[daniel1212]

Season is really over here in MA with night time temps going below freezing some night, if not yet near the house. And a tomato plant that was in a 5gal container and was wilted in the summer (despite watering) now is quite healthy, if bare of fruit, as is a winter squash plant that went in really late.

But i thought the crowd here might like this old article i came across from the .scientific american:

How to Grow a Better Tomato: The Case against Heirloom Tomatoes- (but see comments) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/case-against-heirloom-tomatoes/.

The product of archaic breeding strategies, heirloom tomatoes are hardly diverse and are no more "natural" than grocery-store varieties. New studies promise to restore their lost, healthy genes

[greeneyes]

Well, I like the Heirlooms, because I can save the seeds, and get the same tomato again and again. But we sometime plant hybrids too. Grocery store tomatoes lack the flavor of homegrown, so I don’t buy them any more unless I’m totally out of homegrown and dying for a tomato.