Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Oranzhevyi Gigant (Orange Giant) is an indeterminate, mid-season beefsteak. It boasts excellent heat tolerance, setting heavy trusses of firm, bright orange fruits that usually weigh between 8.5 oz and 1.3 lbs (250-600 g). The shape can vary depending on the seed source and truss position—ranging from perfectly smooth and round to flattened … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Opalka is an indeterminate, mid-season red paste tomato with famous Polish roots. True to its oxheart/paste heritage, the plant features very thin, wispy foliage that looks frail but produces exceptionally well. Growers highlight its massive yields, meaty texture, and perfectly balanced sweet flavor, making it a top-tier choice for sauces and sun-drying. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Oranzhevaya Sosulka (Orange Icicle) is an incredibly productive, indeterminate orange paste tomato. Growers praise it for its firm texture, sweet flavor, and perfect size for canning. Interestingly, a few growers have reported the variety occasionally throwing off a determinate (bush) mutation, though the classic vine is known to be a massive, late-season … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Oaxacan Jewel (Oaksakanskaya Dragotsennost) is an indeterminate bicolor heirloom originating from Mexico, circulating here in a distinct potato leaf (PL) mutation alongside the standard regular leaf strain. Known for its golden-yellow skin marbled with raspberry streaks and marble-patterned orange interior, it offers a sweet, fruity flavor. Gardeners praise it as one of … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Obzhorka (Gluttonnie) is a highly productive, compact determinate variety that grows up to 2 feet (60 cm) tall. It requires zero pruning and pumps out heavy clusters of 2 oz (60 g) meaty red plum tomatoes with a pointed blossom end. Known for a classic tomato flavor and an excellent shelf life, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Nizhegorodskie is a mid-season, indeterminate heirloom that produces round, slightly ribbed red slicing tomatoes weighing up to 14 oz (400 g). It is known for its excellent productivity, setting fruit in distinct tiers all the way up the tall 6.5 ft (2 m) vines. Growers report that it performs equally well in … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Mom’s Love (Mamina Lyubov) is a vigorous, highly productive indeterminate red beefsteak from Russia. Treasured for its nostalgic, old-fashioned “real tomato” flavor, this variety produces beautiful, uniform red fruits generally weighing around 9-10.5 oz (250-300 g). The vines are powerful and require heavy-duty staking, as they often get weighed down by the … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Red Minusinsk Glasses (Minusinskie Stakany Krasnye) is an indeterminate, elongated paste-type Siberian heirloom. Known for its blocky, cylindrical shape resembling a drinking glass, this robust vine easily reaches over 6.5 feet (2 m) in greenhouse conditions. It is a heavy yielder producing meaty, juicy, and sweet fruits that are excellent for both … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Medvezhye Serdtse (Bear’s Heart) is a highly productive, early indeterminate variety that produces large, ribbed pink hearts weighing 7-12.3 oz (200-350 g). Growers praise it for its excellent heat tolerance, ability to set fruit all the way to the greenhouse roof, and its rich, sweet, meaty flavor. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Moravskoe Chudo (Moravian Wonder / Stupice) is an extremely early, potato-leaf indeterminate variety that produces clusters of sweet, red cocktail-sized tomatoes 1.4-2.8 oz (40-80 g). Growers love it for being one of the first tomatoes to ripen in the garden, often beating out other famous early varieties while maintaining a surprisingly sweet, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Mikado Sibiriko is a commercial Indeterminate Siberian variety (Sibirskiy Sad) known for producing massive, meaty pink hearts up to 21 oz (600 g). It shares the classic “wispy foliage” trait common to many oxhearts. Growers frequently compare it to the popular Batyanya tomato, noting it has a very similar mild, sweet flavor … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Minusinskie Rozovye (Minusinsk Pink) is a highly productive, indeterminate Siberian heirloom from the famous Minusinsk region. It yields heavy clusters of sweet, sugary pink hearts weighing 7-17.6 oz (200-500 g). Interestingly, the fruits often shift shapes on the same vine, throwing large flat hearts on the bottom and elongated pepper shapes up … Read more