Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Largo de Jauja is a mid-season, indeterminate heirloom (noted here as originating from Spain) that produces long, meaty red plum tomatoes. Growers love it for its fantastic keeping qualities and versatile culinary use. It sets heavy yields of 3.5-7 oz (100-200 g) fruits with very few seeds and almost no gel, making … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Jarson 17 (often written as JR-17) is an indeterminate, high-yielding Polish cross that produces large, ochre/mustard-colored slicers. Growers prize it for having a complex, delicious flavor profile very similar to the famous dwarf variety Uluru Ochre, but on a tall vine. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos O Olya Pskovishna (Olga) … Read more
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🍅 Quick take: Jaune du lac de Bret is an indeterminate golden-yellow oxheart originally bred by a farmer near Lake Bret in Switzerland. It produces densely ribbed, conical hearts weighing 5.3-7 oz (150-200 g) and up. Growers rave about its structural beauty, sweet flavor, and lack of seeds. It’s also noted for having a remarkably … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ivory Tears is an indeterminate, wispy regular-leaf cherry tomato bred in Belgium by Philippe Vermeulen and Gerd Freyman. It produces stunning translucent ivory-white, teardrop-shaped fruits with an incredibly sweet, fruity flavor. Growers highlight its heavy yields right up until frost, total resistance to BER, and amazing taste that makes them disappear straight … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Great Divide is an indeterminate red beefsteak that produces juicy, oblate fruits with an excellent, sweet flavor. Growers highlight its thin skin and high seed count, noting that it performs very well outdoors and delivers solid yields. While some seed catalogs boast sizes up to 21 oz (600 g), everyday garden results … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Grandfather Ashlock is a mid-season, indeterminate heirloom. It’s an old Ashlock family heirloom from Kentucky. The true variety features potato leaf foliage and produces large, highly uniform, oblate pink beefsteaks. Growers praise its outstanding, sweet, and tender flavor. Keep an eye out for regular leaf off-types in seed batches, which tend to … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Grosse Serge is an indeterminate, mid-season red beefsteak known for producing incredibly massive, hefty fruits. Growers rave about its perfectly balanced, sweet flavor and very meaty, deep-oblate fruits that contain almost no seeds. While yields are generally solid despite the sheer size of the tomatoes, the exceptional taste and long harvest window … 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: Granny’s Throwing is an indeterminate, early-season tomato known for its pleated, pear-like “pouch” shape. While its flavor may not beat a fresh slicing beefsteak, growers rave about its absolute resilience against bad weather and zero blossom drop. It produces massive yields of dense 3.5-7 oz (100-200 g) fruits that are considered top-tier … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Gritsyk is a mid-season, indeterminate red heirloom that produces massive, meaty plum-heart shaped fruits, often with a little point or beak on the blossom end. Growers praise its intensely sweet, rich flavor with practically zero acidity, and its outstanding resilience in extreme heat and wind. The huge fruits can weigh up to … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Fiaschetto is a determinate, mid-season plum tomato (these seeds originally sourced from Solana Seeds). The bushes are very compact, reaching only 2 to 2.5 feet tall, and pump out heavy yields of perfect red paste tomatoes. Growers praise it for its excellent disease resistance and bold, old-fashioned tomato flavor. Full summary ↓ … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Fahrenheit Blues is an indeterminate, mid-season anthocyanin cherry tomato bred by US breeder Tom Wagner. It produces heavy clusters of round, large cherry tomatoes that ripen to a deep red-purple with dark shoulders. Growers praise it for its juicy texture and sweet, complex, “exotic” flavor. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos … Read more