📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR)
- 🌍 Origin: A highly regarded heirloom tomato. It famously made it into the top 10 best-tasting tomatoes list by renowned collector Tatiana Kouchnareva (Tatiana’s TOMATObase).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, mid-season. Features beautiful Potato Leaf (PL) foliage. When grown in a greenhouse, it typically reaches around 1.5 meters (5 ft). It responds very well to proper placement and sunlight.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Classic oblate (flat-round) beefsteaks. The color is a vibrant pink/raspberry. The flesh is incredibly meaty, dense, and juicy.
- 👅 Flavor: The absolute highlight of this variety. It has a rich, deep tomato aroma with a very high sugar content. Grower tip: The flavor can evolve over the season. While early fruits might taste slightly ordinary, mid-to-late summer harvests unlock an incredibly sweet, top-tier flavor.
- ⏳ Yield & Climate: Generally average to highly productive, depending heavily on the growing spot and conditions. Proves adaptable to both cool northern climates (Zone 4) and hot, southern regions (Zone 11).
An indeterminate, mid-season salad variety. The leaf type is potato (PL). The fruits are large pink beefsteaks. Very meaty and juicy.
The taste changed over the course of the summer—from ordinary and slightly bland at first, to very good with distinct sweetness later on. The yield was average or slightly above.
I grew the Boondocks variety this season. Some time ago, I read that this variety was in Tatiana Kouchnareva’s top 10 for taste, so I really wanted to plant it. The seeds were from 2012, given to me by Tatiana (Tomatanya).
For me, the variety turned out to be mid-season. The bush wasn’t very vigorous (unfortunately, it got a very bad spot in the greenhouse). Indeterminate, with potato leaves. The yield wasn’t very high, and the fruits weren’t very large. But the magnificent taste completely made up for these shortcomings.
The fruits are a rich pink-raspberry color, beefsteak type. Meaty and juicy, with a high sugar content and a rich aroma. It is exactly the flavor I love. I will definitely plant it again in the future, giving it a good spot and paying more attention to it.
My Boondocks turned out productive in the greenhouse, reaching a height of 1.5 meters (5 ft). The fruits were medium-sized, oblate (flat-round), pink, and meaty. The ripening time was mid-season. The leaves were potato-type (PL).
