Determinate tomato plants tend to be smaller and more compact, and they produce their entire tomato harvest over a shorter ...

They are the best option if you want a small but regular crop of tomatoes for slicing and snacking, though many varieties yield enough for making sauces. All tomato varieties can be broadly ...

Tomatomania began in Pasadena 25 years ago and now features more than 180 varieties. The search for the ideal tomato is "like racehorse breeding," said Scott Daigre, the owner of Tomatomania.

If you like your tomatoes sweet, the smaller cherry tomato varieties are currently the ones to go for. But bigger tomato varieties could soon get a sweetness boost with the help of CRISPR gene ...

To try new varieties, she shops Annie’s Heirloom Seeds, Baker Creek Seed Co. and other catalogs. Her quest for the best tomatoes, resulted in 160 different tomato varieties this year.

"They found the orange varieties contained a different form of lycopene, a photochemical that gives a red tomato its colour," Ms White said. "In orange tomatoes it's called cis-lycopene.

FRESH OFF THE VINE: Growing tips, free tomato sandwiches and samples of yet-to-be-released varieties are all on the schedule for Henderson County's 14th annual Tomato Festival. Photo courtesy of ...