PlantFiles: Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Sun Sugar'

This has been my family's favorite cherry tomato for years. It is a heavy cropper and has pretty good disease resistance. It has a nice sweet nonacid flavor and looks beautiful in a salad. This is the only hybrid tomato I grow in my garden because I haven't found an open-pollinated cherry to match the flavor yet. Be happy to take any suggestions :o).

A very tasty, and beautiful, little tomato. In my experience, it has more "real tomato" flavor than most varieties of cherry tomato plus a little hint of fruitiness. The only problem with it is that over-ripe fruits develop a sort of fermented super sweet flavor that I think is unpleasant. The vines are fast growing and highly productive. I have also grown Sungold, but frankly can't tell the difference between the two. They are interchangable as far as I am concerned.

Very sweet--but that's all I can say. Not much flavor. Sungold is much better.

Delicious- tart when not fully ripe, super sweet when fully ripe. Very prolific plant that must be pruned well if you dont have a lot of space.

We grew these for the first time this year and they are wonderful!

We grow this one year after year. In fact, it is the only hybrid we put in our garden. Very dependable, very prolific plants that just don't stop. Super taste, very sweet with nice tart bite. These are the best eat in the garden before they make it to the kitchen tomatoes.

To me they don't taste like tomatoes, even cherry tomatoes. They are kind of fruity and have a distinctive flavor. Very sweet which is a plus but the skin is very thick.

Sweetest, most consistently productive cherry-size tomato we've grown to date. A bit of a citrusy finish to the taste. It is like eating a little sugar cube.

I planted one start from the nursery and it shot up to seven feet tall. It was prolific and crack resistant and continued to produce much longer than I expected. The taste was as sweet as the name implied. I have limited garden space and I planted in a deep patio pot. I caged it in with long bamboo stakes and twine. Nothing else would have been tall enough to hold it up. It was quite wonderful and I plan to plant it again this year. Portland, Oregon

Sunsugar has the same excellent flavour as Sungold, but the fruits are much less prone to splitting than those of Sungold. Ideally I think that they should be trained with four main stems, but that is not easy. I have let them grow rampant and just feed and water them ,with just a little thinning of the shoots.

We are in Zone 2, planted purchased sets and planted June 7th into good bog soil base. We found that the plants grew rapidly to approximately 7 feet (they grew out of the 3.5 tomato cages, draped to the ground and climbed back up and over the other plants) The grape-like growth made them easy to harvest and it was and has been very prolific production (about a pint to a quart a day) since August 5th. We have eaten them from the vine, they store well up to 10 days, and maintain their color and form when hot-packed. It is now September 29th, the first frosts have touched our area and still this gallant little tomato is covered with little tomatoes in various stages of ripeness. It is also covered with late blooms. We will definitely plant it again.

A very sweet cherry tomato - nice size, although not as big as the grape-types. Like most cherry tomatoes, very prolific.

Better than store-bought, but not as sweet as Sweet 100. I will try a different variety next year--I'm not that enthusiastic about this one.