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: Marsha’s Starfighter Beefsteak is an elite indeterminate anthocyanin novelty slicer bred by Marsha Eisenberg of South Florida as part of her acclaimed Star Wars Project. Vines reach 6-6.5 ft (1.8-2 m) with slender, wiry stems and sparse weeping foliage. It yields heavy crops of deep burgundy-brown beefsteaks weighing 10.5-14 oz (300-400 g), … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Mermaid is an elite indeterminate, mid-season bicolor beefsteak celebrated for breaking the curse of low-yielding bicolors. The tall vines produce massive, meaty fruit tipping the scales up to 2.2 lbs (1 kg). While the exterior ripens to a soft, glowing pink with faint golden undertones, slicing it open reveals a breathtaking, marbled yellow-and-crimson … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Malcolm Lincoln is a storied American family heirloom preserved for over 60 years in West Virginia. The indeterminate vine reaches 6-6.5 ft (1.8-2 m) and carries the classic delicate, wispy oxheart foliage. It produces smooth, deep-pink hearts with a distinctive pointed beak weighing 10.5-17.5 oz (300-500 g). Immature fruit start as a … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Minnie’s Pin Striped is a classic American indeterminate heirloom bicolor beefsteak climbing over 6 ft (1.8 m) tall. It yields generous crops of large, meaty yellow slicers weighing roughly 10-18 oz (280-500 g), decorated with delicate crimson pin-striping radiating up from the blossom end. Gardeners consistently praise its melt-in-your-mouth texture and rich, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Maglia Rosa is a celebrated semi-determinate artisan cherry tomato bred by Fred Hempel of Artisan Seeds in California. Plants form tidy, well-behaved bushes ranging from 2 to 4 ft (0.6 to 1.2 m) that require minimal to no suckering. It yields prolific trusses of elongated, pink-and-yellow marbled “bullets” weighing up to 0.9 … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Marina’s Praise is an exquisite indeterminate, potato-leaf novelty tomato bred by American grower Jason Haynes from a cross of Orange Russian 117 and Potato Leaf Variegated. Seedlings showcase stunning white-and-green variegated foliage that transitions into manageable 5.5-6 ft (1.7-1.8 m) vines. It pumps out clusters of dense, elongated bicolor hearts averaging 3.5 … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Midnight Sun is an elite potato-leaf indeterminate bicolor oxheart bred by Karen Olivier in British Columbia as part of her acclaimed True North Series. Developed from a dream cross of Ludmilla’s Pink Heart and Captain Lucky, it produces smooth, glowing yellow-and-pink hearts averaging 9-12.5 oz (250-350 g). Despite having sparse, wispy oxheart … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Maciza Montserrat (Montserrat Macizo) is a heavy-hitting indeterminate Spanish heirloom from Catalonia. Unlike traditional hollow-pocketed Montserrat stuffing tomatoes, the “Maciza” (solid) strain is bred to be completely dense, meaty, and nearly seedless with warm salmon-pink flesh. While standard vines pump out ribbed 10.5-21 oz (300-600 g) slicers, plants with lighter fruit sets … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Livingston’s Beauty is a landmark 19th-century indeterminate heirloom introduced in 1890 by Alexander W. Livingston. Renowned for helping transform the American tomato from a ribbed, wrinkled curiosity into a smooth slicer, it yields dependable crops of round, slightly flattened pink globes averaging 6-8 oz (170-230 g). Northern growers confirm its legendary hardiness, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lee’s Sweet is a mid-season artisan cross created by American breeder Lee Goodwin of J&L Gardens by crossing Pittsburg Potato Top with Chianti Rose. Released as an early-generation line, growers report ongoing genetic segregation: true types throw potato-leaf foliage with dense, pink heart-to-boat shaped slicers weighing 9-17 oz (250-500 g), while rogues throw … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lehrertomate (German for “Teacher’s Tomato”) is a traditional German indeterminate heirloom bred for producing massive, scarlet-red beefsteaks tipping the scales between 14-25 oz (400-700 g). The fruit are dense, meaty, and lightly ribbed with remarkably few seeds and a rich, old-fashioned balanced flavor. While it sets fruit reliably in cool northern summers, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lilac Gem is a compact, mid-season anthocyanin novelty cherry tomato that stays around 3.3 ft (1 m) tall. It yields small, dark-shouldered cherries weighing 0.2-0.3 oz (5-8 g) with anthocyanin blush that pulls cleanly from the vine without tearing the skin. European growers report noticeable variations in color, indicating the variety was … Read more