2009 Growing Notes
This site documents the growth of the Cherokee Purple tomato plant and the quality of its fruit. The Cherokee Purple tomato is considered by many to be the best tasting tomato.
What is a Cherokee Purple tomato?
Unique dusty rose color. Flavor rivals Brandywine, extremely
sweet. Productive plants produce large crops of 12 oz. fruits.
Indeterminate, 80 days from transplant.
(Description from Seed Savers Exchange.)
Update for Jul-07-2009
Finally, some of the tomatoes are ripening. The video below shows some tomatoes being picked fresh off the vine.
I brought the tomatoes to the kitchen and decided to slice up one Cherokee Purple and one Trophy and compare them, both in the way they look and taste.
My wife declined to be in the video but I let her do a taste test, too. She liked both tomatoes but said the Cherokee Purple is her favorite tomato. She noted that the Cherokee Purple was “almost like candy” in its sweetness and the Trophy was more acidic.
It was lunch time, so I warmed up some grilled chicken leftovers and made a grilled chicken salad using the fresh tomatoes. Wow… that’s one of the rewards of being a gardener. The video below shows the preparation of a grilled chicken salad with fresh tomatoes from the garden.