A Tomato for Every Garden

There are hundreds of tomato options for the gardener to try, including different varieties of red beefsteaks, yellow slicers, cherry tomatoes, sauce tomatoes, and heirloom tomatoes.tulinphoto/Shutterstock

Big, red, ripe, round, and juicy.

That’s the homegrown tomato paradigm, the utopian goal of almost everyone who plants a garden. John Denver popularized this idea with the Guy Clark song “Homegrown Tomatoes”:

I forget about all the sweatin’ and diggin’