thanks.

heard that in a song so it must be true

We grow Sweet 100s, Taxis, and Early Girls but all other tomatoes are open-pollinated varieties. My favorite bicolor is Striped German (Johnny's.)

"black tomatoes" like Krim, Russian Seaman, Southern Nights etc....Really great flavor and produced beautifully in the heat of the deep south.

as well as controversial. A black tomato is a tomato that retains some chlorphyll upon ripening, and the green over red thing makes it look distinctly darker. The first two that "showed up", both in 1990, were Black Krim (I got it from a SSE member in Sweden), and Cherokee Purple (sent to me as an unnamed variety of likely Cherokee origin from a fellow in Tennessee). Soon after came those that the SSE got from Russia - Black from Tula, Black Plum, Southern Nights and Black Sea Man.

The purple types of blacks have clear skin - Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Black from Tula, Southern Night, etc

the chocolate types have yellow skin- Cherokee Chocolate, Black Plum, Nyagous, Black Prince, and Japanese Trifele Black are examples.

So these are all black tomatoes; they have somehow been proliferating (either from discoveries or renamings of known varieties) over the past decades. And there is lots of misidentification starting to happen, apparent at Farmers Markets and smaller seed companies.

Fairly decent producers, too, considering the drought we had. I grew them from seed, and I have a handful of seeds I saved from the crop to try it again.

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remember this from 2008??

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=246x10250







We are looking at ONE PLANT there - had to remove some glass panes from the roof to let it go!

Cherry Tomatoes they were . .

more at link above pic

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They were very tasty and very productive, but too small to do very much with them. Snacks and salads, and putting some into cous cous or pasta dishes. It was kind of hard to use all of them up without a conscious effort.

I finally planted all the seeds you sent me yesterday plus a few others! Hoping they do well. I don't get that much sunlight inside my house unfortunately.

Good luck!

Thanks NRL! That's good, they do get a little sun. I saw on your video you use heating pads? Can you tell me what kind and where?

Also, I was just looking for seeds online for a salad table, etc., and saw these seeds:

http://rareseeds.com/japanese-cream-fleshed-suika-15817.html

OMG!!! -- I think I had this ten years ago in China and it is absolutely incredible, one of the best and most unusual fruits I ever tasted and a wonderful texture too, creamy and smooth, different from regular melon, if it is the same melon I had. I was just thinking of this melon again the other day. I'm going to try growing some. Do you know any good sources for bulk seeds for sprouts? Or some good varieties for lettuce seeds? I need to grow some good lettuce to go with all of those tomatoes!

Do you grow sprouts too? I'm going to try this:

but for pure tomato orgasm taste,
Louisiana Creole wins every time.