Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Jumbo Jim Orange is a robust, indeterminate mid-season variety originating from the US that pumps out large, ribbed orange beefsteaks averaging around 1 lb. Growers love its high yield, perfectly balanced sweet flavor, and surprisingly good shelf life for an heirloom. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes and Photos T Tiffany (Julia) ⭐ … Read more
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🍅 Quick take: Green Brandy is a relatively rare, mid-season indeterminate green tomato from the USA. It produces highly vigorous, sturdy vines that set clusters of small, 2.5-3.5 oz (70-100 g) yellowish-green striped fruits. Growers praise it for its sweet, fruity flavor and excellent crack resistance, making it a fantastic choice for whole-fruit canning. Full … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Graf Batthyany is a mid-season, indeterminate heirloom from the USA. It produces highly vigorous, thick-stemmed plants that easily pump out over 11 lbs of meaty slicers per vine. However, growers caution that it is a heavy feeder that can easily suffer from nitrogen toxicity if over-fertilized. While the yield and texture are … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Girl Girl’s Weird Thing is a large, indeterminate, dark-striped beefsteak tomato introduced by Jessica Hughes (named after her dog, Girl Girl, who discovered it). It produces massive, sweet, well-balanced slicing tomatoes that frequently reach 1-1.5 lbs. A major topic of discussion among these growers is how similar it is to Chocolate Stripes; … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dana’s Dusky Rose (originating from Dan Gilmore) is an indeterminate but naturally compact tomato variety that produces stunning smoky-pink to dark-purple oblate fruits. Growers on the forum rave about its exceptionally sweet, rich, and unique flavor profile, often calling it one of the best-tasting dark tomatoes they’ve ever grown. Yields can be … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Orange Strawberry is a vigorous, indeterminate, mid-to-late season heirloom known for producing massive, meaty, heart-shaped or oblate orange fruits with very few seeds. Originating in the US as a stray from a Pineapple tomato packet, it thrives on heavy potassium/phosphorus feeding and sunshine, though it can be a sparse yielder in cooler … Read more
🍅 Quick take: OPO (often called Dwarf OPO) is a fascinating American variety that looks like a stocky Dwarf seedling but grows and produces like a classic indeterminate. Producing beautiful pink, round-to-heart-shaped fruits weighing 5-14 oz (150-400 g), it is universally praised for its incredibly sweet, bright, old-fashioned flavor. It performs exceptionally well both outdoors … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Missouri is a mid-late season determinate paste tomato highly praised for its firm, thick-walled fruits that don’t get rubbery or “rock-hard” like some commercial canning types. The bushes grow up to 3-4 ft (1-1.2 m) tall and produce heavy yields of mildly sweet, low-acid red tomatoes perfect for processing, juicing, or eating … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Ferris Wheel is an indeterminate American heirloom that produces massive, sweet pink beefsteaks. However, some growers have discovered two completely different foliage types circulating in the market under this name. While the true historical strain should have Regular Leaf (RL) foliage, a highly productive Potato Leaf (PL) off-type is widely grown and … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Red Butter Heart 🌍 Origin: Originally tracing back to the USA, this variety became incredibly popular in the Russian heirloom community after being distributed by collector V. Redko. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall/vine). Exhibits the classic “weeping oxheart” gene with thin, wispy, droopy foliage. Do not be alarmed—the plant is not … Read more