Green Zebra Tomato | Solanum lycopersicum | Certified Organic
Popular garden tomato ripens to reveal an intriguing pattern.
Not all the best tomatoes are red. Great garden varieties come in all colors, shades, fades, and bands. This striking striped slicer doesn't belong in the zoo. Let it root around and become part of your garden landscape and salad plate, where its green and yellow stripes delight. Provide it with the support it needs to stand upright and proud, showing off its big clusters of pretty fruit. Then open the garden gates and share the bounty with friends and neighbors. Diversity should run free!
Green Zebra has a mildly tangy taste, with a firm exterior and tender interior.
Indeterminate. Start indoors 3-8 weeks before last frost, then transplant 1-2 weeks after last frost. Prune to one trunk and no more than 3 main branches for healthy, easily-trellised plants. Fruit are medium-sized and marbled dark and light green. Ripe and ready for harvest when soft to touch; fruit will develop a rich yellow-green undertone. Plants are fairly compact and easy to maintain.
Days to Germination 3-10 days
Days to Maturity 76 days from transplant
Planting Depth ½"
Spacing in Row 24"
Spacing Between Rows 42"
Height at Maturity 4-6'
Width at Maturity 18-24"
Sun Preference Full Sun
Growth Habit Indeterminate
Artwork by Andrea Stranger. As a graphic designer, Andrea focuses on issues of sustainability and strives to inspire people to eat seasonally and locally. Her zebra seems to have taken this message to heart.
About Hudson Valley Seed Company
They are a values-driven seed company that practices and celebrates responsible seed production and stewardship. Hudson Valley are best known for their beautiful artist-design seed packs (Art Packs) that appeal to gardeners, gift buyers, and lovers of art and nature.
These Art Packs, most fundamentally, tell stories. Hudson Valley challenges artists to convey in a manner that is fully their own, the history and meaning of the seed variety contained in each pack. These stories were once integral to traditional societies-stories of seeds were often origin stories for entire communities and peoples, and the lore and beliefs that accumulated around seed varieties reflected the nearly familial way in which gardeners and farmers regarded their crops. Our society is, by and large, no longer connected to plants this way. But we like to think these Art Packs help to stitch our fragmented world back together: useful seeds, evocative art, both equally valuable to our experience of being human.