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'Black' Tomatoes |
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Standard
Main-Season
Heirloom
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Main-season, standard, Russian heirloom. Indeterminate plants bear 2- to 3-inch, thin-skinned, soft, dark red fruit.
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85
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Totally Tomato - updated in 2011
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (3.7 Stars)
Taste: (3.7 Stars)
Yield: (3.3 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (3.7 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 3
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 10/27/2010 by
Cabrita
- An intermediate gardener
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Los Angeles, California, United States
Frost Free Season: More than 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Most productive tomato heirloom (OP) for us so far. Long growing season with lots of new fruit production (fruit keeps forming).
Fruit appearance, flavor and DTM very similar to Black Krim (which does not produce for us) and Carbon, which was second in production after Black. |
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Reviewed on 04/02/2009 by
drywoodman
- An experienced gardener
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Vernon, Missouri, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| The finest black tomato I have grown to date. Nice almost blemish free tomatoes compared to other blacks. And the taste, great. I like a tomato with some bite and this one has it. I sold some of my extras to a guy who goes around selling produce. Which in turn sold them to another gentleman. He ate them and called the old boy up and wanted to know where he got those tomatoes at which he told him.The next day he was at my house wanting to buy more, then more then more. His family couldn't get enough of them. They were the best tomato they had ever ate. I would not go that far, But they just might take the hide off your tongue. I found the production to be that of most heirloom varieties. |
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Reviewed on 01/13/2007 by
Best Chance
- An intermediate gardener
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Oakland, Michigan, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Black tomatoes are difficult to grow around here. They take a long time to ripen and are usually not very prolific. The flavor though- that's what puts me off about these. Not much of it for the amount of time it took to grow them. |
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