Pink Honey

Pink Honey is a large 6-10 oz heart shaped indeterminate, reg. leaf variety from Russia.  Pink Honey is the translated name from Russia and was introduced to America by Andrey Baranovski of Minsk, Belarus.

Neil Lockhart of Oblong Illinois had received Pink Honey seeds from Andrey and offered some to the Seed Savers yearbook in 2007.

This will be a new variety for me this year that I cannot wait to try.  For anyone who has grown Pink Honey before, I would be curious to hear your feedback on this variety.  

Dester

Dester is a family heirloom from Germany that has gained much popularity among many tomato growers for its outstanding flavor.   This is a regular leaf, indeterminate plant that produces large pink beefsteak shaped fruit, weighing in at about a pound. 

I have not grown this variety yet, but was told that Dester is a great slicing tomato that is very meaty and juicy- an absolutely mouth watering tomato that deserves to be grown in everyone’s garden.   Well I certainly cannot wait to sink my teeth into this one.  TO BE CONTINUED...

The history behind this heirloom is that a family from Indiana by the name Dester, had acquired the seed from Germany and shared it with there housekeeper, Anna during the 1970’s.  Anna later on had shared this variety with a man named Larry D. Pierce, who is a grower for Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

Since I have not grown this variety yet, unfortunately have no photos of my own; which is why I would like to thank Kath from Tomatoville for letting me use her beautiful photos.  Thanks Kath!

Terhune

Terhune is suggested by many to actually be a Pink Brandywine.  It is a great slicing tomato that produces 8-16 oz pink beefsteak shaped fruit.  The plant is potato leaf and is indeterminate.  I grew some last year and had great success.  I can never complain about having too many potato leaf varieties.  The fruit I got from my plants were big, and I thought they were a good tasting meaty beefsteak.

The history behind this one is that a man by the name Tom K.  who had posted on a Seed Savers Forum under the username (darwinslair) that he acquired the seed from a clients new home that he was inspecting. The previous owner was an elderly woman who had an amazing container garden.  What was left behind was frosted out tomato plants.  

Tom had asked what the story was about the abandoned garden and was told that the woman had grown her own tomatoes for years, and would share them with her neighbors.  Tom had asked if he could take some of the frozen fruits home to grow out, and would share them if they took.  Well they took; he shared, and named the tomato after the new homeowner’s last name, Terhune.  Here is the link to that thread on the forum where this was all posted.  http://forums.seedsavers.org/showthread.php?t=657