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
