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Post by paulf on Aug 9, 2016 17:46:19 GMT -5
Just picked a Butter and Bull Heart
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Post by daylilydude on Aug 14, 2016 7:32:17 GMT -5
paulf so how did it taste on a sammich??
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Post by paulf on Aug 14, 2016 10:36:50 GMT -5
Butter and Bull's Heart is always a 5/5 and this year was no exception. Meaty, juicy, sweet and it took one thick slab slice to make a BLT.
If you don't grow hearts you are missing out on the best.
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Post by daylilydude on Aug 20, 2016 8:56:11 GMT -5
paulf, do you grow other "hearts" and if so, is this one your favorite?
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Post by paulf on Aug 20, 2016 9:54:16 GMT -5
At last check I have grown over 75 heart shaped varieties. On another site I say I have never grown a heart I didn't like and was told I copied another growers saying, but it is still true. So far not a dud among the bunch. I was going to make a list of my absolute favorites but after whittling down it was still 20 varieties. So if I made it a top five it would include in no special order: Butter and Bull Heart, Couer De Velours, Hungarian Heart, Korol London, Nicky Crain, Sylvan Guame, Wes, Zore's Big Red......that's more than five? Sorry, can't quit.
One that could be the top pick if it was stable enough every year . Orange Russian #117 is a bi-color heart, orange and red that when it on it is the very best for production, appearance and taste. In an off year it is average at best. Brad's Black Heart is mostly great but some years not so great.
Neil Lockhart from Illinois, a tomato growing friend of mine has grown hundreds and hundreds of hearts and got me started. His grow-outs of all tomatoes number in the many thousands and along with Carolyn Male, has done more for heirloom/OP tomato variety saving than anyone I know of. Thanks Neil for getting me addicted.
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Post by daylilydude on Jul 2, 2017 16:39:31 GMT -5
Here is a heart that I have growing it's from the "Dwarf Purple Heart" can't wait to see how big these tomatoes get on this dwarf plant.
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Post by daylilydude on Jul 5, 2017 17:47:54 GMT -5
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Post by paquebot on Jul 8, 2017 22:19:46 GMT -5
Neil Lockhart from Illinois, a tomato growing friend of mine has grown hundreds and hundreds of hearts and got me started. His grow-outs of all tomatoes number in the many thousands and along with Carolyn Male, has done more for heirloom/OP tomato variety saving than anyone I know of. Thanks Neil for getting me addicted. I've offered tomato seeds on SSE since 2006 and I think that Neil has requested some every year. At least one time he found more that he liked and ordered twice. My first SSE offerings coincide with Quean Carolyn's last tomato growing. Everything since to her credit has been grown by someone else. She stopped offering seeds when there weren't any less than 10 years old. Martin The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by paulf on Jul 9, 2017 8:46:57 GMT -5
Martin: There are many tomato heroes out there and you are one. Over the years we discover folks with the same interests. My first contact for heirloom tomato growing was the late Chuck Wyatt in 1999. Even though he was ill, still he would give me advise and encouragement on my new-found hobby. Through Garden-Web and a couple of other sites less used by me, my horizons expanded and the number of contacts in the tomato growing world did as well.
My first experience with heart-shaped tomatoes in 2005 was with Kelleher's Oxheart and German Red Strawberry. Kelleher's came from a Carolyn Male seed offer and GRS from Chuck. By that time I was an SSE member and listed a few varieties just so I could order from other members. Neil listed many heart-shapes and I was hooked. Several others listed hearts and I ordered from them also, but Neil was my main source. Every year from 2005 on, hearts were a big part of my garden. Back in the early 2000s there were fewer heirloom tomato seed sellers than now. And those selling heart shaped varieties were even fewer. SSE was the best place to find hearts. Since I no longer have contact with SSE, Tatiana's has been the seller I rely upon (along with a couple of others of my favorites).
I never met a heart I didn't love.
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