Heirloom garden plants are old varieties allow home gardeners to preserve the plant’s unique adaptations, flavors, and ...

A: Heirloom tomatoes are open-pollinated, non-hybrid varieties of tomatoes that have been passed down through generations, ...

La Grange Park resident Bob Zeni’s alter ego, Chicago Tomato Man distributes, 15,000 heirloom tomato plants annually.

Growing heirlooms is something that should always be considered. We need to consciously make the effort to preserve our genetic diversity for future generations. It is also something that honours ...

Tomatoes are a popular crop in gardens due to how easy they are to grow - but if you want to make the most of your homegrown ...

Growing tomatoes next to one common plant will help them grow bigger and stronger while staying free of pests.

Heirloom tomatoes are the ones that have been the same from generation to generation, likely with seeds being saved and passed on for the next year. Hybrids are plants that have been cross ...

For tomatoes, we have a wide selection of determinate and indeterminate heirloom tomatoes. Determinate tomato plants are the short and bushy type that produce all their fruit in a short window.

As head of Manheim Central’s agricultural education department, Seth Kensinger has easy access to heirloom tomato and pepper plants students grow at the high school greenhouse. He grows plenty ...