3 plants Assorted Beef Heart Tomatoes AB

Discover this trio of heart-of-beef tomato varieties, with their fleshy, juicy, flavorful fruit. With pink Yasha Yugoslavian, red Reif Red and Orange, cultivate color in your garden.

Ideal for eating fresh: in salads, carpaccios, etc., or for making tasty sauces!

• Yasha Yugoslavian Beef Heart Tomato

Yasha Ygoslovian, an old variety with light foliage and indeterminate growth, offers an abundance of beautiful, dense and fleshy dark pink fruits, weighing 300 to 800 g. It can be eaten raw, in salads, or cooked in sauces or coulis.

• Giant Beef Heart Tomato/Reif Red

This Cœur de Bœuf Géant is an old Italian variety, not very sensitive to bursting. It produces very large, fleshy, heart-shaped fruits weighing 500 to 700 g. Their dense flesh contains few seeds and reveals an excellent, very mild flavor.

• Orange Beef Heart Tomato

The Cœur de Bœuf Orange is a very productive, indeterminate-growing variety, with many very fleshy fruits weighing 250 to 500 g. Their juicy flesh, with a pleasantly smooth, melting texture, contains slightly more seeds than the other heart-shaped varieties, and delivers a deliciously mild, sweet flavor.

How to grow the beef heart tomato trio?

Grow your tomatoes in fertile soil, rich in organic matter, and choose a sunny position sheltered from strong winds.

• Start tomato seedlings between February and April, depending on the climatic conditions in your region.
• Use a suitable container, such as a small bucket, box or honeycomb tray, and high-quality organic sowing soil.
• Sow the seeds at a depth of 0.5 cm in a warm, well-lit spot.
• Harden the seedlings before planting in the garden.
• Plant the tomatoes in well-amended soil in a sunny spot, 50 cm apart in all directions.
• Prune indeterminate plants.
• Mulch plants generously.
• Use a variety of natural fertilizers.
• Water regularly, especially for this variety, which is sensitive to apical necrosis.

When should I transplant my trio of beef tomatoes?

Fertile, well-drained, sunny soil is ideal for transplanting, leaving a distance of 50 cm on all sides. Successful planting depends on abundant watering at the time of planting.
To allow tomatoes to acclimatize to outdoor conditions, we recommend taking them outside for 4 to 7 days before planting them in the garden or in a pot.

For more information, see our guide to transplanting plants.

When to harvest the beef heart tomato trio?

Tomatoes begin to be harvested in the garden 75 days after transplanting, then regularly as the season progresses.

Tomato diseases and pests

In many vegetable gardens, tomato diseases are legion. All it takes is a rainy summer or fungus in the soil to wipe out the crop, but downy mildew and chlorosis are not inevitable.

The most common tomato diseases, caused by fungi or deficiencies, include :

• downy mildew ;
• powdery mildew
• apical necrosis ;
• botrytis ;
• Alternariosis ;
• chlorosis.

Tomato companion plants

Tomatoes will thrive near :

There are a number of useful associations with tomatoes, notably to repel insects and other pests to prevent disease, but also to save space in the vegetable garden or improve the taste of tomatoes.

Crops to combine with tomatoes include

• cabbage ;
• carrots ;
• radish ;
• beet ;
• lettuce
• aromatic plants in general and basil in particular;
• flowers, especially carnations and marigolds.

Shipment and delivery of Coeur de bœuf tomato assortment

• Orders are dispatched Monday to Thursday.
• Shipment to mainland France only.
• Shipping cartons designed for optimal plant protection.
• Free shipping does not apply to plants.