Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Main love is an indeterminate, mid-season culinary stuffer tomato. It yields bright red, elongated pepper-shaped fruits with semi-hollow seed cavities designed specifically for baking and stuffing. Tough and fuss-free, it delivers strong yields outdoors in short northern seasons, with seeds that scoop out effortlessly. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Fuego Rosa is an indeterminate, pepper-shaped paste variety bred by Fred Hempel. It produces beautiful, glossy pink fruits with gold striping. Growers report good yields, but flavor reviews are wildly mixed: greenhouse growers found it sweet and juicy, while outdoor growers reported thick skins and dry, rubbery flesh. Full summary ↓ Growers’ … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Cuban Salami 🌍 Origin: A relatively rare and highly sought-after variety in the Russian/Eastern European seed swapping community. Its exact origins are a mystery, but most growers agree it is likely an accidental (or intentional) cross involving the famous “Cuban Pepper-shaped” (Kubinskiy Pertsevidnyi) black paste tomato. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Zub Drakona (Dragon’s Tooth) 🌍 Origin: An Eastern European heirloom variety. The name translates perfectly to “Dragon’s Tooth”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). A very vigorous, strong plant that performs exceptionally well both in a greenhouse and outdoors in open ground. Mid-season maturity. Highly praised for its excellent disease resistance. 🍅 … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Dyadya Stepa (Uncle Stepa) 🌍 Origin: A very popular commercial variety. It is famously named after “Uncle Stepa”, an extremely tall, lanky, good-natured policeman from a classic Soviet children’s poem. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, mid-late season. The plant has a thin, vine-like, spindly stem and weeping foliage. 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: The … Read more
Quick Summary of Teshchin Yazyk (Mother-in-Law’s Tongue) 🌍 Origin: A fantastic heirloom variety originating from Ukraine. The hilarious name translates to “Mother-in-Law’s Tongue”, a playful nod to the long, slightly pointed, “sharp” shape of the fruit. 🌿 Plant Habit: Mid-sized plant (often growing as a compact indeterminate), highly productive, and well-suited for greenhouse cultivation. 🍅 … Read more
Quick Summary of Serdce Boba (Coeur de Bob) 🌍 Origin: A popular variety known by its French name Coeur de Bob, which translates to “Bob’s Heart” (Сердце Боба). Despite the “heart” in the name, it is a distinctly elongated, pepper-shaped tomato. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate with classic “wispy” (delicate) foliage. Growers recommend pruning it to … Read more