Watch until end. Still my favourite variety here in Victoria
by GardensAndHoes
Watch until end. Still my favourite variety here in Victoria
by GardensAndHoes
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Black Russians are delicious, good work! 🍅
Jealous.
Absolutely beautiful tom.
Your cutting technique makes me anxious though
😍😍😍
You can eat those like an apple, they’re so good.
How was the flavour?
Nice knife!!
For a second I thought you were making steak and kidney pie.
Mine are only just showing fruit.. wild
Wow nice, i forgot all about these had them when i was working on family friend tomato farm as teen ill definitely look into getting them for growing.
Lovely tomato. I grew some Black Crims a few years back, really enjoyed them take shape.
This heirloom cultivar actually has a really confusing and interesting origin along with its cousin, the Black Crim.
The origin of ‘Black Crims’ is actually well documented as originating from Crimea, Ukraine. And this is the largest producer of this cultivar in the world. There is actually a propaganda origin of the them coming from Krymsk, Russia. It’s also a common misconception to relate it to the Kremlin.
Another common name for Black Krim is the “Black Crimea”, and that’s why I’ve taken the distinction into account when calling the cultivar “Black Krim”
This is the same concept of the “Chicken Kyiv” vs “Chicken Kiev” concept. Its name after the Ukrainian city it was invented. But someone in New York accidentally gave it the Russian spelling because they were apart of the Russian empire at the time. (If you’re new to why this matters look up who established Moscow and you’ll find Russia is a colony of Ukraine and not the other way around.)
Some context for the next bit, prior to the war, Ukraine was the 13th largest Tomato producer in the world. Russia has no arable land to produce tomatoes, and export no tomatoes. They tell all greenhouse apart from select areas along the Black Sea, this is why Russia invaded the bread basket.
The origin of Black Russians is actually unknown, which is quite strange considering it’s their “crown heirloom”. Almost makes you wonder if it’s A Black Crim naturalized to Russia, considering Russia can’t produce their own tomatoes.
Hope yall enjoyed the read and learnt something new.
I have nothing but love for these heirlooms, I just think it’s important to celebrate the heirloom culture of the plants as much as the plants themselves. And it’s especially important when the origin regions of these plants are currently being invaded for the arable land that gave us these delicious fruit.
Bit of salt and pepper and shove that right into my gob as is. Perfect
That looks so delicious. A Greek salad with a few chunks would slap!