📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vechnaya Lyubov (Eternal Love)
- 🌍 Origin: A beautiful and highly sought-after variety popularized by the famous Ukrainian tomato collector Aleksey Kulik. The name translates romantically to “Eternal Love”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate with Regular Leaf (RL) foliage. It is very adaptable: out in the open ground, it behaves almost like a semi-determinate, stopping around 3.3 ft (1 m). However, in a greenhouse, it will easily push past 6 feet (1.8-2 m).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Gorgeous, large, dark-pink ribbed beefsteaks. While the average weight is around 10-14 oz (300-400 g), growers frequently report pulling massive 1.1-1.3 lb (500-600 g) fruits off the lower trusses. The fruits are visually flawless and extremely meaty.
- 👅 Flavor & Maturity: Rated as a solid 4 out of 5 for taste—a classic, delicious beefsteak flavor. While originally listed as mid-early, most growers in cooler zones note it takes a while to get started and acts more like a mid-to-late season variety.
A mid-early, quite productive variety. Out in the open ground, the plant reached about 3.3 feet (1 meter) tall. The fruits are beautiful, meaty, large dark-pink ribbed beefsteaks. They are very bright, great quality, without any blemishes at all. The bush really stood out in the garden bed. The weight of my fruits was up to 10.5 oz (300 grams), though it’s stated it can reach up to 1.7 lbs (800 g). The taste is good – I’d give it a solid B (4 out of 5).
A low-maintenance and productive variety from Aleksey Kulik. I really loved this variety; for open ground growing, it’s just a fantastic find!
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I totally agree with Lenochka, this variety is an absolute find for growing out in the open dirt!!! 👍 The yield is massive, and the maters are bright and large!
Edited November 20, 2014 by Danko
Does this variety have Potato Leaf (PL) foliage?
Mine had a standard Regular Leaf (RL):
In the greenhouse, it reached about 6 feet (1.8 m). The taste is good, yield is above average. I pruned it to 3 main stems, so the fruits didn’t get extremely large.
I liked it.
Not a bad variety.
This tomato definitely wasn’t early for me. It was slow to get going, so it ended up being more of a mid-late season variety, even though it grew in the greenhouse. Maybe there just wasn’t enough heat and sun this summer. Highly productive, large tomatoes up to 1.3 lbs (600 grams), and tasty. Seeds were from Kulik.
I grew two bushes in the greenhouse, both shot up to nearly 6.5 ft (2 meters). It didn’t turn out early for me either. At first, it set a lot of small fruits (3.5 oz / 100 g or less), but towards the end, the ones higher up on the plant got much bigger. One bush produced a 1.2 lb (533 g) mater. I thought it would be the record holder for this summer, but Homer’s Oxheart ended up beating it. Seeds were from Lenochka N.
So far, this is my champion in terms of size and yield, though it hasn’t fully ripened yet. Growing in the greenhouse. The bottom truss has 5 tomatoes on it, visually looking like they are about 14-17 oz (400-500 grams) each. The second truss is swelling up now. Pruned to a single main stem, just like all the others.
The Eternal Love variety turned out very productive for me. The fruits were large, tasty, and quite juicy. In the hoop house, the height of the bushes was up to 6.5 ft (2 meters).
