📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Italian Hearts (Italianskie Serdechki)
- 🌍 Origin: A variety circulated among Russian tomato collectors under the name “Italianskie Serdechki”. The exact pedigree is unknown, but it is a widely grown, stable open-pollinated oxheart.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indet. An early-season variety known for being highly adaptable. It sets fruit reliably without dropping blossoms during both heat waves and cold snaps. Performs well in greenhouses and open ground.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Deep pink to raspberry-colored oxhearts. Despite the name translating to “Little Hearts”, they frequently grow into full-sized oxhearts weighing 7 to 11 oz (200-300 g).
- 👅 Flavor: Sweet, meaty, and dense. Not watery, making them excellent for fresh eating and processing.
Italian Hearts
Indet, super heavy yielder! 🙌 Grew it in the greenhouse to 2 stems, the plant was completely loaded with meaty pink hearts up to 7-11 oz (200-300 g). Excellent taste 😋
I’m surprised it took this long for Italian Hearts to show up in the catalog, good thing Svetikk decided to fix that injustice 😁 The variety really is great. Heavy yielder, tasty, low maintenance, and it sets fruit consistently in both the heat and the cold 👍
Beautiful and tasty variety.
Grew it in the greenhouse, turned out to be an early season type. Very productive.
My Italian Hearts. Our local Penza ladies shared the seeds with me. One of them, Marina, said it had been her absolute favorite mater for a long time 🙂
Really, what more could you ask for. They look gorgeous on the plant and yield heavy. And they are so tasty!
Italian Hearts is a wonderful variety, been one of my absolute favorites for a few years now. I plant it in the greenhouse for an early harvest and outdoors in the dirt too. Perfectly shaped raspberry-colored hearts. When they are fully ripe, you can’t really call them just pink, and you can’t really call them “little hearts” either, they are full-sized oxhearts. Very heavy yielder and a delicious variety. The fruits are meaty, not watery at all, and sweet.
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