Quick Summary of Elfie
- 🌍 Origin: A classic heirloom variety. The name “Elfie” is a traditional female name.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, requires staking. Best grown in a greenhouse in cooler climates, pruned to 2 stems. Yields can vary depending on the region: growers in Central Russia report excellent harvests, while those in Siberia note a somewhat lower fruit set.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful, smooth, round beefsteaks. The color shifts beautifully from bright yellow to a warm light orange as they ripen. They do not suffer from hard green/yellow shoulders. Average weight is up to 400 g (14 oz).
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Highly praised for its magnificent, sweet, and perfectly balanced flavor. The flesh is described as “sunny and joyful.”
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-season. In Siberian greenhouses, the main harvest fully ripens around mid-August.
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Elfie. Translates as the female name Elfie. A wonderful variety, I planted it after reading rave reviews. Indeterminate, grew in the greenhouse to 2 stems, very good yield. The fruits are joyful, sunny, smooth, round beefsteaks up to 400g (14 oz). The color changes from bright yellow to light orange, the taste is magnificent, sweet, and balanced.
I really liked the variety, sweet, and high-yielding.
This year I grew the Elfie tomato for the first time. To me, it looks like Nizami, but a bit brighter. Nizami had minor hard shoulders this year, but Elfie had none at all. But there are very few fruits on the bush. This is the biggest one. It fully ripened a week ago, meaning mid-August in the greenhouse.
