Tomato Plants – Cherry, Grape, & Pear

Cherry, Grape and Pear.  Mini tomatoes in different shapes, lots of colors and super-wonderful flavors.  Our favorites?  They are all delicious but … our personal favorites are Black Pearl (Black Cherry) and White Cherry.

At Falls Park Farmers Market, we offered pint boxes of mixed cherries of Sakura (red), Indigo Cherry  (Indigo) , Sun Gold (yellow), Black Pearl (black), White Cherry, and Sunpeach (pink). Over twenty-five years of growing cherry tomatoes, we settled on these six varieties due to flavor, presentation, and the least amount of cracking.

Atomic Grape: Lavender and purple stripes, turning to technicolor olive-green, red, and brown/blue stripes when fully ripe.  Phenomenal flavor. Won best of show at the 2017 National Heirloom Expo.  Range in size from a large grape to plum-sized.  Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

Black Pearl/Cherry:  My personal absolute favorite!  Rich and sweet.  When chilled, has a unique, extra-sweet ‘Concord’ grape flavor.

Cherry Bomb:  Classic cherry flavor.  Firm, sweet, and well-balanced.  High yields; vigorous plant.  Red.  A bomb of a cherry!

Indigo Cherry Drops:  Striking, dark blue anthocyanin coloration and red flesh.  Vigorous growth and yield.  A beautiful cherry.  Another favorite of mine.

Mighty Sweet Red Grape: NEW. Super-sweet 1 inch cherries are ridiculously delicious and loaded with nutrition.  High in flavonoids, vitamin C, beta-carotene, lycopenes, and other phytonutrients. Determinate. Container friendly.

Sakura:  Red. Early and delicious.  Real sweet tomato flavor and firmness without being hard.  Produces all season.  A bit more compact but still indeterminate.

Sun Gold: New. Golden-orange fruits. Tany-sweet globes are borne in large clusters. Indeterminate.

Sunpeach:  A delicious pink cherry tomato.  Sister to Sun Gold but sweeter with excellent flavor;not as tangy and acidic.  Deep pink shiny cherries are borne on long trusses.  Resistant to cracking.  Indeterminate.

White Cherry:  Appealing pale yellow cherry with a mild tomato flavor.  My second in favorites.  Black Cherry is always first. Indeterminate.

Yellow Grape:  Deep yellow with mild, sweet flavor.  Pairs beautifully with Mighty Sweet Red Grape.

Yellow Pear:  Sweet, tangy yellow pear-shaped fruit.  To my tongue, Yellow Pear is very, very mellow.