8/17/2023 0 Comments Green zebra tomato turning red![]() ![]() When just about every other tomato vine in the garden has succumbed to blight, Kellogg’s Breakfast is still producing. ![]() I love the fact that it is fairly vigorous. I love the fact that Kellogg’s Breakfast is reliably very prolific, actually unusually so given the 1-2 pound size of the fruit (about thesize of the Black Krim’s). I love the incredible tomatoey flavor – rich, strong and only slightly sweet. Both the skin and the flesh are intensely orange. I LOVE this tomato! I love its extraordinary orange color. To Purchase Heirloom Kellogg’s Breakfast Seeds Click This Link The Heirloom Slicing Tomato, Kellogg’s Breakfast “CR Lawn of Fedco Seeds advocates harvesting Krims as soon as theyĪre half-green and still firm but before they ‘disintegrate like a chunk Amy also alludes to this peculiarity when she recounts this statement, We have found that these tomatoes do best if they are harvested before they are ripe and then allowed to ripen in a sunny window or outside in the sun on a porch. The vines are indeterminate so they DEFINITELY need to be staked. Others describe Krim as “very intense,” “smokey,” “salty,” or even like downing “a good single malt scotch” – and that, I assume, is before fermenting it for seed-saving purposes!”īlack Krims are very large tomatoes, 20-30 ounces – the largest tomato we discuss in this newsletter. The flavor is exotic and musky the fruit acid hits me in the roof of my mouth and tickles my tongue. I was sold even before I bit into it: The violet brown and raspberry red are amazing technicolors. ![]() “Black Krim should be welcome in every garden. “…via Lars Olov Rosenstrom of Bromma, Sweden, who could grow the blackest Krim in his heated greenhouse.”Īmy’s description of this extraordinary tomato is the best I have found, so I will share it with you here. According to Amy Goldman, from her extraordinary book, The Heirloom Tomato, seeds for Black Krim arrived inthe US in 1990, Many of the soldiers carried seeds back to their families when the war ended, and thus, the “black or purple” tomatoes proliferated throughout the eastern sections of Mother Russia.īlack Krim is from Krim, Russia. During the Crimean War (1853-1856), Russian soldiers from the more northern regions of Russia discovered these delicious and oddly colored tomatoes on their campaigns to subjugate the Ukraine. Most “black or purple tomatoes” originated on the Crimean Penninsula located in the Ukraine, Russia, Europe. The “Black or Purple Tomatoes” have an interesting story. To Purchase Heirloom Black Krim Seeds Click This Link Hurray for that! The Heirloom Slicing Tomato, Black Krim Unless you save your seeds every year, what is the point of falling in love with a particular tomato variety if you can’t obtain seed for this variety each year? The seed for the tomatoes lovingly discussed in this newsletter is alwaysavailable. These selections are some of our favorites because of flavor, vigor, productivity and the fact that seed is always available, year-in and year-out. This newsletter describes some of Harvesting History’s favorite sandwich/slicing tomatoes. In fact, some of the tomatoes that the Spanish originally brought back to Europe in the early to mid-1500s were sandwich/slicing tomatoes. Sandwich/slicing tomatoes have existed for more than 600 years. Along with variations in size came variations in color, shape, flavor, etc. When mankind fell in love with this fruit and began to cultivateand nourish individual plants, tomatoes began to get larger. The original primitive tomatoes were the small, cherry-sized tomatoes that still exist today. They are the result of traditional breeding practices that began more than 1000 years ago. Sandwich/slicing tomatoes do not occur naturally. We know that most tomato gardeners will grow a few cherry-sized tomato plants, maybe a few paste tomato plants, but for tomato gardeners, their passion is the sandwich/slicing tomatoes, and we would be remiss if we did not dedicate a newsletter to these wonderful fruits. The tomatoes in the photo above starting from the top left and moving clockwise are Pineapple, Aunt Ruby’s German Green, Mortgage Lifter, Red
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