Gardeners Sweetheart Cherry Tomato

Lycopersicon lycopersicum

I tried Gardener's Sweetheart after reading rave reviews in other local seed catalogues and I am hooked as well.  The bright red tomatoes have an interesting cone shaped fruit with a flat top and pointy bottom.  The best part is that they grow and ripen on incredibly long trusses that leave you to gasp at the rainbow of ripening cherry tomatoes at harvest time!  The flavor is perfection as well.  Seed originally from the seed collection of Will Bonsall, a famous seed keeper and plant breeder in Maine via Fruition Seeds. Indeterminate and needs trellising. 

Growing Tomatoes: 

There are entire books and many online resources for starting and growing tomatoes in the Pacific Northwest.  Here is a great link from the Tilth Alliance about growing great Tomatoes in Seattle. The basics?   Start tomato seeds indoors with supplemental heat and light in February and March. Plant when soil has warmed to 60 degrees.  Tomatoes like to grow in compost rich soil.  Stop watering plants in August for sweeter fruits that ripen earlier.

65 days to maturity

Packet contains ~25 seeds