Cherokee Purple

A dark tomato.

Think of the Cherokee Purple.

But think of Cherokee purple on a determinate vine that gets bigger and has good disease resistance and you're looking at Black Angel.

We're going to be adding that.

Cocoa, marigold, I had to put on my list.

I, I do, because I, I've just...

Over the years I've never failed to, to plant a crop, and, uh, I'm still cutting back my old Cherokee Purple.

The, the Rufus did better this year, Gerald.

I, I think you...

It was ugly.

It was tasty, but it was ugly, and that's Cherokee Purple.

Yeah, Cherokee Purple was just middle of the pack for me this year, which is more common.

I- it's a fine...

I've usually sold it as a pretty good heirloom for this area, usually consistent, but two or three years ago, it was my top [laughs] producing tomato.

We're gonna have those events.

We're also gonna have summers like the one we just had.

And so really the important thing that I get from this, let's take the Cherokee Purple as an example, rough year for you, great year for me two years ago.

Tamond.

Man, that's like, Cherokee Purple.

What a tomato.

We've got to go then? Do you know, that's one of the ones I picked up a plant of, which I put in, and again, it just didn't...