![]() 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 .įor reviews of other tomato cultivars, see my Tomato Reports from 2014, 2012, and 2009-2011. The skins were tender you have to handle these tomatoes gently. They were also fairly uniform in size, about 3½ inches across, and the taste was good and tart. 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. This Brandywine is truly pink, with tiny scab-like freckles. 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. Seeds are available from TomatoFest and other seed companies.īrandywine. Chocolate Stripes was bred by Al Anderson, of Troy, Ohio, from Tom Wagner’s Schimmeig Creg and an unknown pink Amish tomato. The flavor is excellent I loved this tomato in salads and gazpacho. 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. Seeds are available from TomatoFest and Totally Tomatoes.Ĭhocolate Stripes. The tomato is best, and most acidic, when it is ripe but still quite firm. The skin color is only slightly purplish. Looking like a big egg with a point at the bottom, this sweet, meaty, low-acid tomato from Ukraine is useful for sauce or drying. Cant answer for you, but my Bakers Creek order came with Green Vernissage and I was just opening and searching the Tomato forum to see if I could find. Double Helix Farms introduced this Ukrainian tomato to the United States Totally Tomatoes and Baker Creek also sell it. You have to pick it sooner, when it is still pink and green. I wavered between lust and disgust, because this golf-ball-size tomato tastes very low in acid and mealy if you eat it when it’s rust-red and green. I will certainly plant this tomato again.īlack Vernissage. Seeds are available from Johnny’s and from Seed Savers Exchange. If you dry this tomato, do so when the stripes are still greenish if they are entirely gold the fruit is too ripe. I found no hollow interiors and only a little blossom-end rot, less than in the hybrid Roma that Wendy and Greg also planted (we had a bad year for blossom-end rot). The acidity is strong, the seeds large and few, and the fruit production high. Developed by John Swenson as a cross of Antique Roman with Banana Legs, this 5-inch-long tomato, with an elongated plum-tomato shape, has deep red flesh and a red skin beautifully streaked with gold. The darn deer ate every last fruit.) All of these varieties are open-pollinated. (All I can say about the many varieties I planted myself is this: Deer like them. The tomatoes I’ll describe here were all grown by my friends Greg and Wendy, who kindly let me raid their garden while they were on vacation. Now that tomato-starting season is almost upon us, it’s high time I reviewed last year’s varieties.
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