Description
Due to Import restrictions, we can only ship to Canadian and US customers
60 days. The fruits from this recent open pollinated introduction are absolutely beautiful. When unripe they have a green background over laid with mauve, the shoulders and streaks are the darkest of purples. The purple streaks are replaced with fine dark green lines as the fruit ripens to a strawberry red. The taste is very good; sweet and complex. The flesh is firm, almost crunchy. No worry about splitting. Will travel very well for farmer’s markets and probably has really good storage life for restaurants. I can see this new introduction become very popular in the years to come.
- Seed Count: 25-30
- Collection Date: August 2022
- Hardiness Zone: annual
- Tomato type: regular leaf; indeterminate
- Germination test type: actual
How to germinate Black Strawberry tomato seeds:
Sow 5 mm deep. Keep moist; plastic cover improves success. Opt. germination temp: 18-25 C. Days to germ: 5-10. All tomatoes drop their blooms when temperatures reach 85 F or greater, so make sure your tomatoes don’t get over heated. Blossom end rot is a nutritional disorder where a lack of calcium causes the fruit to rot from the blossom end so be sure you use something like rock phosphate (22% calcium) when amending your tomato beds/growing medium. Use mulch to retain moisture or prevent water from splashing up on your plants as tomatoes hate having their foliage wet…NEVER WATER FROM ABOVE…its like someone splashing a cold bucket of water on you!
