Brandywine Tomato Lycopersicon lycopersicum
LATIN NAME: Solanum lycopersicum
COMMON NAME: Tomato
The tomato vine sets its round, red, many-seeded fruits among the hairy leaves, and the small, yellow flowers open in the loose clusters. The upright or sprawling, annual plant carries the large, lobed, softly hairy, green leaves and the loose clusters of the small, yellow, star-shaped flowers through the summer, one of the fine, generous sights of the vegetable garden, drawing the bees, to be followed by the round, ribbed, red, pink or yellow fruits with the fine, juicy, many-seeded pulp. The fruits have a very long record as the fine, staple fruit of the warm tables, and the plant is a fine, historic presence of the vegetable garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, deep, rich, moist, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The tomato is a historic subject of the plant science, and the round fruits keep showing up in the work on the warm-season vegetables. The way the round, ribbed, red, pink or yellow fruits develop from the small, yellow, star-shaped flowers has been studied at length, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the warm-season vegetables, the many-seeded fruits and the members of the nightshade family. The lobed leaves and the upright or sprawling habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the tomato is a regular subject of the work on the round fruits of the warm world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The tomato is a fine, generous plant of the vegetable garden and the warm kitchen. The round, ribbed, red, pink or yellow fruits with the fine, juicy, many-seeded pulp have a very long record as the fine, staple fruit of the warm tables, the fresh fruits coming to the salads, the sauces, the soups and the preserves of the old kitchens, while the loose clusters of the small, yellow, star-shaped flowers open through the summer, drawing the bees. It is one of the fine choices for the vegetable garden, the pot and the study collection, and it has been written about in the culinary and the agricultural papers for the round fruits and the very long history. It is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, deep, rich, moist, well-drained garden.
Give the young plants the support and the deep, rich bed, and the round fruits will come in the first warm season.
To grow the tomato from seed, sow the small, hairy seeds just under the surface of the pot of fine, gritty soil, keep the pot in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out after the last frosts. The seedlings are up within a week or two and grow on fast. With the sun, the support and the deep, rich, moist, well-drained ground, the round fruits will come in the first warm season.
The Brandywine is considered by many gardeners to be the best-tasting tomato available
Heirloom variety from the 1800s producing medium-large fruits of dark reddish pink with an extremely fine distinctive flavour, of gourmet quality. Good for slicing, in salads and sandwiches. 74 days.