The World’s First Tasty Seedless Tomato

By Vanessa Richins

I guess I’m just a big kid.

I love to place tomatoes in my mouth and squeeze until the seeds pop out.

There’s just something so amusing about doing this.

However, I wouldn’t be able to do that with one of Burpee’s new tomatoes for the 2009 season. Dubbed “Sweet Seedless,” it is the first tasty seedless tomato.

It took them 6 years to perfect the Sweet Seedless. In previous experiments, plant breeders had been able to produce tomatoes that were seedless, but they didn’t taste good, or have a good texture.

In addition to being tasty and seedless with a good texture, the Sweet Seedless is resistant to diseases and hardy.

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