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2013 Sunshine Community Garden Tasting Results compiled by Kay McMurry

Other (comments in any category, numbers indicate Name Category 2013 Description Taste n Texture n Looks n number of times a comment appeared, commas separate comments by different people) Gorgeous pink with purple amethyst splashes. Large trusses load up with great Amethyst Jewel Specialty 3.3 16 2.9 12 3.3 12 meaty, juicy (2), bright , red, mild, a little non-acidic tasting exotic looking . 1-3 oz. Large production. Indeterminate.80 days Yields abundant crop of extra-large, 2- ounce (up to 2"), red, pear-shaped cherry Austin's Red Pear Cherry 2.8 10 2.3 8 2.7 7 tomatoes. A perfect choice for a snacking tomato, or in salads. Mid season. Yellow. Small beefsteak, 8 oz. Early ripener. Azoychka Heirloom Very flavorful with hint of citrus. 3.6 14 3.5 10 3.8 9 good mix of flesh and juice, beautiful yellow, tangy Indeterminate. 70 days. A very flavorful and delicious fruit. Deep, dark brick color, pear shaped and weigh 3-6 Bedouin Heirloom ounces. Meaty and rich, perfect for canning 2.8 14 2.3 10 3.4 12 beautiful color, not so much flavor, flavor is bland or fresh eating. Distinctive and well worth growing. Indeterminate. 75 days. Berkeley Tie Dye From Berkeley Tie Dye Pink, but producing Specialty 4.0 2 4.0 2 4.0 2 complex Pink Oval oval-egg shaped with pink skin,

Easy BHN 444 3.0 18 3.3 16 3.3 14 Grower

A colorful and fun tomato producing variable Black and Brown sized fruits with prominent brown and green tart-nice, very juicy, beautiful red, lovely, too wet, juicy, Specialty 3.0 19 3.2 12 4.2 14 Boar stripes. The tasty fruits range from 4-12 beautiful green and red large fruit! ounces and have a nice, acid flavor. Eye- Dark fruit, sweet and complex. An outstanding and sharp tasting cherry with Black Cherry Cherry 4.2 23 3.6 14 4.4 16 nice biter, sweet (3), delicious deep mahogany coloring. Indeterminate. 65 days. Flattened 4-5" globes with dark greenish- black shoulders, which can turn almost good color, lovely, lovely dark tomato!, very juicy, nice big Heirloom black with enough heat and sun. Likes hot 3.4 15 3.1 12 4.4 10 tomato, moldy taste weather. Rich complex flavor, sweet-tasting fruit. Indeterminate. 75 – 90 days. 2013 Sunshine Community Garden Tomato Tasting Results compiled by Kay McMurry

Other (comments in any category, numbers indicate Name Category 2013 Description Taste n Texture n Looks n number of times a comment appeared, commas separate comments by different people) 2-4 oz. Round, very pale yellow white with green stripes that turn gold. Very good Blonde Boar Specialty flavor not found in most white tomatoes. 3.5 12 3.6 9 3.3 7 acidic, meaty, golden yellow, beautiful color Good production. Indeterminate. Mid- season. Easy produces loads of large pink fruits up to 5 very juicy, sweet!, mellow, wonderful taste, gorgeious, Brandy Boy 4.1 22 3.6 18 3.9 19 Grower ½" across. The fruits ripen evenly, and large red lobed fruit is lovely

Easy Pink/red 8 ounce fruit, very productive. Carmelita 2.2 13 2.6 7 3.3 8 thin taste, tough skin (3), bland Grower Indeterminate. 74 days.

Red. Easy grower, flavorful, large firm texture: good; appearance: pretty, beautiful red; other: Easy tomatoes (8 – 12 oz), strong vines, disease Celebrity 3.2 22 3.2 16 3.8 16 good dependable taste, bot boring, acidic, good overall, Grower resistant. Good slicing tomato. Determinate. nothing outstanding, nice flavor 70 days. Dusky rose, purple fruit, large 10 – 12 oz, meaty, beautiful fruit, very pretty beautiful, lovely fruit, Heirloom heavy producer. Very popular tomato from 3.9 19 4.0 12 4.3 12 flavor is interesting, complex, great flavor balance of Tennessee. Sweet rich flavor. sweet/acid, complex flavor A yellow jewel-like cherry, that bears 6 to 8 Cherry on a branch. Very flavorful. Indeterminate. 3.5 6 3.0 6 3.2 6 very sweet Mid season.

This is a terrific, yet unusual tomato. The sweet and mild, sweet, juicy, nice, light yellow, beautiful, Cream Sausage Paste creamy-yellow fruit are elongated, with a 3.8 12 3.9 9 3.8 7 mild, too bland, nice-mild flavor, sweet!, sweet and creamy nicely sweet flavor. Determinate. 73 days.

Egg-shaped fruits that have a captivating, striped yellow and orange skin. Pulp is Dino Eggs Heirloom orange-yellow, with very good flavor having 4.1 15 3.5 12 3.8 12 skin tough, yum!, sweet nice taste!, tasty a bit of an tart acidic tinge amidst its sweetness. Fruits grow to 4 oz. Soft, fleshy fruit has a delicious, yet unusual sweet flavor. Unique and bound to cause a Green Grape Cherry 3.2 10 3.8 7 3.4 7 lot of interest, served whole or sliced in salads. Indeterminate. 60 days. Fruits average 8-12 oz. with gold skin and succulent, fine texture, great looking, attractive Green Moldovan Heirloom lime flesh. Nice shaped tomatoes with 2.9 14 3.3 8 3.4 7 color/shape, watery smooth shoulders. Excellent flavor. High Two tone green, small fruits (3 oz), sweet Specialty yet zingy fruit. Pretty in salads. 3.4 16 2.5 11 3.6 11 tangy Indeterminate. 75 days. 2013 Sunshine Community Garden Tomato Tasting Results compiled by Kay McMurry

Other (comments in any category, numbers indicate Name Category 2013 Description Taste n Texture n Looks n number of times a comment appeared, commas separate comments by different people)

Look like a miniature green zebra. Sweet Green Zebra a bit bland, mushy, good flavor, too sour, tart, lovely-but Cherry delightful flavor. Very productive and pretty. 3.1 15 3.1 13 4.1 12 Cherry tastes bland some Indeterminate. 75 days.

Yellow, Crisp little, grape-sized nuggets are Hssiao His Hung Cherry just right for snacking. Vines are hugely 2.7 10 2.2 10 3.7 10 Shih productive. Indeterminate. 75 days.

Orange, globular fruit. Think harvest moon! soft texture, appearance: sunny, pretty (2), other: tart, Blemish-free, intense tomato flavor. Meaty Indian Moon Heirloom 3.8 11 3.8 8 4.3 6 bland, killer bee, sweet-almost creamy favor and texture, tomato with few seeds. Indeterminate. 75 melts in mouth! days. Huge production, good Anthocyanin. Large clusters of 2-4 oz. fruits. Small unripe fruit kind of tart, good texture, interesting appearance (2), turn purple, as they grow and ripen they Indigo Specialty 3.0 19 3.5 12 4.6 10 unusual skin, lovely dark top with bright red bottom!; turn almost black on top where sunlight hits, complex flavor, beautiful, unusual-pretty bottom and interior are red. Indeterminate. Mid-season. A new variety from Oregon State. The high amount of anthocyanin creates quite a vibrant indigo, almost blue skin on the 2 inch, round fruit. As it ripens the underside pale inside, one I tasted may not have been fully ripe, Indigo Rose Specialty 2.0 13 2.4 7 4.3 7 turns from green to a rosy red. Flavor is bland, too bland great, strongly acidic and when sliced it looks just like a with its deep red flesh. Indeterminate. 80 days. Believed to be a stabilized selection from a cross between Pink and an texture: soft, softer than Cherokee purple but similar, soft J.D.'s Special C- unknown black from a J. D. Whitaker in Specialty 4.2 18 4.3 7 3.9 7 (3); appearance: pretty, interesting green red, lovely color, Tex Conroe, Texas. Superb flavored 8-14 pleasant; other: sweet (5), sweetness very good, yummy ounce dark pink fruits with gray- purple shoulders. Indeterminate. 82 days. Potato foliage. Black, pear-shaped tomato that looks like a little eggplant on the dark taste-juicy, skin a little tough (3) tough (2), Japanese Black Heirloom vine! It's a commercially grown tomato in 2.2 12 1.3 3 2.0 4 appearance: interesting, nice/interesting, pretty; other: a Trifele Russia. Complex, rich sweet flavor. little bland, not my cup of , bland (3), lacking Determinate. 80 days. 2013 Sunshine Community Garden Tomato Tasting Results compiled by Kay McMurry

Other (comments in any category, numbers indicate Name Category 2013 Description Taste n Texture n Looks n number of times a comment appeared, commas separate comments by different people) texture: good, skin is tough (2), smooth; lovely, pretty,; a Jaune Flamme 4.1 14 3.9 7 4.1 7 little tart, tart, wild, nice balance, a bit tart, nice and tart Plant produces high yields of golden-yellow tomatoes. Excellent for making tomato juice texture: good, fine; attractive, large globe, watery very mild Jubilee Heirloom and canning. Also good in salads and 3.1 19 3.5 16 4.1 16 taste, pleasant balanced taste cooking. A low acidity variety. Indeterminate. 72 days. Red, larger (1 oz) fruit, shaped like grape or tough skin, pretty but flavor is not that exciting, always a Juliet Cherry elongated plum. Full tomato flavor, high 3.5 15 4.0 10 4.3 11 great producer, good to [can't read] and dry, great yields. Indeterminate. 60 days. 8-12 oz. flattened med. beefsteak fruit. Pink texture: interesting, OK; appearance: odd orange-green, Large Barred brown with metallic green stripes. Very Specialty 3.4 10 3.7 3 4.0 3 georgeous green/ orange striping, strange but pretty; Boar meaty pink flesh that is very flavorful. other: blandish, bland on taste Indeterminate. 65-75 days. texture: solid/soft, good, nice, appropriate, great; Yellow. Vigorous plants produce large appearance: very nice yellow, pretty color, beautiful, pretty, Easy Lemon Boy harvests of sweet but tangy tomatoes. 8 oz 3.4 19 4.0 7 4.1 7 rich; other: good size, nice sweet/tart, tart, delicious, bland, Grower fruit, easy to grow. Indeterminate. 72 days. perfect yellow, sweet, too bland, always good, low acid but good flavor, lemony!, all around good Green, with amber overtones. Small fruit (3 – 5 oz), tangy flavor, great for texture: juicy (3), soft, smooth; appearance: nice Lime Green Salad Container 3.5 12 2.7 3 2.3 4 container garden because plants stay small, green/yellow, pretty color, pretty; other: tart (4), not tasty but big harvest. Determinate, 58 days. Large plants produce good yields of 8-16 oz bitter, nice and fleshy, nice and meaty, good mouth feel, Malakhitovaya Heirloom green when ripe fruits. Excellent flavor. 2.8 20 3.3 15 4.3 16 pretty, lovely green and yellow!, watery, watery but lovely Shkatulka Indeterminate. Mid-season. colors, tastes rotten Odd shaped mutant from green zebra. Named after the awesome writer, journalist tart, a nice zing, teardrop shaped-cool looking, interesting and teacher. Taste is very different from the Michael Pollan Specialty 2.8 18 3.2 13 4.0 11 color/shape, gorgeous!, tart, not too tart, too sour, crispy!, Green Zebra. Much less tartness, more mild too tart! with good sweetness. Indeterminate. 78 days. Pink tomato. Round, medium-sized, perfectly beautiful fruit. Sweet yet balanced. texture: even, soft, very soft; appearance: very nice red; Momotaro Specialty 2.9 13 4.0 4 3.8 3 The most popular tomato grown in ! other: OK, bland, seedy! Indeterminate. 74 days. Red with yellow-orange stripes. 1 1/2 – 2" Mr Stripey Heirloom tomatoes have rich, tangy flavor. 2.8 12 3.4 7 3.8 8 tart, soft, pretty, pretty but a little watery, best so far Indeterminate. 56 days. 2013 Sunshine Community Garden Tomato Tasting Results compiled by Kay McMurry

Other (comments in any category, numbers indicate Name Category 2013 Description Taste n Texture n Looks n number of times a comment appeared, commas separate comments by different people) Unusual, persimmon-colored tomatoes weighing 12-16 oz or more. Ripens from the tasty, good texture, nice color, very pretty and gorgeous, blossom end to the softly dented light green Persimmon Heirloom 3.6 19 3.6 15 4.4 14 nice appearance! Gorgeous, great color, lovely color, nice shoulders, gradually acquiring its distinctive and meaty rose-orange hue. Sweet flavor. Indeterminate. 80 days. Unbelievable looks and flavor. Striped with Pink Berkeley Tie texture: OK (2); appearance: odd color, interesting, Specialty port wine interior that gushed tomato flavor. 2.8 17 3.0 9 4.8 9 Dye gorgeous striping; other: tart (3), good Indeterminate. 75-80 days. Round pink with creamy yellow stripes, Texture: juicy, OK, juicy seems a little tough juicy, OK, matte skin, fuzzy. Great tomato flavor that is Pink Furry Boar Specialty 2.3 10 2.0 2 3.5 2 appearance: nice red, pretty red, good; other: tends to fairly rich and sweet. Good production. 2-4 bland, bland oz. Indeterminate. 70-80 days. Red, heat tolerant tomato. Very productive, Easy even in the Texas heat! Lots of round, 3 oz Porter's Pride 2.5 12 3.0 8 2.8 6 bland, soft, not a lot of flavor, not much flavor Grower fruit with full tomato flavor, little cracking. Indeterminate. 70 days. Compact bushy plants with dense foliage cover, high yields of round to slightly oblate Red Furry Boar Specialty red fruits with yellow stripes and fuzzy skin, 3.0 12 3.5 8 3.4 4 OK texture, lovely red!, nice red, nice tart flavor, acidic bright red meaty flesh. 2-6 oz. Very good to excellent flavor. Indeterminate. Mid-season. Vigorous plants, large fruit, yet unusual for texture: good, nice, great good juicy; appearance: good , a hybrid the vines are still indeterminate Easy nice wrinkles, great, good color, beautiful large red lobed Rhodia and the fruit full of flavor. Typical of Italian 3.7 18 3.7 9 4.6 9 Grower fruit, good; other: good size, beautiful shape, good tomatoes, this ripens from the inside out. A aftertaste, interesting almost citrus-like aftertaste rare find. Indeterminate. 72 days. texture: good and meaty for small plum, pasty (2); Roma Paste 2.0 8 3.7 3 2.5 2 beautiful, not a raw eating on-good when cooked-don't eat it raw (2), better for paste, good looking One of the 9 new dwarf tomato varieties released in 2011 by the Dwarf Tomato pretty, more flavor than some purples, meaty-pasty-nice, Rosella Purple Container Project. Fully ripe fruit from Rosella Purple 3.1 13 3.3 7 3.5 6 very juicy, tart can rival the flavor of any purple heirloom. Indeterminate. 75 days. Medium-sized fruit are finely flavored; good texture: good (2); attractive, solid red, beautiful bright red, Rouge D' Irak Heirloom 3.5 13 3.8 5 3.5 5 yields, too. Indeterminate. 80 days. nice flower low acid, delicate,(2) delicious, good, mild 2013 Sunshine Community Garden Tomato Tasting Results compiled by Kay McMurry

Other (comments in any category, numbers indicate Name Category 2013 Description Taste n Texture n Looks n number of times a comment appeared, commas separate comments by different people) Large crops of crack-free, bright red 6 to 8 oz. tomatoes with delicious old-time taste. Easy For many years, this was a favorite for Rutgers VFA 3.1 14 3.2 7 3.2 8 not many cracks!, delicious Grower canning because of its abundance, juiciness and deep red color. Determinate. 75 days. Clusters of canary yellow, 3-5 oz. round fruit with rare and unusual spotting. Heavy Spot Yellow Specialty 3.3 12 3.1 7 3.4 7 too tart for me producer, great taste, citrus notes. Indeterminate. Mid-season. Red. Grape (elongated cherry) tomato, grows on compact container-ready plants. Sprite Container 2.8 11 3.5 6 4.2 6 texture: OK (2); other: too tart for me, good Taste is sweet and skins are thin. Prolific. Determinate, 70 days. Compact plants with potato leaf foliage loaded with clusters of 2” fruits. Quite early, good texture (3), tart & fresh, too tart, good, not tart Stupice Heirloom great flavor. Heavy yields all season. 3.2 10 5.0 4 5.0 4 enough Produces well in northern climates. Indeterminate. 55 days. Golden-orange fruits are borne in large clusters. The flavor develops early, so this mushy, skin a little tough, attractive, pretty yellow, skin a little tomato is great for snacking a week Sun Gold Cherry 4.2 19 4.0 12 3.9 7 little tough, I grow these every year & they are quite before full maturity, when it becomes very reliable/proflific, perfect sweet and delicious. Indeterminate. 65 days. Hybrid version of San Marzano paste tomato. Large, pear-shaped fruit are an Super Marzano Paste average 5 inches long. Fruit is high in 3.3 10 3.4 5 3.5 3 sweet, nice and meaty, creamy texture, pulpy pectin, giving sauce and paste natural thickness. Indeterminate. 70 days. Red cluster tomato, disease resistant, easy good texture, cute, pretty red, good sweet/tart, good solid Sweet Million Cherry grower, prolific and popular. Indeterminate. 4.0 12 3.6 6 5.0 5 taste, good 65 days. One of the 9 new dwarf tomato varieties released in 2011 by the Dwarf Tomato Tasmanian Project. One of the most compact (3’9″ tall) Container 2.9 15 3.2 8 3.7 9 soft, pretty Chocolate and heaviest producers of the new dwarf releases. Good flavor. Indeterminate. Mid season. 2013 Sunshine Community Garden Tomato Tasting Results compiled by Kay McMurry

Other (comments in any category, numbers indicate Name Category 2013 Description Taste n Texture n Looks n number of times a comment appeared, commas separate comments by different people) From the grand state of Texas. Yields BIG, 1-2 lb., yellow tomatoes with red striping inside and out and generally a reddish star Cody votes for Texas Star!, nice combo yellow/red, texture: Texas Star Heirloom on bottom end. Very sweet, with well- 2.9 10 2.9 6 3.9 7 nice, soft, appearance: beautiful colors, gorgeous orange balanced acid content, making extremely and yellow,; other: overly sweet, melts in mouth flavorful tomatoes with few seeds. Indeterminate. 85 days. Beautiful and sparkling,1-3 ounce fruit. Light yellow with golden speckles. Mild tasting, Topaz Cherry 3.3 10 2.8 5 3.8 5 soft firm and good for snacking or salads. Indeterminate. 70 days. Cross of Cherokee Purple and Green Wessel's Purple Sausage. Plants yield loads of elongated bland (2), soft, very interesting appearance, too bland, Specialty 2.7 9 2.9 4 3.2 4 Pride purple paste-type tomatoes with excellent bland-disappointing taste, 8-10 oz. Indeterminate. Mid-season. Plump pear shaped, Cabernet colored, with Wine Jug Specialty light spots. Sweet, rich flavor. 2.7 10 3.0 2 2.0 2 soft texture, poor flavor, sweet Indeterminate. Mid-season. A great tomato just loaded with hundreds of Yellow Pear Cherry small 1-2 inch yellow pear-shaped fruit. 3.8 11 4.3 4 4.0 4 soft, yummy acid flavor-tart Indeterminate. 75-80 days. z max 4.2 23 5.0 18 5.0 19 zz min 2.0 2 1.3 2 2.0 2

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