Tomatoes: The star players in the home vegetable garden

Toma­toes are prob­a­bly the most pop­u­lar “veg­etable” grown in the home gar­den; how­ever, this hasn’t always been true. While researchers have traced the tomato’s ori­gin to the moun­tains of South Amer­ica, the plant was intro­duced and grown in Europe more than 200 years before being grown in the United States.