Showing posts with label brandywine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brandywine. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2015

A Trick For Better Heirloom Tomato Yields

Heirloom tomatoes are notorious for poor disease resistance.

One of the tricks we use to improve this is...

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

My Favorite Tomato

The Vegetable Freak Staff's Favorite Tomato Varities. Photo Credit: Reed J Petersen.
My favorite tomato is the heirloom Brandywine followed closely by the shorter season Pruden's Purple.

As a farmer you might think I am partial to these two tomatoes because of their superior disease resistance (I pick many varieties because of this). Or maybe outstanding yields, that is another selection criteria for some of our vegetables.

But these are my favorite tomatoes because of only one thing. It is...