I grew them last year. Just your standard commercial type of red, globe tomato. Production was good. Flavor was average. Size was

Moskvich is one of my top 5 tomatoes, and has been 3 years running. It is cold tolerant, unfazed by cold, wet temperatures. No other tomato I've grown ripens such large, blemish-free, great tasting tomatoes so early. It continues producing consistently to frost, and the flavor gets better as the season goes on.

We get tons of rain up here in the mountains, and that may be a factor in why it does so well. This year, I'm consistently picking one pounders, too.

I liked the Moskvich as well but think the Wisconsin55 had more of the Tomato taste I like. Both grew well for me.

I've grown it two years. It's early for it's size. Average taste. (I am not a big fan of most early varieties) Radial cracking. I'd rather wait another week or two for a juicy beefstake.

For me, it's been about the best tasting early mid-size red. I think it does really well for people in the northern cooler zones. I don't grow it every year, but I keep coming back to it after testing other comparable early to mid-season reds.

I've never had radial cracking, or any other kind with Moskvich. It is the juicy red beefsteak I don't have to wait for;-)

Bark, sounds like you have a different Moskovich than I have. My seeds were from Johnny's and grew as described there... early, red, globe shaped, between 4 and 8 oz. Mine were not beefsteaks and none came even close to a pound. I want the ones you have :>)

tomatovator, it is mostly weather related, I think. The later tomatoes I'm picking now are settling down to 6-8 ounces. With the record rains from midJune to mid August, I think that explains the size.

I am saving seeds again right now, and will be happy to share at the end of the season. My original seeds were Johnny's also.

It sounds like it really depends on where you live, considering the above "average" comments. I actually think Moskvich shines not when it's cool, but in hot, dry weather. In my garden, it is tied for number one in flavor, out of the 100+ varieties I grow. I don't grow it for its supposed "earliness" but because it is delicious, and every neighbor of mine who has tried them, asks for a seedling the following year.

Carla in Sac