Woohoo!!!  Look at that!!  That is one BIG tomato.

 

I love this heirloom variety. We planted seeds last year and saved some seeds to plant this year.  The great thing about heirloom tomatoes is that they reproduce true to the variety.  That means you can be sure to get the same characteristics every year.  Some heirlooms date back more than a hundred years, still producing the exact same plant and fruit.

 

On the other hand:

 

Hybrids are tomatoes that are cross-pollinated to capture the best characteristics of both the parent plants.  Maybe strong plants, disease resistance, flavorful fruit, etc.  Hybrids are great, but it doesn't work to save their seeds.  When you save the seeds and replant hybrids, often you get only the characteristics of one or the other parent.  Problem is, you don't know until you get fruit.  By then it is too late to replant your crop.  I don't like taking that chance.  I want to know what I'm going to harvest.  So we stick with the heirloom tomatoes we like.  

 

This is Pink Brandywine; we also save seeds and plant Pineapple tomatoes, which are yellow with red stripes throughout.  They are really good too.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!