We have always been able to grow tomatoes with great success. We just plant them, wait a bit, then pick them! So easy…….. unless of course we have a dry summer or a late blight infestation, or don’t watch for tomato hornworms, or have fluctuating rain/dry spells causing blossom end rot, or some critter takes a big bite out of one before we pick them.

Grafted Tomatoes

Grafting tomatoes is old hat and has been done commercially for decades. Now for the first time they are available to the home gardener.

If you prefer the taste of heirloom tomatoes, you know there’s no going back to most of the disease resistant and tasteless hybrids. It is a fact that the most delicious tomatoes are often weak and disease prone, especially in changing climates.

Grafting partners those awesome organic varieties with productive, disease resistant rootstocks. Now we can get bigger, great tasting crops on healthier, vigorous plants, with greater tolerance for seasonal temperature swings, extending the growing season in both directions.