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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
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”:
Eric Lucas is a retired associate editor at Alaska Beyond Magazine and lives on a small farm on a remote island north of Seattle, where he grows organic hay, beans, apples, and squash.
