Last year I purchased an heirloom tomato from QFC (grocery store) and harvested seeds from it.
Just like the heirloom I bought at the farmer’s market in Lake Chelan...I neglected to write down or memorize the type I heirloom tomato.
I planted seeds from both this year.
The chelan heirlooms are delicious and have the interesting shapes you think of when someone says “heirloom tomato”.
The QFC heirloom is delicious. Very delicious! I wish I knew the variety.
When ripe it is a pinkish color...like a pink wine. Super super sweet...medium sized tomato. The wals between the seed pockets is thick enough that when you slice it, the seeds don’t slough out which is great for snacking or in sandwiches.
And they grow in big groups of 6-10 tomatoes all crowded together on the plant.
One downside is the squirrels love to come chew on them when they are almost ripe. I cthought it was field mice but I caught the little devil doing the deed yesterday.
I may have to put out some food for the squirrels to keep em out of my tomatoes.
Any tomato that has been nibbled on I just cut off that part and eat the other half or if too much gnawing has occurred I harvest the seeds. Btw....the seeds themselves are large compared to most other tomato seeds.
These plants are the ones who I had issues with either sun scald or similar. A lot of leaves turned milky white and many stalks were light green with white lines running lengthwise down the branches from. Stalk to branch
...and maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two,
when we're poisoning pigeons in the park. ~ Tom Leherer
I believe I have figured out what these are! I think they are Brandywine.