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Title: What colour are tomatoes?
Post by: Diana on August 31, 2006, 15:16:55

Today, mine are:

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/tumuli/Bob/veg/th_toms310806small.jpg) (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/tumuli/Bob/veg/toms310806small.jpg)

Title: Re: What colur are tomatoes?
Post by: saddad on August 31, 2006, 16:35:53

Any colour except blue.... although Salad blue potatoes are blue fleshed... which makes a rather interesting mash if you do Burgundy red in another pan at the same time... what happened to the photo?
???

Title: Re: What colur are tomatoes?
Post by: Diana on August 31, 2006, 20:40:54

photo should be there now :-[

Will be trying salad red + blue next year at OH's insistance

Title: Re: What colour are tomatoes?
Post by: saddad on August 31, 2006, 23:50:50

Yep the pics back Diana... I have a range of coloured toms... BTW the Italian for tomato means golden Apple... so the earliest ones brought back from the new world clearly were not reds...
;D
Nice Link Supersprout but hardly a true blue tomato!!!!

Title: Re: What colour are tomatoes?
Post by: supersprout on September 03, 2006, 00:32:09

Well, there is this too ;)
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/vegetables/blue_fruit_tomato.htm

Title: Re: What colour are tomatoes?
Post by: amphibian on September 03, 2006, 08:50:19

Quote from: supersprout on September 03, 2006, 00:32:09
Well, there is this too ;)
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/vegetables/blue_fruit_tomato.htm

(http://www.landrethseeds.com/photos/Tomato/Tomato%20Pictures/Blue%20Fruit.jpg)

This is a ripe 'blue fruit', now blues are rarely blue in the world of veg but that is just ludicrous. Not even a hint of blue.

Title: Re: What colour are tomatoes?
Post by: supersprout on September 03, 2006, 11:34:12

lol@amphibian, do you remember rose 'blue moon' (is it still available?) trumpeted in seed catalogues about 30 years ago, whatever you did it was still pinky purple when it bloomed >:( pah who wants a blue tom anyway ;)

Title: Re: What colour are tomatoes?
Post by: Merry Tiller on September 03, 2006, 13:24:38

QuoteSalad blue potatoes are blue fleshed... which makes a rather interesting mash

Salad Blue makes nice chips too

Title: Re: What colour are tomatoes?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on September 03, 2006, 14:10:38

Why are rose growers so obsessed with blue anyway? Old roses may have a restricted palette, but I can't see that they lose anything by it.

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