📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Anzhelika (Angelica)
- 🌍 Origin: An excellent early commercial variety from the Russian seed company “TomAgros”. The name translates to “Angelica”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: A short determinate (bush). The plant grows to about 50-60 cm (20-24 inches) tall. It has a spreading habit and requires staking/tying up due to the sheer weight of the fruit. Most growers recommend not pruning it, as it sets fruit on every sucker.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Red, oval/egg-shaped fruits with a cute little point (beak) on the blossom end. They weigh about 50-70g (1.8-2.5 oz). They are very firm and dense.
- 👅 Flavor & Uses: For such an early tomato, the flavor is surprisingly good—sweet with a touch of acidity. Because the harvest is very concentrated (they ripen almost all at once) and the skins are sturdy, it is an absolutely perfect variety for whole-fruit canning.
- ⏳ Maturity: Ultra-early season. Often tied for first place in the garden for earliest ripe fruit. Pro Tip: Do not sow seeds too early indoors, or the seedlings will get leggy.
Anzhelika is a wonderful early variety from TomAgros 👍
It grew in the greenhouse for an early harvest. The bush was 50-60 cm (20-24″) tall, I didn’t prune/sucker it, and it was soooo productive 🙌 It was absolutely covered in red, oval/egg-shaped fruits with a little point/beak on the end, weighing 50-70g (1.8-2.5 oz). For an early variety, it is quite tasty 😋 The fruits are firm, making them perfect for canning. The bush is not a compact tree-type (micro-dwarf); it has a spreading habit and requires tying up. It’s better not to sow it too early indoors, or it will get leggy as a seedling. It started ripening earlier than all my other varieties, right alongside Iyunskiy (June) 🙂
My Anzhelika seeds came from Marina in Kirov—it’s a short determinate, I liked it very much. The harvest is very concentrated (ripens all at once), and you don’t need to prune the bush at all—little tomatoes set on every single sucker you leave. The taste is very good for an early determinate!
Lena, so you don’t even prune/sucker it up to the first flower cluster?
Olya! Marisha warned me – DO NOT PRUNE! So I think there’s absolutely no need to prune this variety at all—it doesn’t even grow that many suckers anyway!
It turned out that I planted it for an early crop, but by the time I was ready to transplant it, the 2.5-hour car ride to the dacha caused it to drop all its blossoms. 🤦♀️
I planted a lot of them outdoors in the open garden. 4 bushes. 😂😂 And this variety was my earliest one; it fed us while the indeterminate tomatoes were still growing in the greenhouse.
Tasty (maybe because it was the 1st one), and juicy. I didn’t prune it. The yield is very good and it ripens all at once. For an early variety and for canning—it’s absolutely perfect! Seeds from Svetikk.
I liked it very much. I’m planning to plant about 6 bushes, maybe more, outdoors next year. But I will sow the seeds at the same time as my greenhouse indeterminates.
And here is my Anzhelika. Tasty and highly productive.
If you leave only 3 stems, the fruits will bulk up larger and ripen even earlier.
This year I sowed Anzhelika on May 11th, and had the first ripe fruits on August 10th, so exactly 3 months from sowing. I really like this variety. When it was blooming, all the bushes were completely yellow with flowers. And then they were covered with these cute little tomatoes with pointed ends. They ripened all together. The tomatoes are tasty, sweetish. My father usually doesn’t eat tomatoes (his body doesn’t tolerate them well), but he ate these straight off the bush.
Usually, I can an assortment of tomatoes in jars, but I canned 6 one-liter jars of just these.
The taste isn’t amazing, they are a bit on the tart/acidic side, but they are absolutely perfect for pickling/canning. They didn’t burst or crack in the jar.
