Best cherry tomato variety?

[PrideRavyn]

Last year I made the mistake of growing whatever tomato seeds I first laid my hands on as I was in a 'new gardener' haze of just wanting to grow anything! The tomato plants I picked ended up being quite big tomatoes but in this house we eat a lot of the baby plum/cherry tomato varieties.

Does anyone have an idea of a good cropping, tasty, quite tart, not powdery cherry tomato variety that I could pick this year? ETA: can be bush or cordon variety and have the option of greenhouse or outside growing.

[zazen999]

Before moving you into Feeling Fruity - I realised you were talking about cherry tomatoes, not cherries - so I've amended the title.

Sungold are the best cherry tomato. Yellow, not red; but lovely. Like sweets.

Not sure if they are tart enough for you though...

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[Aberdeenplotter]

Tomatoberry, shaped like a strawberry with a lovely skin finish is delicious.

[Nicos]

Red Alert- lovely!

[Kristen]

Gardeners Delight is popular, but I think Sungold gets best rankings in the polls each year. Don't think you can buy it in the Supermarkets, so it won't be something that most people will have eaten

Seed may not be that easy to get hold of - I think only T&M and Unwins do it. I had to go to three different garden centres locally - although that may have been 'coz I was looking for a yellow fruit on the packet, and Unwins (which I eventually found) has pictures of orangey-red tomatoes, maybe T&M's does too?

[Flummery]

Sungold is an F1 variety so you can't save your own seeds from it (and get exactly the same). However, if you do shell out the exorbitant price for a packet of 9 or 10 seeds you can sow just a few and take cuttings from the sideshoots - they root in water in a week. Then your packet will last you 3 or 4 years instead of one!

[Kristen]

Personally I am happy to pay more on seeds for tasty fruit, and I buy nearly all my seed in the Wyevale 50p-a-packet sale in September.

I only want 5 plants, so 10 seeds will do me fine , but yeah they are 30p each from Unwins and T&M.

If you want more they are 12p each from Moles seeds for 50-off

[smallblueplanet]

Sungold is an F1 variety so you can't save your own seeds from it (and get exactly the same). However, if you do shell out the exorbitant price for a packet of 9 or 10 seeds you can sow just a few and take cuttings from the sideshoots - they root in water in a week. Then your packet will last you 3 or 4 years instead of one!

How are your own 'Flumgold' doing? Have you bred them out yet?

[poly]

I agree with Sungold being a super yummy cherry tomato, my favourite.

If you want a red cherry what about Suncherry premium F1, produces lot of very tasty and sweet cherries.

[Flummery]

How are your own 'Flumgold' doing? Have you bred them out yet?

My favourite so far is a yellow drop shaped one and I think the flavour is excellent. It fruits very heavily too. Need to grow it out again this year to check it comes true. I've taken some cuttings so I can compare with last years.

[Potstubsdustbins]

I have Sungold in the green house & 4 hanging baskets of good old Tumbler, both are very prolific with Sungold being the sweeter.

I personally think that for ease of growing nothing beats Tumbler, plant it, feed it, water it and pick dozens of lovely toms. Freezes well to for later use in spag blol and the like.

Colin.

[northepaul]

I am growing sungold as my main cherry tom this year - I was very impressed with my one plant last year and everyone loved them. So I can wholeheartedly recommend them

[bramble]

Sungold would be my number one favourite but I also think Black Cherry is a lovely tomato and has been a very good producer for me.