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Heirloom tomatoes!! I wait all winter for my first taste. They truly are the taste of summer.
Last summer, at a farmers' market, I bought the one tomato they had of a type I'd never seen before. Shaped more like a sweet pepper than a tomato, very dark red verging on purple, and OH! the taste! Not too much juice and lovely and meaty. I never did find another, and the "kid" at the booth when I was there didn't know the name. Any chance you would recognize it?
I did save seed, started them and planted them May 24 weekend, which is standard up here. Then the godforsaken raccoons ate every last plant down to the ground and pulled out the roots - so I have no more chances to get any unless I can find out the name.
Hope you, or someone on the list, can help.
Thank you kindly,
~marilyn
It's really hard to identify a tomato on that information alone. I've been thinking on it though but would only end up guessing it might be one of the many "black"tomatoes now popular (Black Krim, Black Prince, etc) or even something along the lines of Cherokee Purple or one of the others in that category.
You might want to take a look at Tomato Growers Supply or one of the other heirloom tomato sources online and see if any show a picture or fit the description you are looking for.
Sorry I can't be of more help. Happy you have found a good tasting tomato though; and now the search is on!
Thanks! That Tomato Grower's Supply is a good source. So far, It's looked most similar to the Russian blacks like Krim (good guess Horse - I was rather naive about just how many tomato varieties there are) or Southern Nights.
A lot of places just don't have pictures.
But I do love experimenting with the heirloom/heritage varieties - so many of them are very tasty and really interesting. But then, it doesn't take much to beat the taste of a grocery store tomato, eh?
