Bi-Color Tomatoes

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Rare varieties of two-color and multi-colored tomatoes will delight you with excellent taste and beauty

What, it would seem, can surprise us all our favorite tomatoes? Even cherry blossoms, which until recently were exotic and delicious, have firmly entered our life. However, tomatoes still have an unusual pulp color in stock. Varieties belonging to the Bi-Color grou

are two-color tomato varieties with uneven fruit color, on which differently colored areas alternate.

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Features of two-color tomatoes

I note that it is precisely the areas of different colors, for example, like a ruddy barrel on apples, and not stripes and strokes, like striped tomatoes. They are also characterized by multi-colored pulp. For example, in the center - red, and on the sides of the fruit - orange interspersed with a different color or just orange outside and crimson inside. Exotic, and only - skeptics will say …

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But not everything is so simple - in terms of taste, the two-tone varieties deserve the highest tasting rating. In our family, everyone who was involved in growing them, and then picking fruits, fell in love with them immediately. It's not only about the amazing beauty of the fruit, but also about the taste. The juice from them acquires the properties of a sauce practically without the addition of spices. We use this juice to prepare delicious borscht and other dishes with tomato sauce. Fresh fruits are very tasty in salads, as they have a wonderful soft and sweet taste. In addition, they have dietary properties: they are low in acids, and their high lycopene content makes them the best and most affordable medicine. Only one thing is bad - it's a pity to eat them! The largest number of varieties in this group are tomatoes with large round-flat fruits. Almost all of them can reach 700-1000 grams!But there are varieties with a heart-shaped shape.

Tomato varieties

Some varieties of these tomatoes are strange in color, but they taste very good. For example, this includes the Cherokee Purple tomato variet

. Its fruits are purple-black on the outside and have a green flesh with a reddish-purple tint. These tomatoes have a sweet taste with hints of red wine and sour vinegar.

White Wonder and Borney`S Cross (Bi-Color) are unusual white tomatoes with pinkish-white flesh. Both varieties have sweet fruits with low acidity, with Borney's Cross tomatoes having a richer flavor.

Basinga Bi-Color- large, beautiful bicolor tomatoes with a fruity taste. We entered the top hundred of the best tomatoes for growing in amateur gardens. This variety is so common and popular with American and European gardeners that they even forgot where it came from. Very harvestable and unpretentious. Mid-season, tall. A variety for open ground and greenhouses.

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Big white pink strige (big white with pink stripes) - fruits of pale peach color with pink blush and peach-cream inside. The taste is very sweet, vaguely reminiscent of melon. The yield is very high and it has good disease resistance. Tall variety for open ground and greenhouses.

Burracker`S Favorite Bi-Color Red(USA) - well leafed bush, up to two meters high, indeterminate. Fruit color pink / yellow, striped. The fruit is large in size and tastes great. The golden streaking makes it pink rather than striped. But in subsequent brushes, only a trace of yellow strokes can be traced. Fruit weight up to 500 g. The pulp is granular, very sweet. Fragrant taste.

Costoluto Genovese (Costoluto Genovese) - tall, mid-season. This is an old Italian variety, the fruits are ribbed, dense, fleshy, pink, weighing 250-400 g, aromatic, very good for tomato juice.

Flame(Flame) is a compact variety dating back to 1800. Perfect for growing in pots and small greenhouses. The pulp is golden pink with red stripes. The fruit has a rich sweet taste and is crack resistant. Looks great in salads. Thanks to its taste, it is a favorite of many gardeners. The variety is indeterminate.

Georgia Streak (Georgia striped) - indeterminate variety, height more than 2 meters, fruitful, taste - no sourness, very sweet, quite stable.

Isis Candy Bi-color(Isis cherry two-tone candy) - medium early (110-115 days). The plant is determinate, medium-sized, slightly leafy, 0.8-1 m high. The leaf is large, dark green. On the main stem, 5-6 clusters are formed with 14-28 fruits each. The peduncle is articulated. The fruit is oval, smooth, firm. The color of the unripe fruit is green, the ripe fruit is cherry. Fruit weight 15-25 g. The taste is excellent, very sweet. Productivity - 5-6 kg / m2.

German orange stawberry(Orange strawberry) is an old German variety of large tomatoes. Fruits are heart-shaped, fleshy inside, practically without seeds with the good old taste of real village tomatoes. Their weight is up to 600 grams. The variety is fruitful, the cluster is complex, in the cluster there are up to ten fruits of various sizes. Tall, indeterminate. A variety of medium ripening, long-term fruiting, for open ground and greenhouses.

Grandma Viney's Yellow and Pink - tall, medium late, flat-round yellow fruits with pink spots and strokes weighing 300-400 g, have the highest tasting rating.

Oaxacan Jewel(Oaxan treasure) - indeterminate bush, up to 2 m. Potato leaf. Fruits are flat-round, yellow-orange with a ruby "cap", spots and stripes, excellent taste. The set was good - we had 14 brushes on three trunks, the second bush went into two trunks - there were fewer brushes. Fruits weighing from 100 to 600 g. Their shape is rounded-faceted. The taste is very good, with sweetness, the keeping quality is not bad, but becomes soft over time. One of the best tomato varieties in our collection.

Orange from Russia - large-fruited bicolor, yellow-orange-red (top yellow, middle red). Fruits are round-flat-elongated. Sugar and meaty at the break. Virtually no seeds. Average fruit weight 500 g. High-yielding, excellent taste.

Pineapple Вi-color(Bicolor Pineapple) is a very fruitful and tasty variety of bicolor tomatoes that melt in your mouth. Fruits are large, weighing up to 600 g. It is successfully grown both in open ground and in greenhouses. The variety is quite early, tall, indeterminate, resistant to diseases.

Pink Accordeon (Pink accordion) - large-fruited pink, ribbed tomatoes of excellent taste. High-yielding. Fruit weight 300-500 g. Fruits until autumn. Tall. Medium ripening. For open ground and greenhouses.

Yellow Stone Bi-color - these tomatoes, like apples, turn red from the side on which the sun's rays fall. Inside, the fruits are three-colored - red-orange-yellow with a great fruity taste. Medium size 100-200 g. Fruitful and unpretentious.

Zebra Giant (Bi-Color)(Zebra giant) - large two-colored tomatoes with pronounced stripes on the skin. Fruits weighing up to a kilogram and with a delicious fruity taste. Virtually no seed chambers. Sugar on the break. Indeterminate, for open ground and greenhouses.

German striped- a new mid-late variety of German breeders with very tasty large fruits with an average weight of 1000 g, often forms fruits up to 1500 g. The variety will certainly fall in love with gardeners due to the successful content of large-fruited, indeterminacy and prolonged ripening of fruits. The alternating filling and ripening of tomatoes throughout the summer makes this variety very suitable for growing for market sales. Fruits are flat-rounded, slightly ribbed, pink-red with a yellow cap at the top, from which yellow stripes are gradually blurred. Very decorative, tasty and unique!

Grapefruit (Aelita)- early-middle plant (90-100 days), indeterminate with a friendly yield. Fruits are elongated-round-oval, similar to grapefruit - smooth, beautiful, smooth, fleshy, very sweet, resistant to cracking, can be transported well and stored for a long time without loss of marketability. The color of the fruits is yellow-beige at the beginning, gradually turning into bright red when fully ripe. A plant up to 1.8 m in height in open ground, in closed - more than 2.5 m.

Zarya is a bush up to 2.5 m, an interesting fruitful variety. Fruits weighing up to 1 kg, round-flat shape, fruit color from white-yellow to red, pleasant sweet taste and granular pulp with a high sugar and carotene content. Productivity up to 7 kg per bush.

Crab from japan(scarlet-red) is an original large-fruited variety that surprises with its extravagant fruit shape. Medium late variety, determinant bush, 90 cm high and higher (depending on the place of growth), simple brush with 3-4 scarlet-red large, up to 1 kg, fleshy fruits. They are of an interesting shape - flat, stretched, ribbed, similar to a large crab. The pulp is very tender, with a pleasant sugar taste. Suitable for gourmet salads and for processing for the winter.

Polish Pastel - large brushes, up to 20 fruits in a bunch. The skin is beautifully colored. Fleshy. They bear fruit both in the greenhouse and in the open field until late autumn. Plants are resistant to unfavorable growing conditions. Very prolific. Fruits for universal use.

Bovine Heart + Pink Honey(this variety was created by crossing two very famous varieties of tomatoes by a breeder from Kuban N. Khilenko) - a tall plant (150-170 cm), the average yield is up to 5 kg per bush in the open field and up to 10-12 kg in greenhouses. In terms of ripening, it belongs to the mid-season - ripening after the emergence of shoots occurs within 125-132 days. It has the smallest attachment point to the stalk, there is not even a hint of hard strands, fruitful. The taste is honey-sweet.

Chocolate miracle- an original mid-early variety with large milk chocolate-colored fruits. The bush is of a determinant type, in open ground it reaches a height of up to 80 cm, in a protected one - up to 1.5 m. Fruits are flat-round, weighing 250-400 g, when ripe, acquire an interesting color. Dense and sugary, they have a great sweet taste inherent in dark-colored varieties, and slightly unripe fruits are especially tasty. The variety is characterized by a consistently high yield - up to 6 kg per 1 m2. The fruits are suitable for fresh consumption and all types of processing.

These are they, exotic two-color - multi-colored tomatoes. Plant them - and enjoy the amazing taste and beauty - you won't regret it.

Plant nourishing balm

And so that all these varieties are good for you, make them a nutritious balm and feed them two or three times a season. We have been using this recipe for many years. We like that it contains: boron, copper, manganese, iron, iodine. We call it plant balm.

So, we fill a two-hundred-liter barrel by 1/3 with mowed grass (any weeds), add half a teaspoon of potassium permanganate and boric acid, 1 tablespoon of copper and iron vitriol, 1 kg of chalk, half a bottle of iodine, 100 g of Baikal M- 1 , two buckets of compost (chicken manure), 0.5 kg of sugar or jam, a stick of yeast.

I stir the individual components in a bucket of water and pour into a barrel. I mix everything well and cover with a film. I stand it for seven days, stir it from time to time. When feeding on 10 liters of water, we take 2 liters of infusion and feed all the plants that we grow. The strained infusion can also be used for foliar feeding.

We begin to prepare the infusion as soon as the grass grows. We put the barrel in a greenhouse, during fermentation, additional heat is released, which is so necessary for plants in spring and carbon dioxide, which is useful for them.

Usually purely herbal infusions give off a not very pleasant aroma, but this one is not so poisonous. I advise you to add a lot more valerian to it. It neutralizes unpleasant odors. During the season we make two such blanks, since we have quite a lot of "clients" for balsam in the garden.

For those wishing to eat fleshy, sweet and fragrant tomatoes, which practically do not contain seeds, we can offer the above and other varieties for growing both in the open field and in greenhouses. For orders, we will send the catalog in your self-addressed envelope. You can also send a request for a catalog to the email address: [email protected]. Write to: Valery Brizhan and Igor Ivanovich: Kommunarov st., 6, Chelbasskaya st., Kanevskaya district, Krasnodar Territory, 353715. Igor Brizhan, experienced gardener

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