A tastier yellow pear tomato?

[beac]

I like yellow pear tomatoes for their cute shape and cheery color, but they are a little on the blander side taste-wise (but still worlds above anything store bought.) The place where I bought my plants last year (and likely will again) is carrying a new kind of yellow pear this year, the "Golden Sweet Pear." Sounds promising:
http://www.tastefulgarden.com/store/pc/Golden-Sweet-Pear-28p534.htm

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Yeah...Yellow Pear is bland - and gets diseased easily for me in NC.

For a similar shape but smaller size you may look for Ildi.

How far in VA are you from Raleigh? I will have nearly 100 varieties of seedlings in a few months! All I hope for is a season better than last year...worst tomato year for me in 30 years of gardening!

[beac]

2. I'm in SW VA (about 4 hours NW of Raleigh).

I'm really hoping the ground-hog-promised early Spring will make this a better year. It was SO sweltering here last summer that even heat-lovers like basil had a hard time growing here. My cherry tomatoes all eventually did okay, but the two slicers I tried to grow never really got going. "Early Girl" was still dithering around in late August and my Pink Brandywine's tomatoes were lovely but there were less that a half-dozen of them. :(

Organic gardening is a real challenge, but at least there are options out there to control bugs, weeds, etc. naturally. Heat is another matter. Shaking my fist at the sun that was already scorching at 7am was my only option and, alas, had no effect. ;)

Will keep an eye out for Ildi. I've had to order online in the past to get anything both organic and interesting.

100 varieties?? WOW. Wish Raleigh was a little closer...