Labradors wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:54 am I LOVE Orange Strawberry . I've also grown Anna Russian, Fishlake Oxheart, Sgt Pepper and Grightmire's Pride. They are all fantastic varieties .

Linda

Gardadore wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:17 am I love heart tomatoes too! They are the best ones for sauces! This summer about one quarter of my tomatoes will be hearts. They are Yellow Bull’s Heart I got in Tartarstan, Russia; Corazon de Boi Emilio; Curtis Cheek; Dotson’s Lebanese; Goatbag; Midnight Sun; Taiga; Reinhard Kraft’s Chocolate; Reinhard Kraft’s GWR; True Colors; Tundra.
I have many other seeds but no space this year as most of the above are new. Dotson’s is one of my favorites as well as Reif Red Heart, Joe’s Pink Oxheart, Berkeley Tie Dye Heart, Brad’s Black Heart, Heart of Ashgabat,
Kosovo, and Dawson’s Russian Oxheart (orange). I have more as well but these stand out.

Gardadore wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:48 am I got my Reinhard Kraft seeds from Renaissancefarms.org.They are new for me. Will report on all the new ones. Highly recommend you try to get Dotson’s Lebanese. I saved seeds last summer so could share if you can’t find them on line.

wykvlvr wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:13 pm I have avoided heart until this year due to the long season most require... however I am trying Yellowishorange Amish Oxheart this year along with Dwarf Pink Passion. Others may end up on my list as I have seeds for them AND I won't start tomatoes until tomorrow at the earliest... I keep trying to cut my list down but sob it keeps getting longer instead...

Shule wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:31 pm My favorite stable oxhearts for flavor that I've tried are Golden King of Siberia and Thessie O (in no particular order).

GKoS is heavy on my stomach, though (as in, I feel full fast when eating it), but the taste is great. My neighbor loved that one.

Paulf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:57 pm So far I have not met a heart I didn't like.

Paulf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:57 pm So far I have not met a heart I didn't like.

Tormato wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:50 am

Paulf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:57 pm So far I have not met a heart I didn't like.

I'll never introduce you, then, to "Wretched Heart" (a natural cross that showed up in my garden a few years ago).

One bad one, out of about 200 heart varieties trialed, is still good odds.

Julianna wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:24 pm

Shule wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:31 pm My favorite stable oxhearts for flavor that I've tried are Golden King of Siberia and Thessie O (in no particular order).

GKoS is heavy on my stomach, though (as in, I feel full fast when eating it), but the taste is great. My neighbor loved that one.

Oh those look fantastic! I found German Pink to be like that with me. Heavy flesh and seemingly a lot of water. I know that feeling!

Shule wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:49 pm

Julianna wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:24 pm

Shule wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:31 pm My favorite stable oxhearts for flavor that I've tried are Golden King of Siberia and Thessie O (in no particular order).

GKoS is heavy on my stomach, though (as in, I feel full fast when eating it), but the taste is great. My neighbor loved that one.

Oh those look fantastic! I found German Pink to be like that with me. Heavy flesh and seemingly a lot of water. I know that feeling!

Oh! Taiga is another good one for flavor. I thought I was forgetting one.

That's very interesting that German Pink was heavier and watery for you. My German Pink was really light! Very meaty and hardly any juice. It was in clay-ish soil, with extra potassium added (that could understandably change the texture; with some varieties, that seems to make them mealy, but not German Pink in 2015). That was a record-breaking year for heat, which also may have made a difference.

Julianna wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:23 pm
OMG that amish yellowish orange oxheart! That is like a dream! But I don't see any sources. Yet another wishlisted one!

wykvlvr wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 1:50 am
It is from the MMMM swap from OhioGardner who said this about it in the spoiler thread.

"AMISH YELLOWISH ORANGE OXHEART (2020) – Indet., RL, early , 10 – 14 oz oxhearts. Sweet. Prolific. High in tetra-cis-lycopene. Imported directly from HFCRT w/ USDA permit."

and boy I really mangled the name in my first post. It is one of the many I am really looking forward to and have on my list of must save seeds from. And my list is more like hmm I want one of that color and that color and those leaves and my dwarf list is really long but I have semi gotten the list for the garden down to more manageable numbers... I should be planting my first batch today well yesterday actually but I keep getting distracted...