Five Favorite Heirloom Tomatoes
Karen To be a genuine heirloom tomato, the variety must be at least 50 years old (some say older) dating from the time before the extensive breeding of hybrids for commercial…
Plant Profile: Tomato ‘Cherokee Purple’ (Solanum lycopersicum ‘Cherokee Purple’)
The story goes that the Cherokee Indians gave ‘Cherokee Purple’ to a man in Tennessee in the late 1800s. If this is true, the tomato is an heirloom variety. Unfortunately,…