Your tomatoes may be ugly but they are delicious if they are heirlooms. I imagine at some point we will be getting them in our share so I thought I had better educate our new members who may not know the difference. Thank you to Wikipedia for this definition.
"An heirloom tomato (also called heritage tomato in the UK) is an open-pollinated (non-hybrid) heirloom cultivar of tomato. Heirloom tomatoes have become increasingly popular and more readily available in recent years. According to tomato experts Craig LeHoullier and Carolyn Male, heirloom tomatoes can be classified into four categories: family heirlooms, commercial heirlooms, mystery heirlooms, and created heirlooms.
"An heirloom tomato (also called heritage tomato in the UK) is an open-pollinated (non-hybrid) heirloom cultivar of tomato. Heirloom tomatoes have become increasingly popular and more readily available in recent years. According to tomato experts Craig LeHoullier and Carolyn Male, heirloom tomatoes can be classified into four categories: family heirlooms, commercial heirlooms, mystery heirlooms, and created heirlooms.
They are grown for a variety of reasons, such as historical interest, access to wider varieties, and by people who wish to save seeds from year to year, as well as for their taste, which is widely perceived to be better than "conventional" tomatoes. They usually have a shorter shelf life, but are generally more disease resistant than most commercial tomatoes, except for specific disease(s), for which a commercial hybrid was bred to be resistant."
In my mind the uglier the tomato the tastier! I urge you to read more from the Huffington Post here: The Definitive Reason Heirloom Tomatoes Are Just Plain Better
The picture above is Bishop's Heriloom Tomatoes. The lines, ridges and lumps and bums are normal and the tomatoes delicious! So don't discard them if they look ugly just take a bite and enjoy!
In my mind the uglier the tomato the tastier! I urge you to read more from the Huffington Post here: The Definitive Reason Heirloom Tomatoes Are Just Plain Better
The picture above is Bishop's Heriloom Tomatoes. The lines, ridges and lumps and bums are normal and the tomatoes delicious! So don't discard them if they look ugly just take a bite and enjoy!
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