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Green vernissage tomato plant1/24/2024 ![]() ![]() The tomato is best, and most acidic, when it is ripe but still quite firm. Seeds are available from TomatoFest and Totally Tomatoes.Ĭhocolate Stripes. This gorgeous 3-to 4-inch-wide oblate tomato looks much like Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye, but the skin color is a deeper red with deeper green stripes. #Black vernissage tomato days to maturity skin The flavor is excellent I loved this tomato in salads and gazpacho. Chocolate Stripes was bred by Al Anderson, of Troy, Ohio, from Tom Wagner’s Schimmeig Creg and an unknown pink Amish tomato. Seeds are available from TomatoFest and other seed companies.īrandywine. Greg’s favorite, this tomato is far superior to the red Brandywine I used to grow, with its hard green shoulders, ugly navel at the blossom end, and inevitable cracks. This Brandywine is truly pink, with tiny scab-like freckles. Some of the oblate fruits on Greg and Wendy’s potato-leafed vines had the ugly navels, and occasionally an associated crack, but most of the tomatoes were well formed. They were also fairly uniform in size, about 3½ inches across, and the taste was good and tart. The skins were tender you have to handle these tomatoes gently. įor reviews of other tomato cultivars, see my Tomato Reports from 2014, 2012, and 2009-2011.This has been a year of lamentations on the mass drowning of mine and everyone I knows’ gardens. Greg and Wendy’s seed came from Territorial, which has been selecting Brandywine seed for many years and claims to now have one of the earliest strains.Ĭraig LeHoullier has attempted to sort out the confusion of the Brandywine name at. ![]() #Black vernissage tomato days to maturity skinĪs with every summer though, a standout has shown through, this one particularly impressive for not only putting on in mass quantities but for doing so under the strenuous conditions of down pours and unseasonable cool turning immediately into drought and heat.Ī few plants, although stunted, have managed to put on but by no means in the quantities of a more typical season.
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