Heirloom Tomato Plants For Sale
There is no debate about the difference between commercially grown tomatoes and those fresh-picked from the garden. However, there is debate among tomato plant growers about which varieties produce superior fruit.
Garden Harvest Supply has the widest range imaginable of tomato plants for sale. Those include hybrid, open-pollinated, and heirloom tomato plants, which each appeal to different home growers for different reasons. To know which tomato plants for sale are the best for your gardening and cooking needs, let’s look at what qualities each tomato is known for.
Hybrid tomatoes are bred for specific traits. They’re great for commercial growers who supply tomatoes to supermarkets. The fruits are designed to be consistent in color, size and shape, while flavor isn’t the top criterion of growers of those tomato plants. However, they hold up well in shipping, have dependable flavor, and many are disease resistant, so they’re also popular among home gardeners looking for effortless growing.
Heirloom tomato plants, on the other hand, produce fruits that vary in size, shape and color. Heirlooms are not genetically modified or scientifically altered in any way. They’re the same now as they’ve been for 100 or more years. Open pollinated tomato plants are simply heirlooms in training. They’ll become heirlooms after they’ve been successfully grown for a sufficient amount of time to qualify.
Finding heirloom tomato plants for sale is no easy feat. The market for gardeners is flooded with hybrid tomato plants for sale. Hybrids are wonderful and serve their purpose well, but purists and those gardeners who appreciate the challenge of growing tomatoes with character and unique qualities are drawn to heirlooms. Heirloom tomato aficionados are drawn to the wide variety of fruits to choose from. Heirloom tomatoes are sometimes so unique as to not even look like tomatoes. Garden Harvest Supply has heirlooms that are rarely seen elsewhere and gardeners will love experimenting with growing the more obscure varieties.
Garden Harvest Supply has potted tomato plants for sale that will yield tiny to huge, and oval to squat-shaped red, purple-black, green striped, yellow or pink tomatoes unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. And, the taste of a good heirloom tomato is definitely something you won’t soon forget. It’s rare to find heirloom tomatoes available to purchase commercially, since commercial growers are more concerned with crop volume than quality. So, home gardeners are the growers who keep the demand for heirloom tomatoes high, and with good reason.
Once you’ve sampled your first fresh-picked heirloom tomato, you’ll want to dedicate an entire garden to this delicacy, the produce that is summer’s greatest offering.
I grew my first heirloom tomatoes last year, based on this article. Prior to this, I had never even heard of an heirloom tomato. The first thing that appealed to me was the fact that these were tomatoes that may have been grown by my long-deceased ancestors. The second was that the flavor is touted as being amazing and the third being that rather than being round and red (boring), these come in all colors, shapes and sizes. I knew that my tomatoes would be unique in the neighborhood.
After hosting a bar-b-q while I had a bunch of tomatoes on the vines, I can bet that my neighbors will all be growing heirlooms this year. Of course, I still grow the hybrids for canning, making sauces and salsa, etc., but I grow the heirlooms for salads, garnish plates and for eating fresh right from the garden!
Thanks Garden Harvest Supply for helping me discover something new and amazing!