In a broadcast that originally aired on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with author Amy Goldman about growing melons, growing tomatoes, her passion for seed-saving, and about her research when writing her books The Melon and The Heirloom Tomato.
The Melon: Goldman took nine years to write this tribute to melons that is filled with mouth-watering pictures and information about selecting varieties, growing, seed-saving, and melon recipes. Did you know that charentais melons are the true cantaloupes; and that they’re different from the American muskmelons that we mistakenly call cantaloupes?
Heirloom Tomatoes: Was the original Brandywine tomato pink-fleshed and potato leaved or red-fleshed and regular-leaved? “This is something that only a gardening nerd would care about,” says Goldman. Incidentally, it’s the latter.