Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
Welcome to one of the most unique and comprehensive tomato databases on the English-speaking web. This catalog isn’t based on generic seed packet descriptions—it is built entirely on the real, hands-on experience of everyday gardeners.
For over a decade, thousands of growers have shared their successes, failures, and harvest photos on one of the oldest and largest Russian-speaking gardening forums. We have taken this massive, multi-year knowledge base and carefully translated and summarized the very best of it for you.
What you will find in our catalog:
Whether you are looking for a bulletproof hybrid for a short season, an exotic anthocyanin variety, or the sweetest beefsteak you’ve ever tasted, the collective experience of our gardening community will help you find the perfect seed for your next harvest. Browse our subcategories below to explore!
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Desperado is a mid-season determinate variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project. It produces beautiful pinkish-crimson plum or spear-shaped fruits weighing around 2.5 to 5.3 oz (70 to 150 g). The growers absolutely love it for its incredible yields, sweet flavor, firm texture, and excellent shelf life both on and off the … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Suz’s Beauty is a mid-season dwarf tomato from the Dwarf Tomato Project, producing flattened yellow bicolors with red stripes and a red central blush. The fruits weigh up to 7-10.5 oz (200-300 g). The growers here praise its excellent sweet flavor, beautiful appearance, and heavy yields both in the greenhouse and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Piedmont Flask is a late-season, indeterminate heirloom tracing its roots back to Northern Italy. It produces unique, large bottle-shaped fruits weighing up to 14 oz (400 g). Like many classic Italian paste types, it has dense meat and a balanced flavor, making it excellent for dehydrating. However, growers in shorter or cooler … Read more
🍅 Quick take: O-La-La is a semi-determinate pink tomato from the seed company Siberian Garden (SibSad). When you get the true authentic seed, it produces fantastic, highly uniform 6 oz (180 g) round fruits with a tiny pointed nub and incredibly sweet, juicy flesh. However, this variety comes with two major caveats: the commercial seed … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ordinary Miracle (Obyknovennoe Chudo) is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces stunning, oblate pink beefsteaks. It is highly valued for its fantastic, perfectly balanced flavor and its texture—which manages to be incredibly dense and meaty while still remaining very juicy. A low-seed variety with solid yields, it is an excellent dual-purpose tomato … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ozurs is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces beautiful, slightly ribbed dark pink-black slicers weighing up to 10.5 oz (300 g). It is highly disease-resistant and sets fruit reliably. While the exact origin of the name remains a mystery, it offers a solid, non-mealy flavor profile that holds its own among dark … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Orlik is a highly compact, ultra-early determinate variety that thrives outdoors with minimal protection. The bushes stay incredibly short (around 1.5 ft / 0.5 m) but pump out heavy, continuous yields of small, red, round tomatoes weighing between 1.5 to 2.5 oz (40-67 g). With a firm texture and classic, balanced tomato … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Malinowy Ożarowski (Ozarowski Raspberry) is a highly popular, early-season indeterminate pink tomato from Poland. It is famous for its rugged, low-maintenance vines and heavy yields of sweet, raspberry-pink fruits. While originally a Potato Leaf (PL) variety producing 3.5 to 10.5 oz (100-300 g) slicers, growers often encounter Regular Leaf (RL) variants in … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Father Goriot (Otets Gorio) is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces large, heavy, pinkish-raspberry oxhearts. The vines are known for being rugged and low-maintenance, though they perform best when pruned to two stems to support the massive fruits. Flavor reviews are highly dependent on the weather—during hot, sunny summers it gets sweet, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ozaltin is an indeterminate cocktail-sized tomato bred specifically as a “long-keeper” (storage tomato). It produces extremely dense, glossy red fruits weighing 1 to 2 oz (30-60 g). The plants are highly productive, well-behaved vines that set uniform clusters. While most storage tomatoes are notorious for tasting like cardboard, Ozaltin actually retains a … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Oduvanchik (which translates to “Dandelion”) is a determinate, mid-season heirloom that produces flawless, round orange globes. It is highly praised for its rugged stress tolerance, setting fruit effortlessly in both scorching heat and chilly weather. The flavor is a massive hit with growers, and the fruits boast a surprisingly long shelf life … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Olya F1 is an early-season superdeterminate hybrid known for extreme disease resistance and highly concentrated yields. While seed packets claim fruits up to 6 oz (180 g), real-world growers consistently harvest uniform, firm 4 oz (120 g) round tomatoes. The flavor is a standard, classic tomato taste, making it an absolute workhorse … Read more