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Every variety page on this site is built the same way, and the way matters more than the word count. Here is the entire process, in the open.
Before a word gets written, each variety goes through two separate research passes. The first mines what real growers report: forum threads, trial gardens, regional complaints, the failure stories that never make it into catalogs. The second verifies every checkable fact against university variety trials, extension publications, and peer reviewed research.
The first pass tells us what is true in actual gardens. The second tells us what can be proven. A page only ships when both agree, and when they do not, the disagreement goes in the article.
Days to maturity, origins, breeding history, disease resistance: these trace to sources, and our Sources boxes hold only university extension services, government agencies, peer reviewed journals, and official institutions. Never Wikipedia, never forums, never seed catalog copy dressed up as fact.
Seed catalogs and grower forums still get read, carefully, as evidence of experience and market claims. They inform the research. They do not get cited as authorities, because recycled catalog copy is how tomato myths spread in the first place.
When sellers disagree about a number, we print the honest range and say the sources disagree. When a famous origin story cannot be verified, the page says unverified, and some of our favorite articles exist because a beloved legend fell apart under checking.
Taste is subjective, so our flavor sections report the spread of real grower opinion, including the dissenters. If a variety splits growers into camps, you will meet both camps. If a tomato is popular but plain, the page says plain.
Every variety page ships with a cons box beside the pros, covering the cracking, the disease habits, the misleading seed packet claims, and whatever else the record shows. A guide that hides the downsides is not a guide.
Before any article goes live, it runs through a fixed checklist: structure, readability, spelling standards, claim hygiene, and source verification. Every page gets the same bar, whether it is the most searched variety in America or a tomato ten people grow.
Variety illustrations are exactly that, illustrations, drawn from documented traits and checked against reference photographs from credible sources. We never present a rendering as a photograph of a named tomato.
When a reader shows us we got something wrong, we check it, fix it, and are glad for it. The contact page goes to people who read every message. The best corrections and questions turn into new articles.
We sell no seed, hold no inventory, and answer to no vendor. Affiliate links, where they exist, are disclosed where they appear, and they never decide what we recommend. The picks are not for sale.