Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Debbie Blackburn is an indeterminate, mid-season variety that produces flawless pink beefsteaks. Growers highly praise its incredibly good, sweet flavor and meaty texture. The tomatoes are noted for being very uniform and blemish-free, keeping surprisingly well in storage. While it produces heavy yields in the greenhouse, high heat outdoors can sometimes lead … 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: Dagma’s Perfection is an indeterminate, mid-season bi-color slicer. It produces beautiful large yellow fruits with a pinkish-red blush. Growers highly rate its sweet, fruity, and juicy flavor profile. Vine height and yields can vary noticeably depending on whether it is grown outdoors in the dirt or under the cover of a greenhouse. … 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: Depp’s Pink Firefly is an indeterminate, late-season potato-leaf family heirloom dating back to the 1890s. It produces large, dark-pink beefsteaks dotted with tiny white specks that give the variety its name. Growers highly rate its rich, buttery texture and sweet, balanced flavor, though yields can be merely average if the vine is … 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: Don’t Double Delight is an indeterminate, mid-season, potato-leaf bicolor beefsteak. It produces gorgeous red and yellow striped slicing tomatoes. Growers appreciate its standout beauty and balanced, slightly sweet flavor. Drawbacks mentioned include susceptibility to blossom drop, tough skin, and radial cracking around the stem. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA … 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: Delano is a fuss-free, mid-season indeterminate green-when-ripe (GWR) beefsteak. It produces 7-9 oz green-yellow tomatoes with striking yellow-emerald flesh and a perfectly balanced sweet-tart flavor. While it’s a reliable yielder and tastes fantastic, growers note its main drawback is poor shelf life—the fruits soften quickly after harvest and need to be eaten … 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: Dalmatiner is a traditional Croatian heirloom that produces tall, vigorous indeterminate vines and large, red beefsteaks that are ribbed at the shoulders. Growers rave about its rich, perfectly balanced, old-school tomato flavor and meaty texture, noting that while it has massive potential, the flavor needs decent summer heat to fully dial in. … Read more