Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes

Living on Earth
The World

Reporter Jeff Young learns the history of one of his favorite tomatoes: Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter. The man who developed the famed tomato had a life as colorful as the plant that bears his name.

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