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Here are a few ways to trellis tomato plants, so that you can get greater yields, reduce diseases, and create easy access for care for and harvest your garden’s tomatoes. Trellising is generally only necessary for heirloom and other indeterminate tomato types. Indeterminate varieties of tomatoes are also called “vining” tomatoes. They will grow and […]
Watch this short video clip with Craig, the NC Tomato Man! Craig LeHoullier talks to Peter Kent, interviewer and Slow Food Asheville board member, about how the tomato seeds eventually known as Cherokee Purple showed up in his mailbox and where they journeyed since. This is a lovely chat and worth a few minutes of […]
Focus on Flavor: Slow Food Asheville’s Heritage Food Project Careful: Plant Cherokee Purple tomatoes, and you may never go back to growing a, well, garden-variety again. At least that’s the hope of the team at Slow Food Asheville, which recently announced the Cherokee Purple as the focus of the 2017 Heritage Food Project. They see […]