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 Sub Arctic Plenty Tomato is the world's fastest growing heirloom tomato, in just 42 days from transplant you will have fresh vine ripe tomatoes!
The Amish Paste Tomato is an excellent tomato with a wonderful, juicy taste for making tangy sauces or sliced for fresh eating!
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 Azoychka Tomato is a highly productive Russian heirloom that produces good yields of smooth, sweet and citrusy tomatoes.
The Beefmaster Tomato is a consistent producer of high quality, enormous sized beefsteaks, with some weighing in over a pound.
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 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.
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.
The Bradley Tomato variety is a reliable, productive plant that has fairly good cover, producing attractive, smooth pink fruit with a tasty mild flavor.
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 Costoluto Genovese Tomato is an old Italian preserving tomato with an odd shape and a stellar flavor that is both intense and acidic!
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 Federle Tomato is an uniquely shaped paste variety that has a wonderful tangy flavor that is perfect for making salsa!
The German Giant Tomato is a giant potato leaf heirloom type of tomato with a rich, sweet flavor that is favored for being very juicy!
The Golden Jubilee Tomato has a meaty, thick, golden-orange skin with a mild flavor and is an All American Selection winning tomato!
The Heinz 2274 Tomato is a customer favorite for being the perfect variety for making delicious, juicy, homemade ketchup!
The Homestead Tomato is a very heat tolerant tomato variety, making it perfect for growing in southern and hotter climates.
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 Napoli Tomato is an exceptional, bright red Italian paste type that is perfect for slicing, freezing and canning or making into sauce, soups or paste!
The Orange Banana Tomato is one of our favorite paste tomato varieties for home and market growers to dry, can and make pastes.
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 Rio Grande Tomato produces a huge harvest of popular pear shaped, paste type of tomatoes that will thrive in hot climates!
The Rutgers Tomato produces an intense, red colored, round fruit that is a proven variety that excels at canning and slicing.
The San Marzano Tomato is an easy to grow, heirloom that is known as one of the best tomato 'sauce' varieties in the world!
The Siberian Tomato variety matures fast and will produce heavy and early where shorter growing seasons prevail, like the norther states and Canada.
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 Tropic VFN Tomato is a beautiful, large and firm red variety with a delicious juicy flavor that is perfect for greenhouse production!
The Yellow Brandywine Tomato is a customer favorite heirloom tomato with an attractive bright yellow-orange skin and flesh.
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 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.