148 Tomato Varieties for the Home Garden, With Days to Maturity

There are thousands of tomato varieties, and the difference between the one that feeds you all summer and the one that never colors up is rarely flavor. It is arithmetic. A variety needs enough frost-free days to reach maturity where you garden, plus a month of picking after that, and the figure printed on the packet is counted from the day the transplant goes into the ground rather than the day you sow.

The table below holds 148 varieties from three seed catalogues, with the days each publishes. Search it by name, sort it by maturity, and read the two sections underneath before you order anything.

148 tomato varieties for the home garden

Days to maturity for every variety we hold, from three seed catalogues. Each figure is counted from the day the transplant goes into the ground, not from sowing: the two differ by about six weeks. Names in green have their own page.

Variety Days from transplant What it is Fruit size Best for
Sun Gold 57 orange, cherry, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Supersweet 100 60 red, cherry, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Sakura 55 cherry, crops until frost, 4 disease resistances — salads and snacking
San Marzano II 78 heirloom, crops until frost — sauce and canning
Celebrity Plus 78 slicing, ripens in one flush, 6 disease resistances 7–9 oz slicing
Cherokee Purple 72 purple, heirloom, crops until frost 13–14 ounce slicing
Big Beef Plus 72 red, beefsteak, crops until frost, 6 disease resistances — slicing
Amalfi 68 paste, ripens in one flush, 6 disease resistances — sauce and canning
Juliet 60 paste, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — sauce and canning
Tiren 75 green, paste, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances 5–6 oz sauce and canning
Granadero 75 red, paste, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 4–5 oz sauce and canning
Amish Paste 85 paste, crops until frost 8-12 oz sauce and canning
Brandywine 78 heirloom, crops until frost 7 inches slicing
Jasper 60 red, cherry, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 7–10 gm salads and snacking
Firebird 72 beefsteak, ripens in one flush, 4 disease resistances 10–12 oz slicing
Plum Regal 75 red, paste, ripens in one flush, 5 disease resistances 4 oz sauce and canning
Black Cherry 64 black, cherry, crops until frost — salads and snacking
STM 2255 72 red, beefsteak, ripens in one flush, 4 disease resistances 8–12 oz slicing
Cherry Bomb 64 cherry, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — salads and snacking
Kuzco 66 paste, ripens in one flush, 5 disease resistances — sauce and canning
Attracta 58 cherry, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances — salads and snacking
Defiant PhR 65 slicing, ripens in one flush, 4 disease resistances — slicing
Tasmanian Chocolate 75 chocolate, slicing, ripens in one flush — slicing
Harvest Moon 75 golden, specialty, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances 7 to 10 oz slicing
Jolene 79 green, beefsteak, ripens in one flush, 3 disease resistances 8–10 oz slicing
Big Beef 70 gold, beefsteak, crops until frost, 6 disease resistances — slicing
Blue Tonic 72 slicing, crops until frost, 6 disease resistances — slicing
Tidy Treats 60 red, cherry, crops until frost 36 inches sauce and canning
Amai 58 grape, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Unity 70 green, beefsteak, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances — slicing
Indigo Cherry Drops 71 red, cherry, ripens in one flush — salads and snacking
Estiva 70 red, slicing, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances 7–9 oz slicing
Black Krim 80 black, heirloom, crops until frost 8-16 oz slicing
Early Girl 60 slicing, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — slicing
Lucky Tiger 70 green, specialty, crops until frost — —
Mountain Magic 66 red, cocktail, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances — salads and snacking
Striped German 78 bicolor, heirloom, crops until frost — slicing
Marbonne 69 red, specialty, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 7-9 oz —
Marnero 72 purple, beefsteak, crops until frost, 4 disease resistances 7–10 oz slicing
Nova 60 red, grape, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 2 inch sauce and canning
New Girl 62 slicing, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — slicing
Edox 55 cherry, crops until frost, 4 disease resistances — salads and snacking
Blush 70 golden, specialty, crops until frost — salads and snacking
BHN 589 75 beefsteak, ripens in one flush, 3 disease resistances 8–10 oz slicing
Wisconsin 55 80 slicing, crops until frost 6–8 oz sauce and canning
Galahad 72 crimson, beefsteak, ripens in one flush, 6 disease resistances 3 inch slicing
Sunpeach 60 pink, cherry, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Sunrise Sauce 57 orange, paste, ripens in one flush, 2 disease resistances 4–6 oz sauce and canning
German Johnson 75 pink, heirloom, crops until frost — slicing
Carbon 76 purple, heirloom, crops until frost 10-12 ounces slicing
Hot Streak 70 yellow, beefsteak, crops until frost, 6 disease resistances 6–12 oz slicing
Matt's Wild Cherry 60 red, heirloom, crops until frost 5 gm slicing
Citrine 60 orange, cherry, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances — salads and snacking
Mimosa 60 orange, grape, crops until frost, 4 disease resistances — salads and snacking
TY Yellow Mimi 60 yellow, cherry, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Rebelski 75 red, slicing, crops until frost, 6 disease resistances 7–8 oz slicing
Lemon Boy Plus 75 yellow, specialty, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 7–8 oz —
Contessa 75 red, beefsteak, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 8–10 oz slicing
Gold Nugget 56 golden, cherry, ripens in one flush — salads and snacking
Five Star Grape 62 grape, crops until frost — salads and snacking
Geronimo 78 beefsteak, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 8-10 oz slicing
Red Pearl 58 grape, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Pink Berkeley Tie Dye 70 green, specialty, crops until frost 8-12 oz —
Speckled Roman 85 yellow, paste, crops until frost 6-8 oz sauce and canning
Marmango 70 orange, beefsteak, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 5–8 oz slicing
Washington Cherry 60 red, cherry, ripens in one flush 20–25 gm salads and snacking
GinFiz 72 striped, specialty, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 10–14 ounce —
Abigail 75 pink, beefsteak, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances 10–16 oz slicing
Pozzano 72 orange, paste, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances — sauce and canning
Mountain Fresh Plus 75 red, beefsteak, ripens in one flush, 3 disease resistances 8-16 oz slicing
Purple Bumble Bee 70 purple, specialty, crops until frost — —
Cipolla's Pride 82 heirloom, crops until frost 10–16 oz sauce and canning
Black Angel 65 specialty, ripens in one flush, 6 disease resistances 6–10 oz —
Clementine 68 orange, cocktail, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 2 oz salads and snacking
Woodstock 75 bicolor, specialty, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances 36 inches salads and snacking
Valentine 55 red, grape, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances — salads and snacking
Candy Bell 65 grape, ripens in one flush, 1 disease resistances 15 gm salads and snacking
Margold 75 bicolor, beefsteak, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances 7–10 oz slicing
Dr. Wyche's Yellow 75 golden, heirloom, crops until frost — slicing
Apple Yellow 62 yellow, cherry, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 20–25 gm salads and snacking
Golden Sweet 60 yellow, grape, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Tomatoberry Garden 60 red, cherry, crops until frost 10-15 gm salads and snacking
Green Zebra 72 black, heirloom, crops until frost — slicing
Glacier 55 red, heirloom, ripens in one flush 2 inch slicing
Mochi 60 cherry, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances 20–25 gm salads and snacking
Mountain Merit 75 red, slicing, ripens in one flush, 5 disease resistances — slicing
Moskvich 60 red, heirloom, crops until frost 4-6 oz slicing
Honey Bee 60 yellow, cherry, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Strawberry Fields 75 pink, specialty, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — —
Bronze Torch 65 pink, specialty, crops until frost 1/2 oz salads and snacking
Indigo Kumquat 75 orange, specialty, crops until frost 15–20 gm —
Martha Washington 78 pink, beefsteak, crops until frost — slicing
BHN 871 74 yellow, slicing, ripens in one flush, 4 disease resistances 10–12 oz slicing
Favorita 58 red, cherry, crops until frost, 4 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Bonbolya 72 pink, beefsteak, crops until frost, 6 disease resistances 8–10 oz slicing
Verona 67 red, paste, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances 1/2 oz sauce and canning
Cauralina 72 specialty, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances 8-14 oz sauce and canning
Black Prince 74 black, heirloom, crops until frost 25 to 40 pounds slicing
Pruden's Purple 67 pink, heirloom, crops until frost 1 lb slicing
Queen Bee 60 yellow, cherry, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances — salads and snacking
Damsel 73 pink, specialty, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances — —
White Cherry 59 yellow, cherry, crops until frost 15-20 gm salads and snacking
Cherokee Green 72 purple, heirloom, crops until frost — slicing
Caiman 76 beefsteak, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances — slicing
Green Bee 75 specialty, crops until frost — —
Marmalade Skies 75 green, specialty, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances 7 to 8 oz sauce and canning
Valencia 76 orange, heirloom, crops until frost 8-10 oz slicing
Japanese Black Trifele 74 burgundy, heirloom, crops until frost 4–6 oz slicing
Pink Wonder 73 pink, specialty, crops until frost, 4 disease resistances 6–10 oz —
Captain Lucky 75 bicolor, specialty, crops until frost 10–16 oz —
Kakao 70 specialty, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 1/2 oz —
Magic Bullet 70 green, specialty, crops until frost — salads and snacking
Blue Beech 82 heirloom, crops until frost 8–10 oz sauce and canning
Nepal 78 red, heirloom, crops until frost 10-12 oz slicing
Red Torch 65 yellow, specialty, crops until frost 2 inch salads and snacking
Yellow Mini 57 yellow, cherry, crops until frost, 1 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
Sungreen 4029 58 green, cherry, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances 15–20 gm salads and snacking
RuBee Dawn 60 red, slicing, crops until frost, 5 disease resistances 3 inch slicing
Enroza 75 pink, beefsteak, crops until frost, 6 disease resistances 6–8 oz slicing
Marnouar 85 purple, beefsteak, crops until frost, 6 disease resistances 10–16 oz slicing
Paisano 68 red, paste, ripens in one flush 4–5 oz sauce and canning
Yellow Brandywine 78 yellow, heirloom, crops until frost — slicing
Bigdena 77 red, beefsteak, crops until frost, 6 disease resistances 8–12 oz slicing
Beefsteak Red 90 tomatoes, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — —
Better Boy 75 tomatoes, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances — —
Better Bush 68 tomatoes, ripens in one flush, 3 disease resistances — —
Big Boy 78 tomatoes, crops until frost — —
Bonnie Original 75 tomatoes, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances — —
Bush Goliath 85 tomatoes, crops until frost, 3 disease resistances — —
Celebrity 65 tomatoes, ripens in one flush — —
German Queen Heirloom 80 tomatoes, crops until frost — —
Husky Red Cherry 65 tomatoes, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — —
Park's Whopper Improved 65 tomatoes, crops until frost, 4 disease resistances — —
Patio 70 tomatoes, ripens in one flush, 3 disease resistances — —
Pink Delicious 90 tomatoes, crops until frost — —
Ponchi Mi 63 tomatoes, ripens in one flush — —
Roma 80 tomatoes, ripens in one flush, 2 disease resistances — —
Sun Sugar Yellow Cherry 75 tomatoes, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — —
Sunset Torch 63 tomatoes, ripens in one flush — —
Tami G Grape 62 tomatoes, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — —
Tidy Rose 55 tomatoes, crops until frost, 2 disease resistances — —
Tiny Temptation Cherry 63 tomatoes, ripens in one flush — —
Legend 68 slicing, ripens in one flush — —
Mortgage Lifter 95 slicing, crops until frost — —
Oregon Spring 70 slicing, ripens in one flush — —
San Marzano 78 sauce/paste, crops until frost — —
Siletz 75 slicing, ripens in one flush — —
Stupice 65 slicing, crops until frost — —

Source: Johnny's Selected Seeds, Bonnie Plants and Territorial Seed Company. Each figure is counted from transplant. · 148 entries · updated August 24, 2026

The one number that decides everything

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Days to maturity is the only figure on a seed packet that can rule a variety out entirely, and it is also the most misread. Catalogues count it from transplant, meaning from the day a six-week-old seedling goes into warm soil. Counting from the day you sow adds roughly six weeks and makes every variety look impossible.

Work backwards rather than forwards. Take the first fall freeze for your area, subtract the days to maturity, then subtract another month for the picking you actually want. What remains is your last useful planting date. If it falls before the soil is warm enough to hold a transplant, the variety does not fit your season, and there is no technique that fixes that. Our frost dates by state and province gives the two ends of that calculation for sixty-three territories.

A margin under thirty days means one flush of fruit and nothing after it. That is not a reason to avoid a variety, but it is a reason to plant a second, faster one alongside it, such as the fast-maturing Early Girl Tomato, its close relative the New Girl Tomato, the disease-resistant Rebelski Tomato, the equally resilient Defiant PhR Tomato, the compact Tidy Rose Tomato, the Stupice tomato, the prolific Tami G Grape Tomato, the sweet Sun Sugar Yellow Cherry Tomato, the reliable Enroza Tomato, a slower heirloom such as the Dr. Wyche’s Yellow Tomatom such as the German Johnson Tomatom such as the Cherokee Purple Tomato for later in the season, the reliable paste-type Roma Tomato: When to Plant It, and What to Do With the Paste Tomatoes, the sweet Sunpeach Tomato, the Nova tomato, the cold-hardy Wisconsin 55 Tomato, the quick-fruiting Tiny Temptation Cherry Tomato, the cold-hardy Moskvich Tomato, the vividly colored Sunset Torch Tomato, the early-fruiting Ponchi Mi Tomato, the sweet Pink Delicious Tomato, the beefsteak-flavored German Queen Heirloom Tomato, the compact Bush Goliath Tomato, the high-yielding Bigdena Tomato, the reliable Paisano Tomato, the prolific Husky Red Cherry Tomato, the vividly colored Red Torch Tomato, the richly flavored Kakao Tomato, the compact Green Bee Tomato, the early-ripening RuBee Dawn Tomato, the deeply flavored Black Prince Tomato, the vigorous Hot Streak Tomato, the striped Green Zebra Tomato, the disease-resistant Geronimo Tomato, the quick-cropping Five Star Grape Tomato, the earlier-ripening Yellow Brandywine Tomato, the compact Valentine Tomato, the early-ripening Purple Bumble Bee Tomato, the compact Mochi Tomato, the mango-flavored Marmango Tomato, the low-acid Lemon Boy Plus Tomato, the compact Margold Tomato, the early-ripening Clementine Tomato, the soft-hued Blush Tomato, the prolific Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomato, the early-yielding Sungreen 4029 Tomato, the compact Yellow Mini Tomato, the compact Strawberry Fields Tomato, the golden-fruited Citrine Tomato, the compact Red Pearl Tomato, the sweet, early-producing Gold Nugget Tomato, the prolific little Edox Tomato: When to Plant the Cherries That Keep Coming Until Frost, the early-yielding Bonbolya Tomato, the reliably early Jasper Tomato, the disease-resistant Firebird Tomato, the striking Blue Tonic Tomato, the reliable Celebrity Tomato, the reliable Better Boy Tomato, the striped Lucky Tiger Tomato, the reliable Attracta Tomato, the equally compact Tidy Treats Tomato, the early-yielding Captain Lucky Tomato, the reliable Big Boy Tomato, the Beefsteak Red Tomato, the disease-resistant Mountain Magic tomato or its blight-resistant cousin the Mountain Merit Tomato, the reliable Legend tomato, the striking Indigo Kumquat Tomato, or the slower but flavor-rich Striped German Tomato, the early-ripening Sunrise Sauce Tomato, the striking Pink Berkeley Tie Dye Tomato, the Unity tomato, the compact Mimosa Tomato, the sweet and early Golden Sweet Tomato, the cold-tolerant Glacier Tomato, the Harvest Moon Tomato, the compact Marnero Tomato, the Amai Tomato: When to Plant It, and What to Do With a 15-20 g Grape, the Valencia Tomato, the early-fruiting Tomatoberry Garden Tomato, the compact Damsel Tomato, the dependable Celebrity Plus tomato, the prolific Juliet Tomato, the robust Big Beef Plus Tomato, the vigorous Tiren Tomato, the slower but flavor-rich San Marzano II Tomato, or the Carbon Tomato, the early-ripening Siletz Tomato, the fast-fruiting Indigo Cherry Drops Tomato, the early-maturing Estiva Tomato, or the Jolene Tomato, the disease-resistant Tasmanian Chocolate Tomato once your season allows itarden/tomatoes/varieties/defiant-phr/”>Defiant PhR Tomato, the STM 2255 Tomato, the fast-maturing Cherry Bomb tomato, or the Kuzco tomato, all bred for cold, short-season climates.

Determinate or indeterminate, and why it changes the work

The habit column matters more to your summer than the color does. A determinate variety grows to a fixed size, sets its fruit over two or three weeks, and stops. That is what you want for sauce: everything ripens at once, as with the disease-resistant Plum Regal tomato or other classic paste-type classic San Marzano tomatoassic Amish Paste tomato, and you spend one weekend at the stove. It also suits a short season, because the plant is not still trying to flower when the frost arrives.

An indeterminate variety keeps growing and keeps setting fruit until something kills it. It needs staking, it needs pruning, and it will give you tomatoes for eating from midsummer to first frost. Most cherry varieties are indeterminate, which is why a single plant can bury a household.

The practical mistake is planting six indeterminates for sauce and finding yourself processing four pounds at a time, twice a week, for two months.

Disease resistance, and what the codes actually promise

Catalogues grade resistance, and the grades are not interchangeable. High resistance means the plant largely escapes the disease under normal pressure. Intermediate means it slows it down: you will still see symptoms, later and less severely. A variety sold as intermediate to late blight will not survive a bad blight year untreated, and planting on the wrong reading of that word costs a crop.

Resistance is also specific. A variety bred against fusarium wilt and verticillium wilt tells you nothing about its behavior under early blight, which is the disease most gardeners actually meet. Heirlooms, as a rule, carry no resistance at all: that is the trade for the flavor, and it is worth making knowingly.

Which tomato for the sauce pot, and which for the salad bowl

The habit column tells you how a plant grows, and the disease codes tell you what will kill it, but neither tells you what to do with the fruit once it is in your hand. That question comes down to flesh. Some tomatoes are built from dense, dry tissue with almost no gel around the seeds, and they lose very little water as they cook. Others are built from thin walls packed with juice, and that juice is exactly what makes them good to eat raw and exactly what ruins a sauce, because it has to boil off before the pot thickens.

The paste types make the case plainly. The Amish Paste tomato, the Amalfi tomato, the Kuzco tomato, the Granadero tomato and the Cauralina tomato all carry meaty, low-juice flesh that was never going to be pleasant sliced onto bread, and that same density is what lets them go from raw fruit to finished sauce in one working session rather than an afternoon of reduction. The Marbonne tomato and the Marmalade Skies tomato belong in the same pot for the same reason: little water to cook off, so the pan thickens instead of thinning. A determinate habit on top of that flesh, as with the Kuzco tomato or the Amalfi tomato, means the fruit arrives together, which is the only combination worth canning around.

Move to the other end of the spectrum and the same trait works in reverse. The Black Cherry tomato, the Citrine tomato, the Clementine tomato, the Golden Sweet tomato and the Cherry Bomb tomato are thin-skinned and full of juice, which is precisely why they split, burst, and taste bright and immediate straight off the vine. Cooked down, that juice would mostly boil away to almost nothing solid. These are for the salad bowl and the hand, not the pot.

The beefsteaks sit in the middle and mislead people the most, because “meaty” sounds like a sauce word. It is not, unless the flesh is also dry. The Big Beef tomato, the Brandywine tomato, the Black Krim tomato and the Mortgage Lifter tomato are dense enough to hold a slab shape on a sandwich but still carry enough moisture in that flesh to slacken a sauce rather than thicken it. Slice them; do not can them. The Oregon Spring tomato is the exception worth noting, dense and nearly seedless enough to work thin in a sauce as well as on a plate.

Where to go from here

If you know which variety you want, the linked names in the table lead to its own page, with the planting window worked out for the coldest and warmest parts of the country. If you know where you garden but not what to plant, start from your state guide instead: each one lists the varieties that finish comfortably there, with the dates.

And if you are choosing for a first year, the honest advice is to plant one variety you are curious about and one that is known to be easy where you live. Curiosity is why anyone grows tomatoes rather than buying them; the reliable plant is what keeps you doing it a second season.

Individual Variety Guides

Each variety above gets its own planting page, worked out from its catalogue days-to-maturity number. Among the cherries, you’ll find the sugary Amai grape tomato, the season-long Attracta cherry, the dark-fleshed Black Cherry, the disease-resistant Jasper, the red Indigo Cherry Drops, the fast Sakura, the orange Sun Gold, the sprawling Supersweet 100, and the container-friendly Tidy Treats. Paste growers can check the one-flush Amalfi, the trickling Juliet, the canning-ready Granadero, and the green-when-ripe Tiren, plus San Marzano II. For slicers and beefsteaks, there’s Better Boy, Big Beef, Big Beef Plus, Black Krim, Blue Tonic, Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Defiant PhR, Early Girl, Estiva, Firebird, Harvest Moon, Jolene, Lucky Tiger, Marbonne, Marnero, Mortgage Lifter, Oregon Spring, Siletz, STM 2255, Striped German, and Tasmanian Chocolate.

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