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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Hannah Stephenson

Discovering the tomato with a much longer shelf life

Storage tomato ‘Piennolo del Vesuvio’ (Alamy/PA) -

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to keep a tomato fresh in its original state for months, rather than making your glut into passata to freeze, or chutney?

But it is possible if you grow storage tomatoes, a type which can keep for months in a cool, dry situation, says Lucy Hutchings, co-founder with Kate Cotterill of Chelsea Gold Medal-winning heirloom seed company She Grows Veg.

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