You’re likely to come across some varieties of hybrid tomatoes at the supermarket. They’re grown year-round and are cultivated to have specific characteristics that make them well-suited to mass ...

Even when you know a thing or two about tomatoes, the wide world of the much-loved fruit is enormous — there are at least 10,000 varieties out in the world. That might seem hard to believe when you ...

Vegetable plants can be either heirloom or hybrid. During the gardening season, we often hear about heirloom vegetables, and many of the tomatoes and peppers we personally buy are heirloom varieties.

There’s absolutely nothing as amazing as a fresh-picked tomato still warm from the sun. In fact, tomatoes are one of the most popular plants in home gardens, alongside beans, summer squash, and herbs ...

It’s an age-old question—is a tomato a fruit, or a vegetable? Botanically they are a fruit, but the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that they are a vegetable (due to their use in cooking), so it’s kind ...

Yellow, streaked or purple, enormous or tiny, round, plum or lobed – the colours, sizes and shapes of the tomato varieties traditionally grown in Europe vary greatly. But it turns out this diversity ...

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Carroll County Master Gardner’s 16th Annual Heirloom Tomato Festival at Carroll County Farmers Market in Westminster Saturday. A Gold Medal orange-yellow tomato was offered for customers to sample at ...

Foster Hill Farm hasn’t yet planted its tomato crop this year, but will be putting seeds in the ground in mid-to-late May that will produce more than 130 varieties of tomatoes. Kim Milikowski, who ...