Quick Summary of Chernigovskiy
- 🌍 Origin: A classic heirloom variety hailing from Eastern Europe (named after the historic city of Chernigov).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), reaching around 2 meters (6.5 feet). Known for its excellent disease resistance and striking dark green foliage. Performs exceptionally well both in greenhouses and outdoors.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Classic red beefsteaks. They grow absolutely massive—frequently reaching 1 kg (2.2 lbs) and beyond.
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: The flesh is incredibly dense, thick, and very meaty with a low seed count. Superb, rich flavor that makes it a perfect slicer for summer salads.
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-late to late season.
This variety is simply a miracle! The fruits are huge, weighing up to one kg (2.2 lbs) and more, meaty, dense, delicious, and with very few seeds. The color is red. It is highly productive both in the greenhouse and out in the open garden, and it did not get sick at all. Mila, THANK YOU 😘 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺


The color on the cut is so attractive! 👍
I used to grow a different Chernigovskiy strain before, and it had a pale pink color on the inside, which completely killed my appetite for it. The taste was average, although it was very early. I guess all early varieties are kind of like that?
Is this Red Chernigovskiy an early variety?
Hi Tanya 🌺 The color is red, and the ripening time is closer to late-season. The fruits are very meaty, dense, and delicious. The bush is tall, about two meters (6.5 ft). It’s a very good variety for salads, let me send you some seeds ✉️
Oh boy. It’s already May! ))) Well, it’s good that it’s not an early one, now I understand. I try not to plant too many early varieties anyway, nor the heart-shaped ones.



