Tomatoes! They're ripening on the Tower Garden ---- not all at once but in turn. This means that they don't have the mutation stumbled upon in the 1920s by commercial breeders who liked the idea that tomatoes would ripen uniformly. It simplified the harvest and it has pervaded lots of tomato breeds.

This mutation has been connected to the same gene that reduces sugars and nutrients in the tomatoes. The discovery has valuable ramifications for professional growers but also means that the mutant tomatoes don't taste as good as heirloom nor are they as nutritious. 

Researchers at Cornell University along with colleagues in Spain and Turkey --- A. L. T. Powell, C. V. Nguyen, T. Hill, K. L. Cheng, et. al. --- have recently published their report about the discovery of this gene.  

Another reason the Tower Garden is superior: Late blight. For tomato plants grown in soil this is a pervasive bane. I'll post a picture of my neighbor's tomatoes, which also are ripening by turn, but as you can see the vines are already gone by late blight and it isn't even August yet! 

On the Tower Garden the vines are in place and we will get more tomatoes.