Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Desperado is a mid-season determinate variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project. It produces beautiful pinkish-crimson plum or spear-shaped fruits weighing around 2.5 to 5.3 oz (70 to 150 g). The growers absolutely love it for its incredible yields, sweet flavor, firm texture, and excellent shelf life both on and off the … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Suz’s Beauty is a mid-season dwarf tomato from the Dwarf Tomato Project, producing flattened yellow bicolors with red stripes and a red central blush. The fruits weigh up to 7-10.5 oz (200-300 g). The growers here praise its excellent sweet flavor, beautiful appearance, and heavy yields both in the greenhouse and … 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: 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: 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
🍅 Quick take: Orange Elephant (Oranzhevyi Slon) is a determinate, mid-season commercial Russian variety from the Gavrish seed company. While the packet claims massive 1 lb (500 g) fruits, real-world growers consistently report neat, round 5-7 oz (150-200 g) slicers. The flavor is generally considered average to good, but it earns high marks for excellent … Read more
🍅 Quick take: OPO (often called Dwarf OPO) is a fascinating American variety that looks like a stocky Dwarf seedling but grows and produces like a classic indeterminate. Producing beautiful pink, round-to-heart-shaped fruits weighing 5-14 oz (150-400 g), it is universally praised for its incredibly sweet, bright, old-fashioned flavor. It performs exceptionally well both outdoors … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Obzhorka (Gluttonnie) is a highly productive, compact determinate variety that grows up to 2 feet (60 cm) tall. It requires zero pruning and pumps out heavy clusters of 2 oz (60 g) meaty red plum tomatoes with a pointed blossom end. Known for a classic tomato flavor and an excellent shelf life, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Nepasynkuyushchiysya Yantarnyi (Non-Suckering Amber) is marketed as a low-maintenance, early determinate for outdoor growing. However, growers report highly unstable genetics—plants can range from a 16-inch (40 cm) compact tree-type to a 32-inch (80 cm) sprawling bush, and ripening times vary. Despite the genetic inconsistency, the 1.5-3.5 oz (40-100 g) amber-yellow fruits are … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Nizhegorodskiy Kudyablik is a very early, determinate multiflora tree-type tomato bred by Siberian Garden. It produces sturdy, compact bushes up to 24 inches (60 cm) tall and requires zero pruning. It yields abundant 1.8-2 oz (50-60 g) bright yellow-orange globes. Growers appreciate its early ripening, good tang-to-sweetness balance, and resilience in short-season … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Novichok is a classic, ultra-low-maintenance determinate bush that requires zero pruning. It pumps out firm, 3.5 oz red plum tomatoes that have a great sweet-tart balance. Known for being an incredible storage and transport variety that thrives even in partial shade. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4a-8a Experience) … Read more