If you like the flavor of heirloom tomatoes but the performance of a hybrid, grafting tomatoes is a surprisingly easy and fun way to get the best of both worlds. By combining a rootstock tomato like ...

the author of Epic Tomatoes and the co-leader of the Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project has spent decades growing hundreds of heirloom varieties in his garden. “I love heirlooms for their ability to ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. If you’re crazy about tomatoes, consider growing heirloom tomatoes and maybe other heirloom vegetables and herbs. Heirloom plants are ...

Bring back lively flavor with these best-tasting tomato varieties. Grow heirloom tomatoes varieties in your garden to be used in delicious recipes There’s no other way to say this: Tomato ...

My tomato plants will grow hardy — or hardier, I should say. Being heirloom tomatoes, they are already tough little chaps, well-suited to the environment. They will attract natural pollinators ...

who has grown some 250 heirloom tomato varieties in high, covered tunnels at the inn’s Kelly Way Gardens since 2013. This year he is growing 51, which guests can sample at the 9th Annual Great ...

Cherokee Purple (Heirloom) Deep-violet colored fruit with intense, rich flavor. 80 days. Vine-type. Early Girl (Hybrid) There's no faster-growing, better-tasting tomato! Hugh crops of 4 - 6 oz.