Everything you need to know to grow tasty tomatoes

My favorites

• Striped Cavern: red and orange striped, fluted, hollow tomato that is great for stuffing with tuna salad.

• Garden Peach: fuzzy yellow, blushed with pink, the 2-ounce tomato looks and feels like a peach. Fruity flavor. Kids love them.

• Black Krim: violet-brown small beefsteak with the perfect sweet-tart flavor with plenty of nuanced undertones like salt and lemon.

• Green Zebra: green and amber striped 3- to 5-ounce tomato. Sweet, fruity flavor with citrus undertones.

• Pineapple: huge orange, amber, and red-swirled beefsteak that can weigh up to 1 pound. Firm and sweet with tart nuances. The perfect BLT and hamburger tomato.

Seed sources

Tomato Growers Supply Co.
888-478-7333
http://www.tomatogrowers.com

Tomato Fest
http://www.tomatofest.com
Internet only ordering

Burpee
http://www.burpee.com
800-888-1447

Seed Savers Exchange
http://www.seedsavers.org
3094 North Winn Road
Decorah, Iowa 52101
(563) 382-5990

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
http://www.rareseeds.com
(417) 924-8917

Territorial Seed Co.
http://territorialseed.com
(541) 942-9545

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Doreen Howard, the Edible Explorer, is one of nine garden writers who blog regularly at Diggin' It. If it’s edible and unusual, Doreen figures out a way to grow it in her USDA Zone 4b garden. She’ll try anything once, even smelly Durian. A former garden editor at Woman’s Day, she writes regularly for The American Gardener and The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s Garden Guide.

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