📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Anastasia Ushakova
- 🌍 Origin: A fantastic Russian heirloom variety highly prized for its reliability and beautiful shape.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall) and incredibly vigorous. It has a very long fruiting period, producing right up until the frost. Standout feature: Exceptional heat tolerance. Growers in hot, southern climates report that it doesn’t drop its blossoms (blossom drop) even during extreme summer heatwaves.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Gorgeous, dark pink (raspberry) elongated plum/paste tomatoes with a distinct, cute little “beak” (nipple) at the blossom end. They typically weigh around 100-115 g (3.5-4 oz).
- 👅 Flavor & Use: Very tasty and sweet with dense, meaty flesh. While they are great for fresh eating, their firm texture makes them absolutely top-tier for whole-jar winter canning.
Indeterminate, productive variety. It grew in the greenhouse, pruned to 3 stems, and had a very long fruiting period. The fruits are pink, oval-shaped with a little beak, and very tasty. Weight is up to 115 g (4 oz).
It is very similar to varieties like Topklipsa and Slavyanka (which weigh up to 80-90 g / 2.8-3.2 oz), but the fruits on this one turned out larger. My seeds were from Masha (@Murka).
This variety is definitely going on my permanent favorites list. High yield, tasty, and beautiful.
This is probably the only variety that didn’t drop its blossoms during this extremely hot season. Every single flower truss set perfectly. I had one bush planted in the greenhouse and another outdoors in open ground. It actually preferred being out in the open! A very worthy variety, absolutely perfect for whole-jar canning! Seeds from @Galka, thank you!
I liked it both outdoors and in the greenhouse; it kept bearing fruit right up until the very end. The plums are nice and meaty, very tasty.
Anastasia Ushakova is indeterminate.
Dense plums with a little beak, weight about 100 g (3.5 oz). The color of the fruits is a dark raspberry pink. The flesh is dense. A variety specifically meant for canning. The taste is good. It is a heavy yielder.
I planted it right next to a bush of Syzranskaya Pipochka, and they look very similar.
