I was very disappointed with this tomato. It was advertised and pictured as a small (between cherry and salad sized) heavily ribbed or lo...Read Morebed tomato. What I've gotten instead is kind of a hodgepodge of different shapes and sizes, but very few with any notable ridges or lobes. Many are quite round and smooth in shape, some are cherry sized while some approach a moderate sized beefsteak.
Add to this a poor germination rate and it makes me wonder about the practices of the seed supplier where I got this one. (Maybe some sloppy cross-pollination accounts for the results). The vine is vigorous and aggressive (like many heirlooms) and the plant is fairly productive. Taste is like any fresh tomato; always good but nothing spectacular in this case.
Edited and changed to a "neutral" based on additional research I've done on the internet in the subsequent year since I grew this variety. I don't know what I was actually growing, but I've learned the (unnamed here) seed supplier has quite a reputation for sloppiness. It could have been anything, quite possibly a "Togo Trifle" but also quite possibly some crossed up mongrel of a tomato. Pity, because the catalog description sounded so promising. No good basis for judgment.
I was very disappointed with this tomato. It was advertised and pictured as a small (between cherry and salad sized) heavily ribbed or lo...Read More
A small 2 inch flat ribbed African tomato.