Heirloom Tomato Varieties

See which heirloom tomato varieties you should grow in your kitchen garden, plus put your harvest to use with a Tomato Kromeskies recipe.

By William Woys Weaver
Updated on December 16, 2021
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Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver is the culmination of some thirty years of first-hand knowledge of growing, tasting and cooking with heirloom vegetables. A staunch supporter of organic gardening techniques, Will Weaver has grown every one of the featured 280 varieties of vegetables, and he walks the novice gardener through the basics of planting, growing and seed saving. Sprinkled throughout the gardening advice are old-fashioned recipes — such as Parsnip Cake, Artichoke Pie and Pepper Wine — that highlight the flavor of these vegetables. The following excerpt on heirloom tomato varieties was taken from chapter 35, “Tomatoes.”


‘Acme’ Tomato
‘Brandywine’ Tomato
‘Ciudad Victoria’ Tomato
‘Earliana’ Tomato

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