
Inspired by the First Family’s decision to plant a vegetable garden at The White House, W. Atlee Burpee & Co. decided to cultivate its own version at Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, PA, where the nation’s leading home gardening company trials most of the vegetables and flowers it sells, by catalog, at retail stores and on the Internet. According to Mr. Ball, gardeners in the Northeast who planted heirloom tomatoes organically this year had a...