I think I have a new favorite Tomato~!

[bohica]

We picked our first Cuore Del Toro on Sunday....WOW!!!!!
What a nice rich flavor, and I was happy to see that the fruit have the tell tale shape, atleast I know its a real ox heart.
Lots of German Johnson and Brandy Wine, and the Sun Sugar plant has hundreds of fruit, dozens turning that nice organe color that makes you want to pop em in your mouth fresh off the plant!
We are still waiting on the Mortgage Lifters and HillBillys to ripen.

[roper2008]

Never heard of Cuore Del Toro. Is it a productive plant?

[Tania]

is it Cuore Di Toro?

[bohica]

Tania, it is listed as Cuore de Toro on tomatobob website, probably a mistype of Cuore di Toro, I apologize for listing it as Cuore Del Toro.
It is an amazing tomato, very rich flavor, not real runny, not alot of seeds in it either.
We like it so much that I am planing on putting in 4 plants next season.
Roper, it has been producing fairly well, the fruit are mid to large, everyone who has tasted them agreed that it is one of the best tasting tomatoes that they have tried.
Tom

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by bohica

Tania, it is listed as Cuore de Toro on tomatobob website, probably a mistype of Cuore di Toro, I apologize for listing it as Cuore Del Toro.
It is an amazing tomato, very rich flavor, not real runny, not alot of seeds in it either.
We like it so much that I am planing on putting in 4 plants next season.
Roper, it has been producing fairly well, the fruit are mid to large, everyone who has tasted them agreed that it is one of the best tasting tomatoes that they have tried.
Tom

if you liked that red heart one then you'd better get busy and grow lots of the other great red hearts to compare them with your current one that you grew.

[mecktom]

Carolyn....Bought your book the other day and enjoyed it. So many different varieties to choose for another year. I have several heirlooms this year including German Johnson, Mortgage Lifter, Brandywine, and Ponderosa Pink. I was wondering what tomatoes do you consider as your favorites.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by mecktom

Carolyn....Bought your book the other day and enjoyed it. So many different varieties to choose for another year. I have several heirlooms this year including German Johnson, Mortgage Lifter, Brandywine, and Ponderosa Pink. I was wondering what tomatoes do you consider as your favorites.

You have no idea how many folks have asked me that question. and others here will tell you that to date I haven't answered it.

The main reason is that I grow new ones each year, almost all will be new to all or most folks, so what are faves this year can change next year.

At the time when I was asked to write that book I'd grown about 1200 varieties and now it's up to about 2500 and so there are a lot of varieties that I've grown in the past 10 years that had I grown them earlier would have been in the book.

And no, there won't be a seond or third hundred in a book. I have to use a walker now from a fall in Dec of 2004 and someone else does all my gardening for me and it would be impossible to do the growouts needed for a book as well as finding a photographer who would be acceptable to Workman Press in the area where I now live, which is an hour north of where I used to grow everything.

Some have suggested I could maybe write a book about the histories behind some of my favorite varieties and I do think about that, but not for long.