Just Veggies

Love Gourmansun Sunrise Tomato

Don’t you just love a tomato that is something other than red? Add stripes or some sort of ombre color gradient to the skin—better yet, make them change from green to purple to orange!—and the anticipation of eating that fruit rises a hundredfold. These novelties just make the tomato all that more interesting in my ...

What “Determinate Tomato” Means

You’re shopping for tomato plants at the garden center and you see the word “determinate” on the plant tag. You might also see the word “indeterminate” on a different tag on a different plant. Today we’ll be talking about what the “determinate” word means when it comes to tomato plants. The Meaning of Determinate Think ...

Shimmer Tomato Is Well-Behaved

If there is one garden dream that I have it is that all my tomatoes are well-behaved. By well-behaved I mean it is not a rangy character, growing every which way. Shimmer tomato, a new variety introduced by Burpee, is quantifiably a well-behaved tomato and my favorite plant in the garden this year. Why ...