Organic Heritage Tomatoes

We're trying something new in the garden. We're giving up on the hybrid tomatoes. The output on the hybrid tomatoes has been great, but the seeds--not so great. You can't use them to propagate new tomatoes as you can with the "heritage" seeds.

It was late February when I planted the organic heritage seeds in a seed-box. When the plants grew up, there were some noted differences. The tomato plants looked different from the starter plants you get from home and garden stores. Another odd thing. Some weeds came up, too. I don't know if the soil was contaminated with weed seed or whether weed seed got mixed up with the heritage tomato seeds.

It doesn't much matter. Maybe I'll begin cultivating a new hardier brand of heritage weeds. More to the point, I put the heritage tomato plants (grown from seed) out into the garden and they're looking strong. Right now, they look a lot more like Tomato plants. Still, the leaves are a bit different, as they are not a hybrid recognized species.

It's cool so far--I think of the Indians when I'm looked at them. BAck in the day of the Indians, most plants were different--especially the corn. Some people refer to Indian corn as "flint corn."