My Cherokee Purple Tomatoes are ready!

[Botany]

[bvar22]

1. Yum.

Beautiful and tasty.

We planted Cherokee Purple and Black Krims this year. It was our first exoerience with "dark" tomatoes. We are delighted by their mellow taste and unusual color.

I am unable to tell the difference between the Krims and Purples either visually, or by taste.
I think they may be the same tomato with a different name. Either way, one of them will have a spot in next years garden.

Happy Salads!

[Botany]

2. Just ate my first one

Picked from the vine sliced w/ a little salt.
Much better than the early girls or the yellow girl. :shrug:

Just as good as the Jet Stars ...... complex flavor.

Brandywines will be ready in 3 days ...... German Queen I had to pick
some green because they got so big that they were ripping off the plant.

Romas will be ready tomorrow.

The heirloom tomatoes do not produce like the modern hybreds but
their taste is great.

[bvar22]

3. Please post some photos.

Starkraven made a Tomato Plate last night.
She sliced Early Girls, Purple Cherokee, and Rutgers, placed them in a row, and surrounded them with Yellow Plums.
The color contrast was remarkable and beautiful, especially between the Girls and the Cherokee.
A taste treat too.

Can't beat homegrown tomatoes.
yum. :)

[tigereye]

4. how pretty - I wish I had the energy to grow veggies

I'm more of a flower and perennial person.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. They're just about my favorite heirloom variety.

Our big tomatoes are late this year but I have pulled in the first Cherokees. Within a week or so we should have more than we can eat.

[Habibi]

6. I think I'll be able to pick my first Cherokee Purple tomorrow.

This is my very first year growing heirlooms--I have a CP and a Mortgage Lifter. I bought some of the fruits from one of our local growers last year and fell in love. Don't think I'll ever go back to Early Girls and 4th of Julys!

But it does seem like they don't produce quite as much fruit as the hybrids I've grown in the past.