Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Hartsack Yellow is an indeterminate, mid-season bicolor beefsteak originating from the US. It is highly praised for being one of the earliest bicolors to ripen, producing gorgeous gold, orange, and pink fruits that rarely crack. Growers love its juicy texture and complex, balanced sweet flavor. An excellent, heavy-yielding slicer, though fruits picked … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Hunk Purple is an indeterminate, mid-season potato leaf variety bred by Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms (USA). It produces meaty, purple-black tomatoes weighing up to 5.3 oz (150 g). Despite slow germination and some early cold damage when grown outdoors, growers report that it reliably sets fruit all season long. It … Read more
🍅 Quick take: The USDA strain of Golden Queen is a historic indeterminate heirloom originally introduced by A.W. Livingston in 1882. Over the decades, commercial breeders selected out its distinct pink blush, but the USDA seed bank preserved the original, slightly bicolor genetics. Growers praise its tender, sweet, and low-acid flavor. Be aware that it … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Grandfather Ashlock is a mid-season, indeterminate heirloom. It’s an old Ashlock family heirloom from Kentucky. The true variety features potato leaf foliage and produces large, highly uniform, oblate pink beefsteaks. Growers praise its outstanding, sweet, and tender flavor. Keep an eye out for regular leaf off-types in seed batches, which tend to … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Goose Creek is a legendary indeterminate red heirloom (originally introduced by Jimmy Williams) that produces massive oblate beefsteaks. Growers consider it an absolute masterpiece, praising its classic, sweet-leaning flavor that finishes with a lingering, pleasant aftertaste. Despite producing incredibly huge fruits (sometimes pushing nearly 2 lbs / 800 g), it manages to … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Graf Batthyany is a mid-season, indeterminate heirloom from the USA. It produces highly vigorous, thick-stemmed plants that easily pump out over 11 lbs of meaty slicers per vine. However, growers caution that it is a heavy feeder that can easily suffer from nitrogen toxicity if over-fertilized. While the yield and texture are … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Girl Girl’s Weird Thing is a large, indeterminate, dark-striped beefsteak tomato introduced by Jessica Hughes (named after her dog, Girl Girl, who discovered it). It produces massive, sweet, well-balanced slicing tomatoes that frequently reach 1-1.5 lbs. A major topic of discussion among these growers is how similar it is to Chocolate Stripes; … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Grandpa’s Cock’s Plume is an indeterminate, mid-season pink oxheart originally from the US. It produces large, meaty, heart-shaped tomatoes that can reach up to 10.5 oz (300 g). Growers praise it for its vigorous, workhorse-like production in both greenhouses and outdoors. While most reviewers love its sweet, buttery, classic oxheart flavor, some … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Flanders Contrast is an indeterminate, mid-season variety bred by Tom Wagner. It produces beautiful tricolor (blue, yellow, and green) pear-shaped fruits weighing 3.5-7 oz (100-200 g). Growers praise it for its massive yields, sweet fruity flavor, and excellent shelf life. A common point of discussion is the foliage, as growers report seeing … 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: Daniels is an indeterminate, mid-season potato-leaf family heirloom (brought to Missouri from Germany). It produces large, meaty, and juicy pink beefsteaks with small seed cavities. Growers highlight its excellent sweet flavor, high yields, and uniform ripening. It also handles extreme heat uniquely: instead of dropping blossoms, it simply stalls fruit development until … 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