Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye Tomato

They seem perfect!

Perfection!

My Favorite Tomato!!!

This is my third or fourth year growing Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye, and it remains my favorite tomato in the garden. It is hands down my favorite tasting tomato for fresh eating. I dream about tomato sandwiches and tomatoes on toast made with PBTD all winter and spring. The description says complex flavor, and that's spot on. It's a very strong savory, tangy, and sweet flavor all at once. I'd compare it to the flavor of some of the more popular cherry tomatoes, because usually only cherry tomatoes can pull off this potent flavor bomb. I have grown these in very challenging conditions in central Oregon and now in southern Maine. It produces fruit fast, almost as fast as the determinates, and it produces massive clusters of fruits, all fairly even and regular. Well, I always get one or two faciated tomatoes from each plant, but I find that to be true of all heirlooms, especially the first few blossoms that form. Trim them if you don't like catfacing. I have no problem with disease on these things, they go until it frosts. They will split with uneven watering, they do it less so than other brown/purple tomatoes I've grown like Black Prince, Black from Tula, and Cherokee Purple. If I could only grow one slicer tomato plant in my garden, it would be Pink Berkeley Tie-dye!