Articles from the March 5, 2014 edition

Mar 5, 2014

OSU tomatoes By Denise Ruttan As you pore over seed catalogs in these cold winter months, you'll likely include tomatoes in your vegetable garden dreams. Oregon State University's vegetable breeding program has developed several varieties over the past 40 years that are now mainstays in many Pacific Northwest gardens. Perhaps you know of Indigo Rose, the novelty purple tomato that OSU debuted in 2012. But did you know about the other varieties that the program has created? "In the past, the whole idea behind the breeding program has been to bre...