Tomatoes are one of the world’s favorite crops to grow and some growers swear you cannot do better than growing heirloom tomatoes. But what are heirloom tomatoes, and are they difficult to grow?

Heirloom plants are open-pollinated, non-hybrid varieties that have been cultivated for at least 50 years and many for much longer than that. When it comes to tomatoes, we have grown a large ...

spider plant and English Ivy. Many become heirloom plants, handed down from generation to generation.