Sun-Dried Tomatoes You Can Grow on the Vine

Gardengates | Feb 7, 2011 |

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Grow your own dried tomatoes the easy way

Check out the new variety of tomato that will let you grow your own sun-dried tomatoes on the vine without any extra effort. It's called the 'Tomaccio'. Sometimes referred to as the “raisin tomato” this new tomato variety is showing up in garden centers after being introduced during the green industry propagation Spring Trials last year. It looks like a regular cherry tomato and can be eaten fresh like one, too. But if you leave it on the vine, it won't get mushy and go bad. Instead, it will dry up nicely into a small, tasty, sun-ripened, dry fruit that you can use in salads, as an ingredient in cooking or on its own for munching. It has that familiar, intense flavor only found in sun-dried tomatoes and you can grow them yourself, without all the work of having to carefully dry them or using a dehydrator. You can grow it in the garden or in a container much the way you'd grow any other of your favorite tomatoes.