Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Quedlinburger Frühe Liebe (Early Love of Quedlinburg) is an ultra-early, compact indeterminate German heirloom featuring distinctive potato leaf (PL) foliage. Producing uniform 1.4-1.8 oz (40-50 g) red saladette fruits with light fluting, this variety excels in close high-density spacing trained to a single leader. Elena’s northern trial proved it is remarkably shade-tolerant, … Read more
Quick Summary of Yupiter (Jupiter) 🌍 Origin: A fantastic heirloom/commercial variety traded among collectors under the name Yupiter (Jupiter). 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and extremely vigorous. Growers note that it develops very thick, strong stems that naturally want to bifurcate and branch out into multiple leaders. If not pruned strictly, it will easily turn your … Read more
Quick Summary of Smuglyanka (Dark-Skinned Girl) 🌍 Origin: This thread highlights a classic naming conflict! There are two completely different tomatoes sold in Russia under the name Smuglyanka (which translates to “Dark-Skinned Girl,” a famous Russian term of endearment and song). 🌿 Version 1 (Breeder N. Borzykh): A moderately tall, mid-season indeterminate. It is notably … Read more