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This summer we talked about the beauty and diversity of heirloom tomato varieties and how they differ from hybrid tomatoes. Heirloom's are selected for desirable traits such as color, shape, resistance to disease and/or flavor (of course). Since these specific varieties are perpetuated and passed on from one season to the next and one generation to the next, the seeds must somehow be stored and saved during the winter in order to sow them the following year. Although you can clearly see the seeds sitting in pockets of the tomato above, the gel that surrounds the seed is actually...
