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'Hungarian Heart' Tomatoes
 
Sub-Category: Standard
Main-Season
Heirloom
 
Sub-Category 2:
Description: Standard, main-season Hungarian heirloom. Indeterminate plants bear 1-pound, ribbed, pinkish heart-shaped fruit. Also known as 'Hungarian'.
Days To Maturity: 85
Seed Sources: Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014

 
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Overall: (3.7 Stars)Overall
Taste: (4.3 Stars)Taste
Yield: (3.7 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (4.3 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 10/23/2010 by lakeswago - An intermediate gardener

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Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day

This is the first year I've grown this variety, but I do not think I will grow it again. It is a beautiful looking tomato, shaped just like a heart. The fruit, however, was quite mushy, and the taste was rather bland.
 

Reviewed on 09/10/2008 by FarmerDoug -

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Culpeper, Virginia, United States
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I grew this for the first time this year and will grow it again. The fruits are beautiful and look just like a heart and tend to be about the same size as a human heart. The taste is very good and it's a very meaty tomato. It is better than Brandywine for disease resistance but it is still not as resistant as some of my mainstay varieties. I grow Brandywine mainly for market where people like beefsteaks, but they are a difficult variety. This one had good acceptance at the market, and although not quite as tasty as Brandywine, it's close.
 

Reviewed on 10/13/2006 by tmitch - An experienced gardener

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Jefferson, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day

2006 I have grown this variety for 3 years and like it very much. We sell heirloom plants and the folks I sell it to generally want it again the next year. We have 25 varieties and plant at least one of each in our garden to judge if we will grow it agian the next year.
 




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