Our tomato plant sale with over 100 varieties is in full swing at our retail greenhouse, set in a gorgeous garden. We share this beautiful space with Ivy's Porch, in Scotts Valley (please do not call Ivy's Porch for information; they are not otherwise affiliated with the farm. If you need to reach us, text us at 831-588-3801 or email us at loveapplefarms@gmail.com).
Our Tomato Plant Sale is Located at:
5311 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts Valley, CA.
Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
March 30th through June 30th
PLANT PRICES: $3.99 REGULAR TOMATO PLANTS
$6.99 GRAFTED TOMATO PLANTS
$9.99. One gallon Tomates (when available)
To stay up to date on our delivery dates and to ensure we've got in stock what you're looking for, visit our Facebook page.
Jeannie's Jams will be back with her glorious preserves - so don't miss that!
Subscribe to our newsletter if you'd like updates on varieties, business hours, and our grand-opening event.
As always, we search the world to find the new and unusual (in addition to the tried and true) tomato varieties. We will also be showcasing Gardner & Bloome products as well as Geoplanter's breathable pots.
And for more info on growing, check out our Instructions on How to Grow Better Tomatoes and our 2013 Tomato Growing Guide and Calendar.
20 varieties of Love Apple Farms' tomato plants will be available at Wegman's Nursery in Redwood City and Western Garden Nursery in Pleasanton beginning March 28. View Wegman's Nursery and Western Garden Nursery Variety Lists.
Download Love Apple's Variety List for 2013 Complete with Descriptions or view list below:
- Amazon Chocolate
- Ananas Noir
- Arkansas Traveler
- Big Rainbow
- Black Cherry
- Black Ethiopian
- Black from Tula
- Black Krim
- Black Plum
- Black Prince
- Bloody Butcher
- Bloody Butcher
- Boar's Hoof
- Brad's Black Heart
- Brandysweet Plum
- Brandywine Grafted
- Brandywine Sudduth's
- Camp Joy Cherry
- Carmello Grafted NEW for 2013!
- Casey's Pure Yellow
- Caspian Pink
- Cherokee Purple
- Cherokee Purple Grafted
- Chili Verde
- Chocolate Vintage
- Chuck's Yellow
- Coyote
- Delicious NEW for 2013!
- Early Girl (VFF)
- German Red Strawberry
- Giant Belgium NEW for 2013!
- Gold Medal
- Grapette NEW for 2013!
- Great White
- Green Doctors NEW for 2013!
- Green Giant
- Green Zebra
- Green Zebra Grafted
- Hawaiian Pineapple
- Henderson's Pink Ponderosa
- Hess
- Hillbilly
- Hippie Zebra
- Indigo Rose
- Indigo Rose Grafted NEW FOR 2013!
- Indira Gandhi
- Japanese Black Trifele
- Japanese Oxheart
- Jaune Flamme
- Julia Child NEW for 2013!
- Kellogg's Breakfast
- Kentucky Beefsteak
- Legend NEW for 2013!
- Love Apple
- Mandarin Cross NEW for 2013!
- Matina
- Matt's Wild Cherry NEW for 2013!
- Michael Pollan
- Mom's Paste NEW for 2013!
- Mortgage Lifter
- Moskovitch
- Mr. Stripey NEW for 2013!
- New Girl NEW for 2013!
- Northern Lights
- Old German NEW for 2013!
- Omar's Lebanese NEW for 2013!
- Orange Blossom
- Orange Russian 117
- Oregon Spring (V)
- Paul Robeson
- Pineapple Grafted
- Pink Beauty (F1)
- Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye
- Polish Pastel NEW for 2013!
- Purple Brandy
- Rainbow Love NEW for 2013! Love Apple exclusive!
- Red Pear
- Red Robin NEW for 2013!
- Roma (VF) NEW for 2013!
- Rutgers Red
- San Marzano
- San Marzano Grafted NEW FOR 2013!
- Sexy Beast NEW for 2013! Love Apple exclusive!
- Sicilian Saucer
- Solar Flare
- Spudakee
- Stupice
- Sungold
- Super Marzano
- Sweet Horizon
- Sweet Million (FNT)
- Sweet Million Grafted NEW FOR 2013!
- TC Jones
- Texas Star
- Thessaloniki
- Tigerella
- Top Sirloin
- Virginia Sweets NEW for 2013!
- White Cherry
- White Oxheart
- Wild Stripes
- Yellow Brandywine
- Yellow Pear
- Yellow Ruffled NEW for 2013!
- Zapotec Pink Ribbed NEW for 2013!
Dear Cynthia.
Just wanted to tell you how nice it was to really meet you last Sunday at the SF Flower Show and to thank you for 'hooking me up' with some suppliers. Altho the GeoPot people were out of the 20 gal. containers, Amanda assured me she would take my order by phone. I called them on Tues., got the order on Wed. Nice to know you can order by phone or online and don't have to find a local supplier wherever one lives. Since I'm in Alameda, your resources don't always work for me. Then I talked to the Gardner & Bloom people and they dropped of bag of Blue Ribbon Blend at my local nursery that doesn't normally sell that particular product.
I have so many tomatoes from your seedling class - an ABUNDANCE. Last year I grew 5 in my limited space, small yard. This year I'm aiming for 10 using the GeoPots to add more plants. I guess this year is going to be the Year of the Tomato in my garden.
I'd just like to add one item for your readers. . .I gardened with my kids as they were growing up and am now doing so with my grandkids who fortunately live locally. It's something we can do together. This is my contribution to their 'education'. It is SO enriching. I would just encourage anyone with a child available to get them out there. Do whatever is age appropriate, let them set the pace, and do it enthusiasm and reverence.
A small anecdote. . .when my grandson was 3 or 4 (he's now 7), he was invited over for a half day, it was tomato planting time and I made the mistake of telling him we needed to dig a hole 2 ft. deep but whatever he could dig would be great. I figured that was a lot of digging for a little guy. I told him about five times he could stop whenever he got tired, but we measured and he dug, measured and dug, etc. and the little guy made my 2 ft. hole for me. So you just never know what will take their fancy.
I could go on and on with rewarding experiences in the garden with my kids and grands, it's part of our history together.
I love getting your newsletter and really appreciate your thoughtful instructions and updates. Take care & have a busy, fun growing season.
Marilyn Fleming
Posted by: Marilyn Fleming | March 30, 2013 at 08:59 AM
Hi Anjil. The grafted tomatoes for 2013 sale will be $6.99 each. I know, I know...PRICEY! But there is a LOT of work on our part associated with a grafted plant. So we can't let them go for the price of a cup of coffee at Starbucks. I also just saw grafted toms up at SF Flower show going for $8 each.
Posted by: Love Apple Farms | February 18, 2013 at 01:32 PM
"Legend" is an awesome tomato !! Glad you are going to offer it. Have you guys ever tried "Carol Chyko" ? Another great one. See you at the sale, end of March. How much will the grafted ones sell for ?
Posted by: Anjil | February 16, 2013 at 07:09 PM
Count me in. I'm not a farmer (well cofrnimed by my depressing little veggie patch) but I've read So Shall We Reap' and I'm on a sharp learning curve. I want a future where my son can afford to feed his family good, healthy, clean food, sustainably/humanely produced, so I'd be very pleased to join you in this campaign.
Posted by: Trent | January 02, 2013 at 10:50 PM
To whomever might read this I just want to say how much I enjoy my tomatoes from the plants I purchased from you guys last spring. One of my plants was unbelievable. It was a green zebra that was grafted. I had never heard of a "grafted" tomatoe plant. I have now! It grew to be 12 feet by 12 feet across and produced more than two hundred tomatoes! I'm not exagerating. I also didn't fertilize my garden this year. I keep it organic. I live on the eastside of santa cruz and have a small garden, about 700 sq. ft. I hope you have many more grafted tomato plants this year. I also had about ten other heirloom and other tomato plants from your farm and they did good also. FYI. One of my volunteer sunflowers grew a head 24 inches across.I look forward to your tomato sale in march.
Thankyou guys for your hardwork and nice farm.
Posted by: Rusty Willingham | December 22, 2012 at 01:47 PM
Hi Lynda. What you probably had last year was Late Blight. I put out a newsletter blast about it and tutored folks on how to combat it so as not to lose their tomato patches. That's a good reason to sign up for our email newsletter! I'll add you to it!
Posted by: Love Apple FArm | May 04, 2012 at 09:59 PM
I always have at least 20 tomatoe plants, heirloom, each year for baking. Last year all went well, the tomatoes set and when they started to ripen all my vines turned brown, wilted and died. What can I do to not have this happen again We live in Corralitos.
Posted by: lynda haller | May 04, 2012 at 08:29 PM
Hi Anton. You can add some bone meal and dry organic fertilizer to the top of the soil and try to dig it into the pot. You can also add soil on top of those amendments, to top off the pot. I would also water every week, without fail, with worm casting tea.
Posted by: Love Apple FArm | April 26, 2012 at 11:00 PM
I planted my tomatoes in pots before reading your article on container tomatoes. What fertilizer or amendments can I add to the surface of the soil to help my tomatoes?
Posted by: Anton | April 24, 2012 at 08:30 AM
Hi Vicky. We use Gardner & Bloom's Organic Tomato, Vegetable and Herb fertilizer in addition to our biodynamic compost and worm castings. We also throw some bone meal, eggshells and a fish head in our tomato planting holes.
Posted by: Love Apple Farms | March 18, 2012 at 09:09 PM
What does Love Apple use as Tomatoe Fertilizer and do yo have this posted on your website for us to read?
Posted by: Vicky Matisi | March 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Michael: There are lots of reasons for tomato leaves curling: too much nitrogen, varietal predilection, bright sunlight after extended period of low light or overcast days, or a virus of some sort. If you can rule out all the other possibilities, you may want to send a plant sample in for diagnosis to a reputable lab, like Plant Disease Diagnosis in Walnut Creek. But if your plants are otherwise doing well, you may want to ignore it.
Posted by: Love Apple Farms | July 20, 2011 at 03:29 PM
So my wife and I picked up both an OSU Purple (which she won by way of a guessing game with the young gent running the stand that day) and a Great White.
Both are happily potted (~15-20Gal) basking in the sun on a deck in Burlingame getting approximately ≥10 hrs of sun daily... The OSU is starting some small fruit and the Great White is thinking hard.
Question:
Why would either of these plants have curly leaves? They are certainly getting enough water and I've pretty much run by the book you've prescribed sans fish head. ;-)
Thoughts?
Posted by: Michael | July 19, 2011 at 06:50 PM
I would LOVE to give my husband this week's contest prize, Tomato Goodness, because I am SO proud of all he has learned and done in our garden these past few years. He has built 7 raised beds out of recycled lumber and is trying to convince me to let him take over the rest of the lawn. We weren't very successful with our tomatoes last year but we bought 8 more seedlings from you a few weeks ago and intend to try again. I know he'd love to have 8 more! And, his birthday is coming up (5/25)!!
Posted by: Hillary Schalit | May 17, 2011 at 09:08 PM
My current fav color is chocolate-purple! Love your website and newsletter :)
Posted by: Anita | April 30, 2011 at 11:09 AM
My favorite tomato color is deep, brilliant red.
Posted by: Susie | April 27, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Hi Asinsigalli: I'm going to suggest for top of the summit (higher elevations): Elfie, Siletz, Jetsetter, Jet Star, Marmande, Black Ethiopian, Juane Flamme, Matina, and Taxi. Those are all available at our tomato plant sale at 46 El Pueblo Road in Scotts Valley. Come on over!
Posted by: Love Apple Farm | April 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM
My favorite tomato color is orange! Tobolsk was one of my best-tasting and most productive tomatoes last year. Every time I went to the garden and saw new ones coloring up, I was thrilled.
Hmm, but Tobolsk tied with Purple Brandy last year for taste and productivity, so I also love purple/black tomatoes.
But my favorite tomato color to let other people taste is green. Green is the only color I let vine-ripen, because the critters usually don't taste it. It's fun to hand someone a piece of Aunt Ruby's German Green, warm from the garden, and watch the surprise on their face as they eat it.
Posted by: tanya | April 27, 2011 at 10:39 AM
I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains (off of Summit). Any suggestions for when and what type of tomato I should plant? I have battled goats, frost and gophers the last three years. I think that I finally have all of them under control. Help if you can. Thank you!
Posted by: Asinsigalli | April 25, 2011 at 09:09 PM
Went to tomato sale yesterday & brought 3 friends. So impressed with how well organized & easy it was to "find" these tomato treasures :) Thanks for so much for offering this. Came home and told 2 others they HAD to go!
My chickens are laying away again, and seem happier in this warming weather.
Hope to take a class this summer/fall at your new location....Looks great!
Posted by: Kerry | April 13, 2011 at 12:01 PM
I'm also curious about whether you can over fertilize with worm castings. It'll be my first year using them and I have a lot!
Posted by: Donna | April 11, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Martin: There is no evidence that the eggs can exist on wire like that. They need a host plant on which to feed, and as long as you haven't over-wintered tomatoes, eggplants, peppers or morning glories in your yard, you are good to go!
Posted by: Love Apple Farm | April 05, 2011 at 06:16 PM
I know you've said that the Tomato Russet mite doesn't overwinter well here, but I have a question. I got hit pretty badly last year. I'm taking precautions this time, and I got to wondering; could there be any surviving eggs on my tomato cages? Do I need to wash them down with bleach, or something?
Posted by: Martin Knutson | April 04, 2011 at 09:37 PM
Also in San Jose, CA. This is my second year growing tomatoes and first year utilizing vermicompost. Can you overfertilize with worm castings during transplating...ie too much Nitrogen and hence lower blooms later.
Posted by: Sam | April 04, 2011 at 01:02 PM
Hi Seth: The best time to plant tomatoes in San Jose in containers is mid April. It does not matter the variety.
Posted by: Love Apple Farm | March 29, 2011 at 06:36 PM