Cornabels on the vine. I'm looking forward to tasting them.
So I decided to try again this year. So far, so good. I read that these tomatoes are low in acidity and have fewer seeds than a typical tomato. We shall see.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Tomatoes [2]
This tomato variety is called cornabel, probably because the elongated, pointed fruit resembles a bull's horn. The variety was apparently developed from the cornue des Andes, a horn-shaped tomato from South America. These tomatoes were quite popular in local gardens a few years ago; almost every garden I saw had some. I planted some, too, but that was the year that blight ravaged our tomato crop and we really didn't get any good ones.
So I decided to try again this year. So far, so good. I read that these tomatoes are low in acidity and have fewer seeds than a typical tomato. We shall see.
So I decided to try again this year. So far, so good. I read that these tomatoes are low in acidity and have fewer seeds than a typical tomato. We shall see.
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Let us know how it tastes! I'll look for one here, but maybe we don't have them yet.
ReplyDeleteI would give my R arm for home grown tomatoes - or Someone's R arm.
ReplyDeleteLower acidity sounds great to me. Lower acidity sounds great to me. I tend to avoid tomatoes because of the acidity. I look forward to learning what you think of them.
ReplyDeletevery interesting shape for a tomato. looks like more of a bell pepper to me.
ReplyDeleteevelyn, I'll try to remember!
ReplyDeletemichael, do the markets around you import nice heirlooms in summer?
mitch, sounds so nice, you said it twice! ;)
mike, they're very unusual shapes for tomatoes, that's for sure.