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About Berkeley Tie-Dye
Berkeley Tie-Dye AKA Berkeley Tie Dye (without the hyphen). This tomato originated in 2000 at Wild Boar Farms from a patch of 500 F2 Beauty King tomatoes. Bradley Gates named this tomato after Berkeley, California, an epicenter of civil liberties movements and Vietnam War protests in the 1960s. Tie-dyed tee-shirts are often associated the “hippies” of Berkeley who championed liberal social reform. Indeterminate, regular leaf plant produces 6-12 oz., beautifully striped with green, yellow, orange, and red colors. Seeds available at http://www.rareseeds.com
- Culinary Use
- Salad / Slicer
- Flavor Profile
- Smokey / Well-balanced
- Flesh Color
- Black
- Fruit Color
- Striped
- Fruit Shape
- Oblate
- Fruit Size
- Medium
- Leaf Type
- Regular
- Maturity
- Mid-season
- Plant Type
- Indeterminate
- Species
- Solanum lycopersicum
- Variety
- Open Pollinated
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Handsome, delicious multi-colored beefsteak. Winner of the "Best-tasting tomato" award at the 2016 Seattle TomatoFest. Large tomatoes with wonderful flavor complexity – but not as productive as some other varieties. Definitely worth growing if you want to try this remarkable tomato (Note: this is sometimes listed as Green Berkeley Tie Dye to distinguish it from Red Berkeley Tie Dye – a related tomato)