Sunday 10 March 2013

Saturday Spotlight - Big Rainbow Tomato


Today I'm taking part in Liz from Suburban Tomato's Blog  Saturday Spotlight- As maybe you can see this was not posted on Saturday, better late than never I suppose. Without further ado I would like to introduce you to Big Rainbow -  a large beef steak variety, not only productive but its beautiful and tasty too. I got my seeds in late as I decided after reading the Diggers Tomato book I had to have this in my garden. The seeds were started indoors mid September, surprisingly I had my first ripe fruit in mid to late January. These beauties average 200-400g. 


I mean look at them!!! as I said they were productive, the 1 plant produced over 10 kilos of beautiful, big, rainbow colour fruit. I had a little cracking in the fruits after we had about 20mm of rain one day and a small amount of catfacing.

I have at admit this was the least coloured inside of all tomatoes I've seen, I wish I took some more photos! Most have 3-4 colours marbled though out. Very pretty to look at. 
I'm so happy I read that book and made an impulse buy, Big Rainbow was my best tomato this season by far.

4 comments:

  1. Wow - 10kg from one plant is great. I will have to seek these out. I have just linked to your post - apologies for the delay I've been away. I'll link to it next week as well to make sure everyone gets a chance to see it.

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    1. I'll be saving seeds if you would like some just let me know. No need to apologies, I didn't put it up till Monday anyway :)

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  2. I think those impulse buys are sometimes the best - it must be some gardener's instinct. :)

    Those are really beautiful tomatoes.

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    1. Must be! I make far to many impulse buys, I love diversity and wish I could try out every veggie available.

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