My family grew these when I was a kid back in the 1950s shortly after the variety was introduced. This brings back happy memories. Good to know it's still on the market

Elizabeth- it sure brings back memories of when I was growing up in Jackson County west of Ann Arbor. But I think Mom & Dad grew the older tomatoes like Marglobe & Rutgers. We were always thankful for the summer vegetables; especially snap beans & cucumbers. A great time in my life getting my garden lessons at a young age.

You were so lucky to have gardening introduced at a young age. My parents really didn't garden. I remember them planting a few trees at their new home, but that was it. The landscaping was done.

I remember that like you, we also raised Rutgers varieties of tomatoes. Lots of green beans (varieties now forgotten by me) for canning, and sweet corn. The only sweet corn variety I remember is Illini Chief (a little before the supersweet hybrids of that strain). Concord grapes for juice and jelly, raspberries for jam, peaches, pears, winter squash, parsnips (which I hated as a kid, but now love), sweet peas, kohlrabi, lettuce, spinach, asparagus. All this on the back half of a 1/3 acre yard in Des Moines. We collected crabapples and elderberries from the public Waterworks Park along the Racoon River, for pickling and more jam. Unlike most kids, I loved most vegetables, maybe because I had that appreciation for where they came from, and got to eat them fresh from the garden.