Quick Summary of Bobbie
- 🌍 Origin & Strains: A well-known heirloom oxheart tomato. There is an interesting discussion among growers about the color: seeds sourced from Tatiana’s TOMATObase (Canada) typically produce pure red fruits, while strains sourced from some US vendors produce pink/raspberry-pink fruits.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, mid-season. Like many oxheart varieties, it features thin, wispy, and somewhat “droopy” regular foliage, making the plant look a bit frail even when perfectly healthy.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, beautiful heart-shaped fruits (oxhearts). Weight typically ranges from 5 to 12 oz (150-350 g), though some reach over 1 lb (500 g). The fruits are very meaty and dense with very few seeds.
- 👅 Flavor Profile: Classic, rich, old-fashioned tomato flavor. It has a great balance of sweetness and acidity. Excellent for fresh eating, slicing, or making thick sauces.
Indeterminate, mid-season slicing variety. Thin foliage, regular leaf. Fruits are red, meaty hearts weighing 5-7 oz (150-200 grams). The taste is good. They turned out to be low-yielding for me, but the variety grew in a shaded area.
My Bobbie. I pruned the plant to 3 stems. The bush is somewhat frail and wispy, typical for oxhearts. The fruits were about 10-12 oz (300-350 grams) each. The taste is classic, old-fashioned tomato.
Svetlana, were your Bobbie fruits pink or red? Who were the seeds from? The color of mine is pure red.
My Bobbie was from Redko. Indeterminate. The foliage is thin, the yield is good. The color is pink-raspberry. The taste is ordinary, tomatoey.
Sofia, Svetlana, my Bobbie was from T. Kushnareva. I just checked her database—the fruits are pure red. I checked V. Redko’s catalog—they are red-pink, but she lists the origin of this variety as the USA, not Canada.
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Svetlana, were your Bobbie fruits pink or red? Who were the seeds from? The color of mine is pure red.
Elena, the Bobbie fruits were bright pink. I bought the seeds from Redko. Here is what she writes – Bobbie (USA) – productive, fruit is red-pink, heart-shaped, very meaty with few seeds and a delicious fruity aroma, weight 10-17 oz (300-500 gr.), tall, mid-season.
Grown outdoors in open ground, my Bobbie was quite productive, even in difficult climatic conditions. The taste is classic for oxhearts. I really love to devour such a meaty little tomato just sprinkled with salt, along with some dark rye bread. 😋
