Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Enormous Plum is a vigorous indeterminate variety that produces genuinely massive, red, plum-shaped tomatoes, with some reaching up to 21 oz (600 g). The mid-season vines are tall and robust, easily topping 6.5 ft (2 m) in a greenhouse. Growers praise the fruits for being incredibly meaty with no green shoulders or … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Eva Yellow Heart is an indeterminate variety that produces huge, pale yellow heart-shaped tomatoes. The vines are tall but slender, with sparse, wispy foliage. Growers note that it is an exceptionally heavy yielder—so much so that the plants require serious support to prevent the stems from snapping under the weight of the … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ei von Phuket (Egg from Phuket) is a super rare indeterminate cherry tomato that produces beautiful pastel-pink, egg-shaped fruits. The tomatoes transition from green to white to pale pink, making the vines look visually stunning as they ripen. Growers here love its massive yields, firm texture, and great shelf life, which makes … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Evil Olive is an intriguing, highly productive cocktail/cherry tomato with a unique color profile. These indeterminate vines produce large, complex trusses of round fruits that ripen to a greenish-ochre outside with a dark red interior—literally resembling olives. Averaging 0.7-1.2 oz (20-35 g), the tomatoes have a memorable sweet-tart punch, a crunchy texture, … 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
🍅 Quick take: Delicious is a classic indeterminate, mid-season heirloom known for producing massive, meaty red beefsteaks. In this thread, growers also discuss “Deliciosus”—often just the Eastern European phonetic spelling of the same variety, though seed lines vary significantly. Growers praise its outstanding, sweet flavor and high yields. The tall vines produce huge fruits that … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dark Queen is an indeterminate, mid-season beefsteak tomato. The vines produce gorgeous flat-round, burgundy-brown fruits with green stripes. Growers highlight its excellent taste and solid production, noting it sets fruit well even when grown with tight spacing. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zone 4 Experience) S Svetikk (Svetlana) ⭐ … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dancing with Smurfs is an indeterminate, mid-season anthocyanin cherry tomato bred by Tom Wagner. The vines produce high yields of small, dark, reddish-purple fruits with a long harvest window. Growers here praise its stunning appearance, sturdy growth, and disease resistance, especially when grown outdoors. However, reviews on flavor are mixed, and some … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dino Eggs is an indeterminate, heavy-yielding variety that produces gorgeous orange, plum-shaped tomatoes with faint yellow stripes. Weighing in around 2.5-5.3 oz (70-150 g), they are firm enough for canning but sweet and juicy enough for fresh eating. Growers love the rich, sweet flavor and note that the vine sets fruit non-stop. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dixie Golden Giant is a tall, mid-season indeterminate heirloom (traced back to an Amish family in the 1930s) that produces large, slightly ribbed, orange beefsteaks that often develop a pink blush when fully ripe. Growers praise it as a heavy yielder with an outstanding, meaty, and sweet fruity flavor, though some note … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dirty Curty is an experimental, potentially unstable anthocyanin line (seeds originally circulated by Valdis Pulins) that produces mid-season, heavy-yielding indeterminate vines. While the intended shape is oblate with dark blue or “dirty gray” shoulders, growers note it can segregate into different shapes, such as elongated “boats.” Regardless of the shape, the consensus … Read more