Dwarf Purple Heart Tomato

Every year I plant two of these in my tomato patch of 15 different varieties. They always look stout and the healthiest of all. The tomatoes are very good tasting and provide me with many for canning and eating fresh. It would be a sad year to not include these treasured treats. I love experimenting with new varieties but this one is a keeper.

Yeah, I know I'm in a climate where tomato season extends further. Still, through the summer this single plant out produced the other 21 dwarves I planted (which there were many great among them). Fruits are delicious, sweet and complex. Going into the fall it slowed down to about two to three fruits a month, only one other dwarf survived along side it, the Bendigo Moon (which is producing alongside it all winter) .The Dwarf Purple Hearts produced during the winter months are even more intensely flavored and amazing. It's now the start of March and this plant is still going for a second season. This champ is going to be on my must plant for years to come. Excellent work Vince, and all those who worked on the Dwarf Tomato Project! Your efforts are much appreciated.

This is an excellent tomato in my garden. I'm very surprised that so many of the reviews mention low yelds because my plants ALWAYS gove me lots of tomatoes. I've given plants to other gardens and they report not great results. A real head scratcher...I'm a rather lazy gardener so I don't think it's my stellar gardening skills. Anyway I think this is a 5 star tomato in everyway. The plant does need a sturdy support,it can topple over when loaded with fruit.

We grew these as fall plants (our 2nd growing season) in aeroponic towers and Dutch bucket hydroponic systems. High yield -- 30+ pounds of fruit before freeze. We picked 10 pounds of green fruit PER PLANT when our first freeze came. This plant would have produced much more.

Fruit held up well to water systems with no cracking. Seemed disease resistant, though that's less of an issue with hydro growing. Very healthy and happy plants.

The fruit itself was visually appealing with its purple color and pronounced heart shape, but was a little mealy in texture and not big on flavor. Low acidity. This could be because of our cooler growing season. We will be giving them another shot in the summer to see if the flavor intensifies with more Texas heat! Overall pleased.

Good germination. Flavor was good. Fruits where a little smaller than a fist and about 3 per plant. My daughter loved these but so did the squirrels. We finally had to start picking them just before they were ready and then ripen on the counter. Still delicious.

I purchased this variety along with Dwarf Arctic Rose and Firebird Sweet. This was a late season planting in July in zone 8a. The Purple Heart produced WAY more for me and the fruit are stunning. I havent tasted any yet as I grow for sauce, but Ill update when I do. I will definitely grow again next year earlier so I can get more fruit before the blight gets it.

The cook says these are delicious with nice delicate flavor. I have them in a hoop house to avoid our summer frosts. It is mid July and they are one of the earlier to ripen and are totally loaded with Purple Hearts on healthy compact plants. Nice, very nice.

I grew a Dwarf Purple Heart dwarf tomato in an Earthbox and was very impressed with it. It had a wonderful flavor and was productive with ~20 to 25 large fruits grown. I will plant this tomato again, but it grows to about four feet tall and needs a lot of support due to the height and weight of the fruit.

I love these tomatoes. The taste is rich, they have the right sweetness for me, and they are pretty. I didn't get a tomato under ten ounces, and one double bloom fruit was 1.42 pounds! And that didn't have any cat-facing -- except for the double core, that weight was entirely edible. I made a crustless pizza with them in lieu of sauce, and they cooked up nicely too.

I also like the plants, though for me, growing them in the ground, they weren't all that dwarf (5 feet tall at the end of July). Very sturdy stalks, but they still need tying up. The leaves are the darkest green I've seen on a 'mater plant, so it's really an attractive addition to the garden. I also grew Boxcar Willie, Cherokee Purple, and Mortgage Lifter for the first time this year, and while all were good, none was as good tasting as this dwarf plant. I grew four plants this year and will double that next year. I have clay soil and while I piled on a couple shovels of compost and then wood chips over that, they had no problem with the soil.

Kudos to the Dwarf Project for this terrific tomato. And thanks to Victory Seeds for offering them.

Such a dream come true! This little guy performed beautifully; even through my neglect that gave my other tomatoes early and late blight. And a purple heart; rich and complex (as you would expect with a purple) with a lot of meat (as hearts typically yield) the perfect match. Brilliant for canning and 'Pico de Gallo'. Thank you for making this wonder available!

What a fantastic tomato. I had great luck planting in a five gallon fabric pot. Soil supplemented with composted cow manure, Perlite, and organic fertilizer. Initial fruits were an astonishing 15.4 oz and 16.1 oz. The plant is so compact, I can't believe it is producing this size of fruit. The tomatoes taste as wonderful and unique as they look. What they lack in quantity they make up for in quality. Fruits are slow to ripen at first but get that wonderful chocolate purple color in a matter of a few days so keep an eye on them as they turn quickly. Relatively few seeds that are easy to get to and a sweet juicy core that melts in your mouth. You'll be eating these like fruit. They are both sweet but also wonderfully complex in flavor. It's one of those things that is so complex and balanced on its own that using it as an ingredient in a dish would be doing it a disservice. My only regret is that I started out with two plants instead of twelve.