I'm in central LA. Not exactly right around you, but Southern and hot. I've grown heirlooms in containers for the last few years. In my experience, the best-producing heirloom tomatoes I've had are the Green Zebra, Yellow Pear, and Sungold cherries. I pick at least a pink off of the Sungolds every week, and they just keep making and making tomatoes and setting fruit.....even when it's 100 degrees out, and everyone says they shouldn't be. The Zebras always give me dozens of fruit, and the Pear produces at about half of the Sungold. It has plenty, but not quite as much. I've also grown Orange Blossom and Black Prince tomatoes with great success, as well as Purple Cherokees. Don't have any Cherokees this year though.

As far as zukes, I've had good success with growing Burpee's Organic Black Beauty zucchini from seed. And I would highly recommend eggplant. Fairytale does great and is absolutely delicious.

Hey Followtheinle, thanks for the info. Oddly, a lot of the tomatoes you listed are supposed to do well here. I've never tried them, but I have some Cherokee Purples I'm about to put in the ground for a later summer harvest. I'm really curious about the Green Zebra too-that will have to happen next Spring though.
Oh, and I bought some black beauty zucchini after reading this. Most zucchini does really well here, so hopefully this variety will be prolific. We'll see...

Thanks Again:-)

Follow theinli,
I second the motion on yellow pear. I grow at least four plants per year and always get a great harvest. I actually was already considering the sungold, but after your comments its a shoe in. I love yellow pear tomatoes. How does the taste of yellow pear compare to sungold?

If you like to grow cucumbers try Poinsett 76. It's the best most productive cucumber I've ever grown. It's a great variety for the deep south.