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Celebrity tomato is a large globe-shaped tomato fruit which changes color from green to intense red when ripe. It is a popular all-purpose slicing tomato that is suitable for a variety of culinary recipe applications such as cooking, sauces, soups, salads, pastes, juicing, canning  and making salsa. The tomato was developed in the U.S and is borne of a vigorously growing bushy determinate vine. Celebrity tomato is considered an easy to grow tomato which is ideal for first-time gardeners.

Black Cherry tomato is a small type of cherry tomato that ripens with a black-purple skin and dark red flesh. The tomato has a sweet-tart taste and is often referred to as the miniature version of the equally popular but bigger Cherokee purple tomato. The Black cherry tomato is an indeterminate tomato that was developed in the United States. It has a prolific plant, a vigorous grower which can withstand common elements such as wind and heat and produces a lot of fruit. Black cherry tomatoes are suitable for use in salads, mixed vegetable roasts, sauces, salsas, garnishing and also as off-the-vine snacks.

Green Zebra tomato is a green tomato cultivar with green flesh and dark to light green vertical stripes which mimic Zebra stripes. Depending on the ripening stage, the stripes shift to light green or yellowish color. This is one of the ways to tell when the fruit is ready to pick. Green Zebra tomato has a tart and sweet flavor profile and is good for salsa and salads. It is considered a green-when-ripe tomato which does not change to red when ripe as occurs with regular red tomato fruit.

Yellow Pear tomato is an indeterminate pear-shaped tomato which ripens with a bright yellow color. It is a small heirloom cherry tomato cultivar which is borne in clusters on long growing vines. The yellow pear is a mild flavored tomato used in salads, salsa making, pickling, canning and making preserves. The cultivar is very easy to grow and has moderate resistance to light blight tomato fungal disease.