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Most Unusual Tomatoes?

15 years ago

Never really bothered with growing tomatoes before this year, mainly because they always seemed to be rather boring. I mean, a big red tomato was a big red tomato, or so I thought. This year though I found a Mr. Stripey at Walmart, and had a whole new world open up of fruits that I would never have pegged as being tomatoes.

Right now I have just that Mr. Stripey (which has a half dozen green tomatoes on it now) and the first official release of the OSU Blue tomato (just got its first flowers this weekend, flipping out in anticipation of those things!), and I think I'm officially hooked.

I've seen tomatoes that are slightly odd, like the heirloom "blacks" that are just muddy brown, but I'd like to grow some next year that will make people stop and go "What the heck is that?"

Already planning on preparing seeds and cuttings of the blue and possibly the Mr. Stripey, but what else is out there?

To compliment the OSU Blue (which is actually an eggplant black/purple), I'm thinking a White Queen or White Beauty would be good. Looking at the bicolors, I'm thinking an Orange Russian or a Big Zebra. We're big into Halloween around here, so a Ruffled Yellow would go over well (some of the pictures have them orange enough to look like a pumpkin).

Also looking at Mr. Ugly, Hazel Mae, and Dutchman.

But is there anything out there that is just so unusual that it just makes you stop and ask "Wait, is that actually a tomato?" The odder the shape or stranger the color, the better.

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