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'Spears Tennessee Green' Tomato (85 days)
The hard part about growing green tomatoes is knowing when they're ripe. The vigorous indeterminate heirloom vine produced a moderate number of large fruits that, when picked ripe but still firm, were well worth eating. Both the color and the texture, strangely, reminded us of honeydew melon. This was the favorite of our office taste test.
 
The Organic Gardening test garden in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, is where we evaluate new varieties as well as grow old favorites.

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