Carroll County Master Gardeners celebrate heirloom tomatoes — grown from seeds passed down through generations — next month ...

A Class III heirloom created by Tom Wagner of Tater Mater Seeds in 1986, this is the only true green cherry tomato available today. It’s a controlled cross between Yellow Pear and Evergreen.

Ideally — though not essentially — the tomato variety should date back to pre-1950, “because hybridization of tomatoes really kicked off in the ’50s,” Pauly explains.

With hues of its namesake color as well as browns, greens, and reds, the Cherokee Purple is consistently regarded as one of the best heirloom tomato varieties. Until the 1990s, most of us knew ...

Carroll County Master Gardener Marty Hankins holds an oxheart tomato, one of many varieties of heirloom tomatoes she grows in the garden at her home in Hampstead Wednesday, August 10, 2022.

The Purple Galaxy Tomato splashed across the cover of this season's Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog: a closeup of a blackish-purple tomato speckled with tiny pink dots. Next to it, sits a ...

Local tomato grower to speak on heirloom varieties Posted May 27, 2025 9:35 pm. ... In 2024, he donated more than 1,200 heirloom tomato plants to more than a dozen charities.