🍅 Quick take: Dark Queen is an indeterminate, mid-season beefsteak tomato. The vines produce gorgeous flat-round, burgundy-brown fruits with green stripes. Growers highlight its excellent taste and solid production, noting it sets fruit well even when grown with tight spacing. Full summary ↓
Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zone 4 Experience)
Indet, beautiful and very tasty variety. Grew it to a single stem in the greenhouse. LanaD shared a seedling with me. Fruits are flat-round, burgundy-brown with green stripes, up to 14.1 oz (400 g).
Sveta, how did it do yield-wise? And what kind of height did you get?
Sveta, how did it do yield-wise? And what kind of height did you get?
Production was good, especially considering I grew it with pretty tight spacing. It set fruit really well near the top of the plant. Grew it in the middle bed, tied the top to the greenhouse roof, so it reached about 6 ft (1.8 m) before I topped it.
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Storage
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate, reaches about 6 ft (1.8 m) in a greenhouse before being topped. Produces flat-round, striped burgundy-brown fruits up to 14.1 oz (400 g). Tolerates tight spacing and takes well to single-leader pruning.
- 📈 Yield: Good production, setting fruit particularly well near the top of the vine.
- 👅 Taste: Described as a very tasty variety.
- 📦 Storage: Not mentioned in this thread.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Two growers interacting in this thread, both gardening in USDA Zone 4.
🍅 Have you grown Dark Queen? Drop a comment below and let us know your zone! Did it produce well for you?
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