Brandywine Tomatoes - A Heirloom Tomato In A Class Of It's Own
by John Yazo
The thought of a large, ripe, juicy, meaty tomato that makes your mouth water is the perfect way to describe a Brandywine Tomato. They are a large pink color tomato with a taste of there own.
The Brandywine Tomato plants have a heavy potato type leaf. The individual fruit from this plant can be up too one pound in size. They are large enough that a single slice will cover more a hamburger bun.
These tomato plants are of indeterminate form, which means they are a vine type of plant. They can easily grow up to eight feet tall. Staking or tomato cages are needed when growing and they are a late provider of fruit. The first fruit wont appear until ninety to one hundred days which is about a month later than most tomatoes, but the wait is well worth it.
The fruit from a Brandywine Tomato plant are not usually uniform in shape and the surface tends to crack easily if they receive to much water to close to being ripe. The color of a Brandywine Tomato is not like that of the usual tomatoes you are use to seeing in the supermarket or farm stand. They are a pink color and when fully ripe they still tend to stay green close to the stem.
Being a heirloom tomato you may have to start these plants from seed. Not to many garden centers carry this variety of tomato. There is nothing better than the taste of a home grown tomato.
To find seeds that are of the heirloom variety there are several seed exchange groups around. Some of these groups sell there seeds to the public or will even exchange other heirloom variety seeds that you have in your collection.
A good seed exchange group to look for these types of seeds and many other varieties is The Seed Savers Exchange.
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