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Sometime during the spring, backyard food growers will decide what kind of tomatoes to grow: heirlooms or hybrids. Hybrid varieties have had the benefit of genetic tinkering that allows for some cool ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're growing heirloom tomatoes this summer, then it's a simple September garden job to save tomato seeds so you can grow free ...

Sybil Gorby first planted a handful of heirloom tomato seeds in 1965. Every spring since, Gorby, 92, has planted seeds from that same lineage in her garden in Tyler County, W.Va. By late June, they ...

The word “heirloom” likely conjures an image of the past, and when it comes to growing food, the implication is mostly accurate. But while some try to define heirloom cultivars by age — at least 50 ...

Question for Dan Gill: I am very interested in growing heirloom tomatoes, but many of the varieties that I plant don't seem to do too well for me. My Creole and most cherry varieties do quite well. I ...

Four tomato seeds given to a Virginia schoolteacher by one of her ninth-grade students marked the beginning of a nearly five-decade effort to preserve a family heirloom. Peg Davis was given the seeds ...