The best tomatoes to plant for canning are paste-type tomatoes due to their meatiness, fewer amount of seeds and low moisture content. Any tomato can be canned, but the following five will give the best results for later turning them into sauces, salsa, or recipes.
The Anna Russian Tomato is a delicious and beautiful heirloom oxheart-shaped tomato that was brought over from a Russian immigrant in the 1980's.
The Aunt Ginnys Purple Tomato is a highly productive, beautiful oxheart shaped, heirloom with German origins that has a delicious flavor.
The Baby Roma, also known as the "Cherry Roma," is a miniature roma-shaped tomato that is bursting with an intense sweet flavor.
The big, meaty red Better Boy Tomato hybrid grows to be at least 8 ounces and higher and has been a trusted favorite for many years!
The Big Beef Tomato is an All American Selection winner that has been a farm favorite beefsteak tomato variety for a reason!
The Black Prince Tomato is an attractive dark red and black colored juicy Russian heirloom tomato that has a rich distinctive flavor!
The Black Sea Man Tomato is a fantastic tasting Russian heirloom that has a wonderful rich flavor when added to different dishes.
This blood red skinned Bloody Butcher Tomato is an all-purpose tomato that is great to plant if you want to harvest tomatoes before anyone else!
The classic Burpee's Bush Big Boy Tomato is the same large, juicy favorite but has been made even better, especially for small-space gardeners.
The Chef's Choice Orange Tomato is an All American Selection winner that is a prolific producer of juicy, bright orange tomatoes.
The Cherokee Purple Tomato is an indeterminate tomato that will keep producing all summer long and into the first frost in fall time.
The Crnkovic Yugoslavian Tomato is a full flavored, mid-sized bright red tomato that has a perfect beefsteak shape that is juicy inside.
The Delicious Tomato is a World Record giant, bright red beefsteak tomato that can grow to be at least one pound or more.
The Heinz 2274 Tomato is a customer favorite for being the perfect variety for making delicious, juicy, homemade ketchup!
The Italian Heirloom Tomato is an old heirloom that is one of our most tasty tomatoes we offer, as it is just bursting with flavor!
The Jet Star Tomato is a long time favorite and industry standard hybrid tomato with a high sugar content that masks acidity.
The Marglobe Supreme Tomato is great for home and market growing as it is the highest producing tomato plant that we have ever seen!
The Marion Tomato is a great tasting, bright red Rutgers variety that is perfect for slicing and fresh eating in a salad or on a sandwich.
The slightly flattened, pinkish-red Mortgage Lifter Tomato ranges from 1 all the way to 3 pounds and are meaty, very flavorful and only have few seeds.
The Mushroom Basket Tomato is a large, uniquely shaped tomato with a delicious juicy sweet flavor, originating from Russia.
The improved Parks Whopper Tomato is one of the juiciest, best tasting tomatoes around and a must-have staple for home gardens!
The Pineapple Tomato is a large, rich yellow-gold beefsteak variety that has a wonderful very sweet, almost fruity, flavor.
The Pink Brandywine Tomato is our favorite heirloom beefsteak for home gardens and a customer favorite for its sweet taste!
The Ponderosa Pink Tomato is an extra large and tasty beefsteak with a bright pink hue that is perfect for fresh eating as well as cooked for sauces!
The Porter Tomato is a very smooth, dark pink tomato variety that is perfect for canning, juicing or eating fresh in a salad!
The Red Beefsteak Tomato produces an extra large, meaty fruit that is very popular among home gardens used for adding to sandwiches other dishes.
The Red Pear's plants are very prolific and are producers of 1-2" long tomatoes that are great on salads, sauces or roasted in the oven.
The Rio Grande Tomato produces a huge harvest of popular pear shaped, paste type of tomatoes that will thrive in hot climates!
The Roma Tomato is a popular heirloom elongated tomato preferred for cooking, canning and making a spectacular Italian paste.
The Rutgers Tomato produces an intense, red colored, round fruit that is a proven variety that excels at canning and slicing.
The Siberian Tomato variety matures fast and will produce heavy and early where shorter growing seasons prevail, like the norther states and Canada.
The Speckled Roman Tomato variety is a beautiful colored tomato and when mature, has a bright red skin with golden streaks.
Since the Sweet Seedless Tomato does not store its sugars within its seeds, the sweetness is transferred to the flesh, making it extra tasty!
The Yellow Brandywine Tomato is a customer favorite heirloom tomato with an attractive bright yellow-orange skin and flesh.
The big, meaty, red Better Boy Tomato grows to be at least 8 ounces and higher. Urban Farmer grown Better Boy tomato plants that arrive ready to plant.
The Betty Tomato has the characteristics of an heirloom combined with the large yield of a hybrid that is known for being good for early spring production.
The Big Beef Tomato is an All American Selection winner beefsteak. Urban Farmer grown Better Boy tomato plants that arrive ready to plant.
The Black from Tula Tomato is widely known as one of the best flavored dark tomatoes and when mature, this variety grows up to 14 ounces.
The Black Plum Tomato is a heavy producer and a favorite plum-shaped tomato variety for making different salsa or sauces.