The Kumato tomato is characterized by its particularly dark flesh. Everything about the taste, the origin and tips for growing and caring can be found here.
You can even find the dark tomato with the special taste in the supermarket among the tomato speci alties. In this profile you will learn everything about the Kumato tomato.
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| Synonyms | 'Rosso Bruno' |
| Fruit | salad tomato; brown-green to red-brown, shiny |
| Flavour | intense, aromatic, sweet and spicy |
| Maturity | medium early |
| Growth | Stake tomato, up to more than 2 m |
| Location | Greenhouse, Outdoor |
Origin and history of the tomato
The tomato with the unusual color comes from a Syngenta breeding program. It was created by deliberately crossing two parent varieties with the desired properties, so it is a hybrid variety (also called F1 variety). It was patented in the USA in 2009 and has since been commercially available in North America, but also in Germany and Switzerland. The Kumato tomato is also known by the synonym 'Rosso Bruno'. There have also been mini Kumatos for a number of years, which are mainly grown in Spain and the Benelux countries.
Kumato Tomatoes: Taste and Properties
The Kumato is a dark salad tomato with an average fruit weight of 100 grams and a growth height of over two metres. Their fruits are brown-green to red-brown in color and have firm skin and flesh. The strong shine of the fruit is very typical. Their taste can best be described as intense, aromatic and sweet-spicy.
The Kumato is a hybrid variety, which means that it cannot be propagated using its own seeds. The seed for the tomato variety 'Kumato' therefore has to be bought again and again. The same applies to the long, oval, small Mini-Kumato cherry tomato, which ripens dark red to green-brown.
Growing and caring for Kumato tomatoes
Due to the size of its fruit, the Kumato belongs to the salad tomatoes and should therefore be pinched regularly. You can train them with up to three shoots, but you should definitely support the plant sufficiently.
Like many hybrid varieties, the Kumato tomato is very hardy and can therefore be planted both in a greenhouse and outdoors. It is best to use a special tomato soil for planting, such as our Plantura organic tomato and vegetable soil. This contains important nutrients that the young plants need to grow. In addition, the completely peat-free substrate stores moisture and stimulates root formation after planting.
Tomatoes are nutrient-hungry, heavy consumers and therefore need regular replenishment over the course of the summer in order to produce a good harvest. With a primarily organic long-term fertilizer, such as our Plantura organic tomato fertilizer, you ensure the long-term supply of nutrients and protect soil life, in contrast to using blue grain and other mineral fertilizers.
Harvesting and use of the ‘Kumato’ tomato variety
The consistency of the Kumato tomato is very firm and is therefore particularly suitable for salads and freshly sliced for a snack. For boiling, you should remove the peel with boiling water, then the pulp will cook well. Kumato is best eaten fresh from the plant. The same goes for its bite-sized little sister, the mini Kumato tomato. Incidentally, the small cherry tomatoes taste particularly aromatic grilled or baked in the oven and are an extremely he althy side dish.
Would you like to grow Kumato outdoors? Here we share useful tips on how best to grow tomatoes outdoors and how to harvest plenty of fruit even without a greenhouse.