HEIRLOOM TOMATO | How Does it Grow? 

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.

the flavour of those gnarly looking tomatoes is still vivid in my mind. My dad used to have a small garden of heirloom tomatoes, shallots, pole beans, bok choys, and radishes. Ahh, the freshness of the flavours.

I have 22 varieties this year, every color, size, and shape. It takes a lot of work, but it's worth it.

This farmer practices Integrated Pest Management (IPM). A very responsible way of farming! It’s nice too see this.

The nerve of the people who disliked this video! Their videos are made with love!

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.

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.

Been waiting for new HDIG episode. I see one I clicked. Love from 🇵🇭

how can people give it a dislike to this video ? they probably only eat crappy tomatoes

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.

Your channel is the best on RU-vid for the amount of great information it provides. Wish you all the very best for more such informative and creative videos.

Always wanted to know the mystery of these heirloom varieties! Good one

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!

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.

Oh how I missed your eyes go up when you smile. Came for tomato’s and left with your positive vibe

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.

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

How amazing is your work for the world! Beautiful!!!!

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.

Heirloom tomatoes are the absolute best! I grow different varieties each year!

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.

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.

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.

One of the most underrated channels on RU-vid! Love each how it grow episode!

Look like Truefoodtv found a hidden treasure in this episode I hope you make more videos like this Thanks

She is such a joy to watch, Nigerian here and i can't get enough of your smile and educational video's

It’s amazing how I’ve heard that term “heirloom tomatoes” my entire life yet didn’t know any of this 🤦‍♂️ lol

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.

Love the Heirloom Tomatoes!! Thank you for the Video! Cheers!!

Imagine if you could grow these in your back yard! Imagine how much better they would taste that supermarket tomatoes!!

Thanks for this amazing video, Nicole! Can't wait for your next episode!

I love your episodes! 😍 been waiting and it's finally here 💖

BIG FAN OF THE SHOW you have so much knowledge I love it

You have brought so much joy to me, and learning from you has been the greatest classes ever. Thank you, so much!

Love these How do I grow episodes.. Lots of love and waiting for more such content.

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.

Finally , really love this channel.

Absolutely love you and your youtube channel, especially these videos!!!!

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.

As an Agriculture student i really appreciate you work and big thumbs up to the production team😊 love from India🇮🇳🇮🇳

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).

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.

Finally! Thank you so much! ^_^ Are episodes gonna be weekly? I love HDIG so much :)

As an heirloom home gardener, I loved this video!!

Amazing video!! Very informative and inspiring..keep making more of such videos please!!!

The best episode yet.Hope to see more unique farms and produce like this in future. Awesome !

Glad you're back, been missing these episodes

Oh please more episodes! These are brilliant! Thank you to you and your team for the work you put into these videos 😍

Super interesting!!! I love this channel so much!! I love her enthusiasm as well ❤️

omg i've been waiting so long for a new epsisode. Keep up the good work!

Another fantastic episode. Well produced, great sound and video. Perfect spokesperson that really conveys the message

The great Nicole Jolly with another brilliant episode. I can’t stop watching these they’re addictive.

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 RU-vid community and to the world. Thank you so very very much!😘😘😘

Yas! New episode! It’s always a delight watching your show! To more power!

Thanks guys!! Excellent job as usual 👍

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

Yay! New episode! Really looking forward to the new informations this show brings. 😍 And I never heard of heirloom tomatoes.

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

I’m so happy to see your videos . Thanks for sharing with us . Your amazing

Native Tomatoes in short.... I love your videos because it uplifts our profession as Farmers.... Thank You!

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.

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.

I love your "How Does it Grow?" series. Thank you for sharing.

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.

yeeeee ... new video, I've been waiting for it N love your channel

Great job as always on this!!

I missed these videos. 😍😍😍 Thanks Nicole!

Love love love all your "How does it grow?" educational videos!!!!

Thank you again for a great video. It’s a reminder to respect our food and purchase consciously. Love, love , love this information! ❤️💜❤️💜

Your show is such a treat ❤️

Finally after a long time.... Awesome video as usual, knowledgeable

Thanks for another video. Been waiting for too long! I got goosebumps at the end.of this video. The editing is impeccable! Everything about this vid is sooo good! Thanks! Any hint for what's next? Haha

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.

great video from your channel after the "How does it grow" series. I remember learning the word heirloom crops while playing some zynga farm game but never understood what that really means, with this video i got to know alot better about it. Please do a series on heirloom crops.

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

I've learned something new today ...and such a gentle farmer HG is ...thankyou :)

i love this show so much!! you should make them more often!

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.

Those Hunter Boots in a farm. Damn, you’re brave! 🙆🏻‍♂️

I love your show and the insights that you give. Thank you.!

I love love this video. I learn a lot. Thanks chica!!

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 .

0:19 OMG those smiles melts me ❤❤❤❤

Love the content (and I’m a “animal farm guy”). Got hooked on veggies when helping my mom in the garden and she had me try a off the vine snap pea, wow!!!

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.

I'm enjoying the more upscale videography of this episode. Excited to see 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.

I was growing many of those including the blue beauty you have on the vid. Very nice all of them

They're the best and I discovered them about two years ago and I don't want any other

Nicole your show are absolutely amazing we learned a lot from farming.😊

Great videos of Farmers who love their Fruits. I also really like the Italian Lemon guy 👍

Subscribed. Love the style of content

My mom used to plant these types of tomatoes in our kitchen garden. I never appreciated it until now when it is all gone.

Loved this-Thx!

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.

Awww thanks for all your great work very interesting !!! Love from Costa Rica

nature really has a WAY of humbling your sprit...I've been a gardener all my life,...but im still humbled everyday by plants.

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

10:20 i love the dog calmly walking in frame

Woah! These looks so cool!