'Sweet Baby Girl' Cherry Tomato

Hundreds of red cherry tomatoes on a highly ornamental plant that produces early and keeps going into fall. Truly a find—and hard to locate—Sweet Baby Girl delivers delicious old-fashioned tomato flavor even in cool summer weather. Sweet but not cloying. Attractive enough for a container on a well-trafficked deck but make that container BIG.

Sweet Baby Girl’s leaves are pretty and rather delicate-looking – a rarity among tomatoes – and the fruit hangs in flat picture-perfect clusters (though I admired the plants every day, somehow I made it through the season without photos that actually show this attractive habit). It was our favorite cherry tomato for flavor and for beauty. It was the earliest to ripen, with fully developed flavor even in last year’s chilly July, making it the perfect choice for maritime climates like California’s north coast or cold-night mountain locations.

Culture: Start seeds indoors six weeks before last frost. They’ll need to be caged or staked or grown where they can trail over a tall container. Good soil, full sun if you’ve got it but they’ll do all right with 3/4 day sun.

Grown in 2010; germination tested November 2011: 95% Packet = around 40 seeds -- $3.

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