Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Orange Heart from Angelini is a tall, indeterminate, mid-season oxheart variety that produces vibrant, sun-colored orange fruits averaging around 7 oz. Known for its sweet, juicy flavor and solid yields, it performs beautifully in greenhouses, especially for growers dealing with short northern summers. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Nizhegorodskie is a mid-season, indeterminate heirloom that produces round, slightly ribbed red slicing tomatoes weighing up to 14 oz (400 g). It is known for its excellent productivity, setting fruit in distinct tiers all the way up the tall 6.5 ft (2 m) vines. Growers report that it performs equally well in … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Meksikanets Rozovyi (Mexican Pink) is a highly productive, mid-season indeterminate pink heirloom. It produces large, oval-shaped fruits weighing 10.5-14 oz (300-400 g) with firm, sweet, and aromatic flesh. While it stays relatively compact for an indet (around 5 ft / 1.5 m), it performs exceptionally well both in northern greenhouses and outdoors … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Apple Malinovka (Malinovka Yablochnaya) is a stout, highly productive indeterminate Russian heirloom that produces beautiful, oblate, deep pink beefsteaks. Known for its thick stems and manageable height, it typically pumps out meaty 5.5-10.5 oz (150-300 g) fruits with a rich, buttery texture and sweet flavor. Because the name “Malinovka” is often used … Read more
.thumb.jpg.5ab035e103e1f25445172c9c1e5afa3c.jpg)
🍅 Quick take: Bridge Over A Troubled River is a mid-season, compact indeterminate variety that produces gorgeous orange-red fruits. Growers note that the coloring is so vibrant it almost looks like the tomatoes are glowing from the inside. The flavor profile is described as dense, juicy, and sweet, with a unique spicy kick on the … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Malinovy Rassvet (Raspberry Dawn) is a mid-season, indeterminate oxheart tomato from the seed company Poisk. It produces massive, smooth, meaty fruits that easily exceed 14 oz (400 g). The flavor is highly rated as sweet and aromatic, though the color may lean more toward red than a true pink or raspberry hue. … Read more
.jpg.f3d1e3154f72e05aa764f464117fb4f9.jpg)
🍅 Quick take: Medovukha (Mead) is a mid-season, indeterminate red-and-orange bicolor beefsteak bred by Valdis Pulniņš. It produces massive, meaty, flat-round fruits that frequently reach over 2 lbs (1 kg), known for their incredibly sweet and juicy flavor profile. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos I Irina Volga (Irina Rubleva) 🍅 Member (902 posts) … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Sgt. Pepper’s Raspberry Points is a mid-season, indeterminate anthocyanin variety developed from the famous Sgt. Pepper lineage. It produces a massive wall of 3.5-5.3 oz (100-150 g) raspberry-pink fruits with dark purple antho shoulders. The shapes are wonderfully unpredictable, ranging from ribbed flattened hearts with pointy “beaks” to blunt plums. Growers love … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Miele di Saluto Arcobaleno (Honey Rainbow Greeting) is a mid-season, indeterminate Italian heirloom. The vigorous, disease-resistant vine produces massive, flat-round bicolor beefsteaks weighing anywhere from 14 oz up to a whopping 2.2 lbs (400 g to 1 kg). The fruits have very few seeds and feature an incredibly sweet flavor profile with … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Swan Song (Lebedinaya Pesnya) is a mid-season, indeterminate pale yellow/white tomato. The vines are very well-behaved and manageable, producing excellent yields over a long production window. The fruits weigh between 3.5 and 10.5 oz (100-300 g) and develop a beautiful pink blush on the blossom end when fully ripe. It has a … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Layner (Liner) is a mid-season, indeterminate pink tomato from Russian breeder Petrov. It produces highly versatile, barrel-to-plum-shaped fruits, making it an excellent choice for paste and canning. The vine is notable for its compact, narrow footprint and shorter regular-leaf foliage, making it easy to manage. Growers praise its solid yields and reliability, … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Lyon-1 (Flax-1) is a mid-season, indeterminate red tomato praised heavily for its commercial qualities. Reaching over 6 feet in a greenhouse, it produces very dense, crack-resistant fruits weighing 5-10.5 oz (150-300 g). Growers love its incredible productivity, noting it sets fruit beautifully without dropping blossoms. While the flavor is described as a … Read more