As the name suggests, Amish Paste tomatoes do in fact have ties to the Amish community. They were first commercialized in 1990 by Tom Hauch of Heirloom Seeds, who acquired them from an Amish community ...

When you are shopping for tomatoes in the grocery store, you are usually met with a huge variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. In some cases, there is a whole aisle dedicated only to tomatoes, and ...

They came for the heirloom tomatoes — and stayed to learn how to save their seeds. Sunday afternoon’s Tomatoganza! in Napa was a food fair with a difference. As visitors outside the Oxbow Public ...

If you grow vegetables in the summer, you probably grow tomatoes, and they’re often the first vegetable a budding gardener tries to grow. It's not a bad call—there’s nothing like eating a vine-ripened ...

If you have ever looked through a seed catalog, you have seen a wide variety of tomato types. In the most recent Burpee catalog, there are over 10 pages of tomatoes! There are: early varieties, late ...

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 sliced ...

The scientific name of the tomato is Solanum lycopersicum. This name reflects its membership in the Solanum genus, which it ...