[Image description: a hand holding a plum-sized tomato with dark blue-black shoulders grading to red on the base< with sunflowers in the in the unfocused background.]
I never knew tomatoes could look like this!
Is there a shot of the inside?
If this one had grown in a spot more exposed to the sun, it would have been fully black!
I haven’t sliced this one up yet, but here’s a picture of a variety of halved tomatoes, with a darker Black Beauty at the top:
[Image description: four sliced tomatoes of varying color on a cutting board, one dark purple, one yellow, one green and one red.]
I grew black cherry Tom’s a few years back… they were a bit too mealy for me.
How are these?
I actually haven’t sliced this guy open yet, but I don’t remember them being particularly mealy in previous years.
Now that I think about it…. It may have been black Krim that I thought was mealy.
Cool tomato. Do you grow other odd varieties? Does the color affect the taste?
Have a look at some of my other /c/tomatoes posts, I’ve been sharing pictures of some of the other ~45 varieties of heirloom and hybrid tomatoes I’ve grown.
I don’t know if color directly influences the taste, I’ve seen sour, savory and sweet come in all colors, but maybe with the exception of yellow tomatoes. I’ve never had a yellow tomato that wasn’t on the sweeter side.
Denethor approves.
Hah! Denethor would be interested in a cherry variety, and I know some awful sour ones that he’d deserve.
