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Tips for Growing Perfect Yellow Pear Tomatoes Solanum lycopersicum ‘Yellow Pear’You never forget your first. Homegrown heirloom tomato plant, that is.
Well, I haven’t, at least. It was a ‘Yellow Pear,’ purchased during one of the first years I lived in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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When I was a kid in Williamsburg, Virginia, our family grew flowers and the occasional parsley or bell pepper plant.
Homegrown tomatoes were the province of our neighbor, Mr. Sherman, a history professor who had summers free to dedicate to amending our sandy soil, fertilizing, caging, watering, and pruning hybrid beefsteaks.
Years later, single and renting part of a house, I bought four of these plants on a whim. A yellow tomato! What a lark.
I’ve learned since that ‘Yellow Pear’ is a favorite in this area.
I was amazed at how easily they grew in our clay soil, and how readily they produced tiny fruits starting in midsummer. And I was enchanted with both the pear shape (though to me they look more like miniature bottle gourds) and the mild taste.
I’ve changed quite a bit since that first experience, but my affection for ‘Yellow Pear’ has remained constant.
I’ve grown this variety as a lure for my vegetable-hating stepdaughter, as an ingredient when I went through an “all gazpacho, all the time” phase, and again, more recently, when I got hooked on the simple pleasure of skillet-charred tomatoes with a balsamic glaze.
If you’re interested in an heirloom that the kids might like, and have what it takes to handle a vining tomato, you could find ‘Yellow Pear’ is to your liking.
Before you decide, let me walk you through a bit of its history, and share a
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