Results of a few heirloom tomato seeds sent by saxonfig (Billl):



From upper right, clockwise: Yellow Pear, Black Cherry, Yellow Oxheart, Costoluto Genovese, Saxon's Black, Yellow Trifele, and Pink Boar.

Sue

Sue that looks like a great mix of good "mators". You sure have some strange names there but the tomatoes look delicious. I hope your summer is cooler than ours. If I had any tomatoes growing they would be sun dried on the plants.

The figs love the hot weather and are doing great. Did your Panachee ripen any figs yet. I just got a well started tree from a forum friend. Hopefully I will get some figs off it next year. It supposedly likes hot weather, well we have hot.
"gene"

Very nice looking tomato display. I am growing and selling heirlooms for the local farmer's markets in a High Tunnel. They are no way beautiful like yours but are huge and have great taste.
Linda

Sue
From the looks of the tomatoes picture, it appears to be a good trade. The picture is going to stay as a prized picture. It just looks pretty to me.

I also got Tomato seeds for Cuttings from Sxomfig,but I got the best tomato I like,and you do not got that one,thow I cansee a orange tomato looking like that in that pix.
Tke tomato I wanted I got,is called Woodle Orange,wich I think isthe best tasting Tom for me.

i also swapped a lot with Bill, tom seeds for tom seeds (thanks!).  i germinated all of them and ended up with a good 200 or so plants, which went to many community gardens, plant swaps and friends, all of which were greatly productive.

my favorite thus far has been josie's white and pink zebra, and i agree wholeheartedly with herman that woodle orange was great also.

for some reason, none of my black tomatoes did worth a damn this year.  we had weird heat and rain pattern this season and i ended up with a ton of tomatoes lost to blossom-end rot.

You folks want tomatoes here i posted this link once before not much attention was given.
I post 1 more time
Read the Descriptions.

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something for everyone.
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I had been away from the forum so long I didn't even realize you guys had been talking about some of my favorite tomatoes.

Glad to see you had some gardening success Sue. My three favs from the ones you shot are the Black Cherry, Yellow Oxheart, & Saxon's Black. The Saxon's black was actually just a sport that popped up in my row of Black Brandywine (another really good one). I didn't really know what to call that one so I just gave it a nickname. Not really intending for it to stick.

H2; That Woodle Orange is currently my favorite yellow/orange tomato. I'm kinda partial to the yellow ones anyway. But this one not only tastes great it also tends to be blemish-free. Not so with most heirloom varieties.

BTW all of those tomatoes in Sue's pic are heirloom varieties except for the Pink Boar.

You're welcome Jason. Glad you got to enjoy some of those beauties.

What did all of you think about the Black Cherry tomato? Isn't that a different tasting one? Almost too sweet to be called a tomato - IMHO. 

Thanks for that link Martin. I checked them out back when you first posted it. I don't think I've ever ordered from them but that certainly doesn't mean I wouldn't. Seems like a great place to get some quality heirlooms. 

I rec'd most of my original seeds from Beans To Blossoms (a local Home-to-market place), amishlandseeds.com, the seed Savers Exchange, & thetomatoseedlady (on ebay). The latter one is a fellow Kentuckian. In fact she's from the town I grew up near - Somerset. So all my credit goes to those fine folks who work so hard to preserve so many great heirloom & open-pollinated varieties.

I hope you all saved some seed to enjoy next garden season! If not, I have no problem with offering a re-do on your favorite ones :-) ! 

Bill:I think climate is making and braking the good taste of a Tomato.
As for example Black Cherry was awfull here ,no taste,no sweetness,and it splits very bad,from the start to finish.
Woodle Orange was able to have goot Tomatoes again,this Sommer.
This Past Sommer the Tomatoes were not tasting well here due to too much heat in July and August(over 100),and then sudden cooling,in the sixties in September.

Black Cherry is my favorite, very, very, sweet.  I also really like a grape hybrid from Johnny's called Red Pearl, very tomatoey?, very productive tomato. 

Yeah, H2 the Black Cherry is a bit of a 'splitter' when it gets too much water. I agree the weather can certainly make or break a good garden season.
We had some of those 100+ temps this summer as well. I didn't have much of a garden either because it was dry for most of the summer - and even into the fall. One of the driest years I've seen. But it's making up for it now.

The one good thing that came out of my garden this year was my Beauregaurd sweet potatoes. I didn't get very many nor were they very big but they ddin't have a single split on them. Not enough rain for that. Bittersweet result I guess.

I'm fairly sure we get much drier summers here than you guys up your way H2. We usually get very wet spring & fall weather.

Good to hear from you hoosierbanana. Welcome to the F4F forum. You from IN? 

Hey thanks for the welcome Bill, I tried to sneak right in...  I have been reading the fig forums for a few years, just never had much to say. I have really enjoyed reading everyone's posts, thanks.
I live in Wilmington DE, hoosier banana is a name for pawpaws, which are another one of my interests. I like the name because it is so mysterious, no-one knows about Asimina triloba, I just discovered it recently myself, awesome tree that needs more attention.

Ahh the PawPaws. I remember eating those things along the creeks here in KY when I was younger. There are a bunch along a small creek near where I live now. In fact I used to call them Kentucky bananas since that was the closest taste/texter I could think of when describing them.

I'd like to get a couple of the cultivated varieties for my yard. The ones with larger fruit or other unique qualitys that make them desirable. You got any like that :-] ?

Sorry Bill, I just have wild seedlings now.  I'm going to order improved seed from F. Schumacher and buy a few named trees this spring. 

I tried out direct seeding with tree tubes and had mixed results this year, need to widen the tubes for those big leaves.  Will try and find deeper pots or use tube bags for seedlings this year and direct seed some more.

The fruit from the planted trees here in Brandywine park is decent,a few yellow ones at 8 oz with a nice flavor, the trees only receive part sun though.  As an understory tree they produce very poor fruit, they are all over the Alapocas area of Wilmington but nowhere else around here.

Thanks for the link, Martin! Great prices - I'll be ordering from them for the spring.

Susan

Hey HB, if you need PawPaw seed, I'd be happy to supply you some. I even have a few on hand that I saved from this season past. Not many, but if you want some I can send 'em. Just let me know.

If you wanted a larger qty we'd have to wait until next Sept. But they are easily accessible for me. Same goes for anyone else. If you have a cultivar of PawPaw, the seedlings would make great grafting stock.

The land, that the local PawPaws are on, is the land that belongs to the folks we bought our house from. He gave me permission to have all I want. I was even over there this summer clearing out the undergrowth around one of the best producing trees on the creek. Hopefully will make the fruit more accessible come next season :-) . 

Thanks Bill,
I have a bunch of wild seeds already, we can trade some if you want. I also just found an interesting variety being offered in your neck of the woods- KY Champion.

Wow! That is one big PawPaw tree that lady is standing under. The fruits look great too. $8 might be a good deal for a seedling from the parent tree.

I wonder how much she'll be charging for the grafted ones come 2012? I'm sure it will be considerable since she went to the trouble of trade-marking it (Big Daddy TM).