Spring 2026 Tomato & Pepper Guide
Here's some information about the tomatoes and peppers
we're growing this year. We grow lots of other veggie and herb plants too, and you can find us at the San Marcos Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 9AM-1PM. To see our current availability list & place an order, visit this page.
Tomatoes
Al Kuffa
Iraqi heirloom cultivated by the Iraq Seed Collective.
Sturdy compact determinate plants with a steady stream
of small, cocktail-sized fruit. Great for salads.
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Amish Paste
Classic heirloom paste tomato with thick, meaty flesh. Excellent for sauces, canning, and drying.
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ArKansas Traveler
Prolific heirloom with pinkish-red fruits and tangy-sweet flavor. Tolerant of heat, humidity, and drought. Resistant to cracking.
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BAxter's Bush Cherry
A compact, determinate cherry tomato that’s ideal for small gardens and containers. Produces loads of sweet, red cherries on sturdy plants.
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Berkeley Tie Dye
Heirloom tomato with green and gold striping over pink skin. Indeterminate plants produce medium-large slicers throughout the season.
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Black Cherry
Prolific plants with beautiful, burgundy skin and rich flavor.
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Black Krim
Popular heirloom beefsteak variety; prolific, dark maroon fruits and great flavor.
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Boxcar Willie
Heirloom variety with round, red fruits and a delicious, balanced flavor. Prolific and reliable. Popular choice for market gardeners and chefs.
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Chadwick Cherry
A classic heirloom cherry tomato with rich tomato flavor and high yields. Indeterminate plants produce long clusters of deep red fruits all season and benefit from sturdy support.
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Cherokee Purple
Popular heirloom beefsteak variety. Purple-pink color and great flavor.
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Coyote
Grows wild in Veracruz, Mexico. Prolific plants with yellow fruits and sweet flavor. Indeterminate.
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Desi Girl
One of our faves from last year! Indian heirloom. Compact plants with bold, flavorful fruits. Prolific and easy to grow.
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Early Girl
Early producer, High yields of flavorful, round fruits. Hybrid known to be especially disease resistant, drought tolerant. Indeterminate.
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Jubilee
Classic southern heirloom. Tolerates drought, humidity, and heat. Prolific golden-orange fruits with mild, sweet flavor.
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Juliet
​Hybrid variety with small, sweet grape-shaped tomatoes. High yields. Perfect for snacking and salads. Resistant to cracking and disease.
Kellogg's Breakfast
Beautiful orange beefsteak variety. Sweet and flavorful heirloom.
Korean Long
Long pinkish-red fruit with curved tip
Unique, flavorful, versatile sauce or slicing tomato. Indeterminate.
Lemon Boy Plus
Hybrid variety with golden yellow fruits.
Low-acid, large slicing fruits with a hint of citrus.
Disease resistance.
Matt's Wild Cherry
A famously productive heirloom cherry tomato with intense, sweet-tart flavor. Vigorous, indeterminate plants set tons of small red fruits and thrive in heat.
Mexico Midget
Prolific Mexican heirloom. Sprawling, vigorous vines. Abundant clusters of tiny red cherry tomatoes.
OXheart
A classic heirloom tomato known for its large, heart-shaped fruits and dense, meaty flesh. Mild, rich flavor. Great for slicing, sauces, and cooking down. Indeterminate.
Principe Borghese
Italian heirloom famous for sun drying. Prolific small red fruits. Indeterminate.
Pineapple
Beautiful yellow fruits with red marbling and low-acid, tangy sweetness. Indeterminate.
Purple Bumblebee
Sweet, purple fruits with green stripes. Beautiful and tasty! Fruits are about the size as black cherry tomatoes.
Roma
Heirloom tomato with firm, meaty, oblong fruits with few seeds. Compact, productive vines. Determinate.
San Marzano
Classic Italian heirloom. Plum tomato, perfect for sauces with rich, sweet flavor.
Supersweet 100
Prolific plants with long clusters of sweet, bite-sized red fruits.
Sungold
Prolific plants with golden orange fruits. Our absolute favorite!
Texas Wild Cherry
Collected from a patch of wild tomatoes in South Texas. Sprawling plants with small cherry-type tomatoes.
Indeterminate.
Yellow Pear
Popular heirloom with bright yellow, pear-shaped, bite-sized fruits. Great for salads.
Peppers
Aleppo
Syrian heirloom. 4-6" long, deep red peppers traditionally dried and ground into flakes/powder, but are also great roasted or added to dishes fresh. Moderate heat and complex flavor with fruity and cumin-like undertones.
Anaheim
Aka “New Mexico Chiles’ or ‘Hatch Chile Peppers.' Excellent in salsas or stuffed, roasted, grilled, powdered.
Bottle Rocket
A compact, high-yielding hot pepper that produces upright fruits perfect for containers. Heat is similar to cayenne, great for fresh use, drying, or powder. Early and reliable.
Cayenne
Prolific, skinny tapered peppers. Great in infused oils, dried, powdered.
Chocolate Scotch Bonnett
A very hot pepper with deep brown skin and classic Scotch bonnet heat and fruity flavor. Excellent for Caribbean dishes, hot sauces, and drying. Plants are productive and heat-loving.
Habanero
Spicy orange fruits with citrusy notes.
jalapeño
Medium-sized pepper. Versatile in the kitchen.
Jimmy Nardello
Popular Italian heirloom sweet pepper; Long, thin-skinned; Great variety for frying and drying.
Lunchbox
A sweet, snack-size pepper with crisp flesh and no heat. Produces lots of small, colorful fruits on compact plants.
Pasilla Bajio
The dried pod, or pasilla, is a flavorful and important ingredient in mole sauce. Adds depth to red enchilada sauce and salsas. Mild.
Pepperoncini
Mild, tangy pepper commonly used for pickling. Productive plants set elongated green fruits that can be harvested young or left to ripen red. Easy to grow and versatile in the kitchen.
Poblano
Popular heirloom with bright yellow, pear-shaped, bite-sized fruits. Great for salads.
Serrano
Prolific fruits that are slightly hotter than a jalapeño.
Shishito
Very popular! Most are mild, but occasionally you’ll get a spicy surprise. Very flavorful. Blister on high heat with a little bit of salt and lime. Yum!
Siling Labuyo
Prolific Filipino heirloom with small, spicy peppers. Often used to make dipping sauces with vinegar, peppers, onion, garlic, and herbs. On the Slow Food Ark of Taste, a global catalog of at-risk and endangered heritage foods.
Sweet Banana
Sweet tangy peppers that ripen from pale green to yellow to red. Try in relishes, salads, sandwiches, stuffed, sauteed, grilled, pickled.
Sweet Bell
High-yielding, open-pollinated heirloom sweet bell pepper.
Wilson's Vietnamese Devil
An extremely hot chili with thin-walled red fruits and intense heat. Best for experienced pepper lovers, sauces, and drying. Vigorous plants thrive in hot weather and produce heavily.
Yolo Wonder
High-yielding, open-pollinated heirloom sweet bell pepper.