This is not an attractive tomato. Most of them have circular cracking on the oddly shaped fruits. When ripe, the tops stay a dark green w...Read Morehile the rest of the tomato looks kind of pinkish, brownish, purpley - like a bad brusie that's half healed. That dark green top makes them harder to spot on the plant and you don't want to miss them because you have to harvest by "feel" rather than appearance or size. When it's just starting to get a little soft, pluck that baby then eat it fast because they don't keep/store well at all. Some type of bug seems to make a black hole in nearly every one of mine, so between the cracked tops, black holes and odd lobes, there's not much left of the smaller ones. What's left though, is pure tomato heaven and I wish I would have planted twice as many! They are SOOOO worth it! In zone 4b, production is average and this weird weather year, they're actually earlier than my Brandywines, Brandy Boys and Big Beefs. Beat out everything but Sungolds. Hard to find. Mine came from Harris Seed.
This is my favorite black, rich and full-bodied like wine. Yum. Because "Black from Tula" was brought from Russia, and the resemblance, I...Read More think they are one and the same. I would love to know for sure. Trying Tula this year.
This is not an attractive tomato. Most of them have circular cracking on the oddly shaped fruits. When ripe, the tops stay a dark green w...Read More
This is my favorite black, rich and full-bodied like wine. Yum. Because "Black from Tula" was brought from Russia, and the resemblance, I...Read More
A mahogany brown, medium size tomato bourne on compact indeterminate vines.