2024 Tomato, Pepper, & Eggplant Guide

Here’s a list of the tomato, pepper, & eggplant varieties available during our Spring plant sales. Find these online, at market, and the Barn Store (biggest selection). Too many to choose? We’ve made some helpful ‘bundles’ of our favorite varieties to help up out. These are 10% off the retail price and only available in the online store — choose the pick up or delivery option that works best for you!

Regardless of whether you grow any of these in your own garden, you’ll get a chance to taste them all later this season at our market stand or in your veggie share. ❤️

TOMATOES

SLICERS & BEEFSTEAK

Mountain Fresh Plus - red slicer with very yummy flavor; vigorous growth and high disease resistance — Bellair’s favorite “big red” tomato
BHN 871 - large, orange slicer, with high yields and improved disease resistance; good flavor, less acidic than red tomatoes
Defiant - mid-sized red slicer, high yielding and early fruits plus good disease resistance
Skyway - large, red beefsteak with high disease resistance and very yummy flavor
New Girl - early fruiting, more disease resistant than "Early Girl"; tennis ball sized, classic tomato
Jolene - smooth, deep red beefsteak, excells in the summer heat

SPECIALTY/HEIRLOOM

Mountain Magic - golf ball sized fruits, bears fruit heavily on compact plants; excellent flavor, late blight resistance; a "salad tomato" of sorts. Super uniform and flexible for fresh eating or processing — a Bellair Favorite!
“Tidy Treats” Patio Tomato - dwarf plants, grow well in containers (like the name suggests!)
Damsel - Dark pink to red color, large fruit and rich flavor rivals heirloom quality, but much higher disease resistance

PASTE

Quadro - vigorous, mid-size paste variety, could also be used for salsa
Granadero - high yielding red plum tomato, great flavor and thick walls makes it ideal for pasta sauces and salsas, broad disease resistance

CHERRY

Sungold - specialty, small orange, sweet — Bellair’s favorite!
Black Cherry - sweet, robust, purple-brown tomatoes
5 Star Grape - sweet flavor and firm, meaty texture
Cherry — classic red cherry tomato
Sunpeach - like sungold but pink and not as perfectly textured.

PEPPERS

SWEET/MILD

Yellow Bull’s Horn - aka Cornito Giallo, mid-sized golden yellow pepper; great flavor & sweetness, for raw snacking or cooking
Red Picnic - small red, sweet, snacking pepper
Carmen - bull's horn type, sweet
Ace - green to red bell; thin walls
Ninja - green to red bell; thick walls
Islander - specialty purple sweet pepepr
Cubanelle - frying pepper (sweet but peppery)

Mild to Medium SPICY

Amazing 2 - Korean drying pepper, related to cayenne, can be eaten fresh
Anaheim - “Highlander,” long and skinny, that has some smokey heat, but some of sweet fruit flavor to balance it out.Habanada Heatless Habanero - enjoy sweet, smokey flavor like Habanero, but without the heat
Caperino - cherry pepper, moderate heat, great to stuff or pickle
Flaming Flare - Fresno pepper, medium heat, similar to Jalapeño, used green or red
Havasu - Santa Fe-type chile, translucent yellow color to orange to red; great substitute for Jalapeño. Heat can vary substantially
Jalapeño - classic hot chile, medium-sized pod shape; commonly eaten green; will turn red (slightly sweeter)
Jimmy Nardello - Italian heirloom chile; "sweet" mild/spicy flavor, great for frying. Long (about 10"), thin skinned, red bull's horn shape peppers
Poblano - “Barron,” dark green and great for stuffing
Serrano - “Altiplano,” hotter than a jalapeno but similar otherwise.
Shishito - these thin-walled Japanese “roulette” peppers have a varying heat level and are great blistered and eaten with salt.

Super Spicy

Habanero - HOT, smoky, fruity flavor; small wrinkly orange shape
Hot Paper Lantern - a habanero type with longer pointier fruits and red-orange color