Well, it's not the Cover of the Rolling Stone - but it's the NYT! web live this AM [View all]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/realestate/tomato-growing-tips.html/

I know there is a paywall - will put the first 4 para below

It will be in the print version on Sunday

By Margaret Roach
Feb. 16, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET

“We are the luckiest tomato growers in all of history,” proclaimed Craig LeHoullier as he thumbed with dramatic effect through the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook, a hefty index of nearly 12,000 heirloom varieties of the beloved Solanum lycopersicum.

Choosing among such a staggering selection of tomatoes, plus hundreds of modern hybrids not included in that print version of the yearbook, is the first step toward your best-ever harvest — or what Dr. LeHoullier, a retired chemist who has grown perhaps 3,000 varieties, calls “epic tomatoes.”

And reaching that goal does not start with just any old tomato that the local big-box store serves up as transplants by the truckload.

“Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time” is Dr. LeHoullier’s 2014 book, now in its seventh printing, with about 80,000 copies in print. And Growing Epic Tomatoes is the name of an online course that he teaches with his friend Joe Lamp’l, the host for 12 years of the Emmy Award-winning public television program “Growing a Greener World.”

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