Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Cuostralee is a classic French heirloom indeterminate variety that produces beautiful, oblate red beefsteaks. It is a late-mid season producer with fruits ranging from 8.8 oz to over a pound (250-500 g). Growers praise it for being completely fuss-free, highly productive, and delivering an excellent, sweet, meaty flavor with very few seeds. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Krasavets Primorya (Beauty of Primorye) is an indeterminate variety that proved highly resilient in less-than-ideal conditions. Grown in a dark greenhouse corner during a cold summer, it still delivered an exceptional yield. Growers highlight its fantastic taste and the impressive uniformity of the fruits from the bottom of the vine all the … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kavkazets (Caucasian) is a mid-season indeterminate variety that produces uniform, oblate raspberry pink slicers. While its height can be stunted if grown outdoors in cool climates, it thrives in a greenhouse, easily reaching 8 ft (2.5 m) and pumping out meaty, highly flavorful tomatoes weighing up to 21 oz (600 g). Full … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ferris Wheel is an indeterminate American heirloom that produces massive, sweet pink beefsteaks. However, some growers have discovered two completely different foliage types circulating in the market under this name. While the true historical strain should have Regular Leaf (RL) foliage, a highly productive Potato Leaf (PL) off-type is widely grown and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kentucky Pink Stamper is an indeterminate potato leaf (PL) heirloom from the US. Brought over to Russia by seed collectors, it pumps out massive pink beefsteaks (regularly breaking the 1 lb / 500 g mark) with distinctive pleated shoulders. While the fruit size and flavor are awesome, growers note that yields can … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kuraga (Dried Apricot) is an indeterminate orange paste tomato. It produces meaty, very sweet 5 oz (150 g) plum-shaped fruits on skinny, wispy vines. While it can be grown outdoors, it performs much better and yields higher when given the shelter of a greenhouse. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Krasavets Myasistyi (Meaty Beauty) is a vigorous indeterminate pink tomato from the Russian seed company SeDeK. However, growers in this thread report wildly different results—one got the massive, meaty pink slicers described on the packet, while the other ended up with a multiflora plant producing small barrel-shaped canning tomatoes. Both versions yielded … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kamennoe Serdtse (Stone Heart) is an indeterminate, mid-early to mid-season pink oxheart. Growers rave about its exceptional yields, reliable blossom set in fluctuating temperatures, and most notably, its extremely dense, heavy fruits that perfectly match the “Stone” in its name. It features a wispy plant habit ideal for greenhouse spacing. Full summary … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Strawberry Tiger is a highly productive, indeterminate variety that produces beautiful, striped plum-shaped tomatoes. Reaching up to 6.5 feet (2 m) tall in a greenhouse, it performs equally well outdoors. While growers rate its yield and appearance highly, the flavor is generally considered good but not exceptionally sweet. Full summary ↓ Growers’ … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Crimean Rose (Krymskaya Roza) is an indeterminate pink tomato that produces distinct, ribbed pear-shaped fruits weighing 4.7 to 10.5 oz (135-300 g). Originally developed for commercial hoop houses and home gardens, it boasts a very classic, rich tomato flavor. While officially listed as mid-early, some growers find it to be a late-season … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kronprinz (Crown Prince) is an indeterminate, mid-season heirloom that produces massive multiflora-style trusses of firm, red tomatoes weighing 2.8 to 4 oz (80-110 g). It is highly prized for whole-fruit canning and is historically significant as one of the parent lines for the famous Tarasenko hybrids. Note that there is also a … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Königsberg Heart-Shaped (Kenigsberg Serdtsevidnyi) is a mid-season, indeterminate pink oxheart. Reaching about 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, it is a highly reliable producer that rarely drops blossoms. Growers prize it for its incredibly tender, meaty pinkish-red flesh, low seed count, and a rich, sweet flavor that is never bland. Full summary ↓ … Read more