What are long keeper tomatoes?
Description. A Burpee introduction in 1979, Long-Keeper is a must for winter storage. Staying fresh for 6-12 weeks or more, it provides fruits for fresh use during the fall and into the winter. The skin of these fruits is a golden orange-red when ripe. Use blemished or cracked fruits right away.
How do you hang tomatoes for storage?
Harvest the entire truss and hang in a cool, dark place and the fruits can keep for months without perishing, meaning fresh heirloom tomatoes well into winter. As they age they naturally dehydrate leaving you with a crop of dried tomatoes akin to 'sun dried' if left long enough.
What is the best big tomato?
Do you like a sandwich whose tomato peeks out from the edges of the bread? If so, grow the big ones such as Big Beef, Better Boy, Parks Whopper, Brandywine, German Johnson, and Super Fantastic. Plant these deeply so that two-thirds of the plant is underground.
Are tin tomatoes better than fresh?
In addition to the antioxidant vitamins A and C, both are rich sources of antioxidant phytonutrients such as beta-carotene, lycopene and lutein and zeaxanthin. Canned tomatoes are slightly higher in lycopene, while raw tomatoes contain more beta-carotene and lutein and zeaxanthin.
The slow ripening fruit of the Long Keeper Tomato very slowly blossom through pink blush to a brilliant orange-red colour as they ripen.
This storage tomato will keep up to 3 months! Gather the mature green or partially ripe fruit before the first frost. Place the tomatoes in a carryout nursery …
Longkeeper is an excellent storage tomato. It has medium size fruit and a lovely salmon-peach colour. Longkeeper comes from the collection of a long-time …