Should You Grow Heirloom or Hybrid Tomatoes?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In today's episode, we're welcoming Craig LeHoullier, the NC Tomatoman! He's a long-time tomato grower, having been the first to grow and name the Cherokee purple tomato in 1990! Today we'll talk about the difference between heirloom and hybrid tomatoes. Enjoy! Learn More: Craig's Website The Dwarf Tomato Project Buy Craig's Book, Epic Tomatoes Craig's email Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Kevin here from Epic Gardening.
0:15.3	I just wanted to say sorry for missing a week of podcast episodes.
0:18.6	It's been really crazy here this summer trying to grow both for garden and the business.
0:23.2	So what I'm going to do over the next couple of weeks is re-air some of my favorite guest
0:27.4	weeks of episodes starting with Craig Lahulier.
0:34.4	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:36.7	Hope you've been having a wonderful weekend and you're kicking off the week nicely.
0:41.5	Today I have a special guest I'm bringing on the one, the only the NC tomato man, Craig
0:48.8	Lahulier himself.
0:50.9	He is probably one of the most experienced tomato growers on the planet I would have to
0:55.3	say.
0:56.3	He's grown I think 3,500 different varieties of tomatoes in his lifetime having named
1:01.6	the purple Cherokee tomato himself.
1:04.6	He's got some credentials in the tomato world.
1:06.8	So today we're going to kick it off.
1:08.3	Today's episode is going to be about should you grow heirloom tomatoes or should you grow
1:12.3	hybrid tomatoes and what's the difference between those two different types of tomatoes.
1:16.5	Let's get into it.
1:17.8	Okay, Craig let's go ahead and get it started then I think with maybe a pretty basic question
1:25.6	which would be heirloom versus hybrid tomatoes, what these things are, what's the difference
1:30.1	between the two and then which to grow or maybe the answers both in different circumstances.
1:34.9	Sure, well my first answer would be yes absolutely heirlooms are hybrids just grow tomatoes.
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