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CHERRY AND OTHER SMALL- to MEDIUM- SIZED VARIETIES

These are our Smaller-fruited vine Tomatoes.

See the index on the left for other types.

We really like tomatoes - and grow loads of them every year - but only the very best make it into the catalogue!

For an explanation of the differences between bush & vine plant types, click here.

Stupice EARLY VINE
This fantastic 1954 variety from Eastern Europe is the earliest of all our vine tomatoes.

We tried lots of new varieties in 2010 and this one was noticeably earlier than the others; we got a great crop simply in large pots on our patio, despite the rainy summer.

The plants are vigorous  and produce red fruit with an excellent flavour.  Ideal for outdoors, but also good in a greenhouse for early crops.

Larger than a cherry tomato, but not as big as a beefsteak type, the fruit are about two inches across.

Fast-fruiting variety for shorter summers.

Order ToST - 20 seed £1.89

'Gardener's Delight'

We now have the original Gardeners Delight variety, which is known so well there's hardly a need to describe it.  After all these years, it is one of the most reliable and best-tasting of the cherry tomatoes in the UK.

Flavoursome, much-loved red cherry

Order ToGD - 25 seed £1.49

Galina SUPER- EARLY SWEET YELLOW CHERRY
A hugely productive cherry from Siberia, and we are really impressed by it - very sweet flavour balanced by good acidity.

The bright yellow cherry fruit are in neat bunches, and don't fall off when ripe, which makes picking easier.

It is early to get going (not surprising given where it comes from!),  but just as importantly, it fruits over a long period – it just keeps on going forever , long after most other plants have stopped fruiting.

Early yellow cherry. Grow as a vine but let a couple of shoots develop for highest production

Makes amazing yellow tomato soup or even yellow ketchup, too!

Order ToGA - 25 seed [OG2] £2.25

Our old supposedly 'Gardener's Delight' - Small but Supersweet Irish Version

This version which we have offered in the past was originally from a small seed collection in USA, labelled 'Irish Gardeners Delight'. It has definitely got smaller fruit than what we would normally expect, and we're pretty sure now that it's not really 'Gardeners' Delight' at all, being more in the style of the smaller cherry types such as 'Sweet 100'.

BUT , and it's a big 'but', the flavour is great. This is the sweetest cherry tomato we've ever tried. And the fruit, although small, are produced in huge numbers on enormously long trusses.

We weren't going to list it any more, but many visitors to the gardens pointed out that it was one of the best cherries they'd ever tasted, so we thought we ought to! Get your seed now, you won't be disappointed.

This variety slows down if we have a cool spell in late spring, but it starts growing again once temperatures rise again.

Order ToGi - 20 seed [OG1] £2.19

We have just released a couple of amazing large-cherry vine tomatoes on our 'Breed Your Own Vegetables' page.

Tomatillo de Jalapo

Unfortunately the problem with this wild tomato is that they do tend to come apart when picked, so it is one to eat straight from the bush or pick just before meal times, but it could be a useful variety if you are struggling with blight and other tomatoes won't grow for you.

Order ToJA - 20 seed £1.69 [OG1]

Solanum Sponteneum Small Currant Tomatoes
This is a wild tomato that makes orange currant-sized fruit. It's from our blight-resistance trials in 2010, and it was one of the few that did fend off the blight for a long time, even when grown next to a 100ft row of potatoes (now that's a proper blight test!)

It isn't completely resistant, because it does eventually get the blight. We would call it a partially blight-tolerant vine. Like all currant tomatoes, the overall yield is not huge in terms of weight because the fruit are small (1cm), but they do look very pretty in a salad.

The fruit start out yellow but are only nice when properly ripe to orange, so don’t pick too soon.

Order ToSS - 20 seed £1.59 [OG1]

Saving Tomato Seed:

Here you can seed the seed and juice squeezed into a jar & let ferment for 3 days (no more, no less!)

Good seeds sink and bad ones float.

(And, yes, it is supposed to be mouldy & smelly)

Water is added and poured off several times to clean them, the seed is rinsed in a sieve and put on a plate to dry.

Detailed seed-saving instructions are included with your seeds, so you can do this yourself.

And of course this is only possible because these are all real, non-hybrid varieties.