PlantFiles: Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Gardener's Delight'

A favorite of mine as cherry types go. Vigorous vines. Sweet, but also enough 'bite' and complexity to give this one a full flavor.

I only grew 4 plants of this last year (04). Lots of good-sized cherry tomatoes. They grew 5 to 13 tomatoes per cluster with many clusters per plant. I grew these to cascade over the side of a 3 foot high container. They weathered dry conditions and were well over the 5 foot height. would likely have done much better on a trellis. Fruit all summer and did good also when the weather turned cool. Will grow again this year. Seeds were from 'The Cook's Garden' out of Vermont.

I've grown this plant for 4 years. Same results every year. Great taste, great performer. I cage my plants with 6" steel mesh 3' diameter and 5' tall. The plant grows to exceed this size each year. I've only found one other cherry tomato to have better fruit. Just a note, these fruit tend to crack easily with too much water.

I grew these last year in Edmonton and our fruit was larger than cherry but smaller than a full size more like a tigerella size. Excellent flavour and would grow as tall as I could stake or vine them.

An outdoor, cordon variety here in the UK.

It's a strong growing plant that bears heavy crops of small cherry type tomatoes. I don't eat them myself but I'm told by my family that they are the best flavoured garden grown tomato we have grown. I understand that this view is shared by many others too.