Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Eagle’s Heart (Orlinoe Serdtse) is a popular Siberian pink oxheart bred by Sibirskiy Sad. It produces hefty, dense, blunt heart-shaped slicers weighing anywhere from 6.3 to 17 oz (180-480 g) with minimal gel and high sweetness. The vine has typical sparse, wispy oxheart foliage and thrives both in protected greenhouse setups and … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Mikado Sibiriko is a commercial Indeterminate Siberian variety (Sibirskiy Sad) known for producing massive, meaty pink hearts up to 21 oz (600 g). It shares the classic “wispy foliage” trait common to many oxhearts. Growers frequently compare it to the popular Batyanya tomato, noting it has a very similar mild, sweet flavor … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Medvezhya Lapa (Bear’s Paw) is an indeterminate Russian commercial variety known for producing large, meaty, red oblate beefsteaks. While capable of excellent yields and solid, classic tomato flavor, growers report a very high rate of unstable genetics and off-types (rogues) coming directly from the primary commercial seed vendor, Sibirskiy Sad. Full summary … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Casanova 🌍 Origin: Bred by Russian tomato breeder Vladimir Dederko and distributed by the Siberian Garden (Sibirskiy Sad) seed company. It was officially entered into the Russian State Register in 2017. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). Can reach over 6.5 feet (2 m) in a greenhouse. If grown outdoors without pruning … Read more