Tag: Black

Tomato Black and Brown Boar

A stripy black standard sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap According to the web, this was found in a row of Green Zebra at Wild Boar Farms. Its interesting how many varieties have come from Green Zebra, it must be slightly unstable. Its available from a number of…… Continue reading Tomato Black and Brown Boar

Tomato Black Vernissage

A stripy black standard sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap According to the web, its a stripey black Russian cultivar, similar to Black Zebra. However, we’ll have to see which we prefer. 2019 Update It is stripey and Black. However, much smaller than Black Zebra and more like…… Continue reading Tomato Black Vernissage

Tomato Black Sea Man

A Black small beefsteak tomato growing on a Determinate plant. Description We grew this for the first time in 2017. Our biggest problem was that we had originally assumed that it was Indeterminate and had so prepared to grow it as a standard cordon plant. It wasn’t until we were doing our final check that…… Continue reading Tomato Black Sea Man

Tomato Black Krim (Czerno Krimski)

Black Beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Black Krim is an outstanding beefsteak tomato with an intense, slightly salty taste. It is easy to grow but does require relative high temperatures to set fruit (probably less suitable for outdoor growing in the UK but they set easily in greenhouses). An indeterminate plant, the heavy…… Continue reading Tomato Black Krim (Czerno Krimski)

Tomato Black Icicle

A 3-4 inch long pointed plum shaped tomato (similar in shape to Roma but black rather than red). Description  A Russian/Ukrainian cultivar discovered as an accidental cross in a field of other tomatoes by Aleksey Kulik. It’s been stabilised over a number of years but can still be variable. We grew this for the first…… Continue reading Tomato Black Icicle