Carol Chyko’s Big Paste

Not really a paste but the large, blocky fruit of a or more made up for that misnomer.// indet., regular leaf plants produce lots of blunt red hearts in 10-16 oz range. Some fruits are not heart-shaped, but not beefsteaks either, I would call them ‘blocky’. Fruits have meaty interior with small seed cavities and very few seeds. This variety is too juicy for a paste tomato, but it is excellent as a slicer, as it has outstanding sweet/tart balanced flavor. Family heirloom from Carol Chyko’s family in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. First introduced in Seed Savers 1988 Yearbook by Bill Ellis of Conyngham, Pennsylvania (PA EL B), who received the seed from Carol Chyko. Bill described it as
“100 days, huge indet. vine, shy to set fruit in hot weather, needs cool nights, blocky fruits to 3 lbs, ripen orange-red, partially hollow inside, used for sauce or paste, extraordinary sweet but quite prone to rotting on vine, O.S. Carol Chyko of Hazleton, PA, her family’s heirloom.”