People attribute many different advantages to heirloom tomatoes. Fresh taste, the ability to save your own seeds, time tested hardiness in the environment are just a few. But one often overlooked characteristic of heirloom tomatoes is the variation in color. Here's a look at the choices of colors available in heirloom tomatoes.

When you start to grow tomatoes in your garden or even grow tomatoes in pots, you may want to try something a little different. Growing heirloom tomatoes will typically not only give you a variety of tomatoes that you don't see in the store every day, but you can harvest not only the tomatoes but the seeds as well, so you have invested in something that will produce for years. With that in mind, here are some tips on how to grow heirloom tomatoes.

There is a a lot of attention these days by tomato gardeners on heirloom tomatoes. Many consider them to have superior taste to some of the more recent hybrids, and one of the most popular heirloom

Saving Tomato Seeds is simple and works well on heirloom varieties of tomatoes. Here's some simple steps to save tomato seeds from your tomato harvest this year.

There are a mind numbing variety of tomato breeds out there. Which tomato varieties will work the best for your garden? Here's a quick overview of what the different classes of tomatoes are, and a few suggestions for your garden.  And it's not just the old standby varieties.

One thing that comes up especially with heirloom tomato plants is the need to save seeds from one year to the next.  Of course with hybrid plants, this won't do much as the seeds aren't true to the parents.  But for many heirloom plants this is a good way to get seeds for rare tomato varieties that are hard to find.  You'll find some instructions to save tomato seeds below.

Here we take another look at the differences between heirloom tomatoes and hybrid tomatoes. There are a number of advantages to each, so it's best to know which one takes provides the best for your particular needs.

It's not uncommon to hear references to heirloom tomatoes.  It's easy to see that they are prized by many gardeners, but for the novice gardener the term may be confusing.  Here's a look at what makes a particular variety an heirloom tomato, and some varieties that you may want to try in your tomato garden, or even on the patio in a hanging tomato planter.