Tasty Tomatoes - Alden Lane Nursery

wildboartomatoes Tasty Tomatoes For Your Summer Salads! Vegetable Gardens Start This Month!

Feeling adventurous? Ready to try some new tomato varieties this year? We have them! Check out this list of varieties and sizes. We know there’s something to fit your taste and gardening needs.

Try Our Unusual Heirloom Wild Boar Tomatoes

We are featuring, once again, unusual tomatoes from Wild Boar this year in addition to old favorites. Add a few of these tasty tomatoes to your garden mix! We have the following on hand now in 4″ pots.

Beauty King Large stunning red yellow bicolor, yellow with flashy red stripes. Interior is yellow with bright red streaks, very meaty. Very good sweet tomato flavor 12-20 oz. Ready in 75-90 days. Good to very good production.
Black Beauty is one of the darkest tomatoes that Wild Boar produces. The 4 to 6 oz. fruit is rich, smooth and savory with earth tones.
Black & Brown Bear is a dark red color with great flavor. This is an aggressive grower and produces 8 to 12 oz. fruit.
Blue Beauty 4-8 oz. fruit – Great production. Medium Large fruit, Meaty Pink beefsteak with a lovely dark blue top. Sunburn and crack resistant. Very good flavor.
Dragon’s Eye 2-4 oz. fruit, Very pretty pink-rose colored with green stripes that turn gold. Producing in hot and cool weather. Early to Midseason. Very dark and meaty flesh with good persistence on the vine.
Kelloggs Breakfast Large orange beefsteak fruits weigh 1-2 pounds. Delicious rich flavor with a good acid/sugar balance. Very productive. Indeterminate, 80-90 days from transplant.
Large Barred Boar 8-12 oz. fruit, Early to mid-early. One of the first ripe tomatoes each season. 65-75 days. Flattened med, beefsteak fruit. Good choice for marginal tomato climates. Pink brown with metallic green stripes. Very meaty pink flesh that is very flavorful.
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye is a Port Wine Beefsteak colored with metallic green stripes. 8 to 12 oz. fruit.
Red Beauty is a medium-sized red fruit with accents of green stripes and purple splashes. 4 to 6 oz.
Red Boar is a top notch performer in looks, taste, and production. Produces 2 to 4 oz. fruit.
Solar Flare is a luscious sweet Red tomato with 6 to 10 oz. fruit.

April is a great month to start planting your vegetable garden. We have seeds, seedlings, and four-inch plants to help get you going. Now is the perfect time to set out tomatoes, eggplant and pepper starts. As temperatures warm plant watermelon, cucumbers, pumpkins, beans, and more. Melons, cucumbers, basil are very cold sensitive.

We have a great selection of tomato cages, snail and bug baits, and vegetable fertilizer along with tips for good growing. Stop by and see us soon!