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Sart Roloise Tomato Review & Photos

🍅 Quick take: Sart Roloise is an eye-popping indeterminate beefsteak bred in Belgium by Roland Boulanger (White Wonder × Baby Blue). The ribbed, 9-12 oz (250-350 g) pale yellow slicers feature deep indigo shoulders. While growers consistently praise its heavy yields and jaw-dropping appearance, the flavor polarizes the patch: warm-climate growers report sweet, tender fruit, … Read more

Swan Song (Lebedinaya Pesnya) Tomato Review & Photos | White Heirloom

🍅 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

Dragon Eye Tomato Review

📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Dragon Eye (Glaz Drakona) 🌍 Origin: A highly decorative novelty variety circulated among Eastern European collectors (popularized by sellers like V.D. Popenko). 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). A mid-season variety that performs well even when grown outdoors in open ground. 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Small, cocktail-sized tomatoes that range from oblate (flattened-round) … Read more

Garmoshka (Accordion) Tomato Review: Ribbed Heirloom

📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Garmoshka (Accordion) 🌍 Origin: A commercial variety introduced by the seed company Premium Seeds. The name translates to “Accordion”, which perfectly describes its heavily pleated, ribbed shape. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), typically growing well over 6.5 ft (2 m) in a greenhouse. It has moderate foliage and requires regular suckering … Read more

Big Ice Cream (Bolshoy Plombir) Tomato Review

📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Bolshoy Plombir (Big Ice Cream) 🌍 Origin & Name: A commercial Russian variety. It is named after “Plombir,” which is a famous, rich Russian vanilla ice cream. The name reflects the tomato’s pale, creamy white/yellow color. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, but generally medium-tall, usually topping out around 1.5m (5 ft). Performs … Read more

Yablonelistniy (Jablonelistnij) Yellow Cherry Tomato Review

Quick Summary of Yablonelistniy (Jablonelistnij / Apple-Leaved) 🌍 Origin: A Russian heirloom whose name translates to “Apple-Leaved”. It became famous in European and American seed circles under the transliteration Jablonelistnij. Due to misread cursive handwriting on seed packets (an uppercase ‘J’ being mistaken for an ‘F’), it is also widely, but incorrectly, circulated as Fablonelystynj. … Read more