'Mater Seeds: Tomato Acidity Vs. Sweetness

Thursday, June 21, 2012

...and this is the chart I reference when I teach workshops and we talk about the mythical low-acid tomato. Annie, get your refractometer!

Heirloom Tomato pH and Brix Chart: University of IL, 2004

Good Reads for Gardeners

100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden by Carolyn J. Male
100 Vegetables and Where They Came From by William Woys Weaver
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Cooking from the Garden by Rosalind Creasy
Growing Home: Stories of Ethnic Gardening by Susan Davis Price
Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Growing, Seed Saving and Cultural History by William Woys Weaver
Out in the Garden: Growing a Beautiful Life by Dean Riddle
The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch
The New Seed-Starters Handbook by Nancy Bubel