{"id":7131,"date":"2026-11-05T09:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:23:34","slug":"polish-linguisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/polish-linguisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Linguisa Tomato Review &#038; Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-top\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;7131&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;top&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Share your rating&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Polish Linguisa Tomato Review \\u0026amp; Photos&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 0px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 19.2px;\">\n            <span class=\"kksr-muted\">Share your rating<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"tldr-box\" style=\"background: #f4f9f4; padding: 20px; border-left: 5px solid #4CAF50; margin-bottom: 25px; border-radius: 4px;\"><strong>\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> <strong>Polish Linguisa<\/strong> is a classic 19th-century <strong>indeterminate<\/strong> heirloom paste tomato carrying slender, <strong>wispy foliage<\/strong> and massive 7-9 oz (200-250 g) sausage-shaped red fruits with pointed tips. Renowned for its low seed count and remarkably sweet, non-acidic flesh, it is a staple for thick sauce and sun-drying. Like many wispy paste vines, high greenhouse heat can abort upper blossoms, but fruit sizing rebounds vigorously once summer temperatures cool down.\u00a0<a href=\"#full-summary\">Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>Growers&#8217; Notes and Field Trials (USDA Zones 4 &amp; 6)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">E<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">ElenaN (Elena) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (28,513 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Kostroma, Russia (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">Indeterminate, mid-to-late season variety featuring fine, wispy foliage. Regular leaf type. Fruits are solid red, elongated and pepper-shaped with a pointed tip: dense, meaty, and very low on seed count. In my garden, they turned out genuinely sweet and tasty. Fruit weight averaged 7-9 oz (200-250 g).Grew this in the greenhouse where yield came in right around average, mostly because the top flower clusters completely torched under the glass during our mid-summer heatwave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/157\/111-251216104320.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/157\/thumb_111-251216104320.jpeg\" alt=\"Polish Linguisa sausage shaped paste tomato, photo posted by ElenaN (1)\" width=\"160\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/157\/111-251216104338.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/157\/thumb_111-251216104338.jpeg\" alt=\"Polish Linguisa ripe fruits on plate, photo posted by ElenaN (2)\" width=\"160\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/157\/111-251216104412.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/157\/thumb_111-251216104412.jpeg\" alt=\"Polish Linguisa harvested cluster, photo posted by ElenaN (3)\" width=\"160\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/157\/111-251216104355.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/157\/thumb_111-251216104355.jpeg\" alt=\"Polish Linguisa pointed tip detail, photo posted by ElenaN (4)\" width=\"116\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- ===== H2 ANCHOR FOR SEO & NAVIGATION ===== --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"heat-and-processing\">Late-Season Sizing, Sauce Reduction, and Dehydrating<\/h2>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">L<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Lana_s_Kavkaza (Svetlana) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (19,274 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Pyatigorsk, Caucasus, Russia (USDA Zone 6)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">Total showstopper of a variety!Come late summer and autumn, the tomatoes sized up noticeably bigger once that brutal summer heat finally broke. Flesh has medium firmness, very few seeds, sweet and delicious.<\/p>\n<p>We tried drying a batch in the dehydrator and cooked down another batch into thick tomato paste. Both turned out phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/243\/5102-131018154341.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/243\/thumb_5102-131018154341.jpeg\" alt=\"Polish Linguisa harvested large paste fruits on scale, photo posted by Lana_s_Kavkaza (1)\" width=\"160\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/243\/5102-131018154433.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/243\/thumb_5102-131018154433.jpeg\" alt=\"Polish Linguisa elongated red tomatoes on display, photo posted by Lana_s_Kavkaza (2)\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- ===== FULL SUMMARY ===== --><\/p>\n<div id=\"full-summary\" class=\"tldr-box\" style=\"background: #f4f9f4; padding: 20px; border-left: 5px solid #4CAF50; margin-top: 30px; border-radius: 4px;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0;\">Full Summary: Vine Habit, Heat Dynamics, Flavor, and Processing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83c\udf3f <strong>Plant Habit:<\/strong> Indeterminate vine with distinct, slender &#8220;wispy&#8221; regular foliage. Like many heirloom pastes and oxhearts, the canopy looks delicate but roots deeply and produces vigorously.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf45 <strong>Fruit Characteristics:<\/strong> Substantial elongated sausage-and-pepper fruits weighing 7-9 oz (200-250 g), terminating in a pointed tip. Deep crimson-red skin enclosing dense, meaty flesh with minimal free-flowing gel and exceptionally low seed count.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc45 <strong>Flavor Profile:<\/strong> Far sweeter than commercial processing pastes (such as Roma or Amish Paste), boasting a rich, old-fashioned sweetness that makes it enjoyable sliced fresh off the vine.<\/li>\n<li>\u2600\ufe0f <strong>Heat Resilience:<\/strong> Due to wispy leaf cover, extreme mid-summer heatwaves under unshaded greenhouse glass can cause blossom drop on upper trusses. However, the vine recovers rapidly and sets much larger fruits once daytime temperatures moderate in late summer and autumn.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83e\udd6b <strong>Preservation &amp; Kitchen Use:<\/strong> A premier dual-purpose variety. Exceptional for thick, rich tomato paste, marinara reductions that require minimal simmer time, and drying into sweet sun-dried slices in the dehydrator.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf0e <strong>Reviewer Zones:<\/strong> Evaluated in cold short-season greenhouse conditions in Kostroma (USDA Zone 4) and long-season southern conditions in Pyatigorsk (USDA Zone 6).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"add-review-cta\" style=\"margin: 20px 0; padding: 15px; background: #f9f9f9; border-left: 4px solid #4CAF50; border-radius: 4px;\"><strong>\ud83c\udf45 Grown Polish Linguisa?<\/strong> <a href=\"#wpdcom\">Did you dry them or can sauce? Drop your review and photos in the comments below!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"editor-note\" style=\"background: #eef7ff; padding: 15px; border-left: 4px solid #2196F3; margin-top: 15px; font-size: 0.9em;\"><strong>\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83c\udf3e Editor&#8217;s Note: Polish Immigration Heritage &amp; &#8220;Wispy&#8221; Foliage<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Polish Linguisa<\/em> is an authentic 1800s heirloom carried to upstate New York by Polish immigrants. Its name references its striking resemblance to traditional coiled or tapered Portuguese-Polish smoked sausage links. Gardeners new to this variety should not be alarmed by its drooping, &#8220;wilty&#8221; appearance: this characteristic &#8220;wispy foliage&#8221; is a classic genetic trait of elongated paste and oxheart heirlooms and does not indicate underwatering or disease.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf45 Quick take: Polish Linguisa is a classic 19th-century indeterminate heirloom paste tomato carrying slender, wispy foliage and massive 7-9 oz (200-250 g) sausage-shaped red fruits with pointed tips. Renowned for its low seed count and remarkably sweet, non-acidic flesh, it is a staple for thick sauce and sun-drying. 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