Flesh is firm and meaty and the flavor is wonderful. Remarkably, Pruden's Purple contain very few seeds. . We came out with this tomato ten years ago after a customer, Kurt Wittke sent us seed. It merits a try. Shaped like a top with a distinctive tip, this heavy yielding 3 ounce tomato is ideal for salads, and due to the low water content and thick walls, is also useful for paste.
Plants are determinate and require no staking.
Fruit are borne in large clusters, but are much larger and sweeter than cherry or small paste types. Above the tip they are almost perfectly round. It took many years, even generations, for Europeans to accept and utilize new vegetable crops that Columbus and other explorers brought back from the Americas, and tomatoes were one of the least accepted at first. But there were obviously some brave and adventurous experimenters who persevered with growing tomatoes, and today many excellent cultivars of such native American crops are coming back across the Atlantic. They show very little susceptibility to cat-facing and cracking, even though they have thin skin.