Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Daifuku is an original cross by Bunny Hop Seeds (BHN 669 F1 x Black from Tula) bred specifically for intense heat, humidity, and disease pressure. It is an early-season, highly productive variety that pumps out dark purple, 3-5 oz salad tomatoes. Growers rave about its absolute resilience and its incredibly sweet, jammy … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Datlo is an extremely disease-resistant, high-yielding yellow cherry tomato. Growers praise its sweet flavor, long shelf life, and ability to set fruit in both heat and cold right up until the first frost. It produces chubby, barrel-shaped little cherries that outperform many other varieties in the greenhouse. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes … Read more
🍅 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: Dulcea de Fagaras (Sweet of Fagaras) is a Romanian family heirloom originating from the Transylvania region. It is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces large, deeply pleated pinkish-red beefsteaks. Reviewers highly recommend it for its reliable production and sugary, juicy flavor. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 5-11 Experience) … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Purple Heart is a mid-season, tree-type dwarf variety released in 2015 by the Dwarf Tomato Project (a cross between Brad’s Black Heart and Dwarf Wild Fred). It produces beautiful, dark purple-brown heart-shaped fruits that are generally sweet and meaty. The growers here praise its excellent yields, crack resistance, and ability to … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Diamante Oppedisano is an indeterminate, mid-season variety known for producing large to giant, meaty beefsteaks. The plants are vigorous, growing up to 6.5 ft (2 m) tall, and the yields are exceptionally heavy, with huge tomatoes growing in clusters. The flavor is described as good, classic tomato flavor. There is some debate … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Vintage American heirloom Dad’s Sunset is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces large, dense, yellow-orange fruits weighing 10.5-17.6 oz (300-500 g). The grower notes it has an excellent fruity flavor and yields heavily. A great bonus is its holding ability; the ripe fruits can hang on the vine for a while without … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Shadow Boxing is a highly compact, rugose-leaf dwarf tomato bred by Tom Wagner, producing small anthocyanin fruits weighing roughly 2.5 oz (70 g). Because the seeds were released very early in the breeding process, growers here report extreme segregation in fruit shape (round vs. elongated plums) and color (heavy striping vs. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Diva de Deva (Prima Donna from Deva) is an indeterminate, mid-season family heirloom from the Deva region of Romania. It produces large, red, ribbed beefsteaks weighing 8.8-17.6 oz (250-500 g) with sweet, old-fashioned, buttery flesh that is excellent for slicing and thick sauces. Growers praise its heavy yields and cold tolerance. However, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Desperado is a mid-season determinate variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project. It produces beautiful pinkish-crimson plum or spear-shaped fruits weighing around 2.5 to 5.3 oz (70 to 150 g). The growers absolutely love it for its incredible yields, sweet flavor, firm texture, and excellent shelf life both on and off the … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Olya F1 is an early-season superdeterminate hybrid known for extreme disease resistance and highly concentrated yields. While seed packets claim fruits up to 6 oz (180 g), real-world growers consistently harvest uniform, firm 4 oz (120 g) round tomatoes. The flavor is a standard, classic tomato taste, making it an absolute workhorse … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Orenburgskie (Orenburg) is an indeterminate, surprisingly early Russian pink beefsteak that yields fruits up to 14 oz (400 g). Growers praise it for its absolute ruggedness—surviving severe root damage, setting fruit continuously without dropping blossoms, and showing top-tier resistance to leaf mold (Cladosporium). It produces heavily right up until hard frost. Full … Read more