PlantFiles: Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Green Zebra'

Tried this plant for the first time this year...and dare i say, it is now one of my favorites! It totally rocks on a burger! :)

Good tasting tomato but very little resistance to disease. I threw away as many as I kept...

One of my favourite tomatoes to grow! Currently growing my third generation of self collected seed, and still with extremely good results. Im growing in cold windy Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Very disease and draught resistant. Tall, strong, healthy plants, even after some severe wind battering. Last season I had my three tallest tomato plants (out of 32) reach almost 3m and both were Green Zebra! They need a decent amount of space to grow in.

I love making green tomato relishes and sauces. Flavour is intense and colour a real eye catcher. Also great fresh, especially with cheese and crackers.

Definately recommend this variety!

Plants tend to bare large amounts of fruits a little larger than a golf ball. The tastiest green tomato I've encountered and great for salsa and Mexican dishes. A permanent fixture in my garden and one of my favorite tomatoes in terms of both flavor and yield.

I find Green Zebra tomato plants very easy to grow -- they ripen mid-season here in Philadelphia and are very prolific producers. I used Cock-a-doodle-doo when I planted them. They are delicious in salads -- nice full-bodied tomato flavor. They work nicely with red and yellow tomatoes for fresh tomato salad.

AWESOME! I found a tiny plant on sale in July at a farmer's market. I stuck it in some soil in my back yard and stuck a cage around it. This is my first home, first garden, and first tomato plant! It grew beautifully despite the fact that I planted it late and not even in good sun. Here it is, Halloween, and I chopped down the plant and harvested about 10 pounds of these lovely green beauties. They are still quite hard, so not ripe yet. I made perfect fried green tomatoes with them. Good enough to rival my grandmother's! Just sliced them, salted and peppered them, dipped them in medium corn meal and fried 'em up in olive oil. Then I made a couple of quarts of pickled green tomatoes. WOO HOO! Green Zebras will be in my garden for years to come. (Portland,OR)

I have enjoyed Green Zebra so much in the past that I decided to give the other Zebras a try this year. I am growing 5 Zebra varieties along with a Red Lightning. The lack of disease resistance that has been mentioned seems to be present in the other Zebra varieties as well.Over the last few weeks that row has slowly deteriorated with the exception of Yellow Zebra.

One interesting note that I can add: I was introduced to Green Zebra when I purchased a plant at a national grocery chain a couple of years ago. It was sold as Green Zebra Stripe.

Out of the 5 Zebras and the Red Lightning the Green was outpaced in production only by my Black Zebra.

And by the way, the Green is king of my Zebra zoo. But I must admit that the Black is more attractive.

Give this tomato plant A LOT of room. Its huge but extremely productive. Teenagaers at this house love them because they taste 'zingy' like ketchup.

Good flavor, but the skin was a bit thick. It took picking several at different stages to figure the best time to pick. I had it in quite a bit of shade, but in compost rich soil, and they did well.

I grew this one in the spring of '05, and thought it was fairly decent tasting at first. However, it seemed like as the season progressed, the taste was negatively impacted by the heat and the fruits became sour.

Huge producer of smallish, round tomatoes; ripe when they get a yellowish tint to the green. Excellent canned or frozen; the thick peel slips off easily. Will grow again.

This plant produced one (count 'em, ONE) tomato the size of a golfball, then died. I don't think it liked the hot, dry weather out here because the plant itself only got about 2 feet tall.

Not a winner in the California high desert -- at least not in my backyard!

This was my 1st year growing "Green Zebra" via a free gift pack of seeds included with my order from Baker Creek (thank you Baker Creek!!!).

I started them indoors end of March & had 100% germination in 4 days. Whether planted in the garden or in deck containers, these tomatoes performed FABULOUSLY. Unlike the negative post above, I have never had a tomato plant so utterly RESISTANT to pests & disease. While all my other 'maters were being chronically defoliated by Hornworms, for whatever reason the Zebras hardly had a one, & even then bounced back quickly from any damage. Ditto for the usual end-of-season viral/bacterial diseases. Currently, while the other plants are beginning to slow down & yellow, my Zebras are still full, lush, & green. Go figure.

While taste is definitely a personal thing - I rate Green Zebra way up there: tangy yet sweet & quite "tomatoey" (is that a word, lol??). Yesterday's Bacon, Lettuce, & Green Zebra sandwiches were a big hit!!

All in all - DEFINITELY on my "grow again" list for next year.

I understand why this is so popular. Very interesting flavor, a prolific tomato and of course the appearance. You will want to just look at them. Perfect tomato after perfect tomato in a year that the drought caused plenty of scarring and crzing on the fruit but not to the Zebras. An absolute must!

My mother-in-law, who has grown tomatoes for almost 70 years said upon seeing it, "Is it ripe?" Green Zebra is one of the best kept secrets in the garden. Its taste is excellent and unique. My kids love them. They grew very well for me and I am a rookie gardener.

Green Zebra got a late start for us, but then churned out buckets of fruit.

It's a smaller tomato, but has a tasty zing to it that none others have.

I'll tell you what this tomato is best for: fresh soups. If your soup recipe calls for a can or two of crushed or chopped tomatoes, put eight or nine of these babies in your food processor instead.

The taste is out of this world. You cannot duplicate this taste in winter.

GROWERS: I've found that planting in a raised bed, filled with planter mix, is best for tomatoes. I'm also sold on using live Ladybugs for pest control. We didn't have a single tomato worm last year. Not one pest. Every tomato came out looking perfect!

I had terrific results with this variety. Nice fruit in groups five to seven at a time. My plants held up well until it was quite cool. Great sandwich tomato and made an interesting salsa.

I planted green zebra for the first time this year. I tried to keep the vines staked and they got over 5 foot tall and as the summer progressed, they escaped the restraints and tried to take over the garden. I gave green zebra tomatoes to everyone who would take them, often had to explain what they were. They out produced my other varities. I found this tomato in D.C. at a farmers market, saved some seeds on a napkin and brought them to Texas. I did just about everything wrong I could in saving the seeds, yet it seemed like every seed I planted came up. This variety will be in my garden for years to come.

I have mixed feelings about the 'Green Zebra'. I absolutely loved the taste, and how quick they are to mature, but on the negative side they seem to have nearly no resistance to disease. Almost every one of my Green Zebras succumbed to some sort of mortal disease. No matter where in the garden they were planted, while the surrounding tomato plants of other species thrived! Maybe I just grew a weak batch from sickly parent plants seeds(someone sent me the heirloom seeds.)

We're growing Green Zebra tomatoes for the first time in our Dripping Springs, Texas (Austin area) organic garden. They are fabulous - the taste is somewhere between a tomato and a kiwi! I only planted two of this variety, but they are FULL of tomatoes - just starting to ripen. Pick them when they are just soft - if you wait too long they will be a bit mushy inside. I will plant many more of these next year.

Bot my first Green Zebra plant this year (Colorado) and am glad to be told here that it is indeterminant. Big fans of fried green tomatoes, we thought this ought to be something special with garlic and a touch of olive oil. We'll see!

I really like the Green Zebra tomato as it's small yet early; with a lot of zesty, refreshing flavor. Rather tart and spicey at the same time. I would certainly grow this again just for the flavor and the beauty of the tomato in contrast to others. Usually, I prefer red tomatoes because of the nutritional value from the redness (lycopene--recommended for cancer prevention and as a general antioxidant).

Excellent tomato, not sweet, and just right on the acidity. One of the best I've had in a salad.

If I only had one tomato plant this may not be it, but it is in my top dozen for salads or salsa. Both the taste and the color make it a good addition to a deversified tomato patch.