Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Elser Farm’s Brown Derby is an indeterminate beefsteak with a unique greenish-ochre to brownish-orange skin and vibrant tricolor flesh. Growers consistently praise its sweet, rich, and slightly tangy flavor, often comparing it to a ripe mango or the famous Dwarf Uluru Ochre. While it’s an indeterminate vine, most growers note it stays … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Djena Lee’s Golden Girl is an indeterminate, mid-early heirloom dating back to the 1920s, originally bred by Djena Lee (and famously winning first prize at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair). It produces medium-sized, bright orange fruits. The grower here highlights its excellent taste and impressive shelf life, noting it produces average yields. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dagma’s Perfection is an indeterminate, mid-season bi-color slicer. It produces beautiful large yellow fruits with a pinkish-red blush. Growers highly rate its sweet, fruity, and juicy flavor profile. Vine height and yields can vary noticeably depending on whether it is grown outdoors in the dirt or under the cover of a greenhouse. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dr. Wyche’s Yellow is an indeterminate, mid-late season heirloom introduced by circus owner Dr. John Wyche. It produces large, meaty, bright orange-yellow beefsteaks. Growers praise its incredibly sweet, well-balanced flavor and long harvest window. While it thrives in greenhouses, it also sets fruit reliably outdoors and is noted for being a heavy, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Lemon Ice is a Dwarf Tomato Project release (a cross between Roza Vetrov and Anna Banana Russian) that produces compact but robust plants. It throws heavy yields of incredibly uniform, medium-sized yellow heart-shaped tomatoes. Growers report the flavor is delicious with distinct citrus notes, and the fruits take on a beautiful, … 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: 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: Dwarf Confetti is a gorgeous release from the Dwarf Tomato Project featuring sturdy, rugose-leaf plants that max out around 2 to 3 feet tall. It pumps out large, oblate bicolor beefsteaks (yellow with bright pink stripes) that deliver a deliciously sweet, fruity flavor. While it thrives in the greenhouse, growers in cooler … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Datlo is an extremely disease-resistant, high-yielding yellow cherry tomato. Growers praise its sweet flavor, long shelf life, and ability to set fruit in both heat and cold right up until the first frost. It produces chubby, barrel-shaped little cherries that outperform many other varieties in the greenhouse. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Loxton Lass is a 2016 release from the Dwarf Tomato Project (a cross between Rosella Purple and Orange Heirloom). It produces beautiful apricot-orange oblate tomatoes on stout, compact tree-type plants. Reviewers highly praise its buttery flesh and perfectly balanced flavor, making it a fantastic container or small-space variety for fresh eating. … 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: Dwarf Banana Toes is an early-season, highly compact dwarf variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project. Bred by Craig LeHoullier (a cross between Dwarf Golden Heart and Speckled Roman), it produces small, bright yellow-orange plum tomatoes weighing 1.7-3.5 oz (50-100 g). The grower notes it is extremely productive, does perfectly in pots, and … Read more