Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Lucky Tiger is an indeterminate, mid-season elongated cherry/plum tomato originally bred by Fred Hempel (Artisan Seeds). It produces stunning 1-1.4 oz (30-40 g) green fruits with pink and red striping. Growers universally praise its massive yields, crack resistance, and complex, sweet, tropical flavor with a satisfying crunch. It’s an aggressive grower that … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lithium Sunset is a stunning mid-season, indeterminate bicolor tomato bred by Fred Hempel. It produces gorgeous 7-14 oz (200-400 g) yellow-orange fruits with red striping and a pearlescent sheen. Growers praise its sturdy vines, meaty texture, and good shelf life, which is a rarity for bicolors. While most find it sweet and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Livingston’s Yellow Oxheart is an indeterminate, mid-season heirloom with a rich history dating back to 1929. It produces gorgeous golden-yellow, heart-shaped fruits with classic wispy foliage. Growers praise its meaty, buttery texture and complex, sweet flavor. While yields tend to be average, the outstanding taste and nearly seedless flesh make it a … Read more
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Quick Take: Lucille Tillson is an indeterminate, mid-season pink oxheart/elongated plum that can produce massive, meaty fruits up to 17.6 oz (500 g). Most growers praise it as a sweet, old-fashioned tasting workhorse that yields heavily. However, it can be a bit fickle depending on the weather and is noticeably prone to blossom end rot … Read more
Quick Take: Lucid Gem is a visually stunning Brad Gates indeterminate antho-bicolor (orange with purple shoulders and red marbling inside). Reviews show its flavor is highly weather-dependent: it can pack an incredibly sweet, intense punch of tropical/lemonade flavor when temps are balanced, but hot days coupled with very cold nights can make it taste like … Read more
🍅 Quick take: KBX is the famous potato-leaf version of Kellogg’s Breakfast. It is a vigorous, indeterminate vine producing massive, bright orange beefsteaks. In this thread, growers debate its ripening time—some find it significantly earlier than regular Kellogg’s Breakfast, while others consider it a late-season variety. Taste reviews are split: many call it their absolute … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kozula 126 Czarny Lagodny is a mid-late Polish dark tomato from Anna Kozula’s breeding lines. The plants stay relatively short, around 3 ft (1 m). The original strain produces heavy trusses of very firm, meaty, and sweet dark fruits weighing up to 8.8 oz (250 g). Growers note that it produces very … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kentucky Beefsteak is a vigorous, indeterminate US heirloom producing large, flat-round orange-apricot beefsteaks. Growers rave about its melting, sweet, buttery flesh and its extremely low seed count. Reports on shelf life vary depending on the growing conditions, ranging from highly perishable to surprisingly good keepers. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kentucky Plate is a mid-late, indeterminate potato-leaf heirloom from the US. It produces large, smooth pink beefsteaks that are very meaty with few seeds. While the flavor is highly rated, growers note that it can struggle with blossom drop and sun-scorched trusses during extreme heatwaves. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kozula 132 Zielone is a striking green-when-ripe bicolor plum tomato from Polish breeder Anna Kozula. It produces mid-sized plants about 3 ft (1 m) tall. Reviews on taste are mixed. While one grower found the flavor lacking after picking early due to splitting, another reported overwhelmingly sweet, candy-like fruits with an incredible … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kaleidoscopic Jewel is a strikingly beautiful, indeterminate, mid-season anthocyanin variety bred by Brad Gates (Wild Boar Farms). Growers praise its heavy yields, slim plant profile, and sweet, meaty pink-raspberry flesh. However, some note that the strain seems unstable, throwing fruits of wildly varying shapes and sizes on the same plant, contrary to … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kozula 127 Rudy is a mid-season, dark Polish breeding line known for its bold, punchy flavor and extreme juiciness. While listed as “practically stable” at F7, growers report that this variety still throws massive genetic curveballs, producing everything from striped beefsteaks to solid black plums, and popping up in both regular and … Read more