The savoury fruit

A BERRY THAT’S CONSUMED AS A VEGETABLE, TOMATO COMES IN ALL SHAPES, SIZES AND COLOURS, INCLUDING 500 HEIRLOOM VARIETIES IN AUSTRALIA ALONE

Words Chloe Thomson

If you’re going to plant tomatoes in your garden this season, choose heirlooms for fabulous flavour and fun form. In the eyes of many home gardeners, heirlooms are the crème de la crème of tomatoes, adored for their tasty flesh and often fun colours or quirky shapes and sizes. These tomatoes are best when their distance from garden to plate can be measured in mere metres as they’d never survive commercial transport — the key reason you don’t find them on supermarket shelves. What makes an heirloom tomato? Some argue that heirlooms should be more than 50 years old while others suggest it’s a term used for any open-pollinated non-hybrid tomato. Open-pollinated tomatoes are self-pollinating. Often with the help of the wind or insects, they’ll produce viable seed that can be collected and grown…

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