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Australian tomatoes - 1st report
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Posted by raymondo Armidale, NSW (My Page) on Thu, Feb 9, 06 at 7:01
| Got back the first report for the growout from Mark in southern NSW. He grew out Australian Pink. I've been growing Joe Thieneman's Australian Heart. I'll post a full report later in the season when most of the information is back. |
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RE: Australian tomatoes - 1st report
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Hello Ray.
Thanks for posting this thread. It is a timely reminder I think.
Here is mine.
Burnley Metro (BM) is a semi determinate regular-leafed early-midseason tomato with red globe-beefsteak tomatoes of medium-large size. Flavour is mild, with slightly acidic overtones. Clearly a variety suited to Southern Victoria. It is approximately 1 week later than Burnley Surecrop (BS). For all intents and purposes BM is much the same as Burnley Surecrop in appearance and flavour. BM produces a large number of medium sized red fruit in a short period of time. It has some susceptibility to early blight-like Burnley Surecrop.
Burnley Gem (BG) is a determinate regular-leafed early tomato with medium-large red globe shaped fruit. Taste is very similar again to BM. BG displays some susceptibility also to early blight as well. BG is a good substitute for both BM and BS where space is limited or indeterminate/semi-determinate habit is not desirable.
Will have seed of BG and BM for you Ray at Marysville-oh, and by the way, also will provide the grower of BG this season at Marysville as well!
Cheers
Craig |
Australian Pink
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| Small indeterminate plant with regular foliage. Fruit is pink, blocky in shape, about the size of Tommy Toe and averaging 50g in weight. Taste is mild but the plants are quite productive. Days to maturity from plant out approximately 75 so this puts it pretty squarely in the mid-season range. |
Joe Thieneman's Australian Heart
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An interesting history: seeds were passed to the late Joe Thieneman, a nurseryman from Louisville, Kentucky by an Australian during WWII. Joe grew it continuously thereafter and to this day, his family still grow it and sell plants in their nursery. It is believed that seeds also found their way to the Victory Seed Company, a small US seed house whose owner, Mike Dunton, is credited with re-offering many varieties once thought lost. For some reason he sells it under the name Giant Australian Oxheart.
Joe Thieneman's Australian Heart is a classic, large, red heart. It is very productive as hearts go. Unfortunately, my plants were badly hit by disease and we had rain at exactly the wrong time. What fruits were there split and rotted. A few were salvaged. They were very meaty with very few seeds. The flavour is on the mild side but the classic tomato flavour is definitely there. I'm looking forward to growing this one again to sample more fruit and to save some seeds. |
RE: Australian tomatoes - 1st report
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Carolyn
Do you know which is correct name of this tomato ? Are they the same - the pics look a little different at Victory than TomatoFest but SESE and TomatoFest and Baker all list name the same.
Dennis |
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