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Growing Heirloom Tomatoes – Experience REAL Flavor!
If you have never tried an heirloom tomato – you need to put it on your bucket list! Most all commercial varieties of tomatoes, and for that matter, vegetable plants in general – are selected and grown for their ability to look good at the local supermarket, and travel well getting there. A Cherokee Purple Tomato on the vine. They are certainly not selected for their taste! Sadly, many of the best tasting varieties of tomatoes have been weaned out of the mainstream in the last 50 years – simply because they were not pretty enough to display at the market – or they didn’t have a long shelf life. However, thanks in part to a few dedicated individuals and seed companies and their efforts to save these heritage varieties – flavor is coming back in bunches! If you have ever savored a thick juicy slice of a Brandywine tomato – or tasted the full-bodied flesh of a Purple Cherokee – you know exactly what I am talking about. Heirlooms ooze with flavor! In fact – its not fair to even attempt to compare them to a regular “supermarket” tomato. The beautiful and tasty flesh of a sweet Brandywine tomato [...]
Source: http://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2014/03/11/growing-heirloom-tomatoes-experience-real-flavor/
