{"id":7391,"date":"2026-11-09T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:10:07","slug":"sart-roloise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/sart-roloise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sart Roloise Tomato Review & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Sart Roloise<\/strong> is an eye-popping indeterminate<\/strong> beefsteak bred in Belgium by Roland Boulanger<\/strong> (White Wonder \u00d7 Baby Blue). The ribbed, 9-12 oz (250-350 g) pale yellow slicers feature deep indigo shoulders. While growers consistently praise its heavy yields and jaw-dropping appearance, the flavor polarizes the patch: warm-climate growers report sweet, tender fruit, while cold-climate growers call it watery and flat. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 3-6 Experience)<\/h2>\n
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ElenaN (Elena) \u2b50 Pro Grower (28,513 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udccd Kostroma, Russia (USDA Zone 4a)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Indeterminate mid-season vine, regular leaf foliage. Grew mine out in the garden dirt. The plant doesn’t get overly bushy, but it’s plenty sturdy. The tomatoes look like ornaments – flattened, ribbed beefsteaks in a pale lemon shade with an anthocyanin dusting and faint purple striping. Flesh inside is an ivory-lemon color.
\nTaste-wise, it was pretty washed out – just insipid-sweet. The pluses are the crazy look, solid productivity, and total lack of fuss. But honestly? Zero desire to grow it again. Not a keeper.
\nEdited November 10, 2018 by ElenaN
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Yaroslavna (Natalya) \u2b50 Pro Grower (6,367 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udccd Northern Yaroslavl Region, Russia (USDA Zone 3b)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\ud83d\ude0a Sart Roloise was such a showstopper for me this season. It comes from an intentional cross between the white heirloom White Wonder and the blue antho Baby Blue, bred by Roland Boulanger back in 2012 in Sart-Eustache, Belgium.
\nThe color play on these is wild – a pale creamy yellow-orange body capped with deep indigo shoulders. The flesh is dense when sliced, very meaty, with a gentle, slightly sweet profile. Ripe ones look almost translucent in the sun. Real stunners.
\nMostly large oblate beefsteaks across the board, pulling 9 to 12 oz (250-350 g). The vines themselves are robust, heavy feeders with broad foliage. Trained to two stems in the greenhouse, they topped out around 6 ft (1.8 m). Word is the line is still stabilizing, but what I got this year was killer. Definitely growing it again next season. Sourced my seeds from France.
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Insanely gorgeous. I mean drop-dead gorgeous! Hanging in the sun they honestly look like Christmas ornaments. Sets a ton of fruit, too.
\nAnd that’s where the party ends.
\nI don’t even want to talk about the taste. \ud83d\ude2d There just ISN’T any. Plain tap water has more going on. First I waited forever for them to ripen and they turned sour right on the vine. Picked the next batch, cut ’em open – look juicy and pretty, and went straight into the trash can.
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Kirina (Irina) \u2b50 Pro Grower (1,440 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udccd Stupino District, Moscow Region (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Super tender, melt-in-your-mouth texture. Flavor was a total letdown at first – just felt completely washed out. But once I sliced it into a salad with oil and salt, it actually ate really well. At one point in mid-summer it even had this weird salty, almost seafood-like savoriness to it.
\nI’m keeping it in the lineup mainly because it ripened weeks ahead of my other antho types. Solid producer.
\nLineup in the photo, left to right: Lucid Gem, Sart Roloise, and Great White \u00d7 P20.
\nEdited August 27, 2019 by Kirina
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Anela (Elena) \u2b50 Pro Grower (3,218 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Props to Kirina for the seeds! \ud83d\ude4f
\nRan this both in the greenhouse and out in an open dirt bed. The outdoor plant got hammered by late blight. The greenhouse vine set a decent crop, but nobody in the family liked the flavor – easily our biggest bust of the season.
\nEdited December 13, 2019 by Anela
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Hands down one of my tastiest tomatoes this season! Set like crazy early on, then dropped some blossoms when the heat kicked in, and now the run is done. Didn’t manage to get any photos because I was eating every single one right off the vine like candy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Just picked the first couple. Wouldn’t say the taste is mind-blowing, but it’s pleasant enough. None of my new trials are throwing much sugar this year anyway, and this one’s got enough sweetness to get by. Not seeing crazy yields yet, though.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Quick Facts: Variety Summary<\/h2>\n