Tomato Golden Heart: characteristics and description of the variety, yield with photo

Table Of Contents

Key Features
Pros and cons
Growing and care
Methods of eating fruits

Golden Heart Tomato is an original variety with a bright orange color and an interesting heart-shaped shape. In addition to their excellent taste, tomatoes of this variety also have a lot of advantages, among which are early ripening, high yields. That is why many summer residents prefer to grow this variety on their site.

Key Features

Golden Heart Tomato has a lot of distinctive features, given that everyone can recognize this variety.

The main characteristics include:

early harvest;
high yield;
determinacy of the bush: the height of the plant does not exceed 1 meter;
small leaves have a dark green tint;
in greenhouse conditions bushes grow stronger than in beds;
one brush gives an average of 6 tomatoes, according to statistics, about 7 kilograms of tomatoes are collected from 1 square meter of plants;
fruiting persists throughout the summer;
fruits are oval heart-shaped with one pointed tip, the vegetable has a slight ribbing at the stalk;
on average one tomato weighs 120-200 grams;
the skin of the fruit is dense, thin, has a glossy sheen;
vegetable has a rich sweet gourmet taste;
pulp is juicy, fleshy, low in seeds;
due to its high content of sugars and beta-carotene, the vegetable is often recommended as a component of dietary and baby food.

Harvested with a rich aroma and versatile taste, so it is often used to prepare various dishes and drinks. Due to the dense skin, the harvested crop can retain its freshness for a long time.

Even during transportation, the fruits do not crack, and the harvested green vegetables retain the ability to ripen at room temperature.

Pros and cons

As the reviews say, this tomato variety has not only positive features, but also negative ones.

Benefits of Golden Heart Tomatoes:

great taste;
external attractiveness;
the presence of a large number of trace elements in fruits;
harvest versatility;
high yield;
resistance to common plant diseases: late blight, fusarium;
the existence of the possibility of using all the collected seeds for sowing next year;
endurance in cold and drought;
plant compactness.

Reviews of summer residents claim that this variety also has a drawback - the need to care for the planted material. The complexity of care lies in the formation of a bush, the creation of nutritious soil, and the observance of an irrigation schedule. The yield and size of the fruit directly depend on the degree of care for the bush.

Growing and care

To get a rich harvest, the seeds of the Golden Heart must be properly prepared, sown, and the seedlings must dive.

To do this, follow the following instructions:

Experienced summer residents plant seeds for seedlings in March. Seeds must be properly prepared before planting. To do this, they need to be lowered into s alt water for 20 minutes. For planting, only those seeds that have sunk to the bottom should be selected.
Next, the boxes are filled with nutritious light soil, which is prepared from a mixture of garden soil, peat and river sand. All components must be mixed in equal amounts. You can normalize the acidity of the soil by adding a small amount of wood ash to it.
Then the resulting mixture is disinfected with a solution of potassium permanganate.
Then the seeds are laid to a depth of 1.5-2 centimeters.
The boxes are covered with foil, placed in a warm place for 6 days.
During this time shoots will appear on the surface of the soil. After that, the film is removed, and the boxes are rearranged in a lighted place.

During the germination of seedlings, it is necessary to maintain the temperature regime at an indicator of 22-24 degrees. The sprouts will only need water once the topsoil has dried.

Dive seedlings required 20 days after germination. During this time, 2-3 leaves should form. Seedlings can be planted only after their age reaches 2 months. It is worth considering that night frosts should completely stop at this time. The description of the variety states that it is possible to plant a tomato in any region, except for the northern ones.

In order for the tomato bush to develop quickly and fully, it must be watered and fertilized in a timely manner. During the 1st phase of development, tomatoes need to be fertilized with nitrogen fertilizers.

During flowering and the formation of the first ovary, the bush must be fed with phosphate and potash fertilizers. One of the features of the Golden Heart tomato variety is that the bush gives maximum yield when developed in 1 or 2 stems.

Methods of eating fruits

The main characteristic of this variety of tomatoes is the versatility of its taste. Tomato cultivation can be carried out for the following purposes:

for home canning: pickling, pickling, cooking in your own juice, preparing salads for the winter;
for making fresh salads;
to create sauces;
to improve the taste of side dishes;
for dressing soups;
for squeezing thick, vitamin-rich juice.

Growing a Golden Heart tomato is not difficult if you follow the recommendations described above for sowing and planting planting material. Do not forget about providing special care for seedlings and formed bushes. Reviews say that if all these conditions are met, the summer resident will be able to enjoy self-grown vegetables,preserve their freshness and usefulness until the winter period.