Methodology

How we work

Here is how a variety profile gets built: where the hard facts come from, how flavor notes are handled, and what happens when a source comes up short. The open gaps are listed at the bottom, pulled straight from the data.

Facts trace to sources, or stay null

Days to maturity, growth habit, breeding history, and origin must trace to a cited source on the entry. When a fact is not verifiable, the field stays blank and the gap is recorded as an open item, shown in the queue below. Null is acceptable. Guessing is not. Every published variety carries at least two sources.

Flavor notes are attributed

Flavor is subjective, and catalog copy gets recycled from vendor to vendor, so we attribute it rather than state it as settled fact. The frustrations sit next to the strengths too: cracking, disease, low yield, slow ripening. A profile that only lists what is good about a tomato is not much use to someone deciding what to grow.

About the images

Variety images are labeled illustrations drawn from documented traits, or credited photographs. We do not present an AI rendering as a photo of a named tomato. Each image carries its credit and license in the data.

Sources are linked

We link out to the extension databases, university programs, and seed catalogs we rely on, as normal followed links. We do not cite sources that block verification.

Published by an organization

Everything here is published under Tomato Almanac as an organization, not an invented personal byline.

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