Matt's Wild Cherry

Matt's Wild Cherry is an indeterminate open-pollinated cherry tomato with deep red fruit. It ripens in about 60 days.

Typecherry tomato

Habitindeterminate

Days to maturity60

Fruit size0.1 to 0.3 oz

Colordeep red

Difficultyeasy

Flavor

Described as full-flavored with high sugar content and exceptional taste for such tiny fruit. Flavor is subjective, so treat this as the recurring catalog and grower description rather than a measured claim for your garden.

Origin

A wild currant-type cherry tomato whose seed came from Hidalgo in eastern Mexico, brought to Maine by Teresa Arellanos de Mena and shared with researcher Matt Liebman, who passed it to Johnny's Selected Seeds.

What it does well

Very early and well suited to short seasons
Some resistance to early and late blight
Produces abundant clusters until frost

Where it frustrates

Thin skin cracks if not picked frequently
Soft fruit does not store or ship well
Yields less heavily than modern hybrids

Like Matt's Wild Cherry, but...

Sold out, or after a change? The closest alternatives, and how they differ.

Sungoldbut a tiny red currant-type instead of a larger orange cherry

Where to buy seed

Sources

Matt's Wild Cherry Heirloom Tomato Seed · Johnny's Selected Seeds
Organic Non-GMO Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato · High Mowing Organic Seeds