dark mix

[BUFFS]

we will be trying our indigo rose (black) toms as a soup tonight and it seems to be a very dark colour, we dont take the skins off , we just use all our own onion, garlic, basil, oregano etc and when cooked we blitz the lot in a blender, it may look a bit "muddy" but we will see, it is the taste that matters, but I will be saving the seed to see if I can cross them with my olympe/black Russian crosses to get beefsteak sized totally black toms, so fingers grossed for next year...that's an awful lot of crosses but I am really happy with this years crops and enjoying the lovely meals....

[Bren In Pots]

I know what you mean about taste, last year I made pea pod soup using Purple Podded peas it looked really odd but tasted fine.

[poly]

Olympe x black Russian sounds an interesting cross, I expect you will quite likely get different types next year, bet you have lots of fun choosing your favourites

If you make a further cross to these next year using Indigo Rose, your resulting F1 seed will be varied and not the usual uniformed type we think F1's are. So if you have room, try and grow a few plants and you should see several types of fruits.

I grew Grub's Mystery Green x Indigo Rose F2 last year and had some nice types, colours and sizes, good luck with your breeding plans, watch out - it gets quite addictive!

[poly]

Here's some of last years F2's from my cross. Not very blue/black but maybe they will have more colour thsi year?


132 by jayb 35, on Flickr