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.
📖 Diary Highlights: A lively debate sparks when a grower doubts that greenhouse melons in northern climates (Zone 4) can ever match the sweet, sun-baked flavor of southern market melons. Several experienced northern growers chime in to defend modern short-season hybrids, sharing photos and stories of incredibly sweet, honey-like melons grown right in their own … Read more
📖 Diary Highlights: In this diary entry, growers discuss the frustrating tendency of some bi-color tomatoes (like Rhodes Heirloom and Hawaiian Pineapple) to push massive vegetative growth with zero fruit set. PomiTa shares her quest to find the perfect bi-color/yellow tomato, praising Burracker’s Favorite and Golden Königsberg for taste, while showing off a highly successful … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Piedmont Flask is a late-season, indeterminate heirloom tracing its roots back to Northern Italy. It produces unique, large bottle-shaped fruits weighing up to 14 oz (400 g). Like many classic Italian paste types, it has dense meat and a balanced flavor, making it excellent for dehydrating. However, growers in shorter or cooler … Read more
🍅 Quick take: O-La-La is a semi-determinate pink tomato from the seed company Siberian Garden (SibSad). When you get the true authentic seed, it produces fantastic, highly uniform 6 oz (180 g) round fruits with a tiny pointed nub and incredibly sweet, juicy flesh. However, this variety comes with two major caveats: the commercial seed … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ordinary Miracle (Obyknovennoe Chudo) is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces stunning, oblate pink beefsteaks. It is highly valued for its fantastic, perfectly balanced flavor and its texture—which manages to be incredibly dense and meaty while still remaining very juicy. A low-seed variety with solid yields, it is an excellent dual-purpose tomato … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ozurs is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces beautiful, slightly ribbed dark pink-black slicers weighing up to 10.5 oz (300 g). It is highly disease-resistant and sets fruit reliably. While the exact origin of the name remains a mystery, it offers a solid, non-mealy flavor profile that holds its own among dark … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Orlik is a highly compact, ultra-early determinate variety that thrives outdoors with minimal protection. The bushes stay incredibly short (around 1.5 ft / 0.5 m) but pump out heavy, continuous yields of small, red, round tomatoes weighing between 1.5 to 2.5 oz (40-67 g). With a firm texture and classic, balanced tomato … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Malinowy Ożarowski (Ozarowski Raspberry) is a highly popular, early-season indeterminate pink tomato from Poland. It is famous for its rugged, low-maintenance vines and heavy yields of sweet, raspberry-pink fruits. While originally a Potato Leaf (PL) variety producing 3.5 to 10.5 oz (100-300 g) slicers, growers often encounter Regular Leaf (RL) variants in … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Father Goriot (Otets Gorio) is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces large, heavy, pinkish-raspberry oxhearts. The vines are known for being rugged and low-maintenance, though they perform best when pruned to two stems to support the massive fruits. Flavor reviews are highly dependent on the weather—during hot, sunny summers it gets sweet, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ozaltin is an indeterminate cocktail-sized tomato bred specifically as a “long-keeper” (storage tomato). It produces extremely dense, glossy red fruits weighing 1 to 2 oz (30-60 g). The plants are highly productive, well-behaved vines that set uniform clusters. While most storage tomatoes are notorious for tasting like cardboard, Ozaltin actually retains a … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Oduvanchik (which translates to “Dandelion”) is a determinate, mid-season heirloom that produces flawless, round orange globes. It is highly praised for its rugged stress tolerance, setting fruit effortlessly in both scorching heat and chilly weather. The flavor is a massive hit with growers, and the fruits boast a surprisingly long shelf life … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Olya F1 is an early-season superdeterminate hybrid known for extreme disease resistance and highly concentrated yields. While seed packets claim fruits up to 6 oz (180 g), real-world growers consistently harvest uniform, firm 4 oz (120 g) round tomatoes. The flavor is a standard, classic tomato taste, making it an absolute workhorse … Read more