Curated picks

Best Cherry Tomatoes

Cherry tomatoes are where most growers should start. They tend to ripen earlier than the big slicers, crack less in a wet spell, and keep cropping in long trusses until frost, so a single plant can feed a kitchen all summer. The picks below cover the full range, from the famous sweet oranges to dusky dark types, a bright green, a red-and-gold bicolor, and a fuzzy peach-skinned oddball, with the earliest and most disease-resistant noted for short or wet seasons.

  1. 1SungoldSungoldcherry · hybrid · 60 days · earlyThe one most growers name first: intensely sweet orange cherries, early and prolific, borne in long trusses until frost.
  2. 2Black CherryBlack Cherrycherry · open-pollinated · 70 days · midDusky purple-brown fruit with a rich, smoky complexity that catalogs rate well beyond a standard red cherry.
  3. 3Sweet AperitifSweet Aperitifcherry · open-pollinated · 80 days · midDescribed as one of the sweetest cherries of all, but carrying enough acidity to keep the sugar from going flat.
  4. 4Green DoctorsGreen Doctorscherry · open-pollinated · 75 days · midA pale-green cherry ranked among the sweetest tomatoes in many taste tests, sweet with a clean, bright finish.
  5. 5Isis CandyIsis Candycherry · open-pollinated · 67 days · earlyRed-and-gold marbled fruit with a candy-like sweetness that tends to win over children at first bite.
  6. 6RiesentraubeRiesentraubecherry · heirloom · 77 days · midAn old German heirloom bearing clusters of 20 to 40 fruit, with a full-bodied flavor unusual for a cherry.
  7. 7Matt's Wild CherryMatt's Wild Cherrycherry · open-pollinated · 60 days · earlyTiny, very early red fruit with some blight tolerance, a wild currant type that ripens well in a short season.
  8. 8Gold NuggetGold Nuggetcherry · open-pollinated · 56 days · earlyOne of the earliest golden cherries, nearly seedless on a compact 2 to 3 foot determinate bush, happy in a pot.
  9. 9Sweet MillionSweet Millioncherry · hybrid · 60 days · earlySuper-sweet, low-acid red cherries in long chains, with strong hybrid disease resistance for a dependable crop.
  10. 10Wapsipinicon PeachWapsipinicon Peachcherry · heirloom · 80 days · midAn unusual fuzzy, peach-skinned heirloom, sweet and mild with a delicate fruity character and a taste-test pedigree.

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