Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Jackass Yellow Dwarf is a mid-season, knee-high plant with rugose regular leaves. It produces tangy yellow fruits weighing up to 3.5 oz. For this grower, it outperformed its sister variety, Jackass Green, in the flavor department. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos M Melisssa (Natalia) ⭐ Novice (87 posts) 📍 Dyndyryndia … Read more
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🍅 Quick take: Jaune du lac de Bret is an indeterminate golden-yellow oxheart originally bred by a farmer near Lake Bret in Switzerland. It produces densely ribbed, conical hearts weighing 5.3-7 oz (150-200 g) and up. Growers rave about its structural beauty, sweet flavor, and lack of seeds. It’s also noted for having a remarkably … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ilka is a rare, indeterminate, mid-season yellow oxheart with classic wispy foliage. It produces large, barrel-shaped hearts weighing 8.8-10.5 oz (250-300 g) and often much more. Growers praise it for its dense, meaty, almost seedless flesh, sweet old-fashioned flavor, and reliable fruit set in both heat and cold. Full summary ↓ Growers’ … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ivory Tears is an indeterminate, wispy regular-leaf cherry tomato bred in Belgium by Philippe Vermeulen and Gerd Freyman. It produces stunning translucent ivory-white, teardrop-shaped fruits with an incredibly sweet, fruity flavor. Growers highlight its heavy yields right up until frost, total resistance to BER, and amazing taste that makes them disappear straight … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Hartsack Yellow is an indeterminate, mid-season bicolor beefsteak originating from the US. It is highly praised for being one of the earliest bicolors to ripen, producing gorgeous gold, orange, and pink fruits that rarely crack. Growers love its juicy texture and complex, balanced sweet flavor. An excellent, heavy-yielding slicer, though fruits picked … Read more
🍅 Quick take: The USDA strain of Golden Queen is a historic indeterminate heirloom originally introduced by A.W. Livingston in 1882. Over the decades, commercial breeders selected out its distinct pink blush, but the USDA seed bank preserved the original, slightly bicolor genetics. Growers praise its tender, sweet, and low-acid flavor. Be aware that it … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Golden Gates is a mid-season, indeterminate striped yellow tomato bred by Brad Gates, notable for its wispy foliage. There is some debate among growers about its stability, as some get small cherry-sized fruits while others get larger plum-sized tomatoes (up to 3.5 oz / 100 g). Flavor reviews are also mixed: some … Read more
🍅 Quick take: This thread is a fascinating two-for-one. It starts with the authentic Goldene Königin, a historic 19th-century German heirloom that produces small, highly aromatic, mild yellow fruits on indeterminate vines. However, half the growers here actually grew a modern Russian commercial namesake called Zolotaya Koroleva (Golden Queen), which is a completely different variety … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Golden Tiger is a mid-season indeterminate anthocyanin variety that produces stunning, small yellow cocktail tomatoes with fine purple stripes. Growers praise its juicy, sweet flavor and excellent shelf life. A major standout feature is its rugged disease resistance; it has proven capable of completely shrugging off severe outbreaks of late blight and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Goldie is a classic, large indeterminate heirloom that produces massive, sweet, golden-orange beefsteaks with a fruity aroma. While the true variety is known to be Regular Leaf (RL), this thread highlights an interesting discussion where one grower raised a Potato Leaf (PL) version from older seeds that still produced perfectly authentic-looking fruits. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Golden Heart is a 2015 release from the Dwarf Tomato Project, created by crossing ‘Anna Banana Russian’ and ‘Roza Vetrov‘. It is a stout, regular rugose-leaf semi-determinate plant that produces juicy, sweet, pale-yellow blunt hearts. Growers love its rugged, low-maintenance, no-prune habit and report that the compact plants get absolutely loaded … Read more
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🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Gloria’s Treat is an early, rugose potato-leaf dwarf from the Dwarf Tomato Project. Introduced in 2022 by Victory Seed Company, it produces sweet, juicy yellow-and-red bi-color slicers on stout, compact plants. Growers note that the foliage is extremely dense and requires regular thinning for proper airflow. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes … Read more