Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Reine de Sainte Marthe is a vigorous indeterminate French heirloom that produces heavy trusses of dense, round red tomatoes. Fruits typically weigh between 7-8.8 oz (200-250 g), with some reaching up to 13 oz (372 g). Growers note that it needs plenty of sun and heat to reach its full yield potential. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Cuostralee is a classic French heirloom indeterminate variety that produces beautiful, oblate red beefsteaks. It is a late-mid season producer with fruits ranging from 8.8 oz to over a pound (250-500 g). Growers praise it for being completely fuss-free, highly productive, and delivering an excellent, sweet, meaty flavor with very few seeds. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kavkazets (Caucasian) is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces uniform, oblate raspberry pink slicers. While its height can be stunted if grown outdoors in cool climates, it thrives in a greenhouse, easily reaching 8 ft (2.5 m) and pumping out meaty, highly flavorful tomatoes weighing up to 21 oz (600 g). Full … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ferris Wheel is an indeterminate American heirloom that produces massive, sweet pink beefsteaks. However, some growers have discovered two completely different foliage types circulating in the market under this name. While the true historical strain should have Regular Leaf (RL) foliage, a highly productive Potato Leaf (PL) off-type is widely grown and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kentucky Pink Stamper is an indeterminate potato leaf (PL) heirloom from the US. Brought over to Russia by seed collectors, it pumps out massive pink beefsteaks (regularly breaking the 1 lb / 500 g mark) with distinctive pleated shoulders. While the fruit size and flavor are awesome, growers note that yields can … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Beauty Queen is a stunning striped bicolor indeterminate beefsteak bred by Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms. In this thread, Russian growers fiercely debate the differences between Beauty Queen and its sibling variety, Beauty King. While some experienced identical plants, others note that Beauty Queen produces slightly smaller, more orange fruits with … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kazakhskaya Sliva (Kazakh Plum) is an indeterminate red plum tomato that grows on tall, wispy vines. The fruits average about 5 oz (150 g) and have a tender, sweet flesh. Because of their shape and meaty texture, forum growers highly recommend this variety for making sun-dried tomatoes. It performs well both in … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Beauty Queen Heart 🌍 Origin: A gorgeous bicolor oxheart variety. In this thread, growers trace their seed lines back to Russian collector V. Redko and Marianna’s Heirloom Seeds in the US. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), reaching up to 6.5 feet (2 m). A very vigorous grower with regular foliage that … Read more
📌 Quick Summary: Koreyskiy Dlinnoplodniy (Korean Long) 🌍 Origin: An heirloom variety known in Russian collector circles. The name translates to “Korean Long-Fruited” (or simply Korean Long). 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). The plant features a delicate, wispy “weeping” foliage structure common to many elongated/oxheart types. It easily reaches 5.5 to 6 feet (1.6-1.8 m) … Read more
📌 Quick Summary: Gezahnte Bührer-Keel 🌍 Origin: A stunning European heirloom. Originally from Switzerland, the name Gezahnte translates to “Toothed” (referencing its deep pleats/ribs), while Bührer-Keel refers to the Swiss family who historically cultivated and preserved the variety. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). A very robust and powerful plant that easily tops 6.5 feet (2 … Read more
📌 Quick Summary: Kafyavi Chereshki (Brown Cherry) Are seed companies just slapping different names on the exact same tomato? In this thread, growers dive deep into a side-by-side comparison of several popular dark cherry varieties to find the truth! 🌍 Origin: A Bulgarian heirloom. The name “Kafyavi Chereshki” literally translates from Bulgarian to “Brown Cherry”. … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Cardio 🌍 Origin: An Italian heirloom variety popularized by V. Redko. The name “Cardio” perfectly matches its classic, broad anatomical heart shape. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). Reaches about 6 to 6.5 feet (1.8-2 m) in a greenhouse but adapts excellently to open ground. Known for its fantastic fruit set, rarely … Read more