G'day Lionel

If you check ebay there are lots of heritage tomato seeds available and
who knows, you might find your old bullocks heart.

I've just bought some green/white stripe, red/orange stripe, white/cream
and black tomato seeds so hoping for some interesting salads this summer.

Not sure this helps?
Bronwyn ;-)



Lionel van den Berg wrote:
wrote:

Tomatoes are heavy feeders so try more fertilizer.


Anything in particular? I did give them dynamic lifter (though being
high in nitrogen I suspect that is mostly good for leaf growth) and some
blood and bone. I'm still working on building the soil, mulching
heavily, it's not the greatest soil around.

I grew up in Northern NSW, you don't even need to fertilise there and
you get big juicy tomatoes. We were at that time keeping our own seed
from a variety called bullocks heart. It doesn't really look like the
one they sell as ox heart now, but it certainly was the best tomato I've
ever eaten, pity I let the seed go .

Lionel.