Bagration Tomato Review

Seeds are from the Ukrainian company “Nasko”. The company’s description reads: “Mid-season, 1.3-1.5 m (4-5 ft) tall, requires staking and pruning, fruits are oblate and slightly ribbed, great for salads and processing.”

In our garden, they weren’t always just flat—they often took on heavily lobed “crab claw” shapes (similar to the Crab tomato variety). The height description was spot on, but we actually left one bush totally unpruned and unstaked, and it just sprawled all over the ground. The uprooted plant in the first photo was taken on October 11, 2018. It threw out a few suckers, including two right from the very base of the plant.

The last green tomatoes we picked at the end of the season had about a 50/50 success rate of ripening indoors off the vine. The flavor is definitely above average with a nice sweet and sour tang (in our opinion, it tastes better than Cuban Black, but not quite as good as Japanese Black Truffle). The interior is very juicy—there is plenty of seed gel mixed in with the meat, meaning it’s not a dry/dense tomato.

We grew 3 bushes in different spots outdoors in open ground. They all performed well, giving us average yields but with a really nice extended harvest window. That giant one sitting on the scale weighed in at 759g (1.67 lbs)!