Black Prince...love vs. hate

[barbamWY]

I pulled the Black Prince. It was not thriving like my others. And the first 2 tomatoes had blossom end rot. I will be moving home after 3 months in a rental so only able to use grow bags this year. I'll replace with a Cherokee Purple. I'm not sold one from a nursery will be a true CP but I was not able to grow my own.
Barb

[eyolf]

I am not going to look through my notes regarding Black Prince. There was a period of time about 15 or 20 years ago when the intertubes was ablaze with what was then a recently rediscovered rarity.

I tried a half-dozen variants. Roger's Best Black really stands out as a "what?", but Black Plum was a pretty OK snacker.

I try to can a jar or two of just one variety, to try to determine if I like them for that purpose. Because my daughter asked for it last year, I grew it again and canned two pints...then forgot after noting the wierd color.

At Christmas, she asked to retrieve them from the shelves and we made a "winter Al fresco" pasta dish.

They lost their ugly color among the noodles and blanched vegetables but the flavor had a special zip. Black Plum is back again this year, as is that black pear-shaped Japanese one. My Black Prince seeds are very old, but maybe next year?

I should say Chocolate Cherry appears every year, and this year a new one called Sunchocula is coming along. But I expect they will be gobbled from the vines about as quickly as they ripen.

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