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WINNING TOMATOES Tomato Midnight, Photo by Allamericanseletions.com

Winning Tomatoes Add Vibrant Color
and Flavor to Gardens and Meals sweet and sour cherry tomato sauce to
serve on bread or over chicken and other
By Melinda Myers vegetables.
Impress your guests with a garden, Boost your early harvest season with
container and dinner table filled with Valentine grape tomatoes. You’ll enjoy
tasty and colorful winning tomato the vivid deep red color and sweet flavor.
varieties. Small-fruited varieties are Plus, this productive plant provides
perfect for salads and snacking and those plenty of tomatoes for snacking, salads
with larger fruit ideal for slicing, canning and to share with friends.
and sauces. Add some purple to the mix with
These winning tomatoes were tested Midnight Snack. This cherry tomato
nationally by All-America ripens to red with a blush of glossy black-
Selections (AAS), a non-profit plant purple. Judges declared Midnight Snack a
trialing organization (all- big improvement in the flavor of purple
americaselections.org). Volunteer judges tomatoes.
evaluated the plants for flavor, improved Pot up one or more Patio Choice
performance, growth habit, productivity, tomatoes for your patio, deck or tabletop.
or pest resistance in the garden. Only Each compact 18-inch plant produces up
superior, new, non-GMO varieties receive to 100 yellow cherry tomatoes. Just one
the AAS winner’s title. fruit-covered plant in a decorative pot
Include a few Firefly plants when creates as colorful a centerpiece as a
looking for the perfect snacking and salad bouquet of yellow flowers.
tomato. It’s smaller than a cherry and Don’t forget to add Red Racer cocktail
larger than a currant tomato; just the right tomatoes to the mix. The fruit are about
size to pop in your mouth without the size of ping pong balls and perfect for balance between sugar and acid; perfect Melinda Myers has written more than 20
embarrassment. The extremely sweet pale stuffing, flavorful enough for salads and for eating fresh and cooking. gardening books, including Small Space
white to pale yellow fruit will stand out hearty enough for soups and stews. Consider mixing any of these winning Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses
in the garden, on the relish tray or in a Dress up your salads, sauces and tomato varieties in with your How to Grow Anything gardening
salad. sandwiches with colorful tomato slices. ornamental plants. A few tomatoes DVD series and the nationally
Join the foodie trend by growing the The six Chef’s Choice tomato varieties tucked into mixed borders or at the back syndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment TV &
slightly larger striped Red Torch tomato. provide a rainbow of colors for the relish of a flowerbed can add color, texture and radio segments. Myers is a columnist and
The one-and-a-half-inch oblong fruit are tray. Guests will have trouble deciding interest to any landscape. Just be sure contributing editor for Birds &
red with thin yellow stripes. Enjoy an between the red, orange, pink, yellow, there’s easy access for harvesting and use Blooms magazine and was commissioned
early harvest and eat Red Torch tomatoes green and now black-fruited varieties. decorative obelisks and towers to by AAS for her expertise to write this
fresh from the garden or cooked into a These beefsteak tomatoes have the right support taller varieties in style. article. Myers web site
is www.melindamyers.com.

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