Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4-5 Experience)
Highly productive, tall indet vine with a long harvest window. Massive, uniform, incredibly tender, delicious, meaty pink hearts. They have a gorgeous shape and are practically seedless. Landshut is an old city in Lower Bavaria, which is where the variety gets its name.
I got this variety through a seed trade with Reinhard Kraft from Germany.
Grew this one last season, easily one of the best varieties I had. Tall indet vine, produces absolutely beautiful pink hearts, and the flesh is super tender and sweet.
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This tomato took a little while to get going, but it ended up setting fruit really well. Loaded with large and medium-sized, tender pink hearts. Considering the kind of summer we had, it did great in the greenhouse.
Just want to add that this variety performed exceptionally well outdoors in the dirt too. The tomatoes on the trusses were just as massive, and the plant didn’t catch a single disease.
A beautiful variety.
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Full Summary: Plant, Yield, and Taste
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate, tall vine. Growers report it is highly robust and shows excellent disease resistance, even when grown unprotected outdoors.
- 📈 Yield: It can be a little slow out of the gate early in the season, but once it starts setting fruit, it produces heavy yields over a long harvest window. Performs equally well in greenhouses and open dirt.
- 👅 Taste & Appearance: Produces massive, beautifully shaped pink oxhearts. The flesh is incredibly tender, sweet, and practically seedless, making it a top-tier slicer.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Grown in the Moscow, Tula, and Nizhny Novgorod regions (USDA Zone 4). Despite coming from Germany, it adapts brilliantly to short, unpredictable Eastern European summers.
The first reviewer mentions acquiring this variety directly from Reinhard Kraft. For those new to heirloom tomato history, Reinhard Kraft is a legendary German seed collector and breeder who has been instrumental in preserving and distributing rare European heirlooms to the global gardening community. The name Landshuter Riese translates to “Giant of Landshut,” paying homage to the historic city in Lower Bavaria where it originated.
