Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Grosse Hative d’Orleans Bush is a semi-determinate, early-season red variety known for its sparse foliage and highly concentrated harvest. Growers appreciate it as a low-maintenance outdoor plant that delivers above-average yields of very juicy, seed-dense fruits. While the flavor is a basic, classic tomato taste, it is considered very good for such … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Liqueur F1 is an early-season, indeterminate orange cocktail tomato from Russian breeder Lyubov Myazina. While the packet says the fruits average 1 oz (25 g), greenhouse growers report them easily doubling in size to 1.5-1.8 oz (45-50 g). The vine is well-behaved with sparse foliage and responds great to being pruned to … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Bergamot 🌍 Origin: A Russian/CIS variety circulated by heirloom seed collectors like Tamara Yashchenko and Lidia Ganzen. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, but relatively manageable in height (around 1.2–1.5m / 4–5 ft in open ground). It features sparse/wispy foliage. The first fruit truss sets quite high (usually after the 11th leaf). 🍅 … Read more
Quick Summary of Yasha Yugoslavian 🌍 Origin & History: A legendary heirloom variety originally brought to the US from Yugoslavia. There is an ongoing historical debate (discussed in this thread) about its connection to the famous Crnkovic Yugoslavian variety, with many believing they are either the same or closely related sister lines from the Vojvodina … Read more