Perhaps no heirloom crop inspires quite so much feeling among gardeners as tomatoes. They are the jewels of the summer garden. Tomatoes grow in an endlessly dazzling range of sizes, shapes, colors, and flavors, making them the most popular garden crop of the last 200 years. Tomato plants are either determinate or indeterminate. Determinate varieties stop their shoot production once the flower forms and set most of their fruit early. The plants are bushier and can be better contained, making them a good choice for small garden spaces. Indeterminate varieties will form flowers along the sides of the shoots but continue to grow. Indeterminates typically set fruit longer and need more space to grow. Gardeners often manage them with pruning and trellising. All the varieties we sell are believed to be indeterminate unless specified as determinate. The best-tasting varieties tend to be heirloom and indeterminate.