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'Black Sea Man' Tomatoes
 
Sub-Category: Standard
Main-Season
 
Sub-Category 2:
Description: Main-season standard variety. Small, determinate, potato-leaved plants bear medium-sized, deep brown fruit.
Days To Maturity: 75
Seed Sources: Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014
Totally Tomato - updated in 2011

 
Rating Summary
 
Overall: (2.8 Stars)Overall
Taste: (3.5 Stars)Taste
Yield: (3.0 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (2.8 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 08/06/2009 by Sillius - An intermediate gardener

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Lorain, Ohio, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

This tomato grew easy-peasy and has provided a nice crop. It tastes good, though it is no cherokee purple. What I really like is that, being determinate or semi-determinate, it produced some good-tasting, dark tomatoes quite early. Also, they don't look that strange. The unique look in some photos that you will see are taken in such a way as to heighten the oddness of the fruit. My tomatoes matched the pictures, but it was not that big a deal. They have some green color in them and very green shoulders, but not in any unappetizing way.
 
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Reviewed on 07/11/2009 by Booberry85 - An intermediate gardener

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Onondaga, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day

I grew these for the first time last year. It was a rainy, cool summer. These still produced medium sized, yummy tomatoes. Not as prolific as some tomatoes but worth the flavor. These also made a very rich looking spaghetti sauce. This is definitely on my "grow again" list.
 
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Reviewed on 01/07/2008 by MikeH - An experienced gardener

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Henderson, Illinois, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day

Not one of my favorites by a long shot,but a fair tasting tomato.The flavor that the other so called blacks are famous for just wasn't there both years that I grew it.6 to 8 oz. fruits was the best it could throw for me,and compared to the other blacks I grow every year,it was the most ignored plant of them all.
 
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Reviewed on 01/02/2008 by skyblue52 - An intermediate gardener

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Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

It was small and ribbed. Very hard to cut. You got small side bites.
 




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