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green tomatoes

10 years ago

Been growing green zebra for 3 yrs any other suggestions

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  • 10 years ago

    I thought that I liked all tomatoes, but I have to make an exception in the case of green when ripe. I just haven't found one I like.

  • 10 years ago

    I find them more of novelty and hope to get a better one I raise about 80 plants and 30 are big beef and then I have a rainbow of color and flavors. black, purple, yellow, pink, green, my 2 favorites sun sugar and black cherries

  • 10 years ago

    Aunt Ruby's Green is my favorite green, but overall I am not a huge fan of green-when-ripe types. I think I would enjoy them more if I could eat them without looking at them. Try as I might, it feels unnatural to me to eat a green tomato unless it has been breaded and fried. I also did like Lime Green Salad, though I do not remember it being terribly productive. Cherokee Green also is pretty good, but I'd rather grow and eat Cherokee Purple. Green GIant did have decent flavor but it didn't produce very well in our garden in the year or two that we tried it.

    I generally don't grow green-when-ripe types because I grow so many tomatoes that the green ones get lost in the shuffle when I harvest. I have to carry a non-toxic Sharpie type marker out to the garden and write the green variety's name on the harvested tomato when I pick it and put it in the bucket. Otherwise, once we're inside and sorting tomatoes, we tend to think it is just a regular tomato we harvested while it was still green so we set it aside to ripen....and it sits there until we realize it is a green-when-ripe type.

    It's funny. I can eat tomatoes in most other colors---pink, purple, black, orange, yellow and bicolors/tricolors and none of those colors are an issue, but the green ones just look "wrong" to me at eating time. I also am not a big fan of white tomatoes. Their mild flavor tastes bland to me and they look like they need to ripen up some more. So, obviously, you never see many green-when-ripe or white types on my tomato grow list.

  • 10 years ago

    I just can not grow the white ones they look like they are sick (acute sun scald)

  • 10 years ago

    Wild green thyme is supposed to be good. I started seeds last year, but they didn't make it into the ground. It was my neglect, not the fault of the seedling. These have other colors, particularly inside, where they look pink in the pics. Wild Green Thyme But I agree with Dawn, finding them ripe is a pain, keeping them separate is a pain. I don't know if I ever got that right with Aunt Ruby last year and I just don't have room to fool with it.

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