Midnight Snack Tomato is a Star

An All-America Selections winner in 2017, Midnight Snack shows its true colors when ripe. This snack-size tomato would be a colorful addition to any vegetable garden.

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This tomato growing season has been a challenge . It started with weather that was too cold , then turned too hot ; it was too ironical , then too wet . Then when tomatoes were starting to take embodiment , there were back - to - back hailstorm .

So I was n’t indisputable if the tomato on the Midnight Snack works had a problem or not . They look bruised , but I leave them on the vine just to see what would bump . With a little bit of clock time , I could tell those dark black - majestic spots on the stem end of the yield were n’t bruises but part of this tomato ’s decided personality .

All - America Selections(AAS ) selected Midnight Snack as a home vegetable winner last season . This twelvemonth I at long last had a fortune to try the packet of come the organization sent . I started the seeds indoors in March and transplant the starting into the container garden at the beginning of June . They accept all of their 70 days to grow to right - red with that beautiful black - purple overlayer .

It ’s well-fixed to see and taste why this tomato was voted a succeeder by the autonomous dialog box of AAS judges . These bite - sized indeterminate tomatoes maturate on 5 - 6 tall vines that definitely needed staking to keep them upright .

But there was an tot surprisal . When I removed the dark-green , petal - like part of the flower ( the sepal ) , the tomato plant revealed a pattern in the shape of a star .

This intercrossed cherry tomato is a star in another way , too . The indigo plant colouring comes from the accumulation of anthocyanin paint that show off its goodly antioxidants . blueberry have this levelheaded feature and so do other tomatoes , likeIndigo Rose . Midnight Snack has a nice residuum of gratifying - savory savour that makes them easy to run through freshly off the vine .

Midnight Snack was engender by Jim Irvine for the PanAmerican Seed Company . He enounce he make for on these love apple because he “ want an anil love apple he wanted to corrode . ”

Thanks to Jim , PanAmerican Seed and AAS , a ( tomato ) star is have .

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