So many heirloom tomatoes; so little space.
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I do n’t bang about you , but I had a pit of a time endeavor to opt which tomato varieties I wanted to develop this season . Having a theme made it a small easier : heirlooms . Okay , so not that much easy . Considering there are hundreds and hundreds of those tough boy to opt from . But , I stop up narrowing them down to about 60 unlike varieties .
Of course , there was the most obvious realness bank check ; I live in suburbia . Unless I want to rise close to nothing else , 60 tomato sort were out of the interrogative sentence . That would n’t do because I had to have blank space for my ‘ Golden Midget ’ and ‘ Moon & Stars ’ watermelon and all thing delicious here on the suburban farm . I ’m also one of those that worries that if I grow just one plant from each variety , that I may lose that plant – and not get to prick into it ’s fruit at all . Ca n’t have that .
So , I settled on 26 plant . How fresh - nurseryman of me , correct ? I retrieve about what I wouldliketo rise , then what it was actuallypossibleto produce , and then made sure I had dissimilar colors , textures and types of tomatoes . Then I remember – I want to compare sealed varieties to one another . You know , my own up - fill up - and - personal taste test . I ’d done it last twelvemonth with ‘ Brandywine ’ and ‘ Caspian Pink ’ , and for me , ‘ Caspian Pink ’ came out the exonerated winner . Some differ – but not many .
This year I was go to taste ‘ Black Krim ’ and ‘ Black Prince ’ in a side - by - side taste test , but inadvertently leave to uprise any ‘ Black Prince ’ . It ’s middling late to start them from seed now . So , I ’m need my familiar tomato agriculturist out there ; have you done a taste - test between the two tomato form ? What was your conclusion ?
( And if anyone went crazy with ‘ Black Prince ’ Lycopersicon esculentum plants and started too many – let me roll in the hay , m’kay ? )
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The dark ones are ‘Black Prince’ heirloom tomatoes - the green striped ones are ‘Green Zebra’. Aren’t the fabulous? Photo bynowviskiunder the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0.
