Carroll County’s master gardeners may soon also be known as master bakers, as they cook up bread recipes featuring their prized heirloom tomatoes as the star ingredient. The gardeners are preparing ...

Vegetable plants can be either heirloom or hybrid. During the gardening season, we often hear about heirloom vegetables, and many of the tomatoes and peppers we personally buy are heirloom varieties.

There’s absolutely nothing as amazing as a fresh-picked tomato still warm from the sun. In fact, tomatoes are one of the most popular plants in home gardens, alongside beans, summer squash, and herbs ...

It’s an age-old question—is a tomato a fruit, or a vegetable? Botanically they are a fruit, but the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that they are a vegetable (due to their use in cooking), so it’s kind ...

Join the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners in McHenry County for a presentation by Bob Zeni “The Chicago Tomato Man” on Tuesday, June 3. Zeni has had numerous speaking engagements and ...

What do you think of when you see the word “heirloom” associated with tomatoes? I used to think they were old varieties that were probably especially tasty but finicky to grow. Well, part of that is ...

Yellow, streaked or purple, enormous or tiny, round, plum or lobed – the colours, sizes and shapes of the tomato varieties traditionally grown in Europe vary greatly. But it turns out this diversity ...

Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter -- these are names that make a tomato lover’s heart race. They conjure up images of backyard plants grown from hard-sought seeds, of ...