Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Dean’s Brad Gates (bred by Dean Slater) is an indeterminate dwarf variety known for its massive yields and beautiful variegated potato-leaf foliage. It produces modest-sized, green-striped fruits that ripen to red with golden stripes. Growers here love its extreme productivity and stunning looks, though they note the variegation fades on mature … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dean’s Haley’s Rainbow is a mid-early indeterminate variety bred by Dean Slater, highly notable for its striking variegated foliage. It produces bicolor fruits (yellow with a pink blush), but growers report significant discrepancies in fruit shape. While the original description calls for small round plums, seeds currently in circulation are throwing much … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Gandolf 🌍 Origin: An American variety bred by Dean Slater. It is highly prized by collectors for its stunning foliage and beautiful fruits. 🌿 Plant Habit: Semi-determinate / Bush. It grows very compactly, usually staying around 3 ft (0.8–1 m) tall. Standout feature: It has Potato Leaf (PL) foliage that is … Read more