📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Zheltyi Shar (Yellow Globe)
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial variety. The name translates exactly to “Yellow Globe”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), easily exceeding 6.5 ft (2 m). Performs great outdoors (requires heavy staking) and in greenhouses.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Bright yellow, perfectly round globes weighing around 5.3 oz (150 g).
- 👅 Uses & Storage: An excellent multi-purpose tomato. Great for fresh eating, but it truly shines in canning and pickling. Standout feature: It has an incredibly long post-harvest shelf life and ripens flawlessly off the vine.
Description from the seed packet: A mid-early (106-110 days from seedling emergence to fruiting) tall (over 6.5 ft / 200 cm) variety, recommended for open ground (with stakes) and high tunnels. Prune to a single stem, removing all suckers. The fruits are perfectly round, bright yellow in color, weighing 5.3 oz (150 g). Perfect for pickling, marinating, canning, and making fresh salads. Photo credit: Ninu
I’ll add that Yellow Globe fruits store incredibly well post-harvest. For me, this variety showed average yields and average disease resistance.
In the 2016 season, Yellow Globe showed excellent yields again.
I’ve grown this variety for several years now. A worthy, productive, and tasty tomato. In the autumn (around October), some of the late fruits developed a bitter taste. It produces right up until the frosts in the greenhouse. They store exceptionally well and ripen flawlessly off the vine.
- Late Season Bitterness: Natalya notes that the last tomatoes picked in October had a bitter taste. This is a common phenomenon with many late-season harvests. When night temperatures drop drastically in autumn, the cold stress disrupts the plant’s ability to convert starches into sugars. This often results in late-season fruits tasting bland, mealy, or even slightly bitter compared to the exact same tomatoes harvested during the warm summer months!
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