📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Anna Maria’s Heart
- 🌍 Origin: A well-known heirloom oxheart variety, highly prized by collectors worldwide for its beauty and reliability.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. Grows to about 1.5 meters (5 ft) in open ground. Shows incredible cold tolerance and adaptability, performing exceptionally well even in the short, challenging summers of Siberia.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Stunning, perfectly uniform heart-shaped tomatoes. The fruits are very consistent in both shape and size, typically weighing 200-250g (7-9 oz).
- 👅 Flavor: Highly rated. Meaty and juicy with a perfect, classic balance of sweetness and tartness.
- ⏳ Maturity & Yield: Early to mid-season. It is an absolute workhorse, setting fruit reliably on every single truss all the way up the vine without dropping blossoms. Extremely high yielding for an oxheart type.
A wonderful variety by all measures – taste, yield, and beauty. Planted out in the garden (open ground) under hoops with row cover in mid-May. Height was about 1.5 m (5 ft). It started ripening in mid-July, and set fruit on the trusses without skipping any all the way to the top. It would have kept producing and producing, but alas, here we get heavy fogs starting in mid-August. I had to cover them up again from the top, and by the end of August, I had to harvest all the remaining fruits. This was probably one of the most productive varieties I grew out in the garden this year. And the fruits on this variety are just a feast for the eyes, perfectly uniform hearts in both weight and shape. On average they were about 200-250g (7-9 oz). The taste was also very pleasing, a perfect balance of tartness and sweetness, meaty, and juicy.
