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Grow Tomatoes Review: Pineapple Tomato

August 12th, 2009 | Author: Dot

NOTE: DoT has been posting from Honolulu since late July when she left California to help her mother through some medical procedures. She will be doing so until she can return to Orange County

Pineapple Heirloom Beefsteak Tomatoes, July 16, 2009

DoT’s Thot: “Pizza with pineapple, that’s a cake…Pizza with cucumber, it’s an insult. — (Alessio Vinci ).

Pineapple Tomato — that’s a winner.– (DoT)

Pineapple Heirloom Beefsteak Tomato Characteristics

The Pineapple tomato was listed as an heirloom beefsteak tomato with maturity date of 85 days. It is an indeterminate (I) heirloom tomato plant.

The pineapple tomato is bicolored, red and yellow and reputed to weigh up to 2 pounds. The flavor is rich, sweet, and fruity.

Pineapple Heirloom Beefsteak Tomato Review

Slices of Pineapple Heirloom Beefsteak Tomato 20 July 2009

Our Pineapple Tomato plant yielded it’s first tomato on July 16, 2009, having been put into the ground as a seedling in mid-March. It was definitely one of our late tomatoes which makes this beefsteak tomato appealing from the point of view of extending the heirloom tomato season as much as possible, since we enjoy these fruits so very much.

Our garden’s Pineapple heirloom beefsteak tomato plant did not yield the very large tomatoes I would have liked. The tomatoes were more in the range of 1/2 to 3/4 pounds.

They are beautiful tomatoes that show little cracking (a real plus here with our periodic heat waves). Though the tomatoes were smaller, there was an abundance of tomatoes and the harvest has been good. I think I need to learn to prune my tomato plants — this is definitely the resolution for what to do differently next season.

Distinctive Red Edging on Pineapple Heirloom Beefsteak Tomato Slices

The pineapple tomato itself is bursting with juicy flavor, very meaty, and a beautiful golden yellow orange with red mottling in the flesh. This is a very sweet tomato. If you look closely at the Pineapple Tomato slices, you can see the unusual and distinctive red edge that the skin provides against the mottled flesh. It is quite unique and beautiful.

Pineapple Heirloom Beefsteak Tomato Harvest on 17 July 2009

Grow Tomatoes Review Bottom Line for the Pineapple Tomato:

This heirloom tomato goes on the list for next year. A late season beefsteak tomato, it is plentiful and beautiful, tasty and yields tomatoes not prone to cracking which is a real plus in our Southern California garden.

Aloha, DoT

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