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White. This is an indeterminate plant with beefsteak type white tomato.
It is a meaty tomato that has a creamy texture. Can weigh up to one pound with
plenty of feeding and water, but usually stays under a pound. A colorful
addition to salads, sandwiches, and slicing. One of those old time favorites.
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Showing posts with label beefsteak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beefsteak. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Featured tomato: Green Giant
Green Giant. This indeterminate plant bears larger green tomatoes. The one in the picture is 10 oz. It managed to grow that large even with the lousy, rainy summer we had. As you can see from the second picture, they are very meaty with few seeds. Green tomatoes are full of flavor. Out of all the tomatoes, I think they taste best, not as acidic as red tomatoes. Makes an interesting addition to summer salads, sandwiches and home made fresh salsa...especially mixed with red, white, yellow, pink, and black tomatoes.
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Featured tomato: Feuerwerk
Feuerwerk, Germany,This indeterminate plant bears medium to large size tomatoes that are very flavorful. Even the meat is tasty and most often all the taste is in the gel around the seeds. It has flavor that can stand up to mayo. The patterns of gold stripes often look like a chrysanthemum firework and it seems no two tomatoes look alike . Makes an interesting addition to summer salads, sandwiches and home made fresh salsa...especially mixed with red, white, yellow, pink, and black tomatoes.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Featured tomato: Slovene Black
Slovene Black. An heirloom from Slovenia. It is a medium sized beefsteak type black tomato. It has excellent black tomato flavor and as with all black tomatoes, is healthier for you because of the extra anti-oxidants. This variety is great sliced for sandwiches, cut up for salads and can be made into a rich, dark, healthful sauce. Produces well as proved by our lousy cool, cloudy, wet summer last year. I picked quite a few tomatoes of this variety.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Featured tomato: Black Sea Elephant
Black Sea Elephant Russian variety known as Black Sea Elephant, not to be confused with Black Sea Man. The seed for this tomato came to me from a trade with a Russian woman living in Germany. The seed came from her parents' plants in Russia. This indeterminate variety is a robust plant and very much the elephant in the tomato patch. The leaves are generally bigger than others and the fruit is large as well. It is a large, RED, beefsteak type where one slice covers a sandwich or burger. The sea is Black, the tomato fruit is red. It is quite robust and a sturdy, dependable producer. I don't suggest growing this one in a container unless you have a 3 gal. container and keep it well fed and watered. Great for slicing and salads, good heirloom flavor and it's only fault seems to be what to do with the rest of the cut tomato after you've taken the slices off for the family's BLTs. Buy seeds here!
Featured tomato: Kazahkstan Giant
Kazakhstan Giant. This is the first year I've grown this tomato. I traded tomato seeds with someone and this is one of the varieties I got. Giant is in it's name and I suspect it would be a larger tomato if I had grown it in the ground. This is one of the ones I grew in pots because it was the only plant that came from seed and if we were to have hail or bad wind, I brought it under cover. It is an interesting tomato to me because of where it is from. Kazakhstan is so exotic. It is flavorful and productive and can be used for sauce or fresh eating.
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Featured tomato: Japanese Black Treffel
JAPANESE BLACK TREFEL MYSTERY TOMATO. OK, I'm going to be very upfront about this tomato. This is the first year I have grown it and the fruit that is being produced is NOTHING like the description. The description is a pouch shaped, pleated tomato which is quite dark black. This is not what I am getting. I am getting large, round, beefsteak type tomatoes that are black and remind me of Carbon, but not quite. So, if you are looking for Japanese Black Trefel, this may not be it. I think the seller mixed up seeds, which is incredibly easy to do because they all look alike. All the Japanese Black are growing fruit not to description. And yes, the picture is Slovene Black, but this is a very similar tomato, except the mystery tomato is larger and I forgot to take a picture of the fruit I'm getting. Whatever this tomato is, it is large, often over a pound, and very flavorful. I will call this Japanese Black Trefel Mystery because I don't know what else to call it.
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Buy seeds here!
Featured tomato: Druzba
Druzba. This indeterminate plant bears medium to large red tomatoes with a good yield and some disease resistance. Druzba is a Bulgarian heirloom and Druzba means "friend" in that language. Good taste and it is juicy. What's so special about heirloom tomatoes? The idea that an heirloom is a variety that has been grown by generations and passed down from person to person is really very fascinating. And they just taste better
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Buy seeds here!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Featured tomato: Pink Grapefruit
TOMATO SEEDS, HEIRLOOM, Pink Grapefruit, beefsteak, pink, sample pack, 10 seeds sample pack
Pink grapefruit is an indeterminate plant that bears huge pink fruit. Pink fruit is less acidic than red fruit but is still very flavorful. The heaviest fruit my plants bore were 12 oz. but I have heard of them approaching a pound. Good size for sandwiches.
This offer is for 10 seeds, a sample pack.
Germination is relatively easy and I will provide instructions with the seeds for starting them and growing the subsequent plants.
Seeds are shipped in a bubble wrap envelope with growing instructions for $2.10 Unlimited seeds ship for this price. Seeds ship free with plants and other non-plant items from my store.
I ship worldwide for flat rate of $3.00 for unlimited quantity of seeds, but NOTE: I am not responsible for long delivery times due to customs or slow boats or if your plant inspectors confiscate or kill the seeds. It usually takes 1-2 weeks for delivery to most parts of the world with it taking closer to 3 weeks to Australia and New Zealand.
This offer is for 10 seeds, a sample pack.
Germination is relatively easy and I will provide instructions with the seeds for starting them and growing the subsequent plants.
Seeds are shipped in a bubble wrap envelope with growing instructions for $2.10 Unlimited seeds ship for this price. Seeds ship free with plants and other non-plant items from my store.
I ship worldwide for flat rate of $3.00 for unlimited quantity of seeds, but NOTE: I am not responsible for long delivery times due to customs or slow boats or if your plant inspectors confiscate or kill the seeds. It usually takes 1-2 weeks for delivery to most parts of the world with it taking closer to 3 weeks to Australia and New Zealand.
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