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Originally Posted by Duh_Vinci
Thank you for a great morning smile, Carolyn!
And believe it or not, you did send me the seeds, I was the first one  You also sent me a list of some of your favorite hearts as well (which I will be growing next year!
Larry - I very nice tomato, I think you will like it! Seems to be very productive so far as well!
Glad that Bull's Heart is doing well in your garden. It usually does not stop producing until the frost. Tends to branch out a lot, and does get to about 9'+ if you let it. Fruit usually get sweeter and sweeter as the season progresses. We've tried few other "Bull's Heart" or "Bychie Serdtze" over the years, but according to my mother, this particular one is resembles what we used to buy back in Russia at farmer's market the closest, if not identical.
There is another one, that was often referred to with the same name, but larger, more blunt with many beefsteak like shapes that were sold on the farmers markets in Georgia (Batumi/Sukhumi areas). I have not been able to find one, until now (hopefully). Marianna's page under pinks list a variety called "Heart Of The Bull" - and those in her photo look exactly as we remember them... Going to try it next year.
Good friend of ours (originally from Georgia) recently went for a visit back home. Needless to say, I asked him to find those and few other grandma/grandpa grown varieties and bring some home. Unfortunately, nothing even close - even to his disappointment, when he visited farmer's markets, most tomatoes were no longer home grown, but instead, imported from Turkey and Iran, farming is going by the waist side (very sad) and it is in fact cheaper to import tomatoes than growing them in their own farms!!!
Happy growing!
Regards,
D |
Well yes, I now do remember that you were the first to step in line for my recent free seed offer.
And I'm the one who got Serdste Buivola from Andrey, a nice pink heart and then the next year got Bawole Cerce from Reinhard Kraft, a nice pink heart, and a good thing that both were nice pink hearts b/c I found out later than Andrey's was in Russian language and Reinhard's in Polish language and they were identical varieties.
Did I tell you that while I got Anna Maria's Heart from someone I knew in Germany that the origin for that one was also the CIS? Andrey gets annoyed if I don't call it the CIS. I don't know which current country. And you darn well should be growing Danko as well. OK, I'll stop for now on the hearts.
I can't tell you how many heart varieties there are, some pink, some red, one white, a couple of blacks, some oranges, some green when ripes, but when it comes to those that translate out to Heart of the Bull or Heart of the Buffalo, some are red, some are pink, some have blunt tips and some have pointed tips and some are nicely shaped like a good heart should be, and some are not. And some that are the same are known in several different languages, and well, it makes it difficult but challenging , at least for me, to find new ones I don't know about and have never grown.
So Dmitry, have a heart and if you come across some interesting ones please make my heart happy by sharing with me your tomato hearts.
There's always new varieties being grown here and I could gift you with some that you might like, or you might not like, depending on your mood in any one day.
Fact is that I'm a bit of a Russophile and Alex, who posts here sent me a couple of books so I could learn Russian. Several years ago I was sent 12 varieties from the CIS and all were in commercial seed packs and all in Russian language. If it weren't for Andrey and Tania and I think Alex, I would never have known what they were, quite a few I already knew from the English translation, but just picture me, with no scanner, trying to explain what the letters looked like.
Aha, I think I savied that thread and don't laugh too hard when you see how I tried to explain the Russian letters of the tomato names:
I can't find that thread in my favorites, now, but when I do I'll link to it for your enjoyment and pleasure.
