any experience with these varieties?

[habitat_gardener]

A local grower has an interesting availability list of seedlings, many of which are described as good for coastal conditions (cool summers). I hadn't heard of most of the following varieties! Does anything on this list stand out as a must-try?

Black Ethiopian Purple Oval, small 70 Customer favorite, high yields.
Black Magic Black Round, small 70 Red blk. Prolific, delicious.
Black Prince Purple Round, medium 75 Great smoky flavor. Lots of fruit.
Cappuccino Chocolate Round cherry 75 Small chocolate cherry.
George O'Brien Red Plum, med 75 Great flavored paste, prolific.
Golova Negra Black Round, medium 75 Red black from Belarus
Green Pear Green Pear cherry 70 Love green-when-ripe tomatoes!
Indira Gandhi Black Round, medium 75 Red black from Belaruse (not India!)
Japanese Oxheart Pink Oxheart, mediu 75 Sweet and meaty. Low acid, low seeds.
Kiwi Green Rd, small/med 75 Cute name & delicious.
Ludmilla's Pink Heart Pink Oxheart, mediu 80 Sweet and pretty.
Mandarin Cross Orange Round, medium 80 Best tasting in my garden last year.
Nyagous Black Round, small 60 High yields, beautiful color, great taste.
Tzi Bi U (aka Violet Jasper) Striped Round, cherry 70 Delicious prolific striped cherry from China.

[matermaniac]

I had Nyagous last year at a farmers market. It was good enough for me that I saved seed and am growing it this year.

[stormymater]

I grew Nyagous last year - DF & I really liked it - it was a less-than-tennisball sized maroon-brown-black that grew in clusters of 2 to 4. Grew it in a partially shady (about 5 hrs sun a day) area in a growbag but still had multiple nice clusters - harvested last fruits mid-October. Didn't realize it didn't like hot weather - so my accidental placement was good for it. Will grow again.

[austinnhanasmom]

I grew Nyagous from seed last year and it was the healthiest seedling I've ever grown. It also transplanted really well and now has a special place in my heart!!

I'm not sure the flavor was comparable to the Paul Robeson I grew, but I will forever love Nyagous.

I've read good things about Ludmilla's Pink.

I wish someone near me grew varieties like that

I wouldn't need to tend to seedlings for months!!

[amideutch]

Ludmiila's Pink Heart is a good one. Where in Calif. is this local grower located that is offering these varieties? Ami

[barefootgardener]

I am growing Ludmilla's Pink Heart for first time this year, thank's to Carolyn..I did a search on it and it sounds really good...

Ginny

[habitat_gardener]

Originally Posted by amideutch

Where in Calif. is this local grower located that is offering these varieties? Ami

It's a biodynamic nursery in Ben Lomond (northern Calif., north of Santa Cruz)
http://www.growbetterveggies.com/
but she'll be selling some closer to San Francisco at the garden show next week. I haven't had time to make the trek toward the coast in previous years, but I will be at the garden show and I've been trying to persuade myself to buy no more than 3 or 4 plants. I have so many varieties I'm growing from seed this year, and my garden space has not gotten any larger!

[stormymater]

Oh... my.... goodness.... I never would have thought about teaching a class (that people pay for) to make CRW tomato cages! Love it, love it, love it!
$20 for the class then $12 on class day only for 7 foot tall (bet they are closer to 18 inch diameter) cages!
That is brilliant!
And to think I thought I was clever snabbing an offer of 2 rolls of CRW (called rusty rolls of wire in the post) through freecycle.

[dice]

I consider Black Prince a dry climate tomato. It gets blight
(I don't know which blight exactly; could be Early Blight,
Botrytis, Verticillium, etc. Late Blight I would have noticed,
because it would have affected a lot more plants than
just Black Prince.) in the rain up here and dies faster from
it than any other tomato variety that I have grown. If it is still
alive past the first week in August it is a miracle.

When not dying early from some kind of blight, it is prolific
and tasty.

[sfmathews]

I grew Mandarin Cross a few years back and it was wonderful!

[Andrey_BY]

I was the original source for both Indira Gandhi and Golova Negra. I've been growing them in cold frame and greenhouse conditions in my Zone 4a. Great blacks. Will be suitable for your cool summers.

[travis]

I found Nyagous to be one of the prettiest, most lackluster tasting black tomatoes I ever grew.

[goodwin]

I'd concur with Travis on Nyagous - a flavor so subtle as to be undetectable.

[habitat_gardener]

Originally Posted by Andrey_BY

I was the original source for both Indira Gandhi and Golova Negra. I've been growing them in cold frame and greenhouse conditions in my Zone 4a. Great blacks. Will be suitable for your cool summers.

How do they differ? The descriptions I have say "medium round red black" for both of them. How do they compare to Cherokee Purple or Paul Robeson?

[Andrey_BY]

They are both indeterminate RL with excellent taste. I can't compare to CP or PR. They are just different.

Originally Posted by habitat_gardener

How do they differ? The descriptions I have say "medium round red black" for both of them. How do they compare to Cherokee Purple or Paul Robeson?