PlantFiles: Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Matt's Wild Cherry'

Grew about 8' or more with tons of tiny fruits. Good taste. They won't come off the vine easily until really ripe. But a little too small for me. Seemed like it took awhile to pick a cup full.

Prolific small tasty tomatoes which when collected never even make it into the kitchen before they are consumed! I grow in deep earth-friendly pots and need to stake this one a lot.

Best......tiny....little.......tomatoes.....EVER! I had people at the farmers market surprised with this one. I will definitely grow this every year.
Oh, and dry them, freeze them and add them to tomatoey dishes throughout the winter.

I have 5 of these plants growing this year. There are literally hundreds of tomatoes on the plants. I am able to pick roughly half a cup of tomatoes each day to snack on. These are VERY yummy little tomatoes and are great in wraps or pasta. One of the plants is in the ground and it has sort of taken over and sprawls another foot or so each time it rains (not caged). They are much more manageable in containers but are a bit less prolific. If planted in a 4-5 gallon container you should still see a few hundred tomatoes per plant with appropriate fertilization. These plants are also very hot/cold hardy as long as adequate water / shelter is provided. For the containers this means using watering cones and adding play sand so that the water drips slowly from a 2 liter for 4 hours... 90 degree heat here in Florida!

This is a small cherry tomato packed with a big tomato flavor in my garden. Very vigorous grower, picture posted was taken in Aug. 2007, plant was 9 ft tall and filled a 4 x 8 raised bed. I had to keep pruning it to keep it from taking over neighboring raised beds. I like to eat them before they get completely red as I like tomatoes with some tang. They are very sweet when fully ripened. Not bothered by pests or disease, weather changes, etc. One tough plant. This plant was still going strong after freezes killed all the other varieties of tomatoes and peppers. I have not saved seed as I don't know how to keep them from cross polinating with the other tomatoes. Would love to know how to do that.

Did not care for the taste in the begining of the season, but as fall approached and that stupid rain stopped. These babies started to taste better. I loved the size of the fruit and the plants were very productive and huge. The Matt's had the worst spot in my tomato bed. 6 hrs of sun and right next to a small evergreen, but it still grew and produced. I think these would taste even better in a hotter climate or a spot that gets sun; sunup to sundown. No cracking at all. I won't try them again in the near future as I already have a list of other very small red cherries I would like to try. I still recommend them though.

1 note, for my counter ripened - vine ripened test. Matt's was exactly the same both ways in color and taste. I did not eat any in the orange-red stage, I waited until the color was a deep red.

Huge, spawling plants with TONS of tiny, sweet red cherry tomatoes. Early and very easy to grow.

Early bearing, tall lanky and branching. Prolific tart little fruits.

Good taste, small red cherries, extremely large plants. Easy to grow. Reseeded prolifically, though -- it's nearly impossible to keep up with picking all those small fruits.

So tasty, early and easy to grow. The long multi-branched plants are difficult to control, they are so vigorous, but if left to spread, the yield becomes quite large.

Matt's Wild Cherry!
Indeed it is swell;
Delicious as ''heaven'',
Prolific as .........

Small red cherry that grows very tall.