A Passion for Perfect Tomatoes
?Tomato Lady? Amy LeBlanc, of Wilton, grows more than 300 varieties of organic tomatoes. She holds her plants to a high standard ? and her customers to an even higher one. Do you have what it takes to pass her test?
By Sally Noble
Every year, around about August, Amy LeBlanc ties up her four feet of gray hair with pins and baling twine, fills a few boxes with colorful, oddly shaped tomatoes, and makes the eight-mile journey from her Wilton farm to the Sandy River Farmer's Market in Farmington. There, she spreads out her red tablecloth, sets up her dried-flower arrangements, and brings out the items that people come from near and far to sample: homemade black ketchup, jellied garlic flowers, and of course, her remarkable tomatoes - all 300 different varieties of them.
