Hi, I just received seeds for Ukrainian Heart from Tomatofest Seeds. You can order them. They're on sale for $2.95. They sent them to me as a bonus with my other order. This is my first time growing this variety. I would send you seeds but I just sowed mine and I want to make sure everything germinates. Sharon

I surprise no one is growing Orange Strawberry. It's heart shape and gave lots of fruit for me last year. **** Lots and lots of folks grow Orange Strawberry, me included. And if you do a search at the bottom of this page for heart shaped varieties you'll find several threads devoted to hearts alone. Orange Strawberry first appeared as a stray seed in a commercial pack of Pineapple seeds as found by Majorie Morris of IN. It's also from Marjorie that I got German Red Strawberry, a family heirloom, and I made both of them avaialable initially by listing them in the SSE YEarbook from whence they got distributed to a lot of retail places. I also send the best of my varieties each year to Sandhill Preservation and TGS, and more of late to Mike at Victory Seeds, but for Glenn at Sandhill and Linda at TGS I've been doing it for many years. And I also have been doing a seed offer each year of varieties new to all or most. Damon is a fellow heart lover, which endears him to my heart shaped heart. LOL Just ask him where he got the seeds for Anna Maria's Heart, Danko and Serdtse Buivola, and some others. LOL Carolyn

I've never even heard about many of your varieties **** Ray, you know about Anna Maria's Heart and Serdste Buivola ( Heart of the Buffalo) b'c I offered both in a seed offer I do at the other place where you also hang out. And I've been feeding heart varieties to Damon b'c I'm a heart lover as well. Hmmm, it sounds as though I'm a cannibal, but nope, just a lover of heart shaped tomatoes. LOL Carolyn

Ukrainian Heart (also called Russian Heart), **** I don't think those two are necessarily synonomous. Russian Heart has a different background than does Ukrainian Heart although one of the two folks who list Russian Heart equates it with Ukrainian Heart in the SSE Yearbook/ There are two Ukrainian Hearts that I know of and have grown. One was received by me years ago from Jerry Murphy called the TNMUJ strain and the other one I got from Craig who got it from Tania O'Neill of Phildelphia called the O'Neill strain. Jerry Murphy did contact me last year after a long absence and I do think I remember him saying that he originally called it Russian Heart before changing the name to Ukrainian Heart to more accurately reflect the origin of the variety. Whatever! LOL They are all excellent IMO. I'm a devoted fan of heart shaped varieties b'c I think they have some of the best tastes around and I'd like to see you try some of the following: Danko, red Anna Maria's Heart, pink Wes, red Tsar-Kolokol, pink Tidwell German, pink Yasha Yugoslavian, pink Nicky Crain, pink Orange Strawberry Brad's Black Heart ....for starters off the top of my head. Carolyn