Meet Tye Dye the Tomato

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The coloring is different from fruit to fruit, sometimes yellow with red overtones, sometimes orange with yellow or red overtones. The inside is pretty also as you can see from he picture above. I like anything that is a bicolor. The flavor is good and like other orange or yellow tomatoes, seems to be a bit less acidic than others, and moderately sweet. Not a prolific producer (at least this year) but enough to keep me happy. This year, the plant doesn’t seem to want to take over the world which is a good thing. I think it would do well in a large pot.

Fred’s Tye Dye, a New Favorite Tomato

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This is Fred’s Tye Dye, another one from the Dwarf Tomato Project. Notice the beautiful stripes.

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The inside of Fred. Isn’t it a gorgeous dark red color? Not only is this a beautiful tomato but it taste really good. This is being grown in the same area that Mr. Snow is, meaning it isn’t getting a lot of light but it is still producing. Live and learn. Isn’t that one of the best things about being a gardener? You can correct your mistakes the following year! Unlimited do-overs!

This is the second year I’ve grown it, both times in a large pot and it has done well for me. Next year it will go into one of my raised beds in full sun.

Meet Mr. Snow, a Lovely, Light Yellow Tomato With a Sweet, Delicate Taste

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This is Mr. Snow in the wild.

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This is Mr. Snow on a cutting board about to be devoured.

One of the Dwarf Tomato Project varieties that I tried this year. It is astoundingly sweet. They are medium size, measuring about 3 inches across, as with most heirlooms, the size can vary widely.

It sits in a very large pot near my arbor and is doing well in spite of the heat. And the shade. However, it isn’t getting as much light as it would like and is producing, albeit not heavily. It takes a lot of energy to produce fruit. As my trees grow in my yard I am realizing that what was once full sun is no longer. I’d like to see how it performs in the ground out in the garden where it will get full sun.

I was surprised at how juicy and sweet this one tastes. The color is charming, a very light yellow. It would look pretty in a salsa or in a mixed color tomato salad plate as shown here. Well, it’s really a cutting board, with cucumbers from my garden (Beth Alpha) but you get the gist.

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The other two tomatoes are Fred’s Tye Dye and Tye Dye which I will showcase in a future post.