Black Tomatoes are ripening and the plants look beautiful robust, are rather stubby and despite growing indeterminate remain quite low, they expand more on the sides than at the top.
This is NOT a GMO but the result of a Italian university research, is a crossbreed of different types of tomatoes to reach a fruit with the highest content of anthocyanins (pigment black).
"... Anthocyanins are potent antioxidants, useful to counteract the formation of free radicals and, therefore, to slow down the aging process. "Black Sun," as it was dubbed this "black tomato", retains a red flesh and that maintains the flavor, is a super nourishing and can therefore guarantee health benefits... " (from the website of the agriculture university of Viterbo).
As for intercropping these plants have pretty much everything around: celery, parsley, basil, onions and lettuce.
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