Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Kozula 132 Zielone is a striking green-when-ripe bicolor plum tomato from Polish breeder Anna Kozula. It produces mid-sized plants about 3 ft (1 m) tall. Reviews on taste are mixed. While one grower found the flavor lacking after picking early due to splitting, another reported overwhelmingly sweet, candy-like fruits with an incredible … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Green Sky Reacher is a mid-season, indeterminate green-when-ripe tomato bred by Tom Wagner. Growers highlight its outstanding reliability, as it sets fruit in every truss without dropping blossoms. The medium-sized, crack-resistant fruits feature a thin skin and deep green flesh that is prized for being incredibly creamy, tender, and sweet. Full summary … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Green Copia is a stunning, indeterminate green-and-red bicolor tomato. Growers rave about its incredibly sweet, fruity flavor that tastes almost exotic. However, it requires patience as it is notably late to ripen, and a few growers reported low yields, susceptibility to sunscald in the greenhouse, and severe vulnerability to late blight if … Read more
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🍅 Quick take: Green Brandy is a relatively rare, mid-season indeterminate green tomato from the USA. It produces highly vigorous, sturdy vines that set clusters of small, 2.5-3.5 oz (70-100 g) yellowish-green striped fruits. Growers praise it for its sweet, fruity flavor and excellent crack resistance, making it a fantastic choice for whole-fruit canning. Full … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Beryl Beauty is a historic, inaugural 2011 release from the Dwarf Tomato Project. Created from the “Sneezy” family (a cross between Golden Dwarf Champion and Green Giant made by Patrina Nuske Small) and selected/named by Craig LeHoullier, it is a sturdy, regular-leaf rugose dwarf. Growers love it for its manageable 3 … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Delano is a fuss-free, mid-season indeterminate green-when-ripe (GWR) beefsteak. It produces 7-9 oz green-yellow tomatoes with striking yellow-emerald flesh and a perfectly balanced sweet-tart flavor. While it’s a reliable yielder and tastes fantastic, growers note its main drawback is poor shelf life—the fruits soften quickly after harvest and need to be eaten … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Emerald Giant is a green-when-ripe variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project, bred by Craig LeHoullier. It produces large, sweet, and tender green beefsteaks on plants that typically reach about 3-3.3 ft (1 m) tall. Growers praise its excellent flavor and solid yields both in greenhouses and outdoors. While the fruits don’t … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Saucy Mary is a mid-season, green-when-ripe dwarf variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project, bred by Craig LeHoullier (from the Kiwi family). It produces small, striped green plum tomatoes on compact rugose plants. Growers highlight its versatility for both fresh eating and canning, as well as its impressive resistance to leaf mold … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Izumrudnoe Yabloko (Emerald Apple) 🌍 Origin: A classic commercial green-when-ripe (GWR) variety dating back to the Soviet era. Released by multiple Russian seed companies over the years. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indet. Mid-height. Highly adaptable, performs well in both greenhouses and outdoors in the dirt. It is known for pushing megablooms and … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Irish Liqueur 🌍 Origin: A Russian commercial green-when-ripe (GWR) variety. Initially released by seed companies like “Sortsemovosch” and “Uralskiy Dachnik”. While sometimes commercially labeled as an F1 hybrid, it has been widely circulated as a stable open-pollinated heirloom among growers. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indet. Sturdy and relatively compact for an indeterminate … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Green Zebra 🌍 Origin: A legendary American variety bred by Tom Wagner (Tater Mater Seeds) in 1983. It is arguably the most famous green-when-ripe tomato in the world. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. Can be a bit of a slow starter and sometimes grows spindly outdoors, but yields are generally reliable. It … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Green Sausage 🌍 Origin: A famous novelty variety bred by the legendary American tomato breeder Tom Wagner (Tater Mater Seeds). 🌿 Plant Habit: A strict determinate. The plants are extremely short and bushy with a sprawling, almost trailing habit. They feature very distinct, finely cut, wispy “carrot-like” foliage. Excellent for outdoor … Read more