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'Depp’s Pink Firefly' Tomatoes

Sub-Category:	Standard Main-Season Heirloom

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	Main-season, beefsteak-type heirloom from Kentucky. Indeterminate, potato-leafed bear up to 2 1/2-pound, round, red/pink fruit with silver/iridescent freckling or fireflies evenly distributed on the skin. Fruits are very fleshy with small seed cavities and few seeds.
Days To Maturity:	95
Seed Sources:	Underwood Gardens - updated in 2011

Rating Summary

Overall: (4.0 Stars) Taste: (5.0 Stars) Yield: (3.0 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (3.0 Stars)

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Number of Reviews: 1

KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease

Reviewed on 02/16/2007 by farmerdill - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Richmond, Georgia, United States Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days Soil Texture: Sand Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This is a large pink beefsteak that grew here but struggled. Tomatoes are similar to the pink Ponderosa, irregular with lots of catfacing. Low yield under my conditions, which includes lot of tomato diseases as well as nematodes. Many "heirlooms" never survive to producing age.

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