Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Oaxacan Jewel (Joya de Oaxaca) is a gorgeous indeterminate, mid-to-late season heirloom beefsteak from Oaxaca, Mexico. It pumps out massive, striking yellow-orange slicers with ruby-red marbling, routinely tipping the scales between 20 oz and 2.2 lbs (600 g to 1 kg). Forum growers love its super juicy, sweet, low-acid flavor, but warn … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Orange Strawberry is a vigorous, indeterminate, mid-to-late season heirloom known for producing massive, meaty, heart-shaped or oblate orange fruits with very few seeds. Originating in the US as a stray from a Pineapple tomato packet, it thrives on heavy potassium/phosphorus feeding and sunshine, though it can be a sparse yielder in cooler … Read more
🍅 Quick take: OPO (often called Dwarf OPO) is a fascinating American variety that looks like a stocky Dwarf seedling but grows and produces like a classic indeterminate. Producing beautiful pink, round-to-heart-shaped fruits weighing 5-14 oz (150-400 g), it is universally praised for its incredibly sweet, bright, old-fashioned flavor. It performs exceptionally well both outdoors … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Orange Heart from Angelini is a tall, indeterminate, mid-season oxheart variety that produces vibrant, sun-colored orange fruits averaging around 7 oz. Known for its sweet, juicy flavor and solid yields, it performs beautifully in greenhouses, especially for growers dealing with short northern summers. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lago Maggiore is a tall, indeterminate, mid-season variety that produces heavy yields of ribbed, pear-shaped and plum-shaped tomatoes ranging from 3.5 oz to over 1 lb. It’s highly crack-resistant in wet conditions. Flavor is universally praised, though growers report varying results regarding its shelf life and firmness. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes … Read more
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🍅 Quick take: Ohridski Dolgaves is an indeterminate Serbian heirloom variety popularized by breeder Živojin Antić. It produces very firm, meaty red plums with a pointed tip, typically weighing 5-9 oz (150-250 g). While it looks like a standard canning paste, growers are consistently blown away by its intense, cherry-like sweetness. It also boasts an … Read more
🍅 Quick take: A highly productive, wispy-leafed indeterminate vine that produces stunning, small-to-medium red oxhearts that literally look like giant strawberries. Known for an exceptionally sweet, classic flavor and very few seeds, it thrives in both greenhouses and outdoors but can be prone to yellow shoulders without enough potassium. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: German Giant is a massive, mid-season indeterminate heirloom beefsteak. Known for producing gigantic dark-pink fruits that frequently approach the 2 lb (900 g) mark, it is highly prized for its old-fashioned, aromatic flavor. However, growers frequently debate its foliage type, as both potato-leaf and regular-leaf versions heavily circulate in seed exchanges. Full … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Granny Cantrell’s German Red is a legendary indeterminate heirloom beefsteak renowned for its robust, perfectly balanced, old-fashioned tomato flavor. Originally hailing from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, this heavy-yielding vine produces stunning, meaty red slicers that typically weigh between 10 oz and 1.5 lbs, though they can occasionally reach massive proportions. It … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Miss Kennedy is a tall, indeterminate variety that produces dark, chocolate-colored oval/plum tomatoes. It has a very long fruiting season and sets reliable clusters of firm, meaty fruits. While fruit size can vary from a jumbo chicken egg up to 7 oz (200 g), growers agree that the dense, dark flesh and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Missouri is a mid-late season determinate paste tomato highly praised for its firm, thick-walled fruits that don’t get rubbery or “rock-hard” like some commercial canning types. The bushes grow up to 3-4 ft (1-1.2 m) tall and produce heavy yields of mildly sweet, low-acid red tomatoes perfect for processing, juicing, or eating … Read more
🍅 Quick take: A very productive, compact indeterminate variety that pumps out massive dark/black beefsteaks. While yields and size are incredible, flavor reports are highly mixed, ranging from rich to completely bland. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4) E ElenaN (Elena) Pro | 28,513 posts 📍 Kostroma (USDA Zone 4) Original … Read more