Kumato - a tomato for March in NY!

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pinkpanther09

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I'm in the middle eastern part of NY.

I had pretty much given up on *tasting* tomatoes from Nov to about
June when we get some decent New Jersey tomatoes.

Then I found some orange cherry tomatoes that said they were
"seriously sweet" -- and they delivered. The little Santa
tomatoes are hit and miss.

Yesterday Samsclub had some brown tomatoes- a little smaller than a
tennis ball. Labeled Kumato. 12 for $6 or so.

With low expectations, and more as a curiosity than anything else, I
picked up a pack.

Hallelujah!! Caprese salad for St. Patty's day. These babies would
be in the running in mid-August. [he says in March. . .]
Swe-e-e-e-e-t, tomato-ey, little bundles of brown.

It seems the Europeans have been eating them for years. These were
grown in Mexico and imported to NY by an Ontario distributor. It
might be the very first time I've thought NAFTA was a good idea.

Jim
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:16:37 -0400, Jim Elbrecht
wrote:


I bought a container of those orange cherry tomatoes from Price
Chopper/$2, they are very good... still have some for tonight's salad.

If you were willing to pay for heating a greenhouse you could have
excellent tomatoes in NY all winter... those smaller types are
particularly easy to grow in greenhouses. One of my neighbors grows
tomatoes etc. all winter in a four season addition. I've been tempted
to add a four season room but it's a whole lot less expensive to buy a
couple of containers of tomatoes each week, plus I would rarely spend
time in that room.
 
On Mar 17, 7:44?am, Janet Bostwick wrote:
Here in the CA High Desert we can grow Sweet One-Hundreds quite well.
The biggest of them are about 3/4" in diameter, most are only 1/2"
and they are like eating candy they're so sweet. My parents used to
grow them in their green house, keeping a bowl on the counter for
handful snacks throughout the day. Quite prolific growers, the Sweet
100s are.
....Picky
 
On Mar 17, 7:21?am, JeanineAlyse wrote:
Forgot to say they also grow quite well outside here in the Western
US, no green house needed.
....Picky
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:16:37 -0400, Jim Elbrecht
wrote:


How interesting. I don't think I've ever seen a brown tomato even in
the seed catalogs. I'll keep my eye out for it.
Janet
 
On Mar 17, 10:21?am, JeanineAlyse wrote:

Jeanine, we grow the same one here in DE in the summer. They are
great, just wish the skins were a little thinner. But ya can't beat
the flavor. My youngest grandson will stand in the garden eating them
like candy. We make sure to grow at least one for him.
Nan in DE
 
Jim Elbrecht wrote:


A few years ago, I found good tomatoes at the supermarket in January.
They had several varieties of "greenhouse" tomatoes, a little
smaller than a tennis ball, with the stems on. The red ones and the
yellow ones were hard and had no smell, just like supermarket slicing
tomatoes in winter. The orange ones were a little softer and smelled
like a tomato! I bought a couple of pounds and used them mostly to
make pico de gallo. I saved some of the seeds and planted them in the
garden that spring. The home-grown ones were good too, but not any
better than any other fresh tomato (also, Wife wouldn't eat them
because they were the "wrong color")

-Bob
 
In article
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JeanineAlyse wrote:

(snip)Quite prolific growers, the Sweet

They do well here in the frozen tundra, too. :-) I like the grape
cluster-look of them on the vine. :-0)

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:58:17 -0700 (PDT), Bryan wrote:


Just like the Campari tomatoes. Also grown only in Mexico and Canada.
Some stupid government legislation must have discouraged quality
tomato farmers from operating in the U.S. Just like they did to candy
companies who moved production to Mexico and Canada because of sugar
legislation (greed always wins over what is moral).

-sw
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:05:45 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:


You settle for shit tomatoes. Everybody knows there are very few
tomatoes (none in my opinion) that can match the taste of a homegrown
tomato. And serious tomato people know this and pay the price.

-sw
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:44:50 -0600, Janet Bostwick wrote:


I've seen them at CostCo but I didn't want to gamble on them. They
were something like $6/lb. My highest price point for tomatoes is
$4/lb for Campari. Advertsing them as "sweet" does nothing for me. I
want *rich* tomato flavor, not necessarily sweet.

-sw
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:21:10 -0700 (PDT), JeanineAlyse wrote:


A half inch tomato? That the size of a field pea. Do they come with
a warning label for children under 12? (choking hazard).

-sw
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:32:42 -0500, zxcvbob wrote:


There's a "season" for standard supermarket tomatoes? As far as I
can tell they suck equally here all year round.

-sw
 
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:00:11 -0500, Sqwertz
wrote:



My Campari tomatoes are grown in Arizona www.eurofresh.com
Eurofresh does have a setup in Canada as well (I think)
I did just see the plants for sale in either Parks or Burpee
Janet
 
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:54:33 -0600, Janet Bostwick wrote:


That's the first I've seen. All the ones I have bought have been
Canada and Mexico. Even their wiki page mentions only those two
sources.

-sw
 
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:24:02 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:


Is there some way to keep your links from wrapping? I don't click on
them if I have to start cutting and pasting sections of posted URL's.

-sw
 
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