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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 01:05:17 pm

These interestingly shaped tomatoes are called striped romans. I've been stripping them from a plant I have in my tomato patch.

I bought them earlier this year from L'Arche farm. Read Soren Andersen's story on L'Arche in today's TNT.

I always associate roma type tomatoes as being granular and not as tasty as other varieties. That's not the case with these. They are deep red, very flavorful and juicy while still being much more firm than a typical fresh eating variety.

And they are delightfully striped and torpedo shaped. Can't beat that.

This variety will definitely be on my grow-again list.

Categories: Tomatoes