Heirloom Tomato Slander

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This was my first time (I still have some of those left!) I ever was confronted by the standard slanders against heirlooms. It was in a ebook forum and someone asked for suggestions for gardening topics. I said heirloom tomatoes and posted images of a Mazarini and a Little Lucky Heart.

Then someone replied heirlooms are beautiful and tasty but they have no disease resistance, require huge amounts of work and don't produce worth a darn. Plus they're impossible to grow in TX.

I immediately thought of Suze and Feldon and all the others from TX who seem to manage with great success.

I so wanted to tell this person to take it up with Carolyn regarding disease resistance. I'm sure I've made another internet non-friend for defending heirlooms. No I don't live in TX but from my experience, nothing she said was true. Except the part that heirlooms can be particularly beautiful.

In a head-to-head contest between Moreton Hybrid and Kasachstan Rubin this year, the KR won again. And I like the Moreton altho I think it could be exchanged for any number of red heirlooms to no loss or sorrow on my part.

Barb