Apricot Brandywine ($9.95
) 78 days.

These fabulous tomatoes are a perfect golden/apricot color -- not yellow -- and grow huge!  Up 1½ pounds in clusters of 4 or 5 huge tomatoes on rugged potato-leafed plants.

Apricot Brandywine produces a lot more tomatoes than the other Brandywines, much more than I've ever seen on other Brandywine plants except Brandywine OTV and the taste is unforgettable. Just incredible.

One of my favorite qualities of Apricot Brandywine is that the stunning, meaty flesh inside is exactly the same color of the skin when you cut it open, or just take a giant chomp! WOW! Mind blowing. Makes INCREDIBLE sauce!

This plant has strong thick sturdy stems.  It really has to have stems like this to support all of the huge fruits! Be sure to give it a strong cage like Our TomatOH Holders, to help it stay up!

We think it originated from Great Britain some 30 years ago, the actual origin is unknown, but I'm researching it!

 

 

 

Beauty King ($9.95
) 80 days 

 

How often does something this gorgeous live up to its beauty with equally stunning flavor and character?

 

I'm disappointed when a beautiful tomato doesn't thrill me with flavor. I grow out many, many varieties each year to be sure your tomatoes have fabulous flavor. Sometimes the first bite is a heartbreaker... which we call 'a spitter'.

 

NOT THIS ONE!! Beauty King is probably the finest flavored red and yellow bi-color tomato of all time. A fabulous cross of Big Rainbow and Green Zebra.

 

Very sweet and meaty, regularly reaching a pound. Sometimes up to 20 ounces and high production to boot! You'll be harvest lots of Beauty King tomatoes within only 75 - 80 days of planting.

 

Another incredible Brad Gates cross. The release several years ago of Beauty King generated huge excitement in the Heirloom Tomato World.

 

Brad continues to bring unbridled joy to the gardens of the world.  YAY BRAD!!!!! WE LOVE YOU!

 

 

Blondkopfchen ( Blond-coff-shen) ($9.95) 75 days. 

 

 

 

One of the finest tasting smaller cherry tomato in existence, the name of this marvelous German heirloom cutie means Little Blond Head or Little Blond Girl.

 

The big leafy plant produces thousands of ½ to 1" grape-size sparkling yellow-gold cherry tomatoes in phenomenal clusters of 30 fruits per bunch!

 

Delightfully sweet with a citrusy finish, this is the one to try with children who don't think they like tomatoes. As Gary Ibsen of Tomatofest.com says, " Just put one in your mouth and try to keep from smiling!"

 

No cracking, with great disease resistance, this little sweetie grows anywhere and produces right up until frost. Challenging to pronounce, really easy to eat.

 

 

 

 

 

Cream Cherry ($9.95
) 60 days

 

One of the prettiest tomatoes ever. Each Cream Cherry tomato is a golden gem with a winsome dusting of dusky blue at the stem end.

 

Growing in great abundance and ripening early make them a precious little treasure in your tomato patch.

 

As they ripen, the flavor is becomes increasingly sweet and lovely with vanilla fragrance...like a freshly filled home baked cream puff.

 

Lovely thin skin and tender yellow flesh add to Cream Cherry's delightful characteristics.

 

Growing on a strong energetic plant, hundreds of these precious fruits greet you and sparkle in the sun as they ripen.

 

 

 

 

Golden Summer ($9.95) 75 days.  

 

A spectacular tomato that presented itself to us at summer's end and now a top seller for us.

 

Appearing mysteriously a few summers ago on a beautiful end-of-season sunny day, in a patch of tomatoes that were all red or purple, this gorgeous sexy beast grabbed our attention immediately. It was ripening a few days earlier than it's nearby mates. "What is that?! It's not supposed to be gold and red!!"

We think it is a magnificent bee-pollination cross of Ruby Gold and an unknown red variety -- maybe Tati's Wedding, which we'd grown next to it, due to the shape and more-red-than-gold coloration.  But the flavor. Oh. My. God. The flavor! is what made us grow it out to save seeds for your plants.

So sweet. So juicy. Elaborate flavors linger in your mouth for a long while. Savor it like fine wine.

 

NOTE:  Golden Summer seeds are rare. As a Laurel's exclusive, the seeds are not available commercially. We grow as many plants as we can  -- but these guys will sell out. Order early.

 

 

 

   

Hawaiian Pineapple ($9.95
) 85 to 90 days.

 

A huge, breathtaking and much sought after golden-orange beefsteak with fruit that grows up to 1½ - 2 lbs. When fruit is ripe it has a luscious, very rich, sweet pineapple-melon like flavor and heady tropical fragrance.

 

Add the unusually high production of this plant, and it makes my top 10 list. A real knock-out and a top-seller.

 

Photograph of Hawaiian Pineapple is the property of Dianna Theyssen and used here with her gracious permission.

 

 

 

 

 

Jaune Flamme  ($9.95
) 70 days.

 

Very prolific and stunningly beautiful, Jaune Flamme, French for Yellow Flame, is an unforgettable tomato. Intensely orange with a reddish blush on the blossom end, these flame-colored 2 to 3 ounce globes have a rich, tangy and exciting flavor that literally bursts in your mouth.

 

Cut open to reveal a red interior, this fruit reminds me of a blood orange with its spectacular contrasting colors.

 

At certain times of day when the light is just right, you'll see the ripening fruits of Jaune Flamme glowing brilliant amber against the background of deep green foliage. This tomato blows my mind.

 

 

 

 

 

   

Momotaro Gold ($11.95) (H) 60 to 70 days

 

STOP THE PRESSES!!  This is my new favorite tomato! A stunning summer surprise with scads of 6 to 8 ounce treasures.

 

A very reliable tomato friend told me how fabulous this tomato tasted. "Seriously, Laurel, you gotta grow Momotaro Gold!"

 

So I got seeds and grew out 5 plants in the summer. I watched them grow and ripen, fascinated as they transformed into deeper and deeper shades of gold.

 

Picked the first ripe one in early September with high hopes. Folks, I was blown away. Probably one of the top 10 finest flavored tomatoes... Of. My. Life.

 

Every fruit, perfection. Texture is meaty, silky, not soft or mushy, just perfection. I kept saying."Oh my god. Oh my god." At some point, this marvelous flavor got me to thinking, (hmmm), if Sun Gold was a big tomato, it would taste Just Like This.

 

And so many tomatoes!  Growing on a medium sized plant, not a huge plant, they produced dozens of clusters of gorgeous fruits glimmering in the sun and are still going now, in October!

 

 

 

 

Ruby Gold  ($9.95
)  85 days.

 

A stunning beauty with thrilling, sweet tropical flavors, this was my hands-down favorite for 2016. I could not be without it.

 

Ruby Gold has gigantic flavor, rivaling Cherokee Purple and Brandywine -- it may be as good as Paul Robeson. Cut it open, take a bite and prepare to have your mind blown.

 

Awesome color, huge flavor,  gorgeous and delicious. So prolific! I am getting dozens of tomatoes from one plant in a 30 gallon SmartPot.

 

I have a special fondness for the multi-hued tomatoes because-- well, look at this thing!

 

First offered to American gardeners in 1921 by John Lewis Childs seed company in New York, Ruby Gold was rediscovered in West Virginia in 1967 by the legendary Ben Quisenberry. Craig LeHoullier got seeds in 1987 from John Hartman of Indiana, and here it is...for you.

 

 

 

 

 

Sun Gold ($9.95)  55 days. 

 

This is the one of the best cherry tomatoes I've ever tasted, rivaling Isis Candy, and ready to pick in only 55-60 days. It has the big, rich flavor of a full-size tomato, in a beautiful little deep-golden fruit growing in bountiful clusters on a huge plant.

 

Sweet, rich, so beautiful...just left of center in top photo. Most of them won't make it into your house from the garden. If you send someone to pick them for you, keep your binoculars trained upon the picker.  There might be a ruckus.

 

 

 

Sunrise Bumblebee ($9.95
)  72 days

 

What can I say?  I've never seen anything prettier in the cherry tomato world. Huge harvests, too.

 

This a very special cherry tomato, an astounding artisan variety. Please put this plant into your garden -- but remember -- it will make you way too popular. Looks amazing in a salad with Purple Bumblebee.

 

Sunrise Bumblebee is plump and bountiful, crammed full of old- time sweet, juicy, pop-in-your-mouth tomato flavors and just as cute as it can be.

 

This is the tomato you would steal from your neighbors in the middle of the night. But don't; grow your own.   

 

 

 

 

 

Wee Tang Shebang (Dwarf plant) ($9.95
)    55 - 60 days

Another dazzling heirloom from legendary tomato breeder and my buddy, Tom Wagner.

 

Although I don't know if Sun Gold is in its parent line, if you love Sun Gold, this is the plant for you!

 

I would describe Wee Tang Shebang as  a petite plant, small as heirlooms go. Producing scads of gorgeous golden-orange tomatoes with all the dazzling flavor of Sun Gold, it's a small plant, about 4 to 5 ft tall and covered with tomatoes.

 

Ellie Pong of Bunny Hop Seeds sent me a sample of this one a couple of years ago.  Adrienne loved the name and grew out some plants in our nursery. When it started producing I asked her, "Hey, what the heck is that?" She said, "Look at the label, Mom."

 

The flavor is SO good, I chose it over any other golden-yellow-orange cherry plants. A thousand times tastier. Crack resistant.

 

(Of the 30 in Adrienne's photograph, only one cracked! (YAY!)

 

 

  New for 2026!

 

Yellow Submarine ($9.95) 55 days. Little Tomato - Big Flavor! Ripe just 7 weeks from planting out.

 

 The photo taken at golden time  -- 90 minutes before sundown in late August.

 

A Laurel's exclusive! Yellow Submarine is a fabulous full-flavored tomato and about as cute as a tomato gets.

 

It is my go-to tomato for salads and halved in burgers and tacos.

 

My plant is still producing scads of fruit. Garden Candy! Try to keep from smiling when you take a bite.

Great hang-time (ripe and fresh on the vine) for at least a week AND excellent hold-time (ripe on the counter) too.  

 

I grow this little guy every year in my home garden, in a big 30 gallon SmartPot with our Happy Frog Potting Soil and Happy Frog Tomato and Vegetable Fertilizer along with Big Bloom and Great Big Tomatoes Liquids. We feed with all 3 on the same day.  SO fast and easy.

 

I've had customers glance at the photograph and expect a blandnesss  -- like Yellow Pear. NOPE!! This one has dazzling flavors!

 

DOES NOT TASTE LIKE YELLOW PEAR AT ALL!  Similar in appearance but Yellow Submarine has a deep, rich, very sweet flavor and excellent texture.