SEEDLINGS
*** UPDATE 1-8-2023 ***
Now taking advance orders for seedlings of:
Tomatoes
Peppers
Eggplant
Ground Cherry
But only for gardeners and small farmers in the state of Utah. Please make your selections from the lists of seeds I already have in inventory (see Store and Seeds tabs above), or mail the seeds you would like me to grow.
Contact: dale@gianttomatoseeds.com
Shipping address:
Delectation of Tomatoes
PO Box 655
East Carbon, UT 84520
Deadline for ordering seedlings is April 1, 2023.
Below here is information from previous years, much of it obsolete, most of it still somewhat relevant. Occasional revisions will be made here as time and circumstances permit.
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Seedlings of 248 tomato varieties, destined for other gardeners, are up and growing. This list can be found under the file name, Tomato Seedlings Being Raised for Other Gardeners in 2022, which is published in the online shared folder here:
DT Shared Files
Seedlings will be offered this year (2022) at several locations throughout the state of Utah. Because Delectation of Tomatoes is now established at a relatively remote, sparsely populated location (East Carbon, Utah, elevation 6,200'), the most effective way to share these wonderful varieties with other gardeners who are not set up to raise their own seedlings is through what is essentially a:
Plant-mobile
You can special order your tomato, eggplant, ground cherry, tomatillo and pepper seedlings in advance, from my seed inventory, up until the APRIL 1st DEADLINE. After that, your choice of varieties will still be very broad, as I am growing over 200 tomato varieties, and 50 varieties of the other types. Final lists of available varieties will be published on this page by late April - after germination is confirmed. See latest Blog Post for more insight into this project.
For the widest selection, you are more than welcome to make the trip to home base of Delectation of Tomatoes in East Carbon, where seedlings of up to 800 varieties of tomatoes will be available in late May.
Depending upon delivery scheduling and weather forecasts, seedlings will be available in the timeframe of May 6th through June 12th, or until all seedlings have found a good home. It's a 6 to 10-week process to raise seedlings, thus the April 1st deadline for special ordering. And this is a one-person operation, so once seedlings are gone, that's it until 2023.
Local Pickup Only planned - no mail ordering of seedlings. This may change if I can manage to get some help. Seeds of >2,500 varieties can be ordered from the Store Tab above.
Up to 10 pickup locations throughout Utah are planned for 2022 in the following counties (DROP OFF DATES AND TIMES ARE TENTATIVE, unless otherwise indicated):
Salt Lake
South Salt Lake County – First batch of seedlings dropped at 5:30 p.m. on May 7th. At least one more, much larger delivery is planned for Monday, May 16th. Seedlings can be picked up after 3:00 p.m. or so.
14803 S Pelé Lane
Herriman, UT
Seedlings will be on the driveway
Salt Lake County – First batch of seedlings dropped at 4:30 p.m. on May 7th. At least one more, much larger delivery is planned for Monday, May 16th. Seedlings can be picked up after 3:30 p.m. or so.
1288 W Country Ridge Drive
South Jordan UT 84095
Utah
Utah County – First batch of seedlings dropped at 1:30 p.m. on May 7th. At least one more, much larger delivery is planned for Monday, May 16th. Seedlings can be picked up after 4:00 p.m. or so.
467 S. 380 E.
American Fork, Utah
Located just two minutes from the 500 East American Fork Exit off I-15.
This location is in a cul-de-sac – seedlings will be on the sidewalk adjacent to road.
Tooele
Tooele County – First batch of seedlings dropped at 7:30 p.m. on May 7th. At least one more, much larger delivery is planned for Monday, May 16th. Seedlings can be picked up after 1:00 p.m. or so.
70 W. Middle Circle, Grantsville, UT
Seedlings will be on the brick fence unless the weather is too cold.
Carbon
Carbon County - base of operations and by far the best selection - up to 800 varieties of tomatoes:
170 W Geneva Road, East Carbon, Utah. After May 16th. Seedlings are out back. A self-serve table will be set up, or text 801-651-5953 for more information.
Price - Seedlings dropped off on May 20th
About 150 seedlings dropped off at John M. Howa and Sons, 651 N Carbonville Rd, Price UT 84501
Kane
Kane County – Seedlings dropped off at 10 a.m. on May 6th. Additional tomato seedlings might be available on May 20th.
1176 Maple Lane
Kanab, UT
Donna Bowman will be coordinating seedling pick up, but you're welcome to drop by at your convenience for self-serve
Garfield
Garfield County – Seedlings dropped off and distributed between 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m on Saturday, May 14th at the farmers marked at the Anasazi State Park Museum.
Contact Pamela Furches for details, or Tessa Barkan, the market manager for pickup or for potentially extra seedlings.
Wayne
Wayne County – Around 160 seedlings dropped off at 3:00 p.m. at 259 East 100 North, Torrey.
Seedlings will likely be moved to another location on Monday. Please text Adus at 435-691-0173, as he will be distributing seedlings.
Iron
No willing host found
Grand
Moab, Grand County - Seedlings dropped off at Moonflower Cooperative Market on May 21st.
39 East 100 North, Moab, UT 84532
Uintah
Vernal - host cancelled
San Juan
No willing host found
Cache
No willing host found
Please note - these are private residences of other avid gardeners, but there is no need to contact them. This is self-serve; help yourself, with electronic payment; or contact dale@gianttomatoseeds.com for other arrangements.
Payment expected only upon pickup or delivery. Mistakes or accidents could happen between now and then (deer, frost, dogs, hailstorm, etc.).
Prices for seedlings picked up in person:
$3.00 - individual seedlings if you purchase between 1 and 17 seedlings
$2.50 - per seedling if you purchase a full tray (18 seedlings) or more ($45 per tray)
$2.00 - per seedling ($36 per tray) if you purchase at least four full trays (72 seedlings)
Payment options will include:
PayPal: paypalme/DaleTomatoes or dale@gianttomatoseeds.com
Venmo to: @Dale-Thurber last 4 digits of phone number: 5953
Website: Seedlings under the Store Tab
Invoice: for credit card purchases - email to dale@gianttomatoseeds.com for invoice
Personal check: mail to: Delectation of Tomatoes, P.O. Box 655, East Carbon, UT 84520
Regrettably, cash option will likely not be available, as most of the hosting sites prefer no-contact.
Special delivery options for larger orders may also be available within a reasonable distance of East Carbon.
For 2022 special ordering, please submit your request for specific varieties of seedlings via email before April 1st, 2022 to:
dale@gianttomatoseeds.com. Same for 2023 - place requests by April 1st.
*** NO MAIL-ORDER SHIPPING OF SEEDLINGS AVAILABLE IN 2022 ***
Here is a link to a DRAFT catalog (a work in progress) where information for the 2022 growing season, including descriptions of all varieties offered, can be found (when project completed):
Seedlings Catalog for May, 2022 from Delectation of Tomatoes
** Thank you for supporting preservation of rare and wonderful varieties of garden vegetables from around the world! **
List of tomato varieties grown by Delectation of Tomatoes in 2022 for sharing with other gardeners follows, arranged by broad categories:
LARGE (can reach 1 lb. or more)
1884_
Absinthe
Alice’s Dream
Ananas Noire
Arad's Pink Heart
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Aunt Ruby’s German Green
Barnes Mountain Orange
Big Braggart
Big Zac
Bigzarro
Bill Bean Select
Brandywine
Chapman
Cherokee Chocolate
Church
Delicious
Domingo
Giant Belgium
Good to Gold
Great White
Hawaiian Pineapple
Hazel Mae
Hoy
Katja
Kellogg’s Breakfast
Kosovo
Kozula #156
Mayo's Delight
MegaMarv
Michael's Portuguese Monster
Mrs. Benson
Neves Azorean Red
Orangeveyi Oranguntang
Pineapple
Pink Jazz
Polish Giant
Rhoades Heirloom
RW Cephei
Sainte Lucie
Serdtse Ameriki
Sergant Peppers X Libanaise des Montagnes
Tadzhikskyie
Virginia Sweets
Wes
Yasha Yugoslavian
MEDIUM (typically 6-15 oz. range)
3945_
Altaiskiy Oranzhevyi
Amazon Chocolate
Andy's Buckflats Wonder
Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart
Black Beauty
Black Brandywine
Black Fire
Black from Tula
Black Krim
Black Russian
Blackberry
Brandy Boy
Brandywine from Croatia, PL
Brandywine, Apricot
Buckman's Beauty
Bunte Pflaume
Carbon
Caspian Pink
Cherokee Lime Stripes
Cherokee Purple
Coeur de Strie de Pes
Copper River
Cosmonaut Volkov
Dagma's Perfection
Ded Ivan
Dester
Domaca Pfarrgarten
Dr. Lyle
Dr. Wyche’s Yellow
Earl's Faux
Elfie
Elgin Pink
Gary'O Sena
Georgia Streak
German Pink
Gigant Kuby
Girl Girl's Wild Thing
Gorets
Hippie Heart
Indian Stripe
Italian Heirloom
Italian Sweet
Jabuchar Velika Plana
Jubilee
June Pink
Kanadskoye Naslediye
Kapidag Red
Kavkazets
Kayleigh’s Large Pink
Kenigsberg Serdtesvidniy
Kvadratnyi iz Irana
Letniy Sidr
Loxton Lad
Lucky Cross
Lyagushka Tsarevna
Malakhitovaya Shkatulka
Marcy's Mystery
Marianna's Peace
Maule's Success
Mennonite Orange
Meri's Croatian
Midnight In Moscow
Mortgage Lifter, Bicolor
Mortgage Lifter, Radiator Charlie
Nahuelbuta Pink
Nochnaya Svecha
Oud Holland
Paul Robeson
Peaches and Cream
Pederson's Beefsteak
Peron Sprayless
Persimmon
Pineapple Heart
Pink Berkeley Tie-dye
Purple Reign
Reinhard’s Chocolate Heart
Rose
Rose Beauty
Rosella Purple
Serdtse Tibeta
Staroobryadcheskiy
Striped German
Summer Cider Apricot
Super Sioux
Sweet Sue
Swisher Sweet
The Musketeers
Thornburn's Terra Cotta
Tobolsk
Tsindao
Uluru Ochre
U-Pick
Vater Rhein na Sinyuke
Vorlon
West Virginia Straw
Yablochniy Dugosel'skiy
Yakut
Yoder's German Pink
Zolotyie Gory Medeo
SMALL (1 to 4 oz., "saladette", golf ball-sized or larger)
Apricot Zebra
Bison
Brandywine True Black
Brazilian Beauty
Bursztyn
Coastal Yellow Egg
Coeur de Surpriz
Dancing With Smurfs
Dirty Little Chicken
Dwarf Mister Snow
Everett’s Rusty Oxheart
Fourth of July (PL, OP)
Goluboy Les
Grubs Mystery Green
Idagold
Imur Prior Beta
Indigo Rose
Ivory Pear
Kootenai
Latah
Little Lucky Heart
Lucinda
Mallee Rose
Marizol Magic
Mountain Magic
Oaxacan Jewel
Orange Bourgoin
Phuket Egg
Red Alert
Sibirski Skorospelyi
Stupice
Sub-Arctic Maxi
Tanager
Tel-Aviv Train (dark)
Totushka
Trokhtsvetnyi
Trophy
Utyonok
Vee One
Zurcher Original
TINY ("Cherry", "Grape" and similar")
Ambrosia Gold
Black Cherry
Bosque Blue Bumblebee
Champagne Bubbles
Chocolate Cherry
Gajo de Melon
Ghost Cherry
Green Doctors Frosted
Hawaiian Red Cherry
Honey Drop Cherry
Isis Candy
Iva’s Red Berry
Lemon Drop
Maddeline's Vine Candy
Orange Paruche
Peacevine
Rose Quartz
Schlicht’s Orange Cherry
Sugary
Sunchocola
Sungold (OP)
Sunrise Bumblebee
Sunsugar (OP)
Sweet Aperitif
Vilma
White Cherry
Yellow Pear
SALSA (aka "Paste", Roma-style; generally quite prolate with dry flesh)
Amish Paste
Aunt Swarlo's Polish Plum
Auria, Dwarf
Beaverlodge Plum
Big Ray's Argentina Paste
Canestrino di Lucca
Charlie Chaplin
Chukhloma
Criollo Argentino
Gezahnte Buhrer-Keel
Giant Italian Paste
Heidi
Jutland
Martino’s Roma
Northern Ruby Paste
Opalka
Orenco Gold
Pebrera de Jerica
Purple Russian
Rosalie's Big Rosy
Rosalie's Large Paste
San Marzano
San Marzano Redorta
Super San Marzano
Teschchin Yazyk
CANNING (Typically small to medium-sized, red, productive, with mild to acidic flavors)
Ace 55
Belle Star
Celebrity (F4)
Early Girl (OP)
Hamson DX 52-12
Mormon's World's Earliest
Moscow
Nevskyi
