Personally, I’m on the fence. On the one hand, they have been the healthiest, most productive tomato plants I’ve grown. They all germinated quickly and were easy and robust seedlings. And the color is cool and novel! On the other, the taste is fairly bland and especially further along in the season they are becoming thick-skinned. Compared to my other cherry tomatoes (Rosella, Sungold, and Pink Bumblebee) the difference is very noticeable.
What do you think of them? If you’re not planning on growing any next year, what will you grow instead to fill a similar niche?
by chitinandchlorophyll
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I don’t know about Norfolk Purples, but that pupper sure looks like they want you to drop one for them!
I probably will grow them at least one more time. They add a really fun splash of color, even if they are kind of bland.
I’m glad I tried them, but I will not grow them again next year. I didn’t care for the flavor relative to our other cherry tomatoes. Also the color on the vine is so dark it’s almost brown. So the insides look unique and fab, but the outsides look a bit blah. Also they were medium producers for us. Fab inside color is nice, but not enough to get one of the limited spots in our back garden.
Yes but not as much. I went crazy this year and planted 8 when I have room for 3. The flavor was OK and imo better for saucing but were a let down. They’re still cool and imo would go great in salads and still cool to sauce for pasta so I will continue to grow them. I am saving seeds so I can keep growing them as well.
Next year I’m going for way more beefsteak. i went all cherry this year.
Grows great and taste great, to me has its own little taste that other tomatoes don’t. In my experience my sungolds had thicker skin than the purple. There’s no savory fruits that have high anthocyanin levels, they are worth alone growing just for the increase of antioxidants without eating sugary fruit