Learn how to save seeds from tomatoes to revive heirloom varieties by saving heirloom tomato seeds and safeguard against future food uncertainty. Midsummer is here, and, for most gardeners, this means ...

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 ...

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 ...

Craig LeHoullier loves tomatoes. Not in the pass-me-the-spaghetti-sauce sense as much as in the gardening sense. He is the tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, the Iowa-based nonprofit ...

Heirloom tomatoes are open-pollinated varieties which were either introduced commercially before 1940, or grown from seeds that have been passed down at least 50 years through several generations of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hand planting seeds in the garden - Susumu Yoshioka/Getty Images Growing plants from seed can be hugely satisfying. It's also a ...

They came for the heirloom tomatoes — and stayed to learn how to save their seeds. Sunday afternoon’s Tomatoganza! in Napa was a food fair with a difference. As visitors outside the Oxbow Public ...

A. Select ripened tomatoes from the most vigorous plants with the best-tasting fruit. Scoop out seeds and the gel that surrounds them. Put the seeds and gel into a jar, cover with water and put a lid ...

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida about tomatoes, amaryllis, poinsettias, palms, vegetables and ...

Heirloom seeds are curated over many generations for their ability to produce plants of characteristic beauty and culinary superiority. The names of some heirloom plants can be just as colorful as the ...