The Brandywine Tomato is one of the best varieties of tomato. This tomato is among the biggest variety as most of its fruits can weight a pound. The color of the tomato is also unlike the others as they are pink. They are considered to be one of the heirloom variety and they have a distinct leaf that looks like potato leaf.
The Brandywine tomato gained popularity because it has a superb flavor. However, lately, as there are more and more individuals saving and sharing the Brandywine Tomato seeds to others, there seem like many other sub strains are showing up and they have inferior flavor as well as performance compared to the original Brandywine Tomato. It is hard to tell the difference between the Brandywine strains and its sub strains as almost all the sub strains are also known as the Brandywine something.
Now let us talk only about the real Brandywine strains. The Brandywine tomato has an oblate shape. Some of them are green shoulders, but some are ribbed shoulders. Some are cracking and some are yielding. The yielding Brandywine tomato may range from how to quite high. The large fruit is meaty and that is one of the best parts that makes its flavor superb. If you happen to find one of those sweet meat tomatos, you should definitely try it. Try to apply them to the different dishes and even try to make them pasta and sauce when cooking them was no longer possible
Brandywine was one of the tomato varieties that came from the Seed Savers Exchange collection, back in the 1982. The seeds were then being sent to the Seed Savers Exchange because, they were sent there by a gardener named Ben Quinsenberry. However, Ben Quinsenberry was not the one who found the seeds as he claimed a woman named Dorris Sudduth Hill was the one sending him the Brandywine seeds.
The woman said that these seeds have become part of her family for ages (she claimed that it had been in the family for 80 years) and she would like to share these amazing fruit to the rest of the world who appreciated such seeds. As nobody knew where she came from, thus it was not possible to know where the seeds were originating. So does the fruit really is part of the heirloom family? This is quite a difficult question to answer, but hopefully their juicy meat and sweet taste would be enough to satisfy the tomato lovers.
