Gray-brown-crimson speckled, orange striped or green with a golden sheen? It seems that soon this is how we will choose tomato varieties.
Tomato is not just a favorite vegetable cherished by many gardeners. It attracts not only with its excellent taste, but also with its unconditional beauty, it is not for nothing that it originally came into culture exclusively as an ornamental plant.
And today, when creating new varieties and hybrids, breeders pay great attention to the appearance of fruits: shape, size and cheerful cheerful coloring, it’s almost half the pleasure to admire bright sunny berries grown by yourself, in the garden, in a plate or in a jar.
And although tomatoes need warmth and sunlight for successful growth and maturation, residents of the Middle zone and even the North, not to mention Southerners, enthusiastically plant tomatoes, ignoring all the problems and troubles.
Recently, another problem has arisen: the difficulty of choosing. The seed market has been hit by a real flurry of novelties, both old varieties and famous ones. Today, seeds are offered not only by large and small seed companies from all over the country and from near and far abroad, but also amateur gardeners who have collected unique collections, and single professionals who produce unique varieties.
And many of them, apparently, are artists at heart. Because some of these novelties are real works of art. For example, in the Tie-Dye style. The manual technology of dyeing clothes, fashionable in the days of hippies, gave the name to one of the American varieties of tomatoes — “Berkeley Tie-Dye”.
Apparently, the beauty of the style inspired many to create a colorful tomato, and today you can choose between striped large fruits (weight 240 g/8.5 oz) “Amur tiger” and a small plum (60-80 g/2.1-2.8 oz), but abundant and early “Sherkhan”. A beautiful green-yellow small (about 90 g/3.2 oz) rounded fruit ‘Siberian malachite’, is intended for fresh consumption. The variety ‘Emerald Apple’ pleases not only with beautiful large (240 g/8.5 oz) fruits, but also with a pleasant slightly sour taste.
By the way, their use is universal — they are suitable for salad and pickling. As, however, the new varieties of cherry “Miracle’. Its appearance corresponds to the name: clusters of fruits of brown and purple color look very impressive. An early variety, it is characterized by strength, stability and, most importantly, excellent taste qualities. The early-ripening determinant variety “Don Juan”, pleases with its beauty (raspberries with a yellow flicker of “plum”), taste and yield it tolerates transportation well and is versatile.
It is possible to list beautiful variegated varieties of tomatoes for a long time — the choice is large. But experimenting and finding the perfect combination of external effect and internal content is a fascinating thing.
But in order not to disappoint the end result in the pursuit of originality, when buying seeds in the description of the variety, you should pay attention to the item “taste”, if it is indicated that “the taste is excellent” or “very good”, then there is no doubt.
Very interesting variegated varieties of tomatoes of foreign selection:
- ‘Beefsteak Pineapple’ – the fruits are very large (500-900 g/17.6-31.7 oz), red and yellow, delicious.
- ‘Striped Stuffer’ — red fruits with Golden-orange stripes similar to sweet peppers, they have thick walls and almost no pulp inside, good for stuffing.
- ‘Chocolate Stripes’ -large fruits of chocolate color with olive-green stripes. Delicious, sweet, fleshy.
- ‘Vintage Wine’ – fruit (up to 700 g/24.6 oz) with yellow and orange stripes on the red base.
- Delicious and fragrant ‘Flame’ — Golden-pink fruits with red stripes, rich sweet taste.
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