What Should I Know About My Variety Of Tomatoes (Part 1)?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Chocolate Cherry’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Sweet Million’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Sun Cherry’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Chadwick’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Gardener’s Delight’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Matt’s Wild Cherry’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Gold Nugget’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Garden Peach’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Sungold’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Balconi Red’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Tumbling Tom Red’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Totem’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Legend’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Glacier’?

This heavy-cropping vine variety bears small, very dark purple fruits with excellent flavor. Perfect for use in salads, these tomatoes are especially rich in beneficial antioxidants. Plants will need support with sticks or string.

A hybrid cherry tomato that can be grown in greenhouses or outdoors, and has a vine habit so should be trained up sticks or string. The trusses are very long and carry large numbers of small, bright red, very sweet, round, cherry fruits.

This high-yielding, cherry, vine variety bears numerous bright red fruits, borne on large trusses, which ripen to a sweet flavor. Plants need to be supported by sticks or string and are suitable for either greenhouse cultivation or outdoor cultivation.

A juicy cherry variety, this tomato is named after its originator and is sometimes called ‘Camp Joy’. Its fruits are on the large side for cherry types and are borne on plants with a vine habit, in greenhouses or outdoors.

This long-established cherry tomato has a vine habit and should be supported with sticks or string. Famed for its flavor, this variety bears medium yields of larger than usual fruits, on long trusses. The fruits mature early, even in cooler regions.

A tomato originally of Mexican origin, this variety produces cherry-sized, round, red fruits possessing a good flavor. Plants have good cropping potential and need to be supported with sticks or string. They require a warm, sunny site in which to thrive.

This heavy-cropping bush variety of tomato bears round, cherry-sized, yellow fruits, whose succulent, firm flesh is ideal for slicing or stuffing. ‘Gold Nugget’ is suitable for regions that have a cooler, maritime climate.

Originally from Peru, this unusual variety bears heavy crops. The mottled-yellow fruits ripen to pink, with peachlike skin and succulent, firm flesh. Plants should be supported with sticks or string, and are best grown outdoors in warm regions.

‘Sungold’ is a heavy-cropping cherry variety that bears sweet, round, and attractive, golden-orange fruits. Plants can be cultivated in a greenhouse or can be grown outdoors; they have a vine habit, so will need support from sticks or string.

This variety has a trailing bush habit and is ideally suited for hanging baskets and ornamental containers. The plants grow fast, crop early, and are unusually prolific. The bright red fruits are attractive and delicious and will hang for a long time.

The prolific, bright-red fruits of this variety are attractive and delicious and hang for a long time. The plants grow fast, crop early, and are very robust. Their trailing bush habit is ideally suited for hanging baskets and other ornamental containers.

This dwarf, bush tomato is attractive and quick-growing. The well-flavored crimson fruits are produced abundantly and hang on the plant, enhancing their ornamental value. It is ideal for growing in patio containers, and support is often needed.

This hybrid bush variety produces early crops of large, bright-red fruits that have some tolerance of late blight. Plants are best grown outdoors but may need protection under cloches or other low-level protection, such as horticultural fleece.

This early-cropping variety bears numerous small, bright fruits, even in cool weather. It grows with aspects of both bush and vine habit, so is best trained roughly to a stick or string. Plants have potato-leafed foliage; they are best grown outdoors.

‘Tumbler’ bush tomato has a compact trailing habit, which makes it ideal for hanging baskets and container-growing. The small fruits are well-flavored and abundant, and the plants are very robust and reliable, even when they are grown in hanging baskets.