Description

Heirloom Large Barred Boar Tomato Seeds

🐗 Heirloom Large Barred Boar Tomato Seeds

Boldly Striped. Intensely Flavored. A Gourmet Heirloom for the True Tomato Connoisseur.

✅ Heirloom Variety | ✅ Open-Pollinated | ✅ Non-GMO | ✅ Naturally Grown

Unleash the wild beauty of your garden with the Heirloom Large Barred Boar Tomato, a truly extraordinary variety known for its deep mahogany skin, green-gold stripes, and rich, smoky-sweet flavor. Originally bred by tomato artisan Brad Gates, this variety has become a cult favorite among gourmet growers, chefs, and heirloom collectors alike.

🌟 Why Grow Large Barred Boar Tomatoes?

• Striking Appearance: Dark burgundy skin with metallic green stripes — each fruit is a work of art.
• Robust, Complex Flavor: Deep, earthy, sweet, and tangy with hints of saltiness — perfect for slicing and gourmet dishes.
• Large Beefsteak Fruits: Weighing 200–350g (7–12 oz), perfect for sandwiches, roasting, or tomato tarts.
• Early Maturing for Its Size: Harvest in just 70–80 days from transplanting.
• High-Yielding & Hardy: Vigorous indeterminate vines suited for long harvest seasons.
• Open-Pollinated & Seed-Saving Friendly: Preserve this variety for generations to come.

🌿 The Heirloom Story

The Large Barred Boar Tomato is part of the Wild Boar Tomato series — a selection of artistically bred heirlooms created to preserve diversity while enhancing taste and performance. Though newer than traditional heirlooms, it has quickly become a staple in the world of artisan, naturally bred, open-pollinated tomatoes. At HOOGA Seed Keepers Collective, we grow this variety naturally, with love, compost, and no chemicals — staying rooted in traditional seed-keeping practices.

🌱 Growing Instructions

• Sunlight: Full sun (6–8 hours)
• Soil: Rich, well-draining, amended with compost
• Spacing: 24–36 inches apart
• Support: Stake or cage — indeterminate variety
• Germination: 6–10 days
• Days to Harvest: 70–80 days

📦 What You’ll Get

• Approx. 50 + heirloom-quality seeds
• Homegrown and hand-packed by HOOGA Seed Keepers Collective
• Naturally cultivated by small-scale, chemical-free farmers

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🔥 Make a bold, beautiful, flavorful statement in your garden.
Grow Large Barred Boar. Grow Gourmet Heirlooms.

Pros and cons

• Guaranteed Authenticity: Every seed & bulb is hand-selected & verified to be true-to-variety native & open-pollinated.
• Strong Resilient Growth: Traditional varieties bred over generations for hardiness adaptability & natural resistance.
• Supports a Larger Cause: Every purchase supports small farmers & helps conserve endangered native seed varieties.
• Seed-Saving Ready: Being non-hybrid you can save seeds from your harvest & grow the same variety again next season.
• Premium Pricing: Sourcing rare native genetics directly from small farmers plus manual quality checks costs more than mass-market hybrid seeds.
• Limited & Seasonal Stock: Because many varieties are rare & grown in small batches stock is limited & can sell out before the season peaks.
• Slightly More Care Needed: Native & heirloom varieties may need more attentive growing conditions than common commercial hybrids.
• Longer Dispatch on Some Items: Certain rare or seasonal varieties may take longer to source & dispatch than always-in-stock products.