eating Black Krim as a GWR

habitat_gardener · August 21, 2013

It's been a few years since I've grown BK, and I remember it as a terrific cooked tomato. As a raw tomato, it tends to get full color and then go downhill and get very soft very fast. iirc, I had to pick the right moment to eat it, or else it just wasn't very good. I'm growing it again this year, and it's been producing one-pounders.

On another thread, COMPOSTER mentioned that Black Krim was tasty while it was still green. While surveying my one-pounder tomato-sandwich choices this evening, I noted that Dester was still a little hard, but the still-mostly-green with some blush/stripes Black Krim felt just right: not too soft, not too hard, the perfect amount of "give" that tells me a tomato is ripe. So Black Krim it was.

What a discovery!!

I will still need to let a small one get a little riper and darker to know for sure, but I think I prefer Black Krim as a Green When Ripe (GWR)! And it's just as beautiful as any of the other multicolor or mostly green tomatoes: mostly green inside, with some red veining in the middle.

August 21, 2013	#1
habitat_gardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: California Central Valley Posts: 2,543	eating Black Krim as a GWR It's been a few years since I've grown BK, and I remember it as a terrific cooked tomato. As a raw tomato, it tends to get full color and then go downhill and get very soft very fast. iirc, I had to pick the right moment to eat it, or else it just wasn't very good. I'm growing it again this year, and it's been producing one-pounders. On another thread, COMPOSTER mentioned that Black Krim was tasty while it was still green. While surveying my one-pounder tomato-sandwich choices this evening, I noted that Dester was still a little hard, but the still-mostly-green with some blush/stripes Black Krim felt just right: not too soft, not too hard, the perfect amount of "give" that tells me a tomato is ripe. So Black Krim it was. What a discovery!! I will still need to let a small one get a little riper and darker to know for sure, but I think I prefer Black Krim as a Green When Ripe (GWR)! And it's just as beautiful as any of the other multicolor or mostly green tomatoes: mostly green inside, with some red veining in the middle.