Yeah, those are. The seeds are what make an heirloom tomato an heirloom tomato. They are passed down from season to season, taken by the farmers from the tomato plants that produced the best fruit. This process allows farmers to select for certain desirable traits like juiciness, size, shape, or color.

Heirlooms are open-pollinated which means they are pollinated out in the wide open as nature intended. Bees, insects, birds, or how the wind blows: there is no intentional intervention. Heirlooms are grown from saved seeds and are at least 50 years old, and some can be a 100+ years old.

Heirloom tomatoes provide a vast number of nutrients including potassium, niacin, vitamin B6 and folate and the cancer fighting antioxidant lycopene. Since they are picked when ripe and spend little time traveling from farm to plate, these nutrients are readily available to nourish your body.

Heirloom, a term used interchangeably with Heritage, refers to varieties of tomatoes whose seeds have been passed down for generations. Heirloom varieties are open-pollinated. This means you can save seeds from heirloom tomatoes, plant them, and expect them to grow into new tomato plants.

Orange & Yellow Heirloom Tomato Varieties:

• Persimmon - One of the best flavors of all the orange tomatoes.
• Juane Flamme - small (large plum size), sweet and low-acid, bursting with juice.
• Kellogg's Breakfast - vibrant sweet taste, meaty with few seeds.

Many gardeners agree that most heirloom varieties boast greater flavor than that found in hybrids, especially among tomatoes.

Although taste is personal, in general heirlooms are better tasting than hybrid varieties.

Heirloom tomatoes are absolutely worth the price. The amazing and unique flavors that come from heirloom tomatoes are like no other tomatoes I eat during the other eleven months of the year. Now, with that said, do I buy them all the time? No.

1-2 days As I mentioned, heirlooms spoil very quickly. It's best to enjoy them within 1-2 days of buying them. If you need to keep them for longer, choose some that are a little firmer and underripe. They will continue to ripen at room temperature.

8 of the best tomato varieties to grow at home for bumper harvests and flavorful fruits

• Sungold.
• San Marzano.
• Brandywine.
• Veranda Red Hybrid.
• Chocolate Stripes.
• Gardeners Delight.
• Baby Boomer.
• Green Zebra.

'Sun Sugar': The tangerine-orange fruits of 'Sun Sugar' are some of the sweetest, tartest, and best tasting around. The disease-resistant, indeterminate vines will stand up to fusarium wilt and tobacco mosaic virus, and they produce long trusses of crack-resistant fruits. 9.

'Gold Medal' (beefsteak, indeterminate, heirloom c. 1920) is arguably the top bicolor for taste. The giant 1-3 lb fruits are perfectly marbled with red and yellow and are large, meaty, and juicy. It has won lots of taste tests where it has been described as luscious and superb.