Red Cherry Tomato Seeds (25)

Red Cherry Tomato Seeds (Solanum lycopersicum) 25 seeds

The Cherry tomato is a mid-season variety producing long clusters of small red tomatoes 3 to 4 cm in diameter. Grown as a bush, it is easy to grow and does not require any pruning or staking. A generous annual, the cherry tomato will reseed itself, thanks to the few ripe fruits that escape your vigilance and will give rise to new plants the following spring, which you will only need to thin out. You can place the plant in the vegetable garden, in a container on a terrace or even in your flowerbeds. The flesh of the small cherry tomatoes is firm, juicy, with a tangy taste.
Cherry tomatoes are ideal as an appetizer, in salads, as a decoration for dishes, in tarts or in sauces.

Sowing: from February to April in a warm bed (20°) or in pots indoors or in a heated greenhouse, in fine seed compost. Tomatoes need a constant minimum temperature of 20°C to germinate.
Bury your tomato seeds 1 cm deep and then cover with seed compost. Water your compost with a sprayer to keep it moist but not soggy. Place your seed tray near a window to prevent your seedlings from shooting upwards in search of light.
Transplant when frost is no longer a risk and the plants are 12 to 15 cm tall in rich, loose, healthy soil. Space 70 cm between rows and 50 cm in the sunny row.
Place the stakes in place before starting to plant. Water thoroughly at the base once a week to prevent disease development.

There are different views on how to approach the famous pruning of tomatoes, and every gardener has arguments to support their theory. To the question "what to do?" the answer is simple: whatever you want!
Pruning tomatoes by de-suckering is not mandatory; it is intended to increase the size of the fruits, their precocity and to facilitate harvesting work.
This method, however, has two drawbacks: it requires time and discernment. Indeed, the head of the tomato plant is not always easy to distinguish from a secondary branch. Furthermore, removing suckers causes wounds for your plant. It is therefore strongly recommended to consider aiding healing with a dusting of maerl or a green clay wash.
Another option is to not prune at all and allow the plant to fully develop. It will therefore need more space in the garden, i.e. 1 m between each plant. The fruits will be smaller but more numerous.
A third solution is to train on two branches. After pinching the plant 20 cm from the ground, only the two branches that form laterally are kept. Then all the suckers are removed.

You can harvest tomatoes 4 to 5 months after sowing.


Reproducible seeds harvested exclusively in the Pot'à'Jo garden, a 1500m² horticultural and permaculture market garden. Everything is grown with a deep respect for nature and its inhabitants. I have been growing my own seeds for years, from seed to seed.