Brandywine, Red - Tomato

Red Brandywine  80 to 100 days, indeterminate — It is by far one of the most recognized of heirloom tomato varieties and helped to establish the mainstream heirloom seed renaissance. The regular leaf plants yield fruit that are red, relatively large (over a pound), globe to oblate shaped, and full of flavor.  Any tomato with the "Brandywine" moniker has immediate "recognition" and generates interest among gardeners. There is a lot of lore surrounding the Brandywine category of tomatoes. And by lore, I mean confusion, myth, argument, and cliques who follow various garden writers. We simply try to stick to facts that are verifiable using primary source historical documentation and compare that to the firsthand observations we gather during our grow outs.The information that you find in seed catalogs, gardening books and magazine articles tends to simply be the oft repeated "Amish origin story." We have found no factual basis for this attribution and assume that it began as conjecture