Gardening Question of the Week: What Heirloom Vegetable Varieties Would You Recommend to Grow?
Gardening Question of the Week: What Heirloom Vegetable Varieties Would You Recommend to Grow? Tuesday January 12, 2010 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) I’ve been a longtime lover of heirloom vegetables. I suppose, like many people, I started growing them out of curiosity. Even before I became fascinated by the diverseness of flavors, I was mesmerized by their colors and visual appeal; pumpkins came in shades of orange, gold and green, with bumps or flattened ends, tomatoes could look like red peppers or green grapes or tiny yellow pears, eggplants were splotched or stripped or small and yellow, even egg-shaped and white. As a person who loved eating vegetables, I was being shown a vast, new universe. And then I tasted them. I’ll be honest, not every beauty was a winner. But there were so many new flavors that I was determined to taste my way through them. In a way, I’m the antithesis of a
