Matt S Wild Cherry Plant

The flavor is intense and they seem impervious to almost any disease you can name.

Matt s wild cherry plant.

This product is available now. This makes sense as the tomato s wild ancestor is much smaller than modern beefsteak varieties. Days to maturity are from transplants. After reading the rave reviews on this tiny tomato i started several from seed and ultimately planted 3 matt s wild cherry in a 4x4 raised bed along with 1 jelly bean grape tomato and 1 yellow pear tomato.

Solanum lycopersicum matt s wild cherry cordon vine tomato. Strong vines are overwhelmed by an abundance of small cherry tomatoes hundreds of them. From seed collected in the wild near hidalgo in eastern mexico. 1 or more 2 50 gbp each.

The stocky seedlings are grown and shipped in 1. Johnny s and other sources describe it as a small current sized tomato that readily reseeds. For a long season of tiny 5 8 to 3 4 red cherries with full definitely sweet flavor try matt s wild cherry it is so named because the seeds originally came from hidalgo in eastern mexico where the plants grow wild. With high sugar content these blow modern hybrids out of the water.

Matt s wild cherry is the hardest working cherry tomato we ve ever grown. Wild is the operative word here. Vigorous and very prolific. Root bound leggy plants that have open flowers or fruit when planted out may remain stunted and produce poorly.

Matt s wild cherry solanum lycopersicum. Open pollinated heritage heirloom variety. They are also early and will continue to yield well up to the first frost. Sweet and delicious cherry tomatoes are borne on open trusses.

Indeterminate all of our tomatoes are grown from non gmo seed. 25 seeds planting solanum lycopersicum. Suitable for protected and outdoor growing. Matt s wild cherry intensely sweet flavorful small red tomatoes.

Plants are vigorous disease resistant and sprawling. An early maturing variety about 60 days from transplant. Tomato seeds germinate very slowly in. Sow 1 4 deep in flats using a soilless mix not potting soil 5 6 weeks before plants can be transplanted out after frost danger.

With a long tall and sprawling growth habit this plant produces clusters of small deep red fruits that are round and smooth. Greenhouse tomatoes maintain 4 square ft plant. Matt s wild cherry was obtained in hidalgo mexico by teresa arellanos de mena a friend of agronomy professors dr. For determinate varieties 12 18 for indeterminate 24 36.

These cherry tomatoes range in size from 5 8 to 3 4 and are borne. Laura merrick and dr. Plants bear loads of intensely sweet and flavorful small deep red cherry tomatoes. I grow all my tomatoes single stem so it ought to be interesting to see matt s wild cherry as a single stem.