Heart tomatoes & others progress with pictures.

14 years ago

Danko, first to set fruit, beat out New Big Dwarf.

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Serdste Buivola was right behind Danko

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Anna Maria

One of the main plots, Hungarian Heart and Olena Ukrainian are over 4 feet tall

New Big Dwarf in a 5 gallon bucket.

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Hanging starwberry jar

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And finally a little snack while shooting some pics in this 90+ degree weather.

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Damon

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earthworm73
14 years ago
Way to go dude. Looking good. I am hoping to have some green ones on my Stupice or Siberian by mid June. BTW...Send some of that hot weather north.

Larrick
sprtsguy76
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14 years ago
earthworm- I sure wish I could send some this heat your way. I know your part of the country can be cool and rainy. Hang in there.

Damon
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ediej1209 AL Zn 7
14 years ago
Looking good. Love those hearts - we're growing a red and a yellow this year again. Hope ours do as well -- if we can ever get the weather to warm up enough to even get them in the ground! Would love to see more pics as your season progresses. Hey - pass that lemonade this way, please?! LOL!!
rnewste
14 years ago
Damon,

101 degrees here in Campbell, and it looks like today will be even hotter!! Your plants are looking great.

As my Purple Haze F1 plant further develops this season, I will indeed get you a cutting for your Fall crop.

Raybo
bdobs
14 years ago
Looks great Damon!
This heat wave is insane, and long range forcast shows mid 70's by Wednesday????

Regarding hearts...
I've never grown them. Anything different about them vs say a Beefsteak??? Well besides they are heart shaped?
Are they more od a paste type?
wavygravy
14 years ago
Great looking tomatoes. The wife walked by while I was looking at the pictures and was interested in the Stawberry Jar.

She was interested in the construction of the jar, what kept the dirt in, what the wire was at the top etc.

Thank you
johnny_tomato_seed
14 years ago
Looks awesome Damon. I finally know where campbell is. I went to the booie by the bayoo yesterday, great food. I am sure it's 105+ over here inland in san ramon. I had to cover some of the top tips using newspaper attached to cage to avoid burning. I surprise no one is growing Orange Strawberry. It's heart shape and gave lots of fruit for me last year.

Thanks for the pictures. I can at least live through you guys, for now. ;-)
sprtsguy76
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks everybody for the compliments.

Raybo- Dude thats awsome, thanks!

bdobs- you have to try a heart or two next year. Hearts are very tasty. Most if not all are meaty while still being juicy and not whole lot of seeds. Just let me know and I'll let you take a look at my list next year and send you some.

wavygravy- Thanks. Yeah the bucket is a four gallon variety with six 1 1/2" holes drilled in them. The mix wont fall out allthough it looks like it might. You just pack those plants in tight. Any potting mix would work fine.

Damon
MLcom
14 years ago
johnny_tomato_seed this is my first year growing Orange Strawberry, have like 8 seedlings ready for the garden as soon can make up hang tags for the cages. Love German Red Strawberry so wanted to give them a try.

What others ones have folks tried? My seedlings are just now getting planted out in the garden.

ML
sprtsguy76
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14 years ago
Orange Strawberry is in da garden, it was on my must grow list this year.

Damon
hemnancy
14 years ago
Nice tomatoes, I'm green with envy. Mine are just starting to bloom. Beefsteaks have large seed cavities with a lot of gel, but hearts have very small seed cavities, very little gel and seeds, so they are very meaty and succulent, some have very special flavor.

Hearts I'm growing this year-
Bisignano #2
Herman's Yellow
Verna's Orange Oxheart early
Kosovo
Ukraine Heart
Sochulak

I grew German Red Strawberry last year and it was a bad year, the plant was very small and the yield low. Verna's has tied for first to ripen a couple of years ago. It has a nice fruity taste and had high yields that year. I used it in a lot of tomato sauce.

Nancy
rj_hythloday
14 years ago
Nice strawberry bucket. I just might get some more use out of that 80mm hole saw I bought when I was geeking it up building pcs, b4 the gardening bug bit.
carolyn137
14 years ago
I surprise no one is growing Orange Strawberry. It's heart shape and gave lots of fruit for me last year.
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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
lantanascape
14 years ago
I am also intrigued by the strawberry bucket. Is the wire there to keep birds out, and could you grow something else in the top? I'm thinking lobelia or allysum. More strawberries would be the obvious choice, but I'd worry about ripe fruit stranded up where I couldn't see them. The little slugs always got to my strawberries before I did, so this seems like a good solution. I even have a perfect spot to hang 4-5 of those buckets. Thanks for the inspiration!

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