Potato leaf purples, How Many?

stormymater · February 18, 2009

"I went back to the 1986 Yearbook and was riffling through and found one variety listed that intrigued me a bit:

Potato Top ( Peruvian Black). deep purple tomato, reportedly developed buy an old woman in Eastern KY, looks like Pondersosa but the color of Black Beauty eggplant."
So how does one go about trying to resurrect a variety that was listed 23 years ago? It certainly does sound intriguing! The color description makes me think of that black thing being worked on by the OSU folks (I think that's who it was anyway). True dark purple would be a beautiful (&hopefully tasty) addition to a garden (imagining Husky colors - purple & gold) in the tomato patch!

February 18, 2009	#16
stormymater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pleasure Island, NC 8a Posts: 1,162	"I went back to the 1986 Yearbook and was riffling through and found one variety listed that intrigued me a bit: Potato Top ( Peruvian Black). deep purple tomato, reportedly developed buy an old woman in Eastern KY, looks like Pondersosa but the color of Black Beauty eggplant." So how does one go about trying to resurrect a variety that was listed 23 years ago? It certainly does sound intriguing! The color description makes me think of that black thing being worked on by the OSU folks (I think that's who it was anyway). True dark purple would be a beautiful (&hopefully tasty) addition to a garden (imagining Husky colors - purple & gold) in the tomato patch!