I was watching the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES on PBS last night. He did a program on tomatoes!
There is a yearly tomato festival here in Lost Angeles and he did a great job getting all kinds of trivia about 'maters..
I was amazed by some of the facts about them.
THere are 60 different types. Purple, black, yellow and green.
Some have names such a the Julia Child strain and a new kind that does not have a name-only a designation- BRK910.
There are striped and speckled tomatoes!
Heirloom tomatoes are not the proper name!
The way a tomato gets an Heirloom designation is by being grown by one farming family for more than 50 years.
So, in reality, Heirlooms are different strains, with a catch-all name!
