Pink Brandywine tall tomato - Solanum lycopersicum
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A legend among gourmet tomatoes. Pink Brandywine is an American heirloom variety from the late 19th century, considered one of the tastiest tomatoes in the world. It produces huge, flattened, pink fruits weighing 300–600 g, with meaty flesh and a deep, sweet-tart flavor you simply cannot buy in a store. The plant is tall, with distinctive potato leaves. It requires patience and staking, but it is one of those tomatoes that makes having a garden worthwhile.
Brandywine is the name of an entire family of old, non-hybrid tomatoes, and the pink version is the most famous of them all. The fruits are enormous – usually 300–500 g, with record specimens exceeding 700 g – slightly ribbed, with thin skin and flesh containing almost no seed cavities. The flavor is complex: plenty of sweetness, pronounced acidity, and something gardeners simply call the taste of a real tomato. The plant is easy to recognize by its leaves: they are large and smooth, with single, un serrated blades, like those of a potato.
As an heirloom variety, Pink Brandywine was not bred for high yields or transportability – the fruits crack easily and do not keep for long, while the plants yield less than modern hybrids. That is the price of flavor. The variety is late (about 85–90 days from planting out), so in Central Europe it performs best under plastic or in a greenhouse; outdoors it needs a warm, sheltered position and early sowing. Seeds can be collected from your own fruits – the variety is stable and comes true to type.
Sowing (March, under cover): sow the seeds in early or mid-March in trays or multicell trays, 0.5–1 cm deep, at 22–25°C. Germination takes 6–10 days. After emergence, lower the temperature to 18–20°C and provide as much light as possible.
Pricking out: when the seedlings have their first pair of true leaves, transplant them individually into 9–10 cm pots, planting them deeper – up to the cotyledons. One week before planting out, harden off the seedlings by putting them outdoors for increasingly longer periods.
Planting out (after May 15): plant in a polytunnel in early May or outdoors after the last frosts, spacing plants 60 × 80 cm apart and providing a sturdy stake (at least 180 cm) or string support. The soil should be fertile, rich in humus, and deeply cultivated. Plant deeply – the buried part of the stem will produce additional roots.
Care: train to a single stem, regularly removing suckers (side shoots growing from the leaf axils). Water generously but regularly – fluctuations in moisture are the main cause of fruit cracking. Feed every 2 weeks with a tomato fertilizer higher in potassium. At the end of August, pinch out the growing tip above the fifth or sixth truss so that the set fruits have time to ripen.
A tomato for eating raw, in the simplest way: a thick slice, salt, and olive oil. Excellent in sandwiches and burgers – a single slice covers an entire slice of bread – as well as in Caprese salads and gazpacho. Its meaty flesh also makes a thick, sweet sauce and passata, although it seems a shame to preserve it when it tastes so good straight from the vine. It grows well alongside basil and marigolds, which help deter pests.
Pink Brandywine sets fruit less reliably than modern varieties, especially in heat above 30°C and on cool nights. Help the plant: on warm, dry mornings, gently shake the flowering trusses or tap the stake – the pollen will fall onto the stigma. In a polytunnel, also ventilate at midday. A few such treatments in June can mean the difference between three and ten fruits per plant.
| Latin name | Solanum lycopersicum |
|---|---|
| Variety | Pink Brandywine |
| Fruit color | pink |
| Growth habit | tall (indeterminate), potato leaves |
| Position | sunny, warm, sheltered |
| Seasonality | annual plant |
| Sowing time | March (under cover) |
| Planting-out time | early May (polytunnel) / after May 15 (outdoors) |
| Harvest time | August–October |
| Spacing | 60 × 80 cm |
| Net weight | 0.30 g (~90 seeds) |
| Series | Traditional |
| Producer | W. Legutko |
| EAN code | 5903837934744 |
W. Legutko
Solanum lycopersicum
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