Hello, lovely people! A few of you have asked how the farmer seed-saves without worrying about cross-pollination. Great question! For the tomatoes he grows for seed, he plants like varieties together (25-50 of each of the varieties he saves) and he personally selects the fruit.
like your doco-👍🥇🍅 its a passion 🍅🥇👍 taste 1st - i used to grow when i had a house - kept every seed as i learnt in brown bags lettuce was fidgety until a neighbor showed me how to grow like lawn seed pick out the biggest & transplanted after a good soak late evenings when cooler - then i grew between the 2ft gap of Tomatoes rows | * | * | THEN ? Cucumber or zucchini down the middle channels corn at Rear pumkins over fences & roofs i tried to utilize all the space i grew way too much but loved it Gave away boxes veggies & fruit lots fun & flowers tulips all types flowers i miss it walking outside after a good sunny week watching how fast things grew film a spider making a web late at night all good entertainment 🍅🥇👍🦘🎬
I love the way these videos are filmed and presented. Some other presenters play up to the camera and get annoyingly over-excited. Nicole seems naturally enthusiastic and inquisitive and doesn't tempt the farmers into being unnatural. Really informative and beautiful.
My family has our own heirloom tomato. We call them Melvinas after a great-aunt of mine who the original seeds came from. We have been saving the seeds and growing this variety for about fifty years. We are just backyard gardening, not a farm.
That’s awesome I suggest that you contact a seed company like baker creek or somebody to spread your family heritage so it wouldn’t disappear and so other can enjoy
That is the beauty of Heirlooms: they have many advantages over hybrids, especially for your own garden. Their variety is vast, their qualities different and the seeds breed true, which means if you grow your favourite types of heirloom vegetables, make your favourite dish with it, share it with your neighbors, friends and family, and soon they will want to plant them also. All they have to do is squish some seeds on absorbent kitchen towels, dry them and label and next year it should grow true to type. All for free! This practise is also very important for maintaining food soverainity.
Tried a Brandywine Pink Heirloom tomato plant last year in the garden and was a little bit skeptical being it was pink and not a classic looking red tomato... but I have to say this Brandywine pink tomato was amazing. Solid/meaty, juicy and tasty as can be. I have 3 of the Brandywine Pink planted this year in the garden! 🍅 🤟 I also learned about "Grafted" tomatoes last year and how to plant them properly. For those who are curious... a grafted tomato plant is basically combining two tomato pants into one where one of the tomato plants variety is very disease resistant, temperature tolerant, tolerant of over watering and so on. The short version is It's a stronger, disease resistant tomato plant. But here is the important thing to know when planting a grafted tomato plant. You don't plant it deep like you would regular tomato plants to get that root system going. When planting a grafted tomato plant you can actually see where the plant is grafted on the plants main stem and you MUST keep this grafted part above the dirt line or it won't grow the way it was intended to giving you the disease resistance for the plant. I keep the grafted section of the stem about an inch above the dirt line.
Thank you for this episode. This is my 2nd year growing backyard tomatoes, 90% of which are heirlooms. Many crack, split, bruise easily, and some seem to be disease-prone in my area, but they are worth it.
I grew black prince tomatoes this year, a newer heirloom tomato and the flavour was outstanding! Very sweet and smoky tasting! Unlike any tomato I’ve ever tasted from a grocery store!
Your channel is the best on TH-cam for the amount of great information it provides. Wish you all the very best for more such informative and creative videos.
I hope you tried some of them. I grew some amazing tomatoes a few years ago and the crap in the stores will never come close to the flavors of heirloom
I love heirlooms tomatoes. That was the first thing I ever grew in my garden. They are way sweeter than the grocery store varieties. Only thing, I wear long sleeves to walk through them. The little hairs on the plants make my skin itchy.
This is why when I plant anything in my tiny garden, it's always with the more rare varieties that are hard to find, or local varieties I have never seen before. I don't grow enough to stop buying produce, but it allows me to try something new. Tip: you may be able to get seeds for free from your local library. In Phoenix, you can get three packets every three weeks.
I grow heirlooms in my backyard garden every year. Some of my favorite varieties are Brandywine, Oxheart, Green Zebra, Valencia, Hawaiian Pineapple, and Cherokee Purple.
My parents ,from Italy have the same old heirloom tommatos for about the last 50 years ,saving the seeds ,there like candy ,I must have at least 30 different heirlooms, I love heritage, thank you for a great series,all the best to all your family
My folks had a fairly large garden where they grew lots of vegs. My uncle had an old cattle barn which had manure buildup for decades. I suggested to my Dad that we scrape a foot or so of dried manure from my Uncles barn and spread it on our garden (and some more on Uncles garden too). After using the disc all over the garden Moms tomatoes were the best I have ever tasted. (The corn, okra, purple hull peas etc were all excellent too).
Use waste decomposer from India, for all answers to organic farming ( fertilizer, nutritions, compost, insecticides, growth promoters, hormones, gibberlins etc.) ................ .......... Since the government has stopped making waste decomposer, you have to take it from farmers who are already using it.
Thanks, And I am going to raise my plants from seads and I will try several new tomatoes next season of heailom type seeking a better food crop. I'm done having growers sale me the wrong plants I asked for and me raising what I don't want. Thanks you Mrs. Jolly
Starting from seeds expands horizons like crazy. The varieties that are out there are mind blowing. I grow 150 pepper plants as well each year and I have every colour imaginable (white, pink, purple, yellow, red, orange, peach, ect)
I love the perfection of such a beautiful farm that can only result from so many decades of hard work and farming. Those heirloom tomatoes are so delicious. Its a shame that monoculture has been so effective at training people to negatively obsess over such minor imperfections. I hope this video helps someone embrace the wabi-sabi of good food.
She is such a joy to watch, Nigerian here and i can't get enough of your smile and educational video's
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My favorite tomato based on best taste is the heirloom Boxcar Willie. Roadside stands sometimes get premium prices for Boxcar Willie tomatoes. It can sometimes be hard to find at garden centers but it’s worth going out of your way to find it.
Hairloom tomatoes are now widely available here in France. Every supermarkets carry them. When you taste them you really can’t go back to your regular blend tomato really. Of course they taste even Better when you get them at your local organic farm.
Use waste decomposer from India, for all answers to organic farming ( fertilizer, nutritions, compost, insecticides, growth promoters, hormones, gibberlins etc.) Since the government has stopped making waste decomposer, you have to take it from farmers who are already using it.
9:50 i am glad you said that. The most useful & educational thing you have ever said in all your videos. We are losing our fruit, veg, grain varieties with all the healthy goodness that is in them.
Since I discovered heirlooms about 8 years ago, they are all I grown in my garden. I also can count on my fingers how many times I have bought slicing tomatoes from the grocery store since that point. There is really no comparison. Not all heirlooms are great, but most are very good. New varieties are still being discovered and developed every year. Cherokee purple is my all around favorite.
That farm is glorious, as is the produce. It actually looks like it could be somewhere in England. I find that the normal red tomatoes you can buy fresh in the supermarket just aren't worth eating; I think that's why a lot of people seem to dislike them when they're sliced up and served in burgers and salads. If I want flavour, the best I can do is Italian tinned plum tomatoes. I'd love to try growing these heritage types but I suspect they'd fall victim to their own fragility. Anyway, this was a delight to watch. Thanks for your hard work in producing such excellent films.
I would imagine sun-loving heritage tomatoes would be difficult in England outside of a greenhouse! Thanks for the lovely words, Han -- always look forward to hearing from you.
And this is exactly why I grow tomatoes on my balcony each year. It's not as easy as going to any store and buying tomatoes in a second, but they taste so so much better. And you discover this amazing variety of colors and flavors
we also have that native tomato here in the philippines,but it wasnt cultured anymore because of it thin skin and so soft it doesnt last long. SENDING LOVE FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Use waste decomposer from India, for all answers to organic farming ( fertilizer, nutritions, compost, insecticides, growth promoters, hormones, gibberlins etc.) .......... Since the government has stopped making waste decomposer, you have to take it from farmers who are already using it.
I got a fun story. My dad gardens and used to go to Burning Man every year. One installment he encountered was a vending machine, just out in the middle of the desert. It took no coins, but there was a price: you put something you already have in the available empty capsules, place it where you usually put coins, then you get something from the machine. My dad put in a pendant he made, and got some tomato seeds from the machine. He found them recently and was able to grow these beautiful, sunshine yellow tomatoes, about the size of a golfball. They make a really good sauce.
Bought this type of tomato from the garden store. I'm so glad it has grown like a weed ,and I have some itty bitty green tomatoes growing on it I can't wait to see them grow even more.
Good length like a micro doc. Good information and the best camera work to date. Really like the music work with the bees, especially the fade and hesititate to hit when the bees touched. All well done. And of course Nicole, you are too fun to watch.
I just started a farm this year that I only grow heirloom varieties. It is definitely more difficult to grow but the colors and flavor are amazing! I have customers making sauce from cherry tomatoes and not having to add sugar!
I started gardening this year, we only have 1 type of tomato available on the market here in the Philippines, They call it DMax F1, and yes, it is a hybrid and a determinate type, So I ended up ordering heirloom tomatoes abroad like brandywine and cherokee purple.
I love heritage tomatoes; they're so much tastier than most shop bought ones. I have to say, though, that they tend to have tougher skins than shop bought; at least for the smaller varieties. Out of interest, what range of tomatoes does the average supermarket sell in the US? Here, at least in tomato season (April - October), we have yellow (sungold/sunglow are the tastiest), orange and red cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes, Vittoria, Pomodorino, Beefsteak and a few Heritage ones as well as the Standard medium-sized ones. Maybe we just love our tomatoes here. My favourite, aesthetically, are the zebra tomatoes but they're only occasionally in supermarkets. The majority of tomatoes you buy are on the vine in the packet. Great content as always. We had a lecture on that tomato gene. Slowly breeders in the UK are trying to get the flavour back.
Speaking from what I see in the grocery stores here in Los Angeles, most stores would carry only about 2 kinds of tomatoes sold by the pound: Red Globe (beefsteak-type) and Red Roma. There are also pre-packaged cherry tomatoes but pretty much, that's it. If you want any other kind of tomatoes, you will have to grow it in your own garden or go to the farmer's market or some seasonal farm stands.
@@recklessroges yep! i use heirlooms as a side dish with just salt, lots of pepper, and olive oil; delicious! If i just used generic red hybrid tomatoes the result would be bland and sometimes mealy.
Love how you covered how heirlooms are being lost but their are a lot of us bringing heirlooms back into the spot light and even finding extinct varieties from 40 plus years ago and bringing them back to market for people to grow and enjoy
I had as many as 63 hierlooms at one time back around the mid 90`s. i`m at 18 today. the "rabbits foot" is either" jersey devil" or "sausage" which are likely the same tomato with different name. I have "sausage" which i got from Gleckers Seedsman back in 1988 .
The presenter speaks not only eloquently but perfectly articulately. She exudes intelligence by her poise, by the tone of her voice, the purpose and emphasis at every vital juncture. She is calming yet engrossing. Her physical beauty is obvious but her real attraction to me is it feels like she is talking directly to me. I feel special watching her video.
I have heirlooms in my garden & at least 15 types of tomato growing atm including brandywine which was mentioned among others including pineapples yellow pears currants anish paste money maker thai pink egg aunt rubys green etc im hoping to find everglades tomato seeds in australia to try too.
Hi @EmmaAppleBerry...Are you Australian, and how on Earth did you get that many variety of tomato seeds/plants? Where there certain places that you went to or shops, maybe? I am Australian and as I homeschool I am teaching gardening as part of agriculture and would love to include some varieties that can be grown in Australia that will suit our climate...plus be a challenge to grow.
@@ZoomZoomBoom24 theseedcollection is the website i use its amazing. Thats so cool that you homeschool i was hoping to when i have kids one day, the more i look into aussie homeschool the more i wish i was american though...homeschoolers here dont get nearly enough credit or support though! So good on you i wish i was lucky enough to be homeschooled. the seeds are based in ferntree gully victoria but theres varieties for all different climates i live in outback bushie qld. I got 100 plus seeds in late 2014/5 i believe and im still using all those seeds and the ones ive saved from the original plants to this day and i always have an amazing almost perfect germination rate. I bought about a hundred at once keep em in the fridge and it was from memory about 120 dollars since most seeds are a dollar to $2.50. Daleys fruit in qld is another good website for tree saplings like macadamia nut fruit trees etc not veg seeds. If you get worms for the garden i reccomend kookaburrawormfarms too their worm bomb was perfect. Feel free to email me btw embybear@hotmail. com Id love to hear more about homeschooling too tbh the more i read about all the laws and nonsense the more i see why so many people dont register. Youd think the government would be happy for people to raise and teach their own children and its been shown children are far better off with the more personalised teaching and less strict factory like schedule so youd think theyd be advocating it or the very least making stock standard school more life skills and interest based.
@@ZoomZoomBoom24 there are plenty of natives on the site. I loved growing stuff like warrigal greens for example although they do need to be cooked first and finding out that they were some of the first native foods eaten by the settlers was super cool its used like spinach super hardy grows itself. Seeds are super cool looking spiky balls that look like goathead burrs! I also grow queensland blue pumpkin. Its not native in the sense that it came from the land but its native like granny smith apples or blue heelers in that it was developed here and bred to suit the climate etc like australorp chickens haha. Proper natives like fingerlimes macadamia nuts tea tree eucalyptus etc ive yet to grow any though.
@@ZoomZoomBoom24 oh btw idk what state youre in but tas and wa have alot of restrictions quarantine wise. & occasionally sa & nt do too but itll say on the item page if thats the case. Unless its like roses or something that i cant get on daleys or theseedcollection i try to seriously avoid corporations and go for local or family owned businesses. Although i do buy my sugarcane mulch and chicken wire for the trellis at bunnings. Ive checked out local nurseries but unless its a non edible and native plant again i avoid buying there. For the same reason i try to support the local green grocers where possible and buy honey directly from a local beekeeper. Eat in season grow my own etc learn to preserve stuff. Try growing luffas ive started this year its the gourd thats used as a sponge either kitchen or body wise the young fruit can be used like asian zucchini and if you leave it to dry on vine and mature you can squish and dislodge the hardshell from the inner sponge and save the seeds so no more plastic cleaning stuff and they grow really well so you save money by not having to buy exfoliator gloves or kitchen things and being completely natural it biodegrades and its gentle i have sensitive skin so i love it and its dry and stores so its not like you need to use it all at once. And you can keep it whole or cut it smaller. Im honestly super excited I reccomend the youtube channels self sufficient me hes in hinterland qld and does gardening vids and also primitive technology he also has a book but his videos are no talking or music just rainforest nature and he does bushcraft. Including gardening.
We have it here in the philippines. My family grows it way back in our province in surigao but like he said it don't bring that much of money when we sale it in our local market because of its odd appearance and people prefers to buy the normal once. I just don't know if we still have this kind of variety up until now since im living in the city now.
It's easier to sell in the city actually, but it only limited on certain supermarket. Mostly they sell it online. Actually it's more profitable to sell the seeds than the fruit
Everyone should garden at home. No supermarket can sell you fresher produce; things you may not like in store are probably weeks old by the time you get them, so their flavor has vanished. I did not like carrots, but after getting one carrot grown at home, I now love them (only home grown of course). The taste was sweeter and richer than you could ever imagine... like candy! I have heard people who grow their own food in organic gardens seem to live longer; this is probably why: their food is fresher and more nutritious.
I agree wholeheartedly that the flavor is better. I know they certainly bruise a whole lot easier, and they can be quite a bit trickier to slice when they have bruised or become softened. After having used them daily for over a year in a high end hotel kitchen they swapped them out for a variety that holds up better. The ones they would get came from a farm in mexico, and by the time they would arrive to us 75% or greater of them couldn't even be used for slices in dishes and had to be cooked down to use in other applications.
I could watch your videos all day long and not tire of them. I learn so much from you. You are truly contributing so much to this TH-cam community and to the world. Thank you so very very much!😘😘😘
This was your best show yet. Food does not come from a store. It comes from a plant, or animal. Farming needs to be about food, not profit. Support your local farmers. You will love what they can grow for you.
Interesting about the color and ripening of the table tomatoes. The commercial growers pick them green and then the trailers have a gas that is emitted into the trailers that eventually turns them reddish during their transport. That's why a lot of these commercial tomatoes have little test and sometimes the hardness of almost an apple. The heirlooms here in PA go for around $4 or more a pound. Through her excellent videos, I've learned I'm not getting ripped off when I pay $1.99/pound for a green pepper verses a red or yellow or orange pepper ar almost double, because of the perishability factor in the three or more weeks of vulnerability. These videos are awesome! Happy Easter!
i love tomatoes and ive been dreaming to plant heirloom tomatoes. but here, it is difficult to get the seed. while waiting for my seeds to arrive here, ill calm my heart with your videos.
I'm presently experimenting with about 15 varieties of Heirloom tomatoes but judging by what I saw on this great video, I am going to have to change some of the things I am presently doing, they don't grow the same as the common varieties like Celebrity, Better Boy, Early Girl, Goliath and other common varieties I have grown accustomed to growing over the past many years. These plants get a lot bigger, I am either going to have to cut down on the number of plants I normally grew or do a hell of a lot of pruning on these Heirloom giants. Thanks for this very informative video, I would love working on that family farm, I'd work very cheap too..lol. I grew up on a south Texas farm but nothing like that beautiful thing. I love it, growing things is definitely in my DNA.
We need to mention “Fried Green Tomatoes”, a southern tradition I know. Fresh and warm, crispy and delicious! Everyone needs to say Fried Green Tomatoes!!!!
A+ episode. Your husband is a riot. He should be in more episodes saying funny things. As tomatoes are the most popular vegetable, it made a lot of sense to have another episode focusing on real tomatoes.
My first year growing Black Krim and Abraham Lincoln heirlooms! All grown in fabric bags with drip irrigation for regular watering and distribution. They did so well. I started from seed in February. I would love some suggestions for future heirlooms.
I'm no expert on all the different varieties - but the beauty of growing heirlooms is you get to experiment each year and see which ones do it for you!
@@TrueFoodTV Yes but I think ill need more land for the number of varieties I would like to try. Great episode guys! Thanks you for the wonderful knowledge and showing us there are awesome farmers out there. He needs his own youtube channel!
In France you can buy a lot of heirloom tomatoes in supermarkets. I buy them there and save the seeds to grow them in my garden in the Netherlands. Question: How are the tomatoes of these species in the video propagated without cross breeding if they are grown mixed? Is the seed produced somewhere else?
Use waste decomposer from India, for all answers to organic farming ( fertilizer, nutritions, compost, insecticides, growth promoters, hormones, gibberlins etc.) Since the government has stopped making waste decomposer, you have to take it from farmers who are already using it.
We Brits like to grow tomatoes in the greenhouse or garden and we are able to buy heirloom or heritage seed from specialist suppliers. So I grow to get fresh and fully ripe tomatoes off the vine and some unusual heritage varieties, this year it's bloody butcher along with some cherry and paste tomatoes. In a medium sized greenhouse we get around 150 lbs to 200 lbs (70 to 100 kegs) of tomatoes with taste that you just can not buy.
Nicole, what a fantastic and informative episode. God knows what agricultural products we are missing due to the reasons you mentioned at the end of your video.
Maam I like your all presentation of videos on fruits and vegetables. It's very rich information and knowledge you provide to us. So can you make one video on dragon fruit? dragon fruit is also cultivated in Mexico, El Salvador, South America.
We have this kind of tomato here in the Philippines. i still remember this kind fruit because my grandparents always have them to our fields and backyard before. Hope to see one again. I want to have a taste of it once more.
I grew up on a farm, Family has been farming it since before the Civil War. We have always grown heirloom tomatoes. Corn, Beans, Hay. was the big crops. in my time. It's not farmed any more like it was, we rent the fields for hay The heirloom tomatoes always taste the best. and what tomatoes we raised was canned, usually only about 100 plants or so. This is the first year I am trying different or unusual tomatoes. I only grow a couple of acres. for our use.
Thank you for a really great video that gives hope for a tomato bounty of the future that would welcome diversity through a rethinking of standard agricultural practice and consumer preferences. I also love heirloom tomatoes and grow them in my back yard.
People, you can grow your own tomatoes and they will be amazing. As the farmer mentioned, you can pick your fruit at peak ripeness and really enjoy the taste and nutrients of your homegrown tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables.
You mentioned that tomato seeds from grocery store tomatoes don't grow into plants. In my case however I am doing exactly the same for last two years and it is working fine for me. Seeds of various varieties of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and melons I took out of of grocery store purchased produce and it is working fine for. Inspired by this video though for next year I'll look into growing some heirloom vegetables.
in the mid 1800's there was a servay in Conneticut where they counted the amount of corn varieties in the state. They counted over 400 different varieties! I have been looking for hairloom varieties that are from new england. I could only find 4 different variaties. Rhode Island White Cap Flint (Naragannset Native Americans, Rhode Island), Roys Calais Flint (From Vermont and created by Roy Calais from Abanaki Conr), Abanaki (Abanaki Native Americans, Vermont), and Byron Flint Corn (Abanaki Native Americans, Maine, variatie found in an shoe box in an estate sale in the town of Byron Maine). Could not find any variaties from Massachsuetts, New Hampshire, or Conneticut. There is a Italian breed of corn called Otto File Flint Corn that was developed from New England 8 row flint corn variaties.
I only plant three kind of tomatoes, Indigo Rose, San marzano, and yellow pear. We grow organically in our garden and it taste better than store bought.
Hello, lovely people! A few of you have asked how the farmer seed-saves without worrying about cross-pollination. Great question! For the tomatoes he grows for seed, he plants like varieties together (25-50 of each of the varieties he saves) and he personally selects the fruit.
like your doco-👍🥇🍅 its a passion 🍅🥇👍 taste 1st - i used to grow when i had a house - kept every seed as i learnt in brown bags lettuce was fidgety until a neighbor showed me how to grow like lawn seed pick out the biggest & transplanted after a good soak late evenings when cooler - then i grew between the 2ft gap of Tomatoes rows | * | * | THEN ? Cucumber or zucchini down the middle channels corn at Rear pumkins over fences & roofs
i tried to utilize all the space i grew way too much but loved it Gave away boxes veggies & fruit lots fun & flowers tulips all types flowers
i miss it walking outside after a good sunny week watching how fast things grew film a spider making a web late at night all good entertainment 🍅🥇👍🦘🎬
I would like to hve few seeds if he can give me...plz help me in that regards
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@@TribleMonk Tomatofest has over 650 varieties of heirloom tomato seeds you can order from their website
I have 22 varieties this year, every color, size, and shape. It takes a lot of work, but it's worth it.
over 50 here. growing on balcony and patio... and over 50 pepper varieties on top of that
Wow 😲😲😲
you guys are awesome!!!!!
yep, me too. Heirlooms are NOT more difficult to grow than 'usual' ones... All they need is water, good soil, good feeding and sunshine.
Just 3 plants in my backyard. 2 Purple Cherokee, 1 Black Prince. You can't buy a tomato that tastes better than these two I say.
The nerve of the people who disliked this video!
Their videos are made with love!
I was thinking the same lol
Very tiny limited minded people. What they learned in 12 years of school is all they still know today, they never broaden their knowledge.
Strict carnivores who don’t like fruits, vegetables, grains and mushrooms.
I agree ,we must preserve these treasures, I do ,love growing them ,
Right sweety.
how can people give it a dislike to this video ? they probably only eat crappy tomatoes
They probably be hybrid seed sellers Or profit makers
Maybe because , a lot of people is waiting for her to cut the tomato and look inside but nope, till the end she didn’t
I don't even eat tomatoes but I love the video lol
I hate the normal storebought tomatoes. I never liked the taste. I would love to try heirlooms one day
This farmer practices Integrated Pest Management (IPM). A very responsible way of farming! It’s nice too see this.
Yes! We talk specifically about IPM in our apple episode. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/UWLmEh1HIBw/w-d-xo.html
I love the way these videos are filmed and presented. Some other presenters play up to the camera and get annoyingly over-excited. Nicole seems naturally enthusiastic and inquisitive and doesn't tempt the farmers into being unnatural. Really informative and beautiful.
My family has our own heirloom tomato. We call them Melvinas after a great-aunt of mine who the original seeds came from. We have been saving the seeds and growing this variety for about fifty years. We are just backyard gardening, not a farm.
That is awesome! Great family tradition that today's society has forgotten! God bless you and your family!
That’s awesome I suggest that you contact a seed company like baker creek or somebody to spread your family heritage so it wouldn’t disappear and so other can enjoy
do you participate In any Seed Swaps??
That is the beauty of Heirlooms: they have many advantages over hybrids, especially for your own garden. Their variety is vast, their qualities different and the seeds breed true, which means if you grow your favourite types of heirloom vegetables, make your favourite dish with it, share it with your neighbors, friends and family, and soon they will want to plant them also. All they have to do is squish some seeds on absorbent kitchen towels, dry them and label and next year it should grow true to type. All for free! This practise is also very important for maintaining food soverainity.
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Tried a Brandywine Pink Heirloom tomato plant last year in the garden and was a little bit skeptical being it was pink and not a classic looking red tomato... but I have to say this Brandywine pink tomato was amazing. Solid/meaty, juicy and tasty as can be. I have 3 of the Brandywine Pink planted this year in the garden! 🍅 🤟
I also learned about "Grafted" tomatoes last year and how to plant them properly. For those who are curious... a grafted tomato plant is basically combining two tomato pants into one where one of the tomato plants variety is very disease resistant, temperature tolerant, tolerant of over watering and so on. The short version is It's a stronger, disease resistant tomato plant. But here is the important thing to know when planting a grafted tomato plant. You don't plant it deep like you would regular tomato plants to get that root system going. When planting a grafted tomato plant you can actually see where the plant is grafted on the plants main stem and you MUST keep this grafted part above the dirt line or it won't grow the way it was intended to giving you the disease resistance for the plant. I keep the grafted section of the stem about an inch above the dirt line.
Interesting about grafting!
Thank you for this episode.
This is my 2nd year growing backyard tomatoes, 90% of which are heirlooms. Many crack, split, bruise easily, and some seem to be disease-prone in my area, but they are worth it.
How amazing is your work for the world! Beautiful!!!!
Cansei de Ser Chef, meu canal preferido. Agora também International!
I grew black prince tomatoes this year, a newer heirloom tomato and the flavour was outstanding! Very sweet and smoky tasting! Unlike any tomato I’ve ever tasted from a grocery store!
Your channel is the best on TH-cam for the amount of great information it provides. Wish you all the very best for more such informative and creative videos.
I hope you tried some of them. I grew some amazing tomatoes a few years ago and the crap in the stores will never come close to the flavors of heirloom
Oh yes. And they're juicy delicious.
I love heirlooms tomatoes. That was the first thing I ever grew in my garden. They are way sweeter than the grocery store varieties. Only thing, I wear long sleeves to walk through them. The little hairs on the plants make my skin itchy.
This is why when I plant anything in my tiny garden, it's always with the more rare varieties that are hard to find, or local varieties I have never seen before. I don't grow enough to stop buying produce, but it allows me to try something new. Tip: you may be able to get seeds for free from your local library. In Phoenix, you can get three packets every three weeks.
I grow heirlooms in my backyard garden every year. Some of my favorite varieties are Brandywine, Oxheart, Green Zebra, Valencia, Hawaiian Pineapple, and Cherokee Purple.
That's a mighty fine backyard garden!
Oh how I missed your eyes go up when you smile. Came for tomato’s and left with your positive vibe
You have brought so much joy to me, and learning from you has been the greatest classes ever. Thank you, so much!
My parents ,from Italy have the same old heirloom tommatos for about the last 50 years ,saving the seeds ,there like candy ,I must have at least 30 different heirlooms, I love heritage, thank you for a great series,all the best to all your family
My folks had a fairly large garden where they grew lots of vegs. My uncle had an old cattle barn which had manure buildup for decades. I suggested to my Dad that we scrape a foot or so of dried manure from my Uncles barn and spread it on our garden (and some more on Uncles garden too). After using the disc all over the garden Moms tomatoes were the best I have ever tasted. (The corn, okra, purple hull peas etc were all excellent too).
Heirloom tomatoes are the absolute best! I grow different varieties each year!
Use waste decomposer from India, for all answers to organic farming ( fertilizer, nutritions, compost, insecticides, growth promoters, hormones, gibberlins etc.) ................
.......... Since the government has stopped making waste decomposer, you have to take it from farmers who are already using it.
They're the best and I discovered them about two years ago and I don't want any other
Thanks, And I am going to raise my plants from seads and I will try several new tomatoes next season of heailom type seeking a better food crop.
I'm done having growers sale me the wrong plants I asked for and me raising what I don't want.
Thanks you Mrs. Jolly
Starting from seeds expands horizons like crazy. The varieties that are out there are mind blowing. I grow 150 pepper plants as well each year and I have every colour imaginable (white, pink, purple, yellow, red, orange, peach, ect)
Always wanted to know the mystery of these heirloom varieties! Good one
I love the perfection of such a beautiful farm that can only result from so many decades of hard work and farming. Those heirloom tomatoes are so delicious. Its a shame that monoculture has been so effective at training people to negatively obsess over such minor imperfections. I hope this video helps someone embrace the wabi-sabi of good food.
It is not the monoculture who trained people, it is the people who made the choice
Thanks! You reminded me about meaning of wabi-sabi - such a beautiful and profound lens through which to view the world.
She is such a joy to watch, Nigerian here and i can't get enough of your smile and educational video's
My favorite tomato based on best taste is the heirloom Boxcar Willie. Roadside stands sometimes get premium prices for Boxcar Willie tomatoes. It can sometimes be hard to find at garden centers but it’s worth going out of your way to find it.
Hairloom tomatoes are now widely available here in France. Every supermarkets carry them. When you taste them you really can’t go back to your regular blend tomato really. Of course they taste even Better when you get them at your local organic farm.
Use waste decomposer from India, for all answers to organic farming ( fertilizer, nutritions, compost, insecticides, growth promoters, hormones, gibberlins etc.)
Since the government has stopped making waste decomposer, you have to take it from farmers who are already using it.
9:50 i am glad you said that. The most useful & educational thing you have ever said in all your videos. We are losing our fruit, veg, grain varieties with all the healthy goodness that is in them.
Thank you -- I'm so glad that struck a cord with you.
Since I discovered heirlooms about 8 years ago, they are all I grown in my garden. I also can count on my fingers how many times I have bought slicing tomatoes from the grocery store since that point. There is really no comparison. Not all heirlooms are great, but most are very good. New varieties are still being discovered and developed every year. Cherokee purple is my all around favorite.
That farm is glorious, as is the produce. It actually looks like it could be somewhere in England. I find that the normal red tomatoes you can buy fresh in the supermarket just aren't worth eating; I think that's why a lot of people seem to dislike them when they're sliced up and served in burgers and salads. If I want flavour, the best I can do is Italian tinned plum tomatoes. I'd love to try growing these heritage types but I suspect they'd fall victim to their own fragility. Anyway, this was a delight to watch. Thanks for your hard work in producing such excellent films.
I would imagine sun-loving heritage tomatoes would be difficult in England outside of a greenhouse! Thanks for the lovely words, Han -- always look forward to hearing from you.
And this is exactly why I grow tomatoes on my balcony each year. It's not as easy as going to any store and buying tomatoes in a second, but they taste so so much better. And you discover this amazing variety of colors and flavors
we also have that native tomato here in the philippines,but it wasnt cultured anymore because of it thin skin and so soft it doesnt last long. SENDING LOVE FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Use waste decomposer from India, for all answers to organic farming ( fertilizer, nutritions, compost, insecticides, growth promoters, hormones, gibberlins etc.) ..........
Since the government has stopped making waste decomposer, you have to take it from farmers who are already using it.
I got a fun story. My dad gardens and used to go to Burning Man every year. One installment he encountered was a vending machine, just out in the middle of the desert. It took no coins, but there was a price: you put something you already have in the available empty capsules, place it where you usually put coins, then you get something from the machine. My dad put in a pendant he made, and got some tomato seeds from the machine. He found them recently and was able to grow these beautiful, sunshine yellow tomatoes, about the size of a golfball. They make a really good sauce.
As an heirloom home gardener, I loved this video!!
Bought this type of tomato from the garden store. I'm so glad it has grown like a weed ,and I have some itty bitty green tomatoes growing on it I can't wait to see them grow even more.
One of the most underrated channels on TH-cam! Love each how it grow episode!
Good length like a micro doc. Good information and the best camera work to date. Really like the music work with the bees, especially the fade and hesititate to hit when the bees touched. All well done. And of course Nicole, you are too fun to watch.
I just started a farm this year that I only grow heirloom varieties. It is definitely more difficult to grow but the colors and flavor are amazing! I have customers making sauce from cherry tomatoes and not having to add sugar!
Look like Truefoodtv found a hidden treasure in this episode
I hope you make more videos like this
Thanks
Yes, please make more videos like this!
I started gardening this year, we only have 1 type of tomato available on the market here in the Philippines, They call it DMax F1, and yes, it is a hybrid and a determinate type, So I ended up ordering heirloom tomatoes abroad like brandywine and cherokee purple.
The great Nicole Jolly with another brilliant episode. I can’t stop watching these they’re addictive.
Finally , really love this channel.
I love heritage tomatoes; they're so much tastier than most shop bought ones. I have to say, though, that they tend to have tougher skins than shop bought; at least for the smaller varieties. Out of interest, what range of tomatoes does the average supermarket sell in the US? Here, at least in tomato season (April - October), we have yellow (sungold/sunglow are the tastiest), orange and red cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes, Vittoria, Pomodorino, Beefsteak and a few Heritage ones as well as the Standard medium-sized ones. Maybe we just love our tomatoes here. My favourite, aesthetically, are the zebra tomatoes but they're only occasionally in supermarkets. The majority of tomatoes you buy are on the vine in the packet.
Great content as always. We had a lecture on that tomato gene. Slowly breeders in the UK are trying to get the flavour back.
Speaking from what I see in the grocery stores here in Los Angeles, most stores would carry only about 2 kinds of tomatoes sold by the pound: Red Globe (beefsteak-type) and Red Roma. There are also pre-packaged cherry tomatoes but pretty much, that's it. If you want any other kind of tomatoes, you will have to grow it in your own garden or go to the farmer's market or some seasonal farm stands.
Imagine if you could grow these in your back yard! Imagine how much better they would taste that supermarket tomatoes!!
Thankfully I don't have to imagine. I can confirm that it is like tasting in colour for the first time having grown up with monochrome "food".
@@recklessroges yep! i use heirlooms as a side dish with just salt, lots of pepper, and olive oil; delicious! If i just used generic red hybrid tomatoes the result would be bland and sometimes mealy.
Luckily I don’t have to imagine ! I grow only heirlooms and they are so beautiful and flavorful !
@Reckless Roges, what a beautiful analogy!
You can ,I have 5s plants ,I live in Vancouver 🇨🇦, try it znd you will never stop
It's not too far from Jersey. I'm visiting that farm. Thank you for the brilliant work you've been doing!
Love how you covered how heirlooms are being lost but their are a lot of us bringing heirlooms back into the spot light and even finding extinct varieties from 40 plus years ago and bringing them back to market for people to grow and enjoy
I had as many as 63 hierlooms at one time back around the mid 90`s. i`m at 18 today. the "rabbits foot" is either" jersey devil" or "sausage" which are likely the same tomato with different name. I have "sausage" which i got from Gleckers Seedsman back in 1988 .
The presenter speaks not only eloquently but perfectly articulately. She exudes intelligence by her poise, by the tone of her voice, the purpose and emphasis at every vital juncture. She is calming yet engrossing. Her physical beauty is obvious but her real attraction to me is it feels like she is talking directly to me. I feel special watching her video.
I have heirlooms in my garden & at least 15 types of tomato growing atm including brandywine which was mentioned among others including pineapples yellow pears currants anish paste money maker thai pink egg aunt rubys green etc im hoping to find everglades tomato seeds in australia to try too.
Hi @EmmaAppleBerry...Are you Australian, and how on Earth did you get that many variety of tomato seeds/plants?
Where there certain places that you went to or shops, maybe?
I am Australian and as I homeschool I am teaching gardening as part of agriculture and would love to include some varieties that can be grown in Australia that will suit our climate...plus be a challenge to grow.
@@ZoomZoomBoom24 theseedcollection is the website i use its amazing.
Thats so cool that you homeschool i was hoping to when i have kids one day, the more i look into aussie homeschool the more i wish i was american though...homeschoolers here dont get nearly enough credit or support though! So good on you i wish i was lucky enough to be homeschooled.
the seeds are based in ferntree gully victoria but theres varieties for all different climates i live in outback bushie qld. I got 100 plus seeds in late 2014/5 i believe and im still using all those seeds and the ones ive saved from the original plants to this day and i always have an amazing almost perfect germination rate.
I bought about a hundred at once keep em in the fridge and it was from memory about 120 dollars since most seeds are a dollar to $2.50.
Daleys fruit in qld is another good website for tree saplings like macadamia nut fruit trees etc not veg seeds.
If you get worms for the garden i reccomend kookaburrawormfarms too their worm bomb was perfect.
Feel free to email me btw embybear@hotmail. com
Id love to hear more about homeschooling too tbh the more i read about all the laws and nonsense the more i see why so many people dont register. Youd think the government would be happy for people to raise and teach their own children and its been shown children are far better off with the more personalised teaching and less strict factory like schedule so youd think theyd be advocating it or the very least making stock standard school more life skills and interest based.
@@ZoomZoomBoom24 there are plenty of natives on the site. I loved growing stuff like warrigal greens for example although they do need to be cooked first and finding out that they were some of the first native foods eaten by the settlers was super cool its used like spinach super hardy grows itself. Seeds are super cool looking spiky balls that look like goathead burrs!
I also grow queensland blue pumpkin. Its not native in the sense that it came from the land but its native like granny smith apples or blue heelers in that it was developed here and bred to suit the climate etc like australorp chickens haha.
Proper natives like fingerlimes macadamia nuts tea tree eucalyptus etc ive yet to grow any though.
@@ZoomZoomBoom24 oh btw idk what state youre in but tas and wa have alot of restrictions quarantine wise. & occasionally sa & nt do too but itll say on the item page if thats the case. Unless its like roses or something that i cant get on daleys or theseedcollection i try to seriously avoid corporations and go for local or family owned businesses. Although i do buy my sugarcane mulch and chicken wire for the trellis at bunnings.
Ive checked out local nurseries but unless its a non edible and native plant again i avoid buying there. For the same reason i try to support the local green grocers where possible and buy honey directly from a local beekeeper. Eat in season grow my own etc learn to preserve stuff.
Try growing luffas ive started this year its the gourd thats used as a sponge either kitchen or body wise the young fruit can be used like asian zucchini and if you leave it to dry on vine and mature you can squish and dislodge the hardshell from the inner sponge and save the seeds so no more plastic cleaning stuff and they grow really well so you save money by not having to buy exfoliator gloves or kitchen things and being completely natural it biodegrades and its gentle i have sensitive skin so i love it and its dry and stores so its not like you need to use it all at once. And you can keep it whole or cut it smaller. Im honestly super excited
I reccomend the youtube channels self sufficient me hes in hinterland qld and does gardening vids and also primitive technology he also has a book but his videos are no talking or music just rainforest nature and he does bushcraft. Including gardening.
Glad you're back, been missing these episodes
Love the Heirloom Tomatoes!!
Thank you for the Video!
Cheers!!
I just started growing on my backyard this year. And the flavour of veggies, tomatoes etc are so much different than I bought in stores.
they are so beautiful if it is in the Philippines it will be sold fast we dont care of the color but the taste
They can grow in tropic. I live in Indonesia & I grow some. I buy the seeds online (usually from UK & USA). Good luck
@@ayina114 the problem here our farms are not really educated and they grew up only know a few thing to plant.
We have it here in the philippines. My family grows it way back in our province in surigao but like he said it don't bring that much of money when we sale it in our local market because of its odd appearance and people prefers to buy the normal once. I just don't know if we still have this kind of variety up until now since im living in the city now.
It's easier to sell in the city actually, but it only limited on certain supermarket. Mostly they sell it online. Actually it's more profitable to sell the seeds than the fruit
@@ayina114 Yeah. but it's hard to grow it here because of the climate. Tomatoes needs lot's of water and humidity.
0:19 OMG those smiles melts me ❤❤❤❤
My mom used to plant these types of tomatoes in our kitchen garden. I never appreciated it until now when it is all gone.
nature really has a WAY of humbling your sprit...I've been a gardener all my life,...but im still humbled everyday by plants.
Everyone should garden at home. No supermarket can sell you fresher produce; things you may not like in store are probably weeks old by the time you get them, so their flavor has vanished. I did not like carrots, but after getting one carrot grown at home, I now love them (only home grown of course). The taste was sweeter and richer than you could ever imagine... like candy! I have heard people who grow their own food in organic gardens seem to live longer; this is probably why: their food is fresher and more nutritious.
I agree wholeheartedly that the flavor is better. I know they certainly bruise a whole lot easier, and they can be quite a bit trickier to slice when they have bruised or become softened. After having used them daily for over a year in a high end hotel kitchen they swapped them out for a variety that holds up better. The ones they would get came from a farm in mexico, and by the time they would arrive to us 75% or greater of them couldn't even be used for slices in dishes and had to be cooked down to use in other applications.
The farm at 10:30 is so beautiful. I hope the guy you were interviewing has someone that take it over for him when it becomes too much.
I could watch your videos all day long and not tire of them. I learn so much from you. You are truly contributing so much to this TH-cam community and to the world. Thank you so very very much!😘😘😘
It’s amazing how I’ve heard that term “heirloom tomatoes” my entire life yet didn’t know any of this 🤦♂️ lol
As an Agriculture student i really appreciate you work and big thumbs up to the production team😊 love from India🇮🇳🇮🇳
Native Tomatoes in short.... I love your videos because it uplifts our profession as Farmers.... Thank You!
This is a central ethos of TFTV - trying to communicate the enormous work and dedication of farmers
That honeybee managed to give a quick kiss on those busy days:D
This was your best show yet. Food does not come from a store. It comes from a plant, or animal. Farming needs to be about food, not profit. Support your local farmers. You will love what they can grow for you.
Amazing video!! Very informative and inspiring..keep making more of such videos please!!!
Interesting about the color and ripening of the table tomatoes. The commercial growers pick them green and then the trailers have a gas that is emitted into the trailers that eventually turns them reddish during their transport. That's why a lot of these commercial tomatoes have little test and sometimes the hardness of almost an apple. The heirlooms here in PA go for around $4 or more a pound.
Through her excellent videos, I've learned I'm not getting ripped off when I pay $1.99/pound for a green pepper verses a red or yellow or orange pepper ar almost double, because of the perishability factor in the three or more weeks of vulnerability.
These videos are awesome!
Happy Easter!
Thanks Stephen. And happy Easter to you.
Those tomatoes look like some pretty tasty heirlooms.
i love tomatoes and ive been dreaming to plant heirloom tomatoes. but here, it is difficult to get the seed. while waiting for my seeds to arrive here, ill calm my heart with your videos.
I'm presently experimenting with about 15 varieties of Heirloom tomatoes but judging by what I saw on this great video, I am going to have to change some of the things I am presently doing, they don't grow the same as the common varieties like Celebrity, Better Boy, Early Girl, Goliath and other common varieties I have grown accustomed to growing over the past many years. These plants get a lot bigger, I am either going to have to cut down on the number of plants I normally grew or do a hell of a lot of pruning on these Heirloom giants. Thanks for this very informative video, I would love working on that family farm, I'd work very cheap too..lol. I grew up on a south Texas farm but nothing like that beautiful thing. I love it, growing things is definitely in my DNA.
It should be illegal to be so darn adorable. And informative too. Thanks for the videos.
A sweet tomato that looks like little pumpkin and sweeter then than the grocery ones...explains why it is called a fruit.
We need to mention “Fried Green Tomatoes”, a southern tradition I know. Fresh and warm, crispy and delicious!
Everyone needs to say Fried Green Tomatoes!!!!
Those tomatoes are beautiful
A+ episode. Your husband is a riot. He should be in more episodes saying funny things. As tomatoes are the most popular vegetable, it made a lot of sense to have another episode focusing on real tomatoes.
Thanks Jeffrey! We normally have to do multiple takes because we're both laughing so hard!
My first year growing Black Krim and Abraham Lincoln heirlooms! All grown in fabric bags with drip irrigation for regular watering and distribution. They did so well. I started from seed in February. I would love some suggestions for future heirlooms.
I'm no expert on all the different varieties - but the beauty of growing heirlooms is you get to experiment each year and see which ones do it for you!
@@TrueFoodTV Yes but I think ill need more land for the number of varieties I would like to try. Great episode guys! Thanks you for the wonderful knowledge and showing us there are awesome farmers out there. He needs his own youtube channel!
I just got a ton of seeds! Cherokee Purple, Amana Orange, Brandywine red, Garden Peach, Golden Jubilee and more!
I used to see the heirloom tomato at my village market when I was a child (30 years ago) but now I never see them anymore.
In France you can buy a lot of heirloom tomatoes in supermarkets. I buy them there and save the seeds to grow them in my garden in the Netherlands.
Question: How are the tomatoes of these species in the video propagated without cross breeding if they are grown mixed? Is the seed produced somewhere else?
I exactly have the same question. The crops are so close.
The production quality of all videos in this channel is top notch.
I can't wait for my six heirloom varieties to grow this summer!!! YUM!
I have a small garden but I pack it with heirloom tomatoes every year. They are so superior to store bought.
Use waste decomposer from India, for all answers to organic farming ( fertilizer, nutritions, compost, insecticides, growth promoters, hormones, gibberlins etc.)
Since the government has stopped making waste decomposer, you have to take it from farmers who are already using it.
We Brits like to grow tomatoes in the greenhouse or garden and we are able to buy heirloom or heritage seed from specialist suppliers. So I grow to get fresh and fully ripe tomatoes off the vine and some unusual heritage varieties, this year it's bloody butcher along with some cherry and paste tomatoes. In a medium sized greenhouse we get around 150 lbs to 200 lbs (70 to 100 kegs) of tomatoes with taste that you just can not buy.
Nicole, what a fantastic and informative episode. God knows what agricultural products we are missing due to the reasons you mentioned at the end of your video.
10:20 i love the dog calmly walking in frame
Maam I like your all presentation of videos on fruits and vegetables. It's very rich information and knowledge you provide to us. So can you make one video on dragon fruit? dragon fruit is also cultivated in Mexico, El Salvador, South America.
We'd love to do dragon fruit one day. These episodes take a ton of time to produce... 😅
We have this kind of tomato here in the Philippines. i still remember this kind fruit because my grandparents always have them to our fields and backyard before. Hope to see one again. I want to have a taste of it once more.
My grandma grew the same hireloom potatoes! The best ever!
I grew up on a farm, Family has been farming it since before the Civil War. We have always grown heirloom tomatoes. Corn, Beans, Hay. was the big crops. in my time. It's not farmed any more like it was, we rent the fields for hay The heirloom tomatoes always taste the best. and what tomatoes we raised was canned, usually only about 100 plants or so. This is the first year I am trying different or unusual tomatoes. I only grow a couple of acres. for our use.
Thank you for a really great video that gives hope for a tomato bounty of the future that would welcome diversity through a rethinking of standard agricultural practice and consumer preferences. I also love heirloom tomatoes and grow them in my back yard.
People, you can grow your own tomatoes and they will be amazing. As the farmer mentioned, you can pick your fruit at peak ripeness and really enjoy the taste and nutrients of your homegrown tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables.
I love this kind of tomato and always wondered why they are much more expensive than other kinds. Now I know. Thank you very much!
You mentioned that tomato seeds from grocery store tomatoes don't grow into plants. In my case however I am doing exactly the same for last two years and it is working fine for me. Seeds of various varieties of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and melons I took out of of grocery store purchased produce and it is working fine for. Inspired by this video though for next year I'll look into growing some heirloom vegetables.
I love your "How Does it Grow?" series. Thank you for sharing.
15,000 varieties of heirloom tomatoes!!!! Zowie! So many tomatoes, so little time!
in the mid 1800's there was a servay in Conneticut where they counted the amount of corn varieties in the state. They counted over 400 different varieties! I have been looking for hairloom varieties that are from new england. I could only find 4 different variaties. Rhode Island White Cap Flint (Naragannset Native Americans, Rhode Island), Roys Calais Flint (From Vermont and created by Roy Calais from Abanaki Conr), Abanaki (Abanaki Native Americans, Vermont), and Byron Flint Corn (Abanaki Native Americans, Maine, variatie found in an shoe box in an estate sale in the town of Byron Maine). Could not find any variaties from Massachsuetts, New Hampshire, or Conneticut. There is a Italian breed of corn called Otto File Flint Corn that was developed from New England 8 row flint corn variaties.
I only plant three kind of tomatoes, Indigo Rose, San marzano, and yellow pear. We grow organically in our garden and it taste better than store bought.