, pumpkin-colered fruits with reddish interior is apricot shaped and about the size of a large egg. The intensely tomato-flavored fruits are borne in clusters of up to eight, on robust plants that easily reach 5 feet under good conditions. Gardeners report that it sets fruit right through the summer, even in pretty hot climates. Paradoxically, the fruit is described as "juicy," and also as "good for drying." A quirky tomato originating in France, that seems to be developing a real following.

Persimmon $3.00
80 days - Indeterminate. This variety has superior flavor and appearance. One to two pound fruit with one of the best flavors in an orange tomato. Few seeds and meaty flesh on vigorous plants. Belived to date from the 1800's.

Woodle Orange $3.00
75 - 80 days - Indeterminate.   4 to 6 foot plants produce large, smooth fruit with nearly blemish free tangerine colored skin. Rich and sweet, this would make a great addition to any home garden. A great favorite for flavor and productivity.

YELLOW

Brandywine, Yellow   $3.00
100 days - Indeterminate, 12-20 oz., potato leaf, beefsteak: slicing
Prolific yields of golden-yellow fruits with creamy texture.

Egg Yolk   $3.00
80 days - Indeterminate, large vigorous vines that produce dozens of bright yellow round fruit. 1 1/2 " blemish free tart, full flavored fruit are wonderful in salads or for snacking right in the garden. Grown by our friends Larry and Phyllis Pierce.

Golden Ponderosa   $3.00
78-85 days - Indeterminate. Majestic plants reaching 6-7 feet in height, liberally covered in huge golden-yellow beefsteak fruits, solid-fleshed and with occasional green shoulders. Flavor is considered excellent—sweet, juicy and mild. Not recommended for gardens where tomato diseases are prevalent. Best suited to cage culture, but make sure the cage is large enough! A fine heirloom introduced by Peter Henderson Seed Co, in 1914.

Golden Queen, USDA Strain $3.00 New Sorry, sold out
75 days - Indeterminate. Medium-sized slicer, pale yellow with a slight blush at the blossom end. Nearly a bicolor. 1900 Livingston seed catalog says: "Livingston's Golden Queen. (introduced by us in 1882). "Queen of All the Yellows", and a real good yellow sort of first-class quality. Its superior flavor has brought it into general favor as a table fruit. It is solid, always smooth, entirely free from ridges, large in size, ripens early, and is the most beautiful yellow variety ever sent out. The larger and riper fruits are sometimes tinged with red at the blossom end. None excel it for eating raw or slicing. The handsome golden-yellow slices make a beautiful contrast in a dish with red sorts. It has very little acid, and the quality is excellent. Makes handsome rich preserves." We would only add that controversy over trueness-to-type having raged for a number of years, our strain is reputed to be as close to the original introduction as can be found, originally having been preserved in the USDA seedbank.

Huge Lemon Oxheart $3.00 New
90 days - Indeterminate, slicer, regular leaf. Introduced to Seed Savers Exchange by member M.D. Gonzales of Waynesville, Ohio. Gigantic 5+" diameter, somewhat irregular or lobed fruits; light yellow with pink starburst in flesh on bottom; sweet flavor. Productive enough to grow for market. Truly spectacular!

90 days - Indeterminate. regular leaf, beefsteak. Introduced in 1990 by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Originated in Madison County, Indiana in the 1940's. Heavy production of 1- to 2-pound, pale yellow, thin-skinned fruits of unusually sweet and robust flavor, rivalling the flavor of the best heirloom red tomatoes. Shows some disease resistance.

Lillian's Heirloom   $3.00
90 days - Indeterminate.   From Lillian Bruce of Tennessee, this wonderful and rare yellow beefsteak is rich and complex in flavor, but produces very few seeds. Fruits can weigh up to 20 oz. Plants are potato-leaved, not common in yellow varieties. Pale yellow color and considered one of the best.

Lollipop $3.00 Sold out
79 days - Indeterminate, 1 1/4" regular leaf. Delicious, light-yellow, translucent cherries. The flavor of these is really good--both sweet and fruity. These pretty fruit are popular at farmers' markets. Plants set good yields. A real winner!

Manyel $3.00 New
75 days- Indeterminate, averaging about 5 ounces. Name from a Native American word meaning "many moons," and that's what these plants will remind you of, laden with their round, 2- to 3-inch yellow fruits produced on trusses of 6 to 8. Yields heroic quantities of lemony-tasting fruits for the entire season. Our seed was grown by a friend of ours, who says she won't willingly be without this variety in her garden! Superb halved into a salad.

Pink Grapefruit $3.00
75-80 days - Indeterminate, 4 to 8 ounce regular leaf, slicer.
A really unique tomato. Beautiful yellow fruit are blushing pink inside. They have a sweet-tart taste with citrus overtones. A productive, round tomato that is a winner.

Plum Lemon $3.00 New
80 days - Indeterminate, 4 to 6 ounce regular leaf. Also known as Wonderlight tomato. Clear yellow, 3-inch long fruit is pointed on its ends and yes, it really is shaped just like a lemon. Fruit is solid, almost like a paste tomato, and flavor is mild; and is used for sauces, in salsa, and even for ketchup. Large yields on medium-sized vines. This outstanding variety was originally collected in Russia, where it is known as Limmony Liana (Lemon Vine), by Kent Whealy of Seed Savers Exchange, from an elderly Russian seedsman at Moscow's Kalitnikovskiy Bird Market.

Roman Candle $3.00 New
85 days - Indeterminate, regular leaf. Very meaty fruits 2 inches wide by 4 inches long are fine for paste, as well as salsas. Outrageously bright yellow in color, with very few seeds, and very sweet. Originally discovered as a sport of Speckled Roman.

T.C. Jones   $3.00
80 days - Indeterminate. Vigorous regular leafed vines produce abundant yields of 8 to 12 ounce yellow slicers. Some green shoulders or striping. Grown in the same Kentucky family for five generations. An extremely rare tomato that we are proud to offer. Seed courtesy of the late Merlyn Niedens.

Wapsipinicon Peach $3.00
75-80 days - Indeterminate, 1 1/2"-2", regular leaf,
Light, creamy-yellow, almost white fruit have superb taste and texture! One of the best tomatoes. The taste is complex, with its spicy, sweet, and very fruity flavor. The fruit are small, and the skin is slightly fuzzy like a peach. This Iowa heirloom is named after the Wapsipinicon River.

Yellow Pear $3.00
70-80 days - Indeterminate. Small pear shaped cherry type tomatoes that bear all summer until frost. Delicious fruits that are great in salads or for fresh eating. Vines are very prolific. An old heirloom from the mid-1800's.