We have talked about heirloom plants in class, varieties of fruits and vegetables that were commonly grown but are now largely replaced with plants that have traits we consider to be more desirable.
Once purple carrots.....now a vibrant orange. Red, yellow and orange silver beet stems more commonly seen as white.
I returned from the Hawkes bay farmers market with a few interesting seedlings. My favourite was the Litchi Berry Tomato. I can't wait to see how this plant grows and look forward to the challenge of harvesting. Reviews suggest a delicious berry tangy flavour!!
It's easy to see how these sharp looking thorns were undesirable by plant growers and our selectively bred tomato plants with redder, larger, juicier fruits with no thorns came about.
Find out more about the Litchi Berry tomato here. If you have ideas about heirloom vegetables you would like to try out in the plot let me know.
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