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A variety of tomato

How to sow cherry tomato: Sow seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last expected frost

Sun requirement for cherry tomato: Plant in Full Sun

Cherry tomatoes range in size from a thumbtip to the size of a golf ball. Their shape ranges from spherical to slightly oblong to pointed at the bottom. They are often red, but can also be yellow, green, striped, and even black. More oblong cherry tomatoes often share characteristics with plum tomatoes, and are known as grape tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes can be quite sweet (such as the Sungold or Sunsweet yellow varieties), more traditionally acidic, or deep in flavor. They are delicious for snacking, in salads, lightly roasted or grilled, or baked. They require little to no pruning unlike larger tomato plants.

63
plantings
38
harvests
6
seed packets

Growing cherry tomatoes

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

20 weeks

First harvest expected

11 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

12 weeks after planting

Height

60cm

Spread

45cm

Row Spacing

60cm

Grown for

fruit harvested 38 times

How members grow cherry tomatoes

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Varieties of cherry tomato

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currant tomato

Solanum pimpinellifolium
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Matt's wild cherry tomato

Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
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Santorini tomato

Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
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super sweet 100 tomato

Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
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tomaccio tomato

Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme

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Cherry tomato crops

Cherry tomato plantings

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Porch garden 2015
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Garden beds
Garden beds
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Invernadero
Invernadero
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Cherry tomato harvests

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not much to harvest today
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late harvest of tomatoes
late harvest of tomatoes
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harvested tomatoes
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    Median days to last harvest
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Nutritional data

A summary of nutritional data per 100g for Tomato, cherry, raw.

Energy 90.0 kJ
Protein 0.9 g
Carbohydrate 3.5 g
- Sugars 3.5 g
Fibre 1.7 g
Sodium 6.0 mg

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