Description
My favourite beefsteak tomato from the 2024 growing season. One slice covers a slice of homemade bread. Delicious, beautiful, rusty brown fruits hang on vining plants. 10% of your purchase goes to Karen Olivier, my cousin and breeder of this Canadian variety. Cowboy was named for her late father, Harold Borle. This one feels like a family heirloom already.
I grew Cowboy in the unheated greenhouse and in the field. While the yield was slightly more from the greenhouse, the flavour was great from both crops. If you want quality of flavour over quantity, Cowboy is your best bet.
“Named in memory of my father Harold Borle who was a cowboy and horseman to the end of his days. The colour of his favourite sorrel quarter horse, it is a rich rusty red-brown with incredible rich texture, a strong bold classic tomato flavour. Robust indeterminate regular leaf plants. Leaves have a distinctive form rather like an oak leaf.” – Karen Olivier
Pictured are Cowboy tomatoes. The main product image best shows the true, rusty brown colour. There is one photo comparing Cowboy (below) to One Trick Pony (above). Photography is by Sow Local Seeds. Photo of the tomato in hand, with greens in the background, is by Karen Olivier.
This variety was grown out for seed production by Sow Local Seeds, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Thank you for supporting local seed. 10% of your purchase goes to Karen’s breeding projects for northern tomato varieties suited to short and cold growing seasons.
Approximately 25 seeds per packet
Germination for 2025: TBA%
