Malinowy Ozarowski Tomato Review: Polish Pink Heirlooms

Seeds from Balashov. Indet, early season, oblate to round fruits up to 10.5 oz (300 g), raspberry-pink color. Potato leaf (PL), very vigorous vine. Recommended to prune to 2 stems.

Grew it in the greenhouse, pruned it to 2 stems, and pulled the first fruits in mid-July. The fruits on the lower early trusses were larger, while the September ones were a bit smaller. Yield was steady, didn’t drop any blossom trusses.

As for the flavor: pretty standard for a pink tomato. Decent in salads, but the vast majority of them went straight into canning jars (the size is absolutely perfect for it) and cooked down for ketchup.

As for yields: by mid-September, it had pumped out 8 trusses. Each truss held about 5-6 tomatoes.

My Malinowy Ozarowski was a heavy yielder, but I didn’t get any large fruits off it. They all sat right around 3.5 oz (100 g). Standard tomato flavor, had a little bit of sweetness to it. Grown outdoors. Seeds came from Valentina (vavladi). 🌺

High-quality, beautiful, heavy-yielding, and tasty tomato. Potato leaf. Average weight was 5.3 oz (150 g), though a few hit 14 oz (400 g).

Knyaginya Olga said:

Grew it in the greenhouse… In salads it’s decent, but mostly went into canning jars (size is perfect) and ketchup.

I got sent two little seed packets of this. Thanks so much for the info! I was originally just gonna plant a couple seeds to test it out, but now I see I need to plant all of them. They look so uniform and perfect for canning…

Edited February 2, 2015 by Drosera

Grew Malinowy Ozarowski outdoors.

Good flavor, nice and sweet. The vine was a heavy yielder, definitely on the early side, and had a really long harvest window. The tomatoes were raspberry-colored and weighed around 3 oz (80-90 g). Potato leaf foliage.

There are actually two different versions of Malinowy Ozarowski circulating out there right now.

The first one has potato leaves, it’s an indet, early, long-season producer. Fruits are round globes sitting around 3.5-5 oz (100-150 g). The flavor is sweet, raspberry colored. My mom absolutely loved them. They kept setting fruit right up until the frost hit, but they did start cracking from the cold autumn rains toward the end of the season.

I bought a second version this year that has regular leaves. The packet claims it takes 53 days from plant-out to the first ripe fruit. We’ll see how it goes.

I bought Malinowy Ozarowski this year too, authentic Polish seeds.

Planted this one last year. Liked it. There really are two (maybe three?) versions of Malinowy Ozarowski floating around. My tomatoes looked exactly like the shape on Zosya’s packet. Weights ranged from 5 oz up to 10.5 oz (150-300 g). Zosya, what fruit weight is listed on your packet?

Edited February 2, 2015 by Rybachka

Alisa said:

The second version I bought this year has regular leaves, claims 53 days from plant-out…

It’s that early? 😲 Is the first PL version good for canning?

Rybachka said:

Zosya, what fruit weight is listed on your packet?

The weight is 1 gram. Translation from Polish: tall field tomato, fruits large, meaty, raspberry flesh, firm, tasty.

Zosya1 said:

The weight is 1 gram. Translation from Polish: tall field tomato…

But didn’t they list the actual fruit weight on the back, like they do on our domestic packets?

Nope, no fruit weight listed anywhere.

Zosya1 said:

The weight is 1 gram…

One gram?! That’s gotta be a typo. Maybe the fruit weighs the same as the potato leaf version? 😳

I bought Polish seeds this year too, but my packet looks a little different.

Fotinia said:

Is the first PL version good for canning?

Oops, I made a typo earlier, it’s 56 days. And yes, my mom canned all the leftovers because the size is so perfect for jars. She said she really liked them, she just cracked a jar open last week.

Is it fussy to grow? Does it set in large clusters?

Rybachka said:

Weights ranged from 5 oz up to 10.5 oz (150-300 g) was…

I found the catalog description for my first Ozarowski (the potato leaf one). They claim weights from 10.5 to 17.5 oz (300-500 g), 3 to 5 fruits per cluster, and recommend pruning to two stems for a max of 5-7 clusters per vine.

For whatever reason, mine turned out much smaller, around 3.5-5 oz (100-150 g). My mom swears some of them hit 9 oz (250 g), but my family ate all the big ones before I could get out to the garden! So by the time it was my turn to pick, only the smaller fruits on the upper trusses were left. I never actually saw the big ones myself 😂

Fotinia said:

Is it fussy to grow?

For us, it was completely fuss-free. Total plant-it-and-forget-it variety. It did appreciate regular watering, and I hit it with fertilizer twice during the season.

Fotinia said:

Does it set in large clusters?

It looked exactly like the first picture Knyaginya Olga posted at the top of this thread, though mine were perfectly round little globes. Maybe just a coincidence?