Tomato Mortgage Lifter

This huge heirloom beefsteak (up to 4 lb.; average 2 1/2 lb.) consistently wins taste-tests. Developed in the 1930s by a gardener who planted the four biggest varieties he knew and crossed one with pollen from the other three. He did this for six seasons and created a variety that produced immense tasty fruit. He sold the plants for $1 a piece and paid off his $6000 mortgage in 6 years....

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