Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Emerald Giant is a green-when-ripe variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project, bred by Craig LeHoullier. It produces large, sweet, and tender green beefsteaks on plants that typically reach about 3-3.3 ft (1 m) tall. Growers praise its excellent flavor and solid yields both in greenhouses and outdoors. While the fruits don’t … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Saucy Mary is a mid-season, green-when-ripe dwarf variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project, bred by Craig LeHoullier (from the Kiwi family). It produces small, striped green plum tomatoes on compact rugose plants. Growers highlight its versatility for both fresh eating and canning, as well as its impressive resistance to leaf mold … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Orenburgskie (Orenburg) is an indeterminate, surprisingly early Russian pink beefsteak that yields fruits up to 14 oz (400 g). Growers praise it for its absolute ruggedness—surviving severe root damage, setting fruit continuously without dropping blossoms, and showing top-tier resistance to leaf mold (Cladosporium). It produces heavily right up until hard frost. Full … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Nasha Masha F1 (Our Masha F1) is aт indeterminate hybrid known for its solid disease resistance, particularly against leaf mold (Cladosporium). It produces blocky, red 6.3-10.5 oz (180-300 g) slicing tomatoes. While growers praise its vigor and yield, the consensus is that the flavor is fairly average and doesn’t hold a candle … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Margarita F1 is a highly reliable, early-mid season indeterminate commercial hybrid. It produces 5 oz (150 g) red salad tomatoes with thin skins and good flavor. Its standout feature is absolute bulletproof resistance to leaf mold (Cladosporium), which keeps the foliage green and healthy long after other greenhouse varieties have died off. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lya-lya-fa F1 is a highly reliable mid-early hybrid from Russia. Growers absolutely love it for its incredible resistance to leaf mold, heavy yields, and long storage life (up to 2 months post-harvest). While the flavor is described as a “standard, slightly bland” tomato taste, its rock-solid dependability and crack-resistant, 4-5 oz (120-140 … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Kameya is an ultra-early, incredibly rugged determinate bush variety bred specifically for outdoor growing in tough climates. The plant stays compact (under 20 inches) and requires zero pruning or staking. It produces uniform, small red tomatoes weighing 2-3.5 oz (60-100 g). Growers love it for its intense, punchy flavor reminiscent of cherry … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Klubnichnoe Derevo (Strawberry Tree) 🌍 Origin: A commercial Russian variety released in 2015 by the Siberian Garden (Sibsad) seed company. Not to be confused with the old European heirloom “German Red Strawberry”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), but stays somewhat manageable. Outdoors it reaches about 3.3-4 feet (1-1.2 m), though it … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Boar’s Hoof 🌍 Origin: A rare dark cocktail variety from the USA (Brad Gates; Wild Boar Farms). 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). A vigorous, highly productive vine. It is widely praised for its incredible disease resistance—specifically its ability to completely shrug off Leaf Mold (Cladosporium) in humid greenhouse conditions. 🍅 Fruit … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): De Barao Tsarsky (Royal) 🌍 Origin: A premium, upgraded offshoot of the legendary Russian “De Barao” family. The name “Tsarsky” translates to “Royal” or “Tsar’s”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. A massive, towering vine that loves to climb. Shows excellent resistance to Leaf Mold (Cladosporium) and extreme heat, but generally requires a … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Verlioka F1 🌍 Origin: An older, classic commercial F1 hybrid from Russia. While some modern growers consider it outdated, it has a fiercely loyal following among veteran gardeners for its absolute reliability. 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate. The seed packet claims it reaches 6.5 ft (2 m), but real-world growers note it … Read more
Quick Summary of Unikalnyi Kulchitskogo (Kulchitsky’s Unique) 🌍 Origin: A Russian heirloom variety bred/selected by amateur vegetable grower M.G. Kulchitsky from Novorossiysk. The name translates to “Kulchitsky’s Unique”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), reaching about 1.6 meters (5.2 ft) outdoors and taller in a greenhouse. Features large Potato Leaf (PL) foliage. Known for its incredible … Read more