Tomato 'German Johnson Pink'

Got some in a seed exchange and it turned out to be the best survivor of the New England late blight scourge. Big beefy fruit and excellent taste.

My father has been growing this tomato for over 40 years. After he passed, none were planted for several years. This year I found seeds s...Read Moreaved from a variety of years ago and planted them. They still came up. The plants are big, heavy and very strong. Other than the tomato worm, not much harms it. They need to be heavily staked, mine are over 6 feet tall. The fruits are somtimes over 6 inches across. An easy was to save seed is to squeeze seed onto a paper towel from multiple tomatos, let dry and store in a cool dry place. This has worked well for any variety we have saved for many decades. Just pull off the seed and plant. They do take a long time to grow, but the fruit is meaty, and has very few seeds in comparison to size.

This is my favorite pink tomato as far as taste. They make a great tomato sandwich. However, I don't get a lot of production out of the...Read Morem so I rarely plant them anymore. Tomatoes have the capability of getting quite large but often quite ugly. I prefer this variety over German Queen.

I believe this is the best tasting tomato! I raise several Heirloom varieties each year. And I also raise big-boy and better boy hybr...Read Moreids. In my opinion, these are the best tomato for raw eating, salads, sandwiches and washing it off and eating it like an apple.

I assume this is the same as what I call Pink German. I got the original plant from a local nursery.

Wonderful plant that survived repeated gopher attacks to produce wonderful tomatoes. In our tiny garden, we are making room for it again...Read More this year (and fencing out the gopher).

I have two of these plants this year. One is over 8' tall! Huge pink fruits all over 1.5 lbs!! This is the one slice BLT tomato.

Recommended by a local heirloom gardener and it was excellent. Plenty of tomatoes, fine flavor and few with any problems. One of my favor...Read Moreite reds (pinks).

We bought this as a 1-gallon plant at Half Moon Bay nursery, CA, and brought it home to Carson City NV. Not having information on it, we ...Read Moreplanted it too close, so it intergrew with a Sweet 100, to no ill effect. What a great tomato the German Pink is! Large, meaty fruit. For a long time we didn't think it was going to set fruit; when it finally began, it set many fine, large tomatoes. Salad at dinner tonight was two saucer-size half-inch slices from one tomato (with avocado and cottage cheese).
Our plant was on red plastic, but by the time it had grown to size, I don't think the red plastic made any difference--you couldn't see it anymore.
We look forward to growing it again next year.

We simply call this variety German Pink. I planted 6 of them last year to try them out, and put them along side my Brandywine and Mortga...Read Morege Lifeter plants - all potato leaf varieties.

I found this variety to be a little more tart than the Brandywine - but just as wonderful. Again, these heirlooms are not "carefree" growers, but they are well worth the extra effort.

This tomato makes wonderful tomato sandwiches in the summer time. Out of the different types I have tried this is the overall best!