Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Delicious is a classic indeterminate, mid-season heirloom known for producing massive, meaty red beefsteaks. In this thread, growers also discuss “Deliciosus”—often just the Eastern European phonetic spelling of the same variety, though seed lines vary significantly. Growers praise its outstanding, sweet flavor and high yields. The tall vines produce huge fruits that … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dark Queen is an indeterminate, mid-season beefsteak tomato. The vines produce gorgeous flat-round, burgundy-brown fruits with green stripes. Growers highlight its excellent taste and solid production, noting it sets fruit well even when grown with tight spacing. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zone 4 Experience) S Svetikk (Svetlana) ⭐ … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Don’t Double Delight is an indeterminate, mid-season, potato-leaf bicolor beefsteak. It produces gorgeous red and yellow striped slicing tomatoes. Growers appreciate its standout beauty and balanced, slightly sweet flavor. Drawbacks mentioned include susceptibility to blossom drop, tough skin, and radial cracking around the stem. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Delano is a fuss-free, mid-season indeterminate green-when-ripe (GWR) beefsteak. It produces 7-9 oz green-yellow tomatoes with striking yellow-emerald flesh and a perfectly balanced sweet-tart flavor. While it’s a reliable yielder and tastes fantastic, growers note its main drawback is poor shelf life—the fruits soften quickly after harvest and need to be eaten … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dino Eggs is an indeterminate, heavy-yielding variety that produces gorgeous orange, plum-shaped tomatoes with faint yellow stripes. Weighing in around 2.5-5.3 oz (70-150 g), they are firm enough for canning but sweet and juicy enough for fresh eating. Growers love the rich, sweet flavor and note that the vine sets fruit non-stop. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dalmatiner is a traditional Croatian heirloom that produces tall, vigorous indeterminate vines and large, red beefsteaks that are ribbed at the shoulders. Growers rave about its rich, perfectly balanced, old-school tomato flavor and meaty texture, noting that while it has massive potential, the flavor needs decent summer heat to fully dial in. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dixie Golden Giant is a tall, mid-season indeterminate heirloom (traced back to an Amish family in the 1930s) that produces large, slightly ribbed, orange beefsteaks that often develop a pink blush when fully ripe. Growers praise it as a heavy yielder with an outstanding, meaty, and sweet fruity flavor, though some note … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Daifuku is an original cross by Bunny Hop Seeds (BHN 669 F1 x Black from Tula) bred specifically for intense heat, humidity, and disease pressure. It is an early-season, highly productive variety that pumps out dark purple, 3-5 oz salad tomatoes. Growers rave about its absolute resilience and its incredibly sweet, jammy … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dana’s Dusky Rose (originating from Dan Gilmore) is an indeterminate but naturally compact tomato variety that produces stunning smoky-pink to dark-purple oblate fruits. Growers on the forum rave about its exceptionally sweet, rich, and unique flavor profile, often calling it one of the best-tasting dark tomatoes they’ve ever grown. Yields can be … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dulcea de Fagaras (Sweet of Fagaras) is a Romanian family heirloom originating from the Transylvania region. It is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces large, deeply pleated pinkish-red beefsteaks. Reviewers highly recommend it for its reliable production and sugary, juicy flavor. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 5-11 Experience) … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dean’s Haley’s Rainbow is a mid-early indeterminate variety bred by Dean Slater, highly notable for its striking variegated foliage. It produces bicolor fruits (yellow with a pink blush), but growers report significant discrepancies in fruit shape. While the original description calls for small round plums, seeds currently in circulation are throwing much … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Diamante Oppedisano is an indeterminate, mid-season variety known for producing large to giant, meaty beefsteaks. The plants are vigorous, growing up to 6.5 ft (2 m) tall, and the yields are exceptionally heavy, with huge tomatoes growing in clusters. The flavor is described as good, classic tomato flavor. There is some debate … Read more