Tomato, Cherokee Purple 

Been planting Cherokee purple for a good number of years. I find it a very tasty heirloom. The color is appealing to me and it looks gourmet. My yield was great this year! Worth the space in my garden!!

I started growing these about 15 years ago and now they are all that I will grow. They are an heirloom and the story is that they were re-vived many years ago from seed that supposedly came from Sevier County, Tennessee. I usually buy grafted plants as they are hardier than growing non-grafted. The plants do struggle with wilt and other diseases, but the taste is so much like the tomatoes that I ate as a child that it is worth the sacrifices to grow them. They are un-rivaled in taste. I give them 4 stars as grafted plants and 5 stars in taste. Nothing else has that pleasing bite of a home grown tomato as much as a Cherokee Purple.