Your Feedback on These Varieties, Please

[Dee]

If anyone on the forum has grown the following varieties, I would love to know how they did for you and what you thought of them. If you have pictures to share, that would be wonderful, too.

Favori de Bretagne
Monomakh's Hat
Zolotoe Serdtse
Japanese Black Trifele
Abel
Vater Rhein
Indian Moon

Thank you!

[Tormahto]

I've trialed Monomakh's Hat/Shapka Monomakha. The flavor was not memorable. But, that likely means it was a very very good, sweet, meaty tomato, with my rating of about an 8. Most hearts, in my garden, are like this. It's the 9's that are memorable.

I've also trialed Zolotoe Serdtse. For the past several years, many yellow/gold/orange tomatoes have had weak flavor, for me. So, don't trust my feedback, that Zolotoe Serdtse is a weak flavored tomato.

[habitat-gardener]

Zolotoe Serdtse was productive for me in a pretty poor tomato year. The fruits were some of the biggest in this year’s garden. I thought the flavor was just ok. But my partner chose these for sandwiches first, probably because they were big and beautiful. The plant was only about 30” high.

[bower]

Zolotoe Serdtse is the only one of those I've grown. Semi determinate, very productive, cold tolerant and disease resistant; very firm fruit which makes it difficult to call the optimal "ripe" stage but very easy to handle your crop - long shelf life, non cracking. I would describe them as sweet, without any strong umami flavor (but some pleasant caroteney notes). This is a nice tomato to toss in the deepfreeze for winter cooking projects, as freezing seems to emphasize the sweet quality (maybe because the firm texture is no longer an issue). It's a Beta orange, so lots of Beta carotene in there.