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Old August 3, 2011   #1
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Default Italian Heirloom

I am having a challenging tomato year but finally got a couple first red tomatoes.

Italian Heirloom was the first and I've never grown them before but I have to say I was amazed to see how much meat and how little water they had, much like a paste tomato but full size. They look like a perfect sauce tomato! I also have about 20 green ones waiting to get bigger and ripen so it seems like a heavy producer. I just hope it survives what's ailing it.

Anyone else grown these?
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Old August 3, 2011   #2
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Which one there is a ton of them different ones
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Hm, I don't know, they were called "Italian Heirloom". I got them from Seed Savers.

http://www.seedsavers.org/Details.aspx?itemNo=826
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Old August 3, 2011   #4
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What a coincidence.... I just came across this variety as I was looking at different internet seed sources. I had already made up my mind to try it next year, before I came across this post. It looks like a promising variety. I plan on getting my seeds from SSE as well. It's listed in the "Top 10" Favorite Heirloom Tomatoes (large to medium sized) at Tomatofest.
The SSE blurb makes it sound quite promising as well. They look very nice in the pic at SSE. I'm already excited to try them. How's the taste by the way?
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They tasted like very classic delicious tomatoes! I only have those and a couple cherries that are ripe so it's hard to compare for me. Hopefully the plant holds on to ripen up those nice green ones.
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These are Franchi Italian pears great ones


last years ones

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I'm growing Italian Heirloom but didn't get it planted out until 6/13, so I'm still waiting for ripe fruit. The seeds are from a trade, but the source was Uprising Seeds. I'll let you know what I get.
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This is the second year I grew Italian Heirloom. I transplanted it to the garden in early May and it just started ripening last week.

Your description is just like mine, meaty and less water. Wife loves them for making bruschetta.
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