Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
Welcome to the English archive of the "TOMAT-POMIDOR.COM International Tomato Growers Club" — the largest Ru-language tomato forum, founded in 2010.
For years, our gardeners have been cultivating and discussing some of the most resilient and rare heirloom varieties in the world. We are carefully translating the best forum threads to English and distilling them into pure, useful facts.
Authentic photos, real yields, and honest reviews from actual growers.
🍅 Quick take: Bear Creek is a mid-season, indeterminate dark beefsteak. Growers absolutely rave about its complex, incredibly sweet flavor with a rich, fruity aftertaste. It produces dense, meaty, brownish-cherry fruits up to 17 oz (480 g). While it can be susceptible to late blight and cracking in bad weather, its phenomenal taste and long … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Malinovy Rassvet (Raspberry Dawn) is a mid-season, indeterminate oxheart tomato from the seed company Poisk. It produces massive, smooth, meaty fruits that easily exceed 14 oz (400 g). The flavor is highly rated as sweet and aromatic, though the color may lean more toward red than a true pink or raspberry hue. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Martha Logan is a mid-early, potato leaf (PL) indeterminate beefsteak. Though often sold as a yellow tomato, it typically ripens into a stunning yellow-and-pink bicolor. Growers praise its vigorous, disease-resistant vines and consistently large, sweet fruits ranging from 7 oz to 1.3 lbs (200-600 g). Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Malina Treston is a highly productive, indeterminate pink cocktail tomato variety. It produces stunning, long trusses of 1.5 oz (40 g) fruits that keep pumping out tomatoes until late fall. Growers praise its sweet flavor and excellent storage capabilities when picked green. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos A Angelina ⭐ … Read more
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🍅 Quick take: Medovukha (Mead) is a mid-season, indeterminate red-and-orange bicolor beefsteak bred by Valdis Pulniņš. It produces massive, meaty, flat-round fruits that frequently reach over 2 lbs (1 kg), known for their incredibly sweet and juicy flavor profile. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos I Irina Volga (Irina Rubleva) 🍅 Member (902 posts) … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Malakhitovaya Shkatulka (Malachite Box) is an indeterminate Green-When-Ripe (GWR) beefsteak that frequently tops favorite flavor polls. It offers a unique, incredibly sweet, fruity flavor that doesn’t taste like a traditional tomato. Growers recommend staking it heavily, as the vines are somewhat thin but produce massive fruits that will drag the plant down … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Myasnoy Zavtrak (Meaty Breakfast) is a mid-season, indeterminate orange beefsteak variety. It produces massive, oblate, meaty fruits that can reach over 2 lbs (1 kg). Growers praise its phenomenal sweet flavor and vigorous vines, though experiences with yield and storage shelf life are somewhat mixed across different climates. Full summary ↓ Growers’ … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Mikado Rozovyi (Pink Mikado) is an early-season indeterminate pink beefsteak that is heavily debated regarding its foliage. True Russian growers insist it must have a potato leaf (PL). It produces sweet, meaty, flat-round fruits ranging from 8 oz to a solid 2 lbs (250-900 g) and performs exceptionally well both in the … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Makovaya Rosinka (Poppy Dew) is an ultra-early micro-dwarf cherry tomato with a rich Siberian history. The extremely compact, sprawling bush typically stays under 16 inches (40 cm) tall and requires absolutely zero pruning. It is a fantastic candidate for growing in 1-3 gallon pots on windowsills, balconies, or underplanted beneath tall vines … Read more
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🍅 Quick take: Moravich is a mid-early, indeterminate pink oxheart hailing from Serbia. Growers are calling it a “flawless” hidden gem. Unlike many wispy pink oxhearts, the vine grows exceptionally sturdy and tall, allowing it to pump out massive yields of dense, meaty hearts weighing up to 14 oz (400 g). It is highly praised … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Sgt. Pepper’s Raspberry Points is a mid-season, indeterminate anthocyanin variety developed from the famous Sgt. Pepper lineage. It produces a massive wall of 3.5-5.3 oz (100-150 g) raspberry-pink fruits with dark purple antho shoulders. The shapes are wonderfully unpredictable, ranging from ribbed flattened hearts with pointy “beaks” to blunt plums. Growers love … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Miele di Saluto Arcobaleno (Honey Rainbow Greeting) is a mid-season, indeterminate Italian heirloom. The vigorous, disease-resistant vine produces massive, flat-round bicolor beefsteaks weighing anywhere from 14 oz up to a whopping 2.2 lbs (400 g to 1 kg). The fruits have very few seeds and feature an incredibly sweet flavor profile with … Read more