The first written record of a tomato in Italy is dated 1544. It took roughly 150 more years before anyone
A volunteer seedling comes up next to the tomato bed. The easy assumption is that it dropped from last year’s
A tray of unlabeled seedlings looks nearly identical by the second true leaf. Tomato, pepper, eggplant, and potato all share
A single fruit has been called a golden apple, a wolf peach, and a love apple. Sometimes all three names
Yes, you can eat green tomatoes raw. Home cooks do it constantly, in salads, in salsas, and sliced straight off
A lot of gardening sites still repeat a tomato record from 1986. That record has been broken twice since. The
Seed catalogs often promise a fixed number. Real gardens rarely deliver one. The honest answer to how many tomatoes per
A tree tomato grows on a small woody tree, not a vine. The fruit is not a tomato at all.
The sauce simmers for twenty minutes. The leftovers go into a plastic container. By morning, that container has a permanent
A round, orange fruit shows up on a plant nobody remembers planting. The first guess is always the same. It