Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Midnight Sun is an elite potato-leaf indeterminate bicolor oxheart bred by Karen Olivier in British Columbia as part of her acclaimed True North Series. Developed from a dream cross of Ludmilla’s Pink Heart and Captain Lucky, it produces smooth, glowing yellow-and-pink hearts averaging 9-12.5 oz (250-350 g). Despite having sparse, wispy oxheart … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lugas F1 is a renowned Hungarian greenhouse truss hybrid bred by ZKI (Vegetable Crop Research Institute). While some foreign catalog listings mistakenly label it determinate, it behaves as a tidy, manageable indeterminate vine reaching 5.2-5.5 ft (160-170 cm) with minimal suckering. It yields heavy clusters of uniform, oval-round red fruit weighing 2.1-3.9 … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ludmilla’s Pink Heart (Rozovoe Serdtse Lyudmily) is an indeterminate heirloom oxheart tracing back to Kazakhstan and Germany. Celebrated by northern gardeners for being remarkably early-ripening for a large-fruited heart, it yields meaty, elongated pink hearts weighing 8-16 oz (225-450 g) with minimal seeds and sweet, tender flesh. The vine is slightly sturdier … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Long Tall Sally is an indeterminate, mid-season striped oxheart bred in the USA by Blaine Horton. It puts out large, meaty, blunt pink hearts striped with gold, topping the scales at up to 17.6 oz (500 g) with minimal seeds. Plants have the classic droopy, wispy oxheart vine habit that fools beginners … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lover’s Lunch (known in Russian collections as Obed Vlyublyonnykh) is a stunning mid-season indeterminate bicolor slicer originally bred by Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms. It produces heavy clusters of round, yellow-and-red striped beefsteaks weighing 9+ oz (250+ g) with sweet, balanced, marbled flesh. Northern growers note it is an aggressive, heavy … Read more
🍅 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