Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Lopatinskie is a highly productive, large-fruited variety that is the subject of a massive seed-source split in the gardening community. Growers buying commercial packets (usually from Siberian Garden / SibSad) often get a short determinate bush producing red fruits. Meanwhile, seeds passed around by private collectors usually result in a tall indeterminate … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lariska’s Heart (Lariskino Serdtse) is an indeterminate, early-producing pink oxheart that sets beautiful, firm fruits weighing up to 10.5 oz (300 g). Growers praise it for its dense, sweet, nearly seedless flesh and its impressive ability to set fruit consistently all the way up the vine. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lilac Giant is a highly productive indeterminate variety that produces perfectly uniform, oblate dark pink slicers weighing 7-14 oz (200-400 g). Growers praise it as practically flawless, highlighting its exceptional fruit set, rich sweet flavor, and complete lack of misshapen fruits or catfacing. It is highly versatile and boasts a very decent … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kitayskiy Rozovyi (Chinese Pink) is an early-season pink tomato with a highly mixed reputation. It is incredibly rugged, capable of setting fruit in poor conditions when other varieties drop their blossoms. However, growers report disappointing fruit quality: the tomatoes range wildly in size from 1.5 oz to 9 oz (50-250 g), lack … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kemerovets is a tough, cold-tolerant determinate tomato from Western Siberia. It produces firm, small red oxhearts weighing around 3.5-5.3 oz (100-150 g). Growers report excellent disease resistance and great performance both for fresh eating and canning. While the seed packet boasts up to 100 fruits per plant, forum members note that real-world … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Krasavets Myasistyi (Meaty Beauty) is a vigorous indeterminate pink tomato from the Russian seed company SeDeK. However, growers in this thread report wildly different results—one got the massive, meaty pink slicers described on the packet, while the other ended up with a multiflora plant producing small barrel-shaped canning tomatoes. Both versions yielded … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Korolevich (Prince) is an indeterminate pink oxheart bred by the Russian seed company Semena Altaya. It is a mid-season variety known for producing massive heart-shaped fruits that can weigh up to 28 oz (800 g). Growers praise it for its outstanding flavor and versatility in the kitchen. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Karmen (Carmen) is an indeterminate pink paste tomato known for its large plum-shaped fruits that can reach up to 8 oz (230 g). Growers praise it for its firm, sugary flesh that makes it perfect for canning, as well as its impressive productivity when grown outdoors in the dirt. Full summary ↓ … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kudesnik (Magician) is a very compact determinate bush tomato that produces uniform, pinkish-red slicing/canning tomatoes weighing 3.5-4 oz (100-110 g). Reaching only 1.5 feet (0.5 m) tall outdoors, it requires almost zero pruning and is highly disease-resistant. Growers prize it for its unexpectedly sweet flavor and its ability to ripen a heavy … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Korneevsky Pink (Korneevskiy Rozovyi) is a vigorous, indeterminate heirloom producing heavy yields of large, dark pink, oblate (flat-round) beefsteaks weighing up to 14 oz (400 g). Highly praised for its sugary, meaty, and tender flesh, it is a fantastic mid-season fresh-eating slicer. Its genetics are so respected that Russian agricultural institutes have … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kievlyanka (Woman of Kiev) is a vigorous, indeterminate pink heirloom that produces large, meaty plum or heart-shaped fruits weighing anywhere from 7 oz to 1 lb (200-450 g). Growers praise its dense, sugary “watermelon-like” flesh and rich flavor. While it can start slow and is often considered a mid-late to late-season variety, … Read more
📌 Quick Summary: Kapiya Rozovaya (Pink Kapia) 🌍 Origin: A Russian commercial heirloom heavily circulated by companies like Gavrish and popular collectors like Valery Medvedev. The name “Kapia” usually refers to a famous elongated sweet pepper, hinting at the shape of these tomatoes! 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). The plant itself has a classic “wispy” … Read more