Non-GMO tomato plants

As I recall HD and Lowes sell Bonnie vegetable plants and according to Bonnie’s website all their vegetable transplants are produced from non-GMO seed.

There really aren't very many gmo crops out there. It's mainly commodity crops like corn, soybean, cotton, canola, & sugar beet. Then there's stuff like papaya, some potatoes, some apples, summer squash and alfalfa.

The summer squash one is rarely used because it's stupid expensive and only provides minimal disease resistance.

By definition, any living thing that has been manipulated by man in any fashion (including selective breeding) is a Genetically Modified Organism. By definition, there isn't a plant or animal that humans consume that is not a GMO unless it is wild, but even then there are exceptions.

Look to see if the label says determinant or indeterminate. Determinant plants will only produce a set number of fruit.

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By definition, there isn't a plant or animal that humans consume that is not a GMO

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There’s also no evidence that GMO food is harmful to humans in any way.

OP, you’ll have several choices when looking through the tomato plants at the box stores. They will either be hybrid or heirloom, and determinate vs indeterminate.

- A hybrid is created when plant breeders intentionally cross-pollinate two different varieties of a plant, with the outcome being an offspring, or hybrid that contains the best traits of each of the parents.

- Heirlooms are open pollinated and have stable genetics. The seeds from the fruits produced will produce the same plant as the parent plant. If you want to save seeds, you’ll want to grow heirlooms.

- Determinate varieties grow to a fixed mature size and then stop producing. Typically called bush type.

- Indeterminate varieties will continue to grow and produce throughout the growing season. They are called vining type.

Determinants are preferred by some as you get a huge amount of fruit and can pressure can it all at once. Also there's less time for fungi to get in and spoil production.

If you are serious about un-messed with genetics, go to Mexico and seek out the wild plants that the 'modern' tomato comes from. Plan to plant a lot of them for a modest yield.

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There’s also no evidence that GMO food is harmful to humans in any way.

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That is patently false. There are tons of studies around the world providing "evidence." If you want to say it isn't "proven," that would probably be acceptable.

The issues come when you take selective breeding GMO food and use that to cover for GMO food that was genetically altered by splicing genes. But even then, selective breeding has been very damaging to food. Just read the book on the history of wheat and why wheat from places like Italy is so much safer than wheat grown in the USA. Even people with celiac can eat Italian wheat with no issues most of the time.

It literally takes 5 minutes to search for thousands of peer reviewed studies and experiments showing detrimental impacts of gene splicing food.

Friends dad is growing ancient grains and can’t grow enough. He started growing because his wife has celiacs.

It’s very interesting how some guts can digest ancient grains easily and cannot digest the newer GMO ones.

I buy my heirloom garden vegetable seeds from Amish. My kids learned in college classes GMO vegetables have not been around long enough to see long term affects of eating this stuff. Especially GMO corn stuff that they put in all food: high fructose corn syrup,