Picking the perfect tomato can be a bit of a challenge. There are, after all, over 10,000 different varieties of tomatoes!
There are many criteria that you might use to choose the best tomato for your garden. One of the most common? Yield!
Here is our list of 20 of the top tomatoes with the highest yields.
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- Highest Producing Tomatoes for the Home Gardener (and others!)
- 1. Super Sweet 100
- 2. Sungold
- 3. Sweet Million
- 4. Yellow Pear Cherry Tomato
- 5. Early Girl
- 6. Big Boy
- 7. Big Beef
- 8. Beefmaster
- 9. Mortgage Lifter
- 10. Stupice
- 11. Celebrity
- 12. Better Boy
- 13. Heatmaster
- 14. Black Krim
- 15. Cherokee Purple
- 16. Rutgers
- 17. Amish Paste
- 18. Roma VF
- 19. San Marzano
- 20. Pozzano
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Highest Producing Tomatoes for the Home Gardener (and others!)
The highest-yielding tomatoes are almost always indeterminate tomatoes. Indeterminate tomatoes will continue to produce blossoms and set fruit for as long as your growing conditions hold out. So, if frosts are late in coming, you can get tomatoes straight through the fall until cold weather comes.
(Determinate tomatoes, on the other hand, set fruit all at once—good for many uses and beneficial for preserving, but they can only produce as many tomatoes as they’re naturally designed to produce. On the other hand, if you want to do a lot of different types of preserving over time, indeterminate tomatoes have their advantages, too.)
Here are some of the highest-yielding tomatoes you can grow:
1. Super Sweet 100
| Flavor: | Sweet |
| Type: | Cherry |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | 1-ounce |
| Uses: | Fresh eating, salads, juicing |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable for most climates; good for southern fall/winter gardens |
| Disease Resistance: | Very good: Fusarium wilt, Verticillium wilt, and Root-knot nematodes |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 65 days |
| Yield: | High |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to buy Super Sweet 100 Tomato Seeds:
Super Sweet 100 is an improved hybrid of the popular Super Sweet tomato. This is a cherry tomato. It’s known for its excellent, sweet flavor but with better disease resistance than the original Super Sweet. It is also high in Vitamin C.
Super Sweet 100 matures early, in just over two months, which gives it a long production period and adds to its high yields.
2. Sungold
| Flavor: | Very sweet (9 to 10 on Brix scale) |
| Type: | Cherry |
| Color: | Orange |
| Size: | ¾ to 1 ounce |
| Uses: | Fresh eating, salads, snacking, garnish, culinary uses |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable for most climates |
| Disease Resistance: | High: Fusarium wilt, Root-knot nematodes, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Verticillium wilt |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (tall stakes or trellis) |
| Days to Harvest: | 57-60 days |
| Yield: | High, heavy |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to buy Sungold Cherry Tomato Seeds:
Sungold is an orange cherry tomato known as one of the sweetest tomatoes available. Burpee Seed Company says it is “Rapidly becoming the most popular cherry tomato of all time.”
It is juicy and fruity with thin skin. One of the biggest advantages of this little tomato is that the flavor develops early, even before it is fully ripened, so it can be picked and eaten at many stages of ripening.
The plant matures very early and is indeterminate, so it will produce all the way through until fall frosts. It grows tall—from 6 to 8 feet tall—and has very good disease resistance.
3. Sweet Million
| Flavor: | Sweet |
| Type: | Cherry |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | ½ to ¾ ounce |
| Uses: | Fresh eating, salads, snacking |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable for most climates |
| Disease Resistance: | Excellent: Fusarium wilt, Root-knot nematodes, Gray leaf spot, Tobacco mosaic virus, Tomato mosaic virus, Verticillium wilt |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 65 |
| Yield: | High (500 tomatoes per plant) |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to buy Sweet Million Cherry Tomato:
Sweet Million is a cherry-type tomato that grows more compactly than Sungold, topping out at just four to six feet tall. Tomatoes are very sweet and have excellent flavor but are smaller than other cherry tomatoes, about one-half to three-quarters of an ounce each.
Fruit matures early and goes for a long time until frost.
4. Yellow Pear Cherry Tomato
| Flavor: | Mild, tangy, low acid |
| Type: | Cherry |
| Color: | Yellow |
| Size: | ¾ to 1 ounce |
| Uses: | Fresh eating, salads, garnish, platters, culinary uses |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable for most climates |
| Disease Resistance: | Very good: Anthracnose, moderate Late blight resistance; Crack resistant |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or trellis/fence) |
| Days to Harvest: | 78 |
| Yield: | Very high |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to buy Yellow Pear Cherry Tomato Seeds:
This is a low-acid heirloom cherry tomato with a mild flavor that boasts a fun and interesting pear shape. Fruit grows in attractive clusters.
The yellow pear cherry tomato is known as a prolific producer, but it does mature later than other cherry varieties and will need about two and a half months to reach harvest. Once it starts producing, it is said to be an “endless producer” until fall frost hits.
*There is a larger size of the yellow pear tomato (2 to 4 ounces) that is good for salads and low-acid sauces. There are red varieties as well.
5. Early Girl
| Flavor: | Excellent, traditional tomato flavor |
| Type: | Round, slicer |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | 4 to 6 ounces |
| Uses: | Slicing, salads, fresh eating, sandwiches/topping |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable for all regions; excellent heat tolerance |
| Disease Resistance: | Good: Fusarium wilt, Verticillium wilt |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 52 days |
| Yield: | Very high (300 fruit per plant) |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Early Girl Tomato Seeds:
Early Girl gets its name because it is one of the earliest tomatoes to mature. Because it is indeterminate and continues to produce throughout the summer, it yields massive harvests—up to 300 fruit per plant!
Early Girl produces medium-sized round tomatoes weighing 4 to 6 ounces each. It continues to produce in high heat.
6. Big Boy
| Flavor: | Very good |
| Type: | Beefsteak/slicer |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | 10 to 16 ounces |
| Uses: | Slicing, sandwiches, toppings |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable for all climates, produces the heaviest mid-season |
| Disease Resistance: | Fair: Crack resistant |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 78 |
| Yield: | Very high (up to 100 one-pound tomatoes per season) |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Big Boy Tomato Seeds:
This tomato gets its name from its very large tomato size. Tomatoes are typically 10 to 16 ounces in size. In an average ten-week season, each plant can produce up to 100 of these large fruits.
Big Boy produces heavily in mid-season but produces well before and after and will continue until it is killed by frost.
The flavor is very good, and the tomatoes are meaty and juicy.
7. Big Beef
| Flavor: | Excellent, rich, old-style tomato |
| Type: | Beefsteak |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | Large, 12 to 16 ounces |
| Uses: | Slicing, salads, toppings, sandwiches |
| Climate Notes: | Reliable in all climates; heat tolerant; withstands cool, wet conditions well |
| Disease Resistance: | Excellent: Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt, Anthracnose, Root-knot nematodes, Alternaria stem canker, Tomato mosaic virus, Gray leaf spot, Late blight, Crack resistant |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 73 days |
| Yield: | High |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Big Beef Tomato Seeds:
The Big Beef tomato was developed with disease resistance in mind, but it also does an excellent job of maintaining an old-world, traditional tomato flavor, so it has lost nothing while it was improved and developed.
Big beef is a large beefsteak-type tomato that bears fruits weighing up to a pound. It is a heat-tolerant tomato variety, but it is also known for producing well in cool and wet weather. One of the earliest-producing beefsteaks, it is considered the best all-around beefsteak tomato variety.
8. Beefmaster
| Flavor: | Excellent: sweet, meaty, juicy, flavorful |
| Type: | Beefsteak |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | Very large: 1 to 2 pounds per tomato |
| Uses: | Slicing, salads, sandwiches, toppings |
| Climate Notes: | Suited to all climates |
| Disease Resistance: | Excellent: Gray leaf spot, Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt, Anthracnose, Root-knot nematodes, Tomato spotted wilt virus, Crack resistant |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 80 |
| Yield: | Very high |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Beefmaster Tomato Seeds:
Beefmaster is one of the largest and most disease-resistant tomatoes there is. Tomatoes can grow as large as two pounds—and it produces plenty of them! It’s indeterminate, so production will continue all season long.
Despite its large size, both the flavor and disease resistance of this tomato are excellent.
9. Mortgage Lifter
| Flavor: | Very good: sweet, meaty, juicy |
| Type: | Giant beefsteak |
| Color: | Pink-red |
| Size: | Giant, average fruit 2 ½ pounds, up to 4 pounds |
| Uses: | Slicing, salads, sandwiches, toppings |
| Climate Notes: | Heirloom suited to all climates |
| Disease Resistance: | Good: Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt, Root-knot nematodes |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 80 to 85 |
| Yield: | Excellent, heavy |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Mortgage Lifter Tomato Seeds:
Mortgage Lifter got its name because the man who developed it was able to pay off his mortgage with these tomatoes; they are so productive.
These are considered giant tomatoes, developed after six years of crossing some of the biggest and best. The flavor is excellent, too! Tomatoes can range from one to four pounds in size, with two and a half pounds being the average!
10. Stupice
| Flavor: | Very good: sweet/acid |
| Type: | Slicer |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | Medium, 3 to 6 ounces |
| Uses: | Slicing, salads |
| Climate Notes: | Cold tolerant and well suited for northern growing |
| Disease Resistance: | Fair, no specific resistance to note |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 55 days |
| Yield: | Very good |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Stupice Tomato Seeds:
Stupice is a smaller tomato in size. The fruit is only three to six ounces each, about three inches in size, but the plants produce them early and continuously, and on compact plants. They’re a high producer good for small spaces, raised beds, and containers, too.
Their best claim to fame is that these tomatoes originated in the Czech Republic, and they are well-suited to harsher, cool, northern climates.
11. Celebrity
| Flavor: | Very good: meaty, flavorful |
| Type: | Slicer, multi-purpose |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | 7 to 8 ounces |
| Uses: | Slicing, sandwiches, salads, juicing, sauces, freezing |
| Climate Notes: | Does well in all climates |
| Disease Resistance: | Excellent: Anthracnose, Fusarium wilt, Verticillium wilt, Root-knot nematodes, Gray leaf spot, Tobacco mosaic virus, Crack resistant |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, yields best with support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 70 to 72 |
| Yield: | High |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Determinate |
Where to Buy Celebrity Tomato Seeds:
Celebrity is a good multi-purpose tomato that produces high yields of 7-ounce tomatoes. One big advantage of growing Celebrity is that the plants are determinate; you get big yields in a short amount of time, mostly all at once, so it’s great for big canning or preserving sessions.
12. Better Boy
| Flavor: | Excellent: meaty, juicy, well-balanced sweet and acid |
| Type: | Round slicer, multi-purpose |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | Large, 10 to 16 ounces |
| Uses: | Slicing, salads, canning, sauces, freezing |
| Climate Notes: | Thrives in all climates |
| Disease Resistance: | Excellent: Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt, Anthracnose, Root-knot nematodes, Gray leaf spot, Late blight |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 72 to 75 |
| Yield: | Very high |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Better Boy Tomato Seeds:
Better Boy is a world record holder as one of the highest-yielding tomatoes. What’s even better is that it has a delicious, well-balanced flavor, excellent disease resistance, and it’s a multi-purpose tomato! Produces large tomatoes all season long.
13. Heatmaster
| Flavor: | Very good, classic tomato |
| Type: | Slicer and multi-purpose |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | 7 ounces |
| Uses: | Slicer, but multi-purpose: salads, sandwiches, slicing, canning, saucing, freezing, good storage |
| Climate Notes: | Specifically bred for hot climates |
| Disease Resistance: | Excellent: Anthracnose, Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt, Root-knot nematode, Gray leaf spot, Tomato mosaic virus, Alternaria stem canker |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, benefits from support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 65 to 75 days |
| Yield: | High |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Determinate |
Where to Buy Heatmaster Tomato Seeds:
Heatmaster was developed specifically for hot-climate growers in southeast North America. It can continue to produce even in high heat, yields well, and is disease-resistant.
14. Black Krim
| Flavor: | Very good; sweet, rich, juicy, classic tomato |
| Type: | Beefsteak |
| Color: | Dark red/maroon with green-tinged shoulders |
| Size: | 8 to 10+ ounces |
| Uses: | Fresh eating: salads, slicing, sandwiches, toppings, juicing |
| Climate Notes: | Good for all regions; well suited for hot areas; heat tolerant |
| Disease Resistance: | Fair: crack resistant |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 80 |
| Yield: | High |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Black Krim Tomatoes:
Black Krim is an heirloom variety that originated in the Russian Crimean region. If you like interestingly colored tomatoes but still want classic tomato flavor and high yields, this is the tomato for you, with its dark red color topped with green shoulders.
15. Cherokee Purple
| Flavor: | Excellent: sweet, juicy, rich, full tomato flavor |
| Type: | Slicer, beefsteak |
| Color: | Dark purple-brown, dark green on shoulders, brick-red flesh inside |
| Size: | 10 to 13 ounces (5 by 3 inches, average) |
| Uses: | Slicing, fresh eating, salads, sandwiches, toppings, juicing |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable to all climates, resilient in cold |
| Disease Resistance: | Good; concentric cracking is expected; avoid pruning to prevent sun scald |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 80 to 85 |
| Yield: | High |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Cherokee Purple Tomato Seeds:
Cherokee Purple hails from the indigenous Cherokee tribes in the U.S. It is a much-loved heirloom with a nice, dark color, deep flavor, and high yields. Some seed companies, like Fedco Seeds, pay royalties to indigenous peoples through the purchase of these seeds.
16. Rutgers
| Flavor: | Sweet, full flavor, meaty |
| Type: | Slicing, canning |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | 6 to 12 ounces |
| Uses: | Multi-purpose, good for salads and slicing, soups, saucing, canning, freezing |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable for all climates, developed in mid-coast eastern U.S., performs in northern regions |
| Disease Resistance: | Very good: Anthracnose, Fusarium wilt, Gray leaf spot, Verticillium wilt, Crack resistant |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 73 days |
| Yield: | High |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Determinate, but some show semi- and indeterminate characteristics |
Where to Buy Rutgers Tomato Seeds:
Rutgers is often called the “Campbell’s Soup tomato” because it is one of the varieties developed by the famous soup company. Clearly, this sets it up as a high-yielding tomato with excellent flavor, but one that is ideal for soups and sauces.
Multipurpose, juicy and meaty, Rutgers matures early and reliably produces plenty of medium-sized tomatoes, mostly at the same time (so they’re ideal for preserving).
17. Amish Paste
| Flavor: | Very good: sweet, meaty, juicy, classic tomato flavor |
| Type: | Multi-purpose paste/canning tomato |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | 8 to 12 ounces (largest canning type) |
| Uses: | Multi-purpose: canning, paste, sauces, soup, fresh eating, slicing, salads |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable for all regions, developed in the northern U.S.Midwest |
| Disease Resistance: | Good, not well documented, resilient from blight with treatment |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages, trellising) |
| Days to Harvest: | 75 to 85 days |
| Yield: | High; continuous production through frost |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Amish Paste Tomato Seeds:
Amish paste is an open-pollinated heirloom tomato. It is the largest paste or canning tomato you will find, and its heirloom status delivers excellent, reliable flavor. However, this tomato is excellent as a multi-purpose tomato for fresh eating, too. It yields well, but it is also a very meaty, coreless fruit with few seeds, so more of the tomato can be used (almost all of it, in fact).
18. Roma VF
| Flavor: | Good; classic Italian tomato flavor |
| Type: | Canner, Roma, Plum |
| Color: | Pink-Red |
| Size: | 2 to 4 ounces |
| Uses: | Most well known for all types of saucing, canning, cooking, and juicing; good for fresh eating |
| Climate Notes: | Suited to growing in all climates; water deeply during dry weather |
| Disease Resistance: | Good: Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages) |
| Days to Harvest: | 76 to 78 days |
| Yield: | High |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Determinate |
Where to Buy Roma VF Tomato Seeds:
There are many varieties of Roma tomatoes that yield well, but to choose one, the choice would be the Roma VF for its high-yielding, reliable nature and all-around usefulness. This is an heirloom type Italian tomato with resistance to wilt diseases. Meaty interiors leave little room for seeds.
19. San Marzano
| Flavor: | Very good; classic Italian flavor |
| Type: | Italian canner |
| Color: | Red |
| Size: | 4 to 5 ounces |
| Uses: | Cooking, saucing, stewing, canning, dehydrating, sun drying, paste, salsa |
| Climate Notes: | Suitable for all climates |
| Disease Resistance: | Good; not specifically bred for resistance, but displays resistant tendencies |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages, trellises) |
| Days to Harvest: | 80 days |
| Yield: | High |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy San Marzano Tomato Seeds:
San Marzano is a classic Italian paste/canning/cooking tomato, coveted the world over by chefs and cooks. Tomatoes are large, flavorful, and meaty, with a small seed cavity that is easy to remove. Lower moisture means this tomato cooks down more easily and dries very well.
20. Pozzano
| Flavor: | Old-world Italian |
| Type: | Italian, canning |
| Color: | Orange-red |
| Size: | 4 to 6 ounces |
| Uses: | Saucing, cooking, paste |
| Climate Notes: | Suited to all climates; does well in greenhouses |
| Disease Resistance: | Very good: Blossom end rot, Tomato mosaic virus, Fusarium wilt |
| Growing Conditions: | Full sun, fertile soil, slightly acidic, needs support (stakes or cages), good greenhouse variety |
| Days to Harvest: | 72 days |
| Yield: | High -- long season |
| Determinate or Indeterminate? | Indeterminate |
Where to Buy Pozzano Tomato Seeds:
Pozzanno is a high-yielding San Marzano-type tomato that is noted for its resistance to blossom end rot and for early production. It produces long, one-inch+ wide, cylindrical fruits that are meaty and prized for cooking and saucing, improving in flavor when cooked.
Pozzanno does well in the field but is especially noted for greenhouse growing for early harvests.
Check Out Our Other Tomato Guides for More
High yields are one of the top ways to choose a tomato variety, but there are other characteristics and features that might be a priority for you, too. Check out our other guides to find things like the best tomatoes for making sauce, canning, dehydrating, heat tolerance, fast growth, and more!
