Post by PapaVic on May 5, 2007 6:46:53 GMT -5
The only green-when-ripe tomatoes I've grown are Green Zebra, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Cherokee Green and Lime Green Salad.
To me, the Green Zebra was kinda flat tasting, but my wife loves them especially on crab cake sandwiches. I found them nearly repulsive in a pasta salad for some reason, especially after the salad sat in the refrigerator overnight. Don't let my tasting experience sway you though ... the plant was a very lush, hardy, productive and seeming bug-proof tomato.
The Aunt Ruby's German Green was very tasty but a little lumpy, smaller than billed, not too productive, and not very heat tolerant.
The Cherokee Green was wonderful, juicy, tasty, and all the things also characteristic of Cherokee Purple. It's not a dynamo as a seedling or a new transplant, but once it gets moving, stand back or prune. This is a great tomato.
Lime Green Salad is a dandy little dwarf that grows about 2 feet tall and maybe wider than that and makes large sprays of blossoms with less than 50% set but still copious amounts of nice, sweet/tart, juicy, saladette size tasty berries with a smudgy skin tone and a bright chartruese interior that kinda resembles a kiwi fruit if you squint a little. Great container plant.
As far as color/flavor relationships, I guess it's just a learned response for most folks with the majority around here favoring large round red tomatoes and turning their noses up at anything else generally. Of course in other regions folks might prefer pink types. Most folks associate yellow and gold tomatoes with low acid ... another myth, as Jet Star (red) is lower in acid than most yellow/gold tomatoes commonly available in nurseries.
So far, I'd have to say my absolute favorite tomatoes for taste are Cherokee Purple, Indian Stripe, and Cherokee Green ... so you can see my prejudice right off the bat. And I'm still searching for that big, round, red, juicy, exquisitely tasting tomato of my youth ... where the hell did that go?
Also, I'd love to see a blind taste test. I mean blind, too ... with the testers wearing blindfolds. I bet there would be some really surprizing results there!
Bill
To me, the Green Zebra was kinda flat tasting, but my wife loves them especially on crab cake sandwiches. I found them nearly repulsive in a pasta salad for some reason, especially after the salad sat in the refrigerator overnight. Don't let my tasting experience sway you though ... the plant was a very lush, hardy, productive and seeming bug-proof tomato.
The Aunt Ruby's German Green was very tasty but a little lumpy, smaller than billed, not too productive, and not very heat tolerant.
The Cherokee Green was wonderful, juicy, tasty, and all the things also characteristic of Cherokee Purple. It's not a dynamo as a seedling or a new transplant, but once it gets moving, stand back or prune. This is a great tomato.
Lime Green Salad is a dandy little dwarf that grows about 2 feet tall and maybe wider than that and makes large sprays of blossoms with less than 50% set but still copious amounts of nice, sweet/tart, juicy, saladette size tasty berries with a smudgy skin tone and a bright chartruese interior that kinda resembles a kiwi fruit if you squint a little. Great container plant.
As far as color/flavor relationships, I guess it's just a learned response for most folks with the majority around here favoring large round red tomatoes and turning their noses up at anything else generally. Of course in other regions folks might prefer pink types. Most folks associate yellow and gold tomatoes with low acid ... another myth, as Jet Star (red) is lower in acid than most yellow/gold tomatoes commonly available in nurseries.
So far, I'd have to say my absolute favorite tomatoes for taste are Cherokee Purple, Indian Stripe, and Cherokee Green ... so you can see my prejudice right off the bat. And I'm still searching for that big, round, red, juicy, exquisitely tasting tomato of my youth ... where the hell did that go?
Also, I'd love to see a blind taste test. I mean blind, too ... with the testers wearing blindfolds. I bet there would be some really surprizing results there!
Bill
