Scarlet Sunrise is a hybrid of two tomatoes with complementary color, taste and firmness traits.

Rutgers researchers spent more than a decade creating the bi-color hybrid tomato.

Seeds for Scarlet Sunrise will hopefully be available next spring.

We know a tomato grown in New Jersey tastes just about as good as the crop can get. That’s because we tend to buy them fresh, our soil and microclimate are perfect for tomato growing and we — both farmers and home gardeners — grow a wide variety of tomatoes that are simply tastier than what you find in grocery stores.

Many of those freshly picked, unique varieties were chopped, diced and laid out for the tooth-picking at a tomato-tasting showcase on Aug. 27 at Rutger’s Snyder Research and Extension Farm in Pittstown. Of the dozens of tomato v

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