Tomatoes grown at Gravel Hill Gardens, Bendigo, Vic, Australia
This is just the beginning of the season – plenty of other varieties ripened later. Not only do these varieties all look different, they are bred for all sorts of different characteristics – taste, final usage (eg paste, drying, fresh), size, keeping quality, disease resistance, speed of ripening… This diversity is important for food security, not only so appropriate varieties can be used for preserving, but to assure that there will be a harvest - if the prevailing conditions do not suit a particular variety then other varieties will still be producing.
Beck Lowe
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