Comments on: Japenese Trifele Tomatoes

By: Japanese Trifele Orange Tomato | Bifurcated Carrots

Japanese Trifele Orange Tomato | Bifurcated Carrots — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:44:53 +0000

[...] made a post last year about various colored Japanese Trifele tomatoes I grew, and this year I grew the missing orange [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:54:43 +0000

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the comment and good luck with the tomatoes!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:37:34 +0000

Hi all;)

This year I’m growing the black trifeles for the first time(after seeing R.Blanc on tv tasting toms at his gardens in 2008)
Its June 8th today & my first tom has appeared.
They are in a homemade plastic greehouse at my plots in Cardiff & I can’t wait to taste them!!
I’m growing 9 plants in upright bags(3 in ea) of fresh homemade compost. They were started indoors back in Feb & are over 5ft tall now & still rambling away:)
I’ll have seeds available if anyone wants some to try?
You can contact me through my website!
Bye…J

By: Jan Miller

Jan Miller — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:22:36 +0000

Please could someone tell me where I can buy or swap these unusual seeds? (esp. the black Japanese trifele tomato)
thanks
Jan

By: laura

laura — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:21:46 +0000

Interesting to see your comments on the red and yellow vars. The black (thanks for sharing your Black Japenese Trifele seeds with me) are coming out great. Good taste (though I personally think Noir de Crimee are a better black variety taste wise)and prolific. I think I may have been the source of the Raymond Blanc rumour, it was his favourite of the varieties grown in his kitchen garden a couple of years back, so just to qualify not his favourite of all time but just of that season.

By: Melinda

Melinda — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:15:11 +0000

Ah, thank you for this! I’ve planted several of the black variety, knowing very little about it. They’re still green, so we’re still waiting to taste them.

I am fascinated by the leaves, as they are much different in shape from other tomatoes.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:53:20 +0000

I’m with you easygardener. If something doesn’t have the best taste you can find, there’s no point in growing it! That is unless there is some other reason it’s interesting; like productivity, appearance, disease resistance and so on. Above all, taste is the most important.

If you are looking for blight resistant tomatoes, you might consider wild or current varieties. My favorite is Matt’s Wild Cherry. These varieties can mostly be grown outside, with few problems. It’s only when the blight gets really bad that they get it and die.

The down side with wild/current tomatoes is they tend to be a little boring.

By: easygardener

easygardener — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:23:07 +0000

Thanks for your offer Patrick I’ll email after November. I used to grow lots of different tomatoes but for the last 5 years blight has badly affected outdoor ones. I still grow some outdoors but I depend on a restricted number of greenhouse plants for a guaranteed crop. This is why flavour is so important- but I still prefer to grow interesting varieties.

By: easygardener

easygardener — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:22:09 +0000

I’ll make a note of the black tomato – I’m looking to grow one of that colour again but those I’ve grown in the past have been very low in acidity and rather bland. Same goes for yellow and most green ones.