Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Enormous Plum is a vigorous indeterminate variety that produces genuinely massive, red, plum-shaped tomatoes, with some reaching up to 21 oz (600 g). The mid-season vines are tall and robust, easily topping 6.5 ft (2 m) in a greenhouse. Growers praise the fruits for being incredibly meaty with no green shoulders or … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Earl of Edgecombe is an indeterminate, mid-season historic heirloom variety producing firm, bright orange and yellow fruits. Tomatoes usually run 3.5-10.5 oz (100-300 g) and have a distinctive barrel or globe shape. Growers praise its incredibly sturdy vines, strong trusses that don’t kink, and excellent storage life. The flavor reviews are slightly … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Elser Farm’s Brown Derby is an indeterminate beefsteak with a unique greenish-ochre to brownish-orange skin and vibrant tricolor flesh. Growers consistently praise its sweet, rich, and slightly tangy flavor, often comparing it to a ripe mango or the famous Dwarf Uluru Ochre. While it’s an indeterminate vine, most growers note it stays … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Everett’s Rusty Oxheart is a legendary indeterminate, mid-season heirloom producing unique bronze, rusty-green, and red bi-color hearts. Growers absolutely rave about its intensely sweet, fruity, and exotic flavor, often calling it the best-tasting tomato of their season. Everett’s Rusty Oxheart is a classic American heirloom. While the original breeder is lost to … Read more
🍅 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: 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: Dwarf Beryl Beauty is a historic, inaugural 2011 release from the Dwarf Tomato Project. Created from the “Sneezy” family (a cross between Golden Dwarf Champion and Green Giant made by Patrina Nuske Small) and selected/named by Craig LeHoullier, it is a sturdy, regular-leaf rugose dwarf. Growers love it for its manageable 3 … 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