{"id":111,"date":"2022-09-08T09:13:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/2022\/09\/08\/niall-radford-consumed-by-tomatoes\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:56:15","slug":"niall-radford-consumed-by-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/2022\/09\/08\/niall-radford-consumed-by-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall Radford: Consumed By Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Often it starts with an image of something utterly uncanny, something apparently real but other-worldly. So it was with Niall Radford<\/a> in 2017. \u2018I saw a picture of a totally black tomato (Black Beauty) and decided that it was a must on my grow list. I eventually obtained some seeds from France. These provided spectacular Black Beauties<\/a> with an excellent flavour.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018From that point I was hooked on black tomatoes and their anthocyanin presentation \u2013 that very same antioxidant that gives blueberries their colour, causing the tomato to have black\/purple colouration across part or with some varieties all of the fruit. I took up the continuous saving of seeds whilst keenly obtaining fresh seed and further varieties\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n