At the beginning of the growing season, I bought quite the variety of tomato plants. One type in particular intrigued me more than any other, in part because I’d never heard of it before. It was the yellow pear tomato plant. Based on the picture, the robust, foot-high plant would grow thick and lush and produce pear-shaped, yellow tomatoes. The pear-shaped, yellow tomatoes in the pictures looked quite sizeable and delicious. I passed the plant up the first couple of times I saw it. But something compelled me to go back and purchase the unique plant. I was very proud of my new tomato plant and worked hard to establish it among our other vegetable plants and herbs. It did well…for a while. It was the first tomato plant to produce a tomato. However, the tomato was small. It was the size of a grape tomato. It WAS pear-shaped and it DID ripen to a sunny yellow hue. Following the first tomato came a second. And then the plant wilted. We gave it extra water and checked on it daily. It perked up a time or two, but then it up and died. The two tomatoes were surprisingly tasty. Not all that satisfying considering the work to produce them, but tasty. I believe I’ll stick with the roma, cherry and grape tomato plants, like the ones that I have to visit every day now to pick ripe tomatoes, when I sow my garden next year.