I am wanting to do a trade. I would LOVE to try your: SOLAR FLARE variety and only need about 5 seeds. I have these varieties that I did not notice on your list: Burgess Lemon (only 5 seeds from Wintersown and several years old) Hovarth (only 2 seeds left from Wintersown and several year old) Peacevine Cherry (10 seeds from Kenyon Organics, probably 2 years old) God Love (5 seeds from Kenyon Organics, probably 2 years old) Abe Lincoln (about 10 from Livingston Seed Co, less than year old) San Marzano (about 10 from Organic Ferry-Morse, less that year old) I am rather new to this forum and unsure how to proceed. Is there a way you can message me to exchange addresses? I can send a SASE.

Hi Y'all! I grow a huge variety of heirloom tomatoes every year, and grow them in every color imaginable, including black, purple, pink, orange, yellow, red, white and green when ripe. I have about 90 varieties, mostly heirlooms but about a dozen or so hybrids, in the spring garden, and will be trying a lot of different ones in the fall garden. I have grown heirloom tomatoes for about 15 or so years, and the black ones tend to have a wonderful flavor that is addictive, although some blacks are better than others. The black tomato that consistently tastes the best when grown in my garden is Black Krim, a Russian tomato from the isle of Krim in the Black Sea. Black Cherry, now in its third year in my garden, is a close second. Whereas Black Krim is a marvelous, thick, heavy dense beefsteak type tomato, Black Cherry is more of a sweet, fruity one. Black Krim and Black Cherry are heads and shoulders above the rest, but the other black ones are still good to excellent in flavor. If I had to rank them in order of preference, for me the listing would be like this: Black Krim, Black Cherry, Black Plum, Paul Robeson, Pierce's Pride (new for me this year), Black From Tula, Carbon, Nyagous, Black Pear, Black, and Japanese Black Trifelle (also new in my garden this year and not yet impressive). I am also trying Black Pineapple and Black Zebra this year, but haven't had ripe ones yet. I tried Black Ethiopian this year but the non-stop rain wiped them out so will have to try them again next year. I agree with Violet that you have to get past the idea that the only good tomatoes are red, round, uniform balls from which the flavor has, for the most part, been bred out. I have to BEG people to take one bite of a black tomato, but once they try it, they are the ones begging for more. It was hard for me to get enthusiastic about the GWR (green when ripe) tomatoes since we all grew up equating green tomatoes with unripened tomatoes. Once I tasted a few GWRs, esp. Aunt Ruby's German Green, though, I developed a new attitude towards green when ripe tomatoes. I still have a hard time with the bi-colors and tri-colors. Most of the ones I have tried have not been as tasty as I had been told they were, and they take forever to get ripe in my garden. Of course, tomato taste is subjective since everyone's taste buds 'taste' things differently. Even tomatoes that I really, really like will taste better some years (the dry years) than they do in other years (the really wet years), even when grown in the same garden spot. Happy tomato growing and eating! Dawn

I'd try Aunt Ruby's German Green, I like it much better than Green Giant. White Queen has a much more acidic taste than most of the other whites in my opinion and it's been on my "grow again" list for at least 5 years now.I agree that most whites are plain tasting. I've grown carbon for several years now and never been impressed with it yet. Southern Night is a great and weird shaped black tomato though. I'm putting it on my grow again list. Boat shaped, or kidney bean shaped and very prolific.Black Krim still my fave, but for a smaller tomato, black prince is pretty darned good too. Ping pong ball size. Hillbilly is a good one in the bicolor catagory I've not seen on your list yet.Big and yellow/pink. Kellogg's Breakfast is a great orange one. Large and good. Ildi yellow grape is a must have. Great flavor and doesn't crack. It will sometimes turn pear shaped if it doesn't get enough rain. They are very prolific. Agree with you on Black Cherry! they're great. I also like snow white cherry. Sometimes they crack but they taste great and look wonderful with the black cherry, and make a great contrast. I loved Pink Peach, Garden Peach, and Furry Red Boar this year for fuzzy tomatoes. Wasn't impressed with Angora red fuzzy cherry, except I liked the leaves. Didn't like Elberta Peach either. Those two weren't productive enough. Pork Chop was a great yellow tomato, kind of striped. It's on my grow again list for sure, kind of a salty flavored one. Bocek Italian is the only paste/oxheart type I've been really thrilled with. It's been on the grow again list for five years now. Russian 117 is good and large, but kind of a skimpy producer for me.Will try it one more year. Really liked amish salad this year, didn't crack and kept me loaded with tomatoes all season. Larger than a cherry, and it takes about 10 to fill a pint for the farmers market.Looks like a giant pinkish red grape tomato with that consistancy, kind of hard and good taste a little on the sweet side. About 2.5 inches X 1". Best all season producer this year; Celebrity bush (hybrid). I'd imagine the non-compact would be good too. I had the first tomato on those early,and I still have green ones ripening now that I picked before first frost. Customers with those in containers liked them too,and this was a terrible year for container tomatoes around here this year, too hot and dry. I'd bet they really would like them in a decent year.

If any of you want to trade some of the blue varieties, I have blue beauty, lucid gem, and blue gold berries. I don't have many but I would love to trade for some of the ones I don't have (I am only looking for blue varities please.)