There are many varieties of tomatoes, in terms of color, red, pink, yellow, green, white, black, purple; by size, large, small, medium and various Size; by shape, oval, round, long (Roma tomatoes). Tomato growing process, pests and diseases are rarely almost negligible. In the face of so many varieties, we choose the most important for our own taste according to our personal preferences
I have grown many varieties of tomatoes over the past decade, and my favorite is this heirloom heirloom tomato. The skin of the ripe fruit is so thin that it can be torn off by hand, and the flesh is soft and juicy, sweet and sour, with a rich aroma of tomatoes, whether raw or fried, all have excellent taste and flavor
Heirloom tomatoes are one of summer’s most prized bounties. The varieties number into the thousands with attention-grabbing names like Cherokee Purple, Green Giant, Kellogg’s Breakfast, Abraham Lincoln and Yellow Oxheart. Loved for their variety of color and flavorful taste, heirloom tomatoes are a feast for the eyes and the palate, whether sliced on a plate or cooked into sauces.
What makes heirloom tomatoes so darn special? It turns out these unusual fruits have a backstory just as colorful as the tomatoes themselves.
Categories of Heirloom Tomato
- Commercial heirlooms: Open-pollinated varieties introduced before 1940, or tomato varieties more than 50 years in circulation
- Family heirlooms: Seeds that have been passed down for several generations through a family
- Created heirlooms: Crossing two known parents (either two heirlooms or an heirloom and a hybrid) and de-hybridizing the resulting seeds for however many years/generations it takes to eliminate the undesirable characteristics and stabilize the desired characteristics, a process that can take eight years or more
- Mystery heirlooms: Varieties that are a product of natural cross-pollination of other heirloom varieties
Heirloom Tomato with tomatoes
The modern market economy of commodities, especially vegetables and fruits and other fresh products, the primary requirement is the appearance of beautiful and resistant to storage and transportation, followed by taste and flavor, etc., so we usually buy tomatoes in supermarkets all have a round and lovely appearance and hard and tasteless taste, and what we call heirloom tomatoes precisely because the fruit is soft and juicy and large and irregular fruit shape, looks a little ugly, and lost the eligibility to enter the modern market circulation, its incomparable taste and flavor is also ignored and forgotten