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Just how do our garden grow?

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Actually pretty well – 21 baby tomatoes, scallions, baby zucchini and baby squash, basil and beets. All organic and the tomatoes (8 of 9) are heirloom tomatoes.

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that gives tomatoes an appealing uniform red color while sacrificing the fruit’s sweet taste. Varieties bearing this mutation, which have been favored by industry since the 1940s, feature fruits with lower levels of carotenoids (things that are good for us) and a decreased ability to make sugar (flavor) within the fruit.

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