Small Tomatoes

This pretty cherry tomato is legendary for its sweet, smokey flavour low in acidity. Tall vines produce clusters of dark red tomatoes with a dark blush from mid-summer through the fall.

• Variety origin: Unknown
• Date of origin: Unknown
• Seed status: Open pollinated
• First grown by us: 2023 trial

Yellow cherry tomato with a complex, well-balanced flavour. Looks great in a salad mixed with other colours of cherry tomato. Very early, but bears fruit throughout the season on tall vines.

• Variety origin: Russia
• Date of origin: Unknown (first brought to the West in 1989)
• Seed status: Open pollinated
• First grown by us: 2023 trial

Part of a class of unique dwarf tomatoes, which stay compact (around 60-90 cm / 2-3') but produce fruit continuously until the end of the season, Mandurang Moon offers an abundance of gorgeous and tasty cream-coloured cherry tomatoes. Ideal for small spaces and container growing. Extremely limited supply for 2023.

• Variety origin: USA
• Date of origin: 2010s
• Seed status: Open pollinated (OSSI pledged)
• First grown by us: 2023 trial

Part of a class of unique dwarf tomatoes, which stay compact (around 60-90 cm / 2-3') but produce fruit continuously until the end of the season, Pink Opal is a high-yielding cherry tomato that offers lots of flavour in a small package. Ideal for small spaces and container growing. Extremely limited supply for 2023.

• Variety origin: 2008
• Date of origin: USA
• Seed status: Open pollinated (OSSI pledged)
• First grown by us: 2023 trial

We received this seed in a mixed lot of unlabelled "surprise" seeds from a French supplier. With attempts to match it to a named variety turning up inconclusive, we are offering its children as "Pink Surprise". A pretty pink cherry tomato, slightly blocky fruit with occasional light ribbing. Sweet and mild fruits on big, productive vines.

• Variety origin: Unknown
• Date of origin: Unknown
• Seed status: Open pollinated
• First grown by us: 2022

Determinate. The grape-like fruits of this Italian heirloom are legendary for producing delicious sundried tomatoes. While we in Nova Scotia may struggle for enough sun to dry them fully outside, a dehydrator can make short work of the job. Also good for sauces.

• Variety origin: Italy
• Date of origin: Unknown
• Seed status: Open pollinated
• First grown by us: 2023 trial

Large cherry tomatoes with a point on the blossom end. Flavour is similar to a good slicer/beefsteak tomato, more robust and less overtly sweet than many other cherry tomatoes. Bears fruit in large, grape-like bunches. Not our tallest indeterminate, but tends to sprawl.

• Variety origin: Germany
• Date of origin: 1800s
• Seed status: Open pollinated
• First grown by us: 2022

Despite being an F1 hybrid, this sunny orange cherry tomato has won over scores of gardeners with its intensely fruity and exceptionally sweet flavour. Many say it's the best-tasting cherry tomato ever!

• Variety origin: Japan, developed by Tokita Seed Company
• Date of origin: 1990s
• Seed status: F1 hybrid
• First grown by us: 2023 trial

Very sweet cherry tomato which produces an abundance of bright red fruits from mid-season until frost on long vines. Productive, tasty, and reliable; this is our number one cherry tomato in our own garden.

For an interesting note on the origins of this variety, see Wild Garden Seed.

• Variety origin: USA
• Date of origin: 1980s
• Seed status: Open pollinated
• First grown by us: 2016

This classic micro-dwarf tomato is the smallest tomato plant we offer, only growing around 30 cm (12") tall. Ideal for hanging baskets or a centre-piece pot for your patio table, they do better in containers than in the garden. Produces abundant clusters of sweet, red cherry sized fruits. Determinate.

• Variety origin: USA, bred by Dr. Albert F. Yeager at the University of New Hampshire
• Date of origin: 1945
• Seed status: Open pollinated
• First grown by us: 2022