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Brandywine Tomato


Brandywine Tomato



Brandywine Heirloom tomatoBrandywine tomato is one of the most popular and best tasting heirloom tomatoes available. Known for extremely large pink fruit with red flesh and notable potato-like leaves, Brandywine tomato is as easy to grow as it is delicious to eat.

Heirloom tomatoes are known for their great tomato flavor, and every year at Farmers Markets and Tomato Festivals around the country Brandywine is judged to be one of the best heirloom tomatoes for flavor. Large, beautiful fruit with rich, deep reddish-pink skin and red flesh with amazing true tomato flavor. Not a heavy yielder, so plant multiple plants if you have room. Large, vigorous potato-leaved indeterminate vines require staking.

Brandywine tomatoes are excellent for fresh eating, canning, slicing or using in sauces and stews. As with all heirloom tomatoes, thin tomato plants out to provide good air circulation between plants to lower the risk of pests and disease.

The exact history of the Brandywine tomato is somewhat nebulous but the general consensus is that a large fruited pink variety of tomato with distinctive foliage was passed on from the Sudduth family to an Ohio tomato enthusiast named Ben Quisenberry sometime in the 1800's. Through a variety of seed savers and farmers trading with Ben, two identical varieties soon became available to gardeners; Mikado tomato from the Henderson Seed Company and Turner's Hybrid offered for sale by Burpee Seed Company. Today both of these varieties have been traced back to the original Amish Brandywine tomato.

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