Description

Tomato Malachite Box
Solanum lycopersicum

Magnificent green beefsteak tomato. Chunky, juicy, very tasty, with no acidity. Turns green-yellow when very ripe. Productive plant of 1.50 m or more. Good resistance to diseases. Native of the north of Russia. Its Russian name, Malakhitovaya Shkatulka, means Malachite Box. Indeterminate. 70 days to maturity.

Full sun, well drained and rich soil. Sow indoors from late March to mid-April. 5 mm deep. Transplant when there is no longer any risk of frost. 50 cm between plants.

Germination: 98% in November 2025
Ecological seeds produced at Catherine’s Ornamental Garden.

Note
Appearing in our catalog on January 2021. In 2019, we decided to find the best beefsteak tomato that ripens green. Until then, Spear’s Tennessee Green was my go-to tomato. So we grew the 7 varieties we could find in Canada, the United States and Europe (there aren’t tons, after all). Malachite Box clearly stood out. It’s one of our top picks, all varieties included! It’s so good, it’s almost sacrilegious to put it in a sandwich! Simply cut it into quarters and eat it as is. As a bonus, thanks to its color, it’s a tomato that doesn’t get stolen from community gardens 😉