Tomatoes for Stuffing

Like peppers, stuffing tomatoes have a hollow cavity that can be packed with a variety of fillings. These colorful varieties make impressive edible bowls.

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by Chris BlanchardAugust 2000from issue # 28

I ’ve see my share of tomatoes . As a garden manager at Heritage Farms ’ Preservation Gardens atSeed Savers Exchange , I grow and measure more than 500 varieties . Many of them were marvelous , tasty , brilliant , and flavourous . None engage me more than the mixed bag that resemble bell shape peppers and make such colorful vas for overeat .

Like bell pepper , satiate tomatoes have a hollow cavity in the fruit . They do n’t have the partitions mob with gel and seed found in other tomatoes . Instead , the fruit holds just a small seed clump that looks like a hemangioma simplex , so it ’s easygoing to organize the caries for stuffing . But convenience has its cost : These varieties are not as flavourous as other types . The flesh , however , is firmer , which helps these tomatoes resist up to stuffing .

dressing love apple in all probability emerge as garden trematode , which amateur breeder and small source companies have keep going . They lack the broad appeal that would attract a tumid commercial-grade venture , but you’re able to easy grow your own from source . Do n’t wait for stuffing tomatoes to amount to a produce counter near you because they probably wo n’t . Give them a try in your garden .

If you routinely spring up intelligent tomato plant plant , you may well mature stuffing varieties by following the same drill . foreclose blight will be more of import because you ’ll be using them as comestible bowls , and cutting out blemishes in the walls wo n’t be an option . Pruning out suckers increase air travel circulation , which help fend off blight , and reproducible lachrymation helps prevent blossom - end rot .

Many red stuffing tomato are usable , but I opt the more exotic color dodge . Of all the stuffing tomatoes I have tried , the pleated , pink ‘ Zapotec Ribbed ’ has the good spirit . ‘ Yellow Stuffer ’ has four distinct lobes , like a bell common pepper , and vivacious vividness . Other stuffing tomatoes , such as ‘ Liberty Bell ’ , share the same figure , but ‘ Yellow Stuffer ’ is larger and more steady .

My darling is ‘ Striped Cavern ’ , a little tomato plant with orangish and red grade insignia . The strange colors tolerate for a striking introduction . It looks especially gracious partake a plate with ‘ Green Zebra ’ , a similarly sized stuffing tomato with light-green and lily-livered stripe .

SourcesThe following reference carry the best pick of the tomato plant mentioned in this article .

Tomato Growers SupplyPO Box 60015Fort Myers , FL 339061-239-768-1119www.tomatogrowers.com

Totally Tomatoes334 W Stroud StreetRandolph , WI 53956www.totallytomato.com

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