Various Cherry Tomatoes, taste and ease

[Irv Wiseguy]

I'm growing Tiny Tim this year. The plant stays small so it's good for container growing. However, it's determinate and I only got about 15 tomatoes total from it. They tasted good, but not a lot of fruit.

You could probably pick out a cherry tomato at random and like it; most of the ones I've tried taste great. The only one I won't grow again is Baxter's Bush Cherry. It had a sour taste, kind of like an unripe apple.

This year I'm also groing Sungold F1 and Husky Cherry Red F1. Sungold is unbelievably delicious, but it's a hybrid and the plant is huge. Mine grew to about 8 feet and the weight of the tomatoes caused it to fall over onto my other plants. That was in mid-June. I just let it intertwine with the other tomato plants so I don't know how tall it would be if I kept building the cage higher.

Husky Cherry Red has a traditional tomato taste; not sweet like Sungold. It's indeterminate but remains compact.

I hope you find a cherry variety that you like.

Irv