The great Aussie TOMATO PROJECT

“WULDN’T IT be great to have heirloom tomatoes on a manageable plant,” said one gardener to another in an online chat one day in 2005.

The idea led to Patrina Nuske-Small breeding 40 new Australian tomato varieties and co-founding the Dwarf Tomato Project in collaboration with her American friend Craig LeHoullier, across the two continents. It’s an extraordinary achievement for a hobby gardener with a suburban back yard in Adelaide.

I stumbled across the Dwarf Tomato Project when I was looking for compact plants to grow in wicking beds.

There was a website with mouthwatering photos of the varieties, but I was perplexed as to why so many seeds for