Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4-5 Experience)
Got these seeds from our own Luba-Gulya. Indeterminate, late season. Produces large red ribbed hearts. Super aromatic and tasty, flesh is dense and buttery, barely any seeds. My vine set 8 tomatoes, and 7 of them were right around 14 oz (400 g).
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Tatiana, mine look exactly like that, they just haven’t started ripening yet. Really hoping the flavor delivers. I completely fell in love with this plant. 😀
Tatiana, I got mine from Happy Garden, they list it as a potato leaf, but mine threw regular foliage. What kind of leaf did yours have?
Regular leaf, seeds were from Kulik.
Man, my memory is completely shot. I literally wrote up above that they were tasty and aromatic, and I already forgot. Good thing I can look back at my own old notes 😀
Full Summary: Homer’s German Oxheart
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate, late-season vine. Notably, while some seed vendors list it as a potato leaf, growers here consistently report it growing as a regular leaf.
- 📈 Yield: Moderate in terms of sheer numbers (about 8 fruits per plant), but the heavy weight of each tomato makes for a very solid total harvest.
- 👅 Taste: Highly aromatic with excellent flavor. The flesh is described as buttery and dense, containing very few seeds.
- 📦 Storage: Not explicitly mentioned, though late-season dense oxhearts typically hold up decently on the counter.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: 2 growers from short-season areas (Zones 4b) shared their yields and foliage observations.
