Imagine the fabulous flavor of two taste-test winning heirloom tomatoes married into an outstanding hybrid plant! You'll grow the most scrumptious fruit when you add Bonnie Plants® Cherokee Carbon Tomato to your veggie garden. Sporting all of the flavor of Cherokee Purple and Carbon heirloom tomatoes but producing bigger harvests than either parent plant, you'll create outstanding garden-to-table meals with this beautiful, rich fruit. Start with Bonnie Plants® Cherokee Carbon Tomato live plants instead of seeds, and you're off to a great start. Taste Cherokee Carbon Tomato on its own to appreciate its complex flavor, and then get ready to create culinary masterpieces! Slice the fruit for the best BLT, roast with garlic, layer in tomato pie, broil with cheese, or dice for salad. Plant the tomato in full sun, 36 inches apart. It grows 5 to 7 feet tall and matures in 75 to 80 days. Adding a tomato cage helps support fruit-heavy plants. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry to the touch. Bonnie Plants® live plant varieties are designed for your gardening success, whether they're disease-resistant, heat-tolerant, space-savers, or produce abundant harvests.
Enjoy delicious, old-world heirloom tomato flavor in an easy-to-grow hybrid plant with Bonnie Plants® Cherokee Carbon Tomato; there's no need to wait for seeds to sprout when you can start growing this live plant in your veggie garden right away
A marriage of Cherokee Purple and Carbon heirloom tomatoes, you'll love the rich, dark color and complex taste of Bonnie Plants® Cherokee Carbon Tomato; produces bigger harvests than either of its parents; the indeterminate vines yield until first frost
Cherokee Carbon Tomato grows beautifully in raised beds and in-ground veggie gardens; if growing in a container, choose a large pot and support the plant; the tall vines benefit from staking to support the heavy beefsteak fruit
Use Cherokee Carbon Tomato fresh to appreciate its flavor; create a colorful heirloom tomato salad, pair it with fig and prosciutto for a light summer meal, or enjoy the fruit alone with a sprinkle of salt; it’s delicious in your favorite tomato recipes
Cherokee Carbon Tomato grows 5 to 7 feet tall and produces fruit all summer long; matures in 75 to 80 days; harvest the fruit when it turns deep reddish-purple, and use it fresh or preserve it for a taste of summer during winter days