Description
Heritage Status: New Zealand
Bio-Region of Origin: Southland
Number of Seeds: 20
Description: Indeterminate. From the Henry Harrington Collection in 2005. This is a stunning tomato, egg shaped and ‘black’. Black tomatoes have been showing up in Mark’s trials as having superior nutritional qualities and all of the ‘black’ tomatoes have a real richness and depth of flavour.
Information for tomatoes: selection / cultivation / fertilising / trials / recipes /
Planting Instructions: Plant into trays late September and prick out when first leaves appear at 3 cm diagonal spacing. Handle touching the leaves only. When leaves touch, transplant into 10 cm deep pots or trays to 10 cm diagonal spacing. When 10-15 cm high transplant into garden 50 cm spacings in rows. Two rows per 1m wide bed. Needs staking.
judith (verified owner) –
A sickly plant in Taupo, only a few tomatoes which were damaged by the green shield bug.