Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Mendigorria is an indeterminate Spanish heirloom slicer (originating from the town of Mendigorría in Navarre, Spain) that produces large, meaty, firm red beefsteaks with a distinctive matte, almost frosted skin sheen. Grown in USDA Zone 4, it showed excellent fruit quality, zero cracking, and a classic, well-balanced tomato flavor. Full summary ↓ … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Mom’s is an indeterminate, mid-season heirloom bicolor tomato with a narrow, space-saving vine habit and medium-sized yellow fruits marbled with red in the center. Grown in a USDA Zone 4 greenhouse, it produced moderate yields with flesh that deepens to orange-red when fully ripe and a flavor that develops from mild and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Moneymaker is a classic indeterminate, mid-season English heirloom (introduced by F. Stonor of Southampton around 1913) known for heavy trusses of uniform, medium-sized red tomatoes. Growers praise its hybrid-like reliability, strong disease and weather resistance, and balanced sweet-tangy flavor that works equally well for fresh slicing and whole-fruit pickling. Full summary ↓ … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Mortgage Lifter Yellow (frequently sold in Eastern Europe as the red-and-yellow Mortgage Lifter Bicolor / Pesta Strain) is an indeterminate, mid-to-late season heirloom beefsteak reaching 4-6 ft (1.2-1.8 m) with large, meaty, flattened-round fruits and very few seeds. While growers praise its rich, juicy, sweet flavor, experiences with yield vary wildly depending … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Matina is a classic early-season, indeterminate German potato-leaf heirloom that produces round, 1.8-2.8 oz (50-80 g) bright red saladette tomatoes. Ranked in the top 10 out of 3,500 varieties in the University of Göttingen outdoor trials for home gardeners, it is prized by growers in USDA Zones 4-7 for its balanced sweet-tart … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Mexico is a classic indeterminate, mid-to-late season heirloom beefsteak producing massive, meaty pink slicers up to 1.5 lbs (700 g). Growers across USDA Zones 3-5 rave about its rich, sweet, old-fashioned flavor, ability to set fruit in summer heat, and impressive size, noting only that the heavy trusses need extra support so … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Marizol Magic is an indeterminate, mid-season fuzzy peach-type tomato (associated with New Jersey breeder Joe Bratka’s Marizol line) that produces 1.5-3.5 oz (40-100 g) yellow-orange fruits with a pink blush. Growers love its uncanny resemblance to real apricots, heavy yields, and sweet, fruity dessert flavor when ripened on the vine, though fruits … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Marizol Korney is a potato-leaf, mid-season dark slicer bred by Joe Bratka (New Jersey, USA) and named after heirloom collector Mark Korney. Vines bear generous clusters of 3.5-7 oz (100-200 g) round, slightly flattened dusky pink-purple fruits with deep burgundy flesh. Northern gardeners strongly urge planting it outdoors in open ground rather … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Make My Day is a mid-season, semi-determinate bicolor bred by celebrated American plant breeder Tom Wagner (USA). Vines top out around 4.6 ft (1.4 m) and produce high yields of 8-14 oz (225-400 g) oblate beefsteaks and blunt hearts swirled in orange, yellow, and soft pink. While visual appeal and seedlessness are … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Margareto is an indeterminate, mid-season heirloom oxheart sourced out of New York (USA). The vine is exceptionally slender and delicate, sporting textbook wispy foliage and producing very few suckers. It bears 8-16 oz (225-450 g) meaty, dense hearts that ripen into a deep reddish-pink. Growers note that the canopy should never be … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Marz Green is an indeterminate, mid-to-late season heirloom beefsteak hailing from the United States (USA). The vines produce 7-12 oz (200-350 g) oblate green-when-ripe (GWR) fruits that blush with warm amber-gold tones upon full maturity, opening to reveal vivid emerald-green, juicy-meaty flesh. Growers note that while it can be finicky in variable … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Monterosa F1 is an indeterminate, early-to-mid season gourmet ribbed hybrid developed in 2012 by Semillas Fitó in Catalonia, Spain, crossing the traditional Pera de Girona with Italy’s Costoluto Genovese. The vigorous vines yield 5.3-14 oz (150-400 g) deeply fluted, velvety raspberry-pink beefsteaks with solid, non-hollow meat. While professional growers praise its heavy … Read more