Tomato 'Brandywine'     

'Brandywine' is a Tomato variety in the Solanum genus with a scientific name of Solanum lycopersicum. 'Brandywine' is considered a heirloom OP (open polliated) cultivar. When ripe, fruit appear in these approximate colours:   Deep carmine pink and   Carmine pink. Leaves appear approximately as a   Dark olive green and   Olive colour.

The Brandywine tomato is a large potato-leafed variety producing fruits up to 1lb in weight. It has a relatively low yield per plant, but is famous for it’s wonderful taste making it a staple in many heirloom tomato gardens. The standard brandywine is pink to reddish-pink in colour, while many other varieties have been created that range from yellow to red to black.

This tomato is also known as “Pink Brandywine” or “Brandywine Pink” which is actually a redundancy, as the pink brandywine is what most people would just refer to as “Brandywine”.

Mexico is thought to be the country of origin for Brandywine.

Brandywine Tomato is normally fairly low maintenance and is normally quite easy to grow, as long as a level of basic care is provided throughout the year. Being aware of the basic soil, sun and water preferences will result in a happier and healthier plant.

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By our calculations, you should look at sowing Brandywine about 42 days before your last frost date.

Transplant out when around 15cm (6 inches) high.

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The origins of the Brandywine tomato are steeped in mystery, although they were shown to be carried in the Burpee catalogue as early as 1886.

From Wikipedia:
It reached modern popularity after being introduced via the Seed Savers Exchange in 1982 by an elderly Ohio gardener named Ben Quisenberry. He received the variety from a woman named Dorris Sudduth Hill who could trace Brandywine in her family for over 80 years. Brandywine has become one of the most popular home garden cultivars in the United States. Due to the proliferation of many misidentified varieties, the pink-fruited, potato-leaved Brandywine is sometimes labeled Brandywine (Sudduth’s).

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