Cream Sausage Tomato

This variety comes from Laos, as the name suggests. Its color is somewhere between white and translucent white. With this variety, harvest gets off to a flying start; we had buckets and buckets of this tomato! Its taste is mild and sweet, its size average, and the shape slightly flattened. We've been bewitched, and will definitely be growing it again!   Package: 35 seeds Germination rate: 100%

Indeterminate.

Plant approximately 2 to 2,5 meters tall. Fruits weigh between 180 and 300 grams and have a diameter of approximately 10 cm. Smooth red-rose skin, sweet and juicy flesh. Performs well in cool climates and short seasons.

 

Discovered in the 1930s in the Joliette area by a farmer named Dufresne. It was given to Armand Savignac of the Clerics of Saint Viator. Due to chronic digestive disorders and a rare malformation, Savignac became a vegetarian and began to grow vegetables. Among different varieties cultivated in his garden was the Savignac tomato.

At a Seedy Saturday in 2016, a lady came up to me and told me that her mother-in-law had a tomato variety called Mon Plaisir that stopped being available in seed catalogues for ages, but that she keeps growing year after year. We chat a bit and exchange contact informations. I end up forgetting about it until, a few months later, I receive a letter in the mail. Inside, a beautiful card containing a paper on which a dozen seeds were attached. The seeds of the lost Mon Plaisir tomato. This is what Mrs. Frappier told me when I reached out to her, after receiving her letter: "We use to order our seeds through the WHPerron catalogue, and another company. I think it was called Norseco. We were growing tomatoes in greenhouses in Abitibi, in Matamic close to Lasarre. It was the Frappier greenhouses (serres Frappier) in 1976. We grow a couple seedlings to sell, but it was mostly for vegetable production. I really like those tomatoes, they would make nice long cherry tomato trusses. We stopped producing in the early 2000s, and I had already been saving my own seeds for about 20 to 25 years because we couldn't find the variety in catalogues anymore. I really couldn't find it anywhere. I think it was replaced by either Sweet 100 or Sweet mignonne. I did taste it, but I definitely prefer Mon Plaisir." (Free translation) It is now our turn to share this discovery with you. A huge thanks to the Frappier family for preserving this variety.   Package: 30 seeds

Ancient cherry tomato. Very hardy and productive. The fruits are oval-shaped, 4-5 cm by 2 cm. The skin is black, and the flesh dark red. It is used for making dried tomatoes, sauces, or simply in salads. Originally from a russian seed saver, Marina Danilenko. It was first introduced to Seed Savers (U.S.), and then made its way to Quebec. Package: 30 seeds

Wow! Our best open-pollinated cherry tomatoes, all grown at our farm! Includes:

• Poire Jaune (yellow)
• Petit Moineau (red)
• Groseille (orange-red)
• Black Plum (black-red)
• Black Cherry (black-purple)
• Mon Plaisir (red)
• Sun Drop (orange)

Package: Around 35 seeds

Orange fleshed big tomato preserved by Dr Arthur Fowler. He himself obtained it from a woman living in Richelieu, and kept growing it for over 20 years before gifting it in 1998 to François Lebel, member of Seeds of Diversity. Thanks to all these people, you can now grow it for yourself and enjoy its summer taste! Package: 30 seeds