Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Mandalay is a highly unique indeterminate variety known for its fuzzy (pubescent) foliage and upright branches that resemble a date palm. It produces dense, meaty, orange fruits (often with a reddish interior) weighing 7-17.5 oz (200-500 g). Most growers praise its sweet, rich flavor and excellent disease resistance. However, it is extremely … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Minusinskoe Mango (Minusinsk Mango) is a mid-season, indeterminate heirloom from the famous Minusinsk region in Siberia. It produces large, oblate, pale yellow fruits with beautiful pink blushing at the blossom end, usually weighing between 7 and 16 oz (200-450 g). Growers rave about its sweet, honey-like, exotic fruit flavor and its buttery … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Martha Logan is a mid-early, potato leaf (PL) indeterminate beefsteak. Though often sold as a yellow tomato, it typically ripens into a stunning yellow-and-pink bicolor. Growers praise its vigorous, disease-resistant vines and consistently large, sweet fruits ranging from 7 oz to 1.3 lbs (200-600 g). Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos … Read more
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🍅 Quick take: Medovukha (Mead) is a mid-season, indeterminate red-and-orange bicolor beefsteak bred by Valdis Pulniņš. It produces massive, meaty, flat-round fruits that frequently reach over 2 lbs (1 kg), known for their incredibly sweet and juicy flavor profile. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos I Irina Volga (Irina Rubleva) 🍅 Member (902 posts) … Read more
At a Glance: Meat Breakfast Tomato (Myasnoy Zavtrak) 🍅 Quick take: Myasnoy Zavtrak (Meat Breakfast) is a mid-season, indeterminate orange beefsteak variety. It produces massive, oblate, meaty fruits that can reach over 2 lbs (1 kg). Growers praise its phenomenal sweet flavor and vigorous vines, though experiences with yield and storage shelf life are somewhat … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Liqueur F1 is an early-season, indeterminate orange cocktail tomato from Russian breeder Lyubov Myazina. While the packet says the fruits average 1 oz (25 g), greenhouse growers report them easily doubling in size to 1.5-1.8 oz (45-50 g). The vine is well-behaved with sparse foliage and responds great to being pruned to … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Moonlight Delight (Lunnyi Vostorg) is a heavy-yielding yellow oxheart tomato. While plant heights seem to vary (some report compact determinate bushes, others indeterminate vines), it consistently produces massive, meaty slicers weighing up to 19 oz (550 g) with a sweet, mild, low-acid flavor. The main drawback reported by growers is its incredibly … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lampochki (which translates to “Lightbulbs”) is an early-season, indeterminate potato leaf (PL) cherry tomato. It produces gorgeous clusters of sweet, meaty yellow pear-shaped cherries. It was grown side-by-side with the famous commercial variety “Honey Drop” to see if it was just a renamed clone, but proved to be vastly superior—ripening earlier, tasting … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Swan Song (Lebedinaya Pesnya) is a mid-season, indeterminate pale yellow/white tomato. The vines are very well-behaved and manageable, producing excellent yields over a long production window. The fruits weigh between 3.5 and 10.5 oz (100-300 g) and develop a beautiful pink blush on the blossom end when fully ripe. It has a … Read more
At a Glance 🍅 Quick take: Gajo de Melon is a late-season, aggressively growing indeterminate cherry tomato. The vine easily tops 6.5 feet (2 m) and has a massive, sprawling footprint that requires strict pruning to keep it from turning into a jungle. While the yields are only average due to smaller clusters, the flavor … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lampa (The Lamp) is an indeterminate, mid-season orange tomato distributed by the Russian seed company Gavrish. It’s supposed to produce 3.5-5 oz (100-140 g) pear-shaped fruits in massive clusters. Growers report a great sweet flavor with a slight tang, making it perfect for canning and dehydrating. However, the commercial seed packets seem … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Summer Apricot (Letniy Abrikos) is a moderately tall indeterminate vine that produces massive, bright orange beefsteaks weighing anywhere from 14 oz to over 2 lbs (400 g – 1 kg). Known for its tender, melt-in-your-mouth flesh and very few seeds, it is widely considered an excellent fresh-eating slicer, though its flavor can … Read more