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Join Date: Aug 2011
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Oh my, whatever that is, my taste buds want it!!! It looks delightful! yum!
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Join Date: Dec 2011
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Stunning tomatoes, Kath!!!
![]() Captain Lucky wasn't late for me, at all, I love it. Thank you! Have you tried Everett's Rusty Oxheart? If so, is Copper River as good as ERO, tastewise? |
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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![]() I had one plant of Everett's Rusty Oxheart but it didn't make it. Again, not sure if I'll give it another try. I've heard many more positive comments about Captain Lucky. kath |
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Join Date: Jul 2012
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Kath----------- fantastic!! Are you a good gardener, Thanks for posting your photos, greetings
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Thanks to greyghost I tried this pretty pink PL beefsteak this year and am enjoying it's taste more than I have the Brandywines but some of them taste a little too acidic to me.
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Lots of talk about the name of this variety...I've been changing it as the discussion continues. Anyway it's reddish pink, meaty but juicy and very flavorful. The fruits all weigh about a pound and are now experiencing some radial cracking which is a shame because they were quite pretty as you can see. This is going to be a big winner with many, I think. I'm growing again next year to please DH and neighbors.
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All over a pound and growing in large clusters, this one needs support! Another pretty ribbed pink-red beefsteak that kept me waiting a while.
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This large pink beefsteak is from Carolyn's seed offer and the one plant that germinated/survived has just begun producing ripe fruits, so I'll add more pics and comments later. It is a HUGE plant that sets lots of fruits (13 to 28 oz. so far) but it didn't do that early. The fruits are very meaty and have few seeds- the one that I managed to bag had 10.
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I love the look of this tomato and admire how relatively crack resistant it has been compared to the other large beefsteaks. It's taste is great imo and it's sweeter to my taste than the other big pinks. The fruits have ranged from 10 oz. to over 2 pounds but the large ones have all been singles and have managed to be completely usable.
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This is a great tomato machine. Fruits from 5 to 29 oz. so far and no end in sight.
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This is actually a large pink beefsteak despite the name and its fruits have indeed been large- from 1 to over 2 lbs. It was comparatively late to ripen and had a lot of catfaced fruits and splitting but I really like the flavor of this one.
I need to take a 'frustration break'- sometimes it only takes a minute or two for the pics in a post to upload but sometimes I can try 3, 4, 5 times and wait for many minutes and no uploading happens. ![]() Last edited by kath; August 14, 2012 at 11:59 AM. Reason: pictures not uploading |
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Love your photos, Kath! Glad you liked the Daniel's. Last year, I thought it was the best tasting tomato I grew. I wanted it to do especially well this year
so I over-fertilized it. Got huge fruits (year year, they were just large) that didn't taste quite as well! This year, I thought Dester's Amish (I think Larry Pierce changed the name on the website to Dester's) was the best tasting tomato I grew. The Fish Lake Oxheart you sent me did very well; lot's of nice sized hearts with very good flavor-very sweet! People loved getting them as oxhearts are quite the novelty around here. Darlene |
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I have a bad case of "tomato envy". The pictures are just stunning,
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![]() Last year and this year I've been using and granular organic fertilizer at plant out, but that's it. This year's tomatoes are in new garden ground but we worked in lots of manure and shredded leaves last fall. |
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