I have sown 10 tomato varieties. 4 of these, Alicante, Gardeners Delight, Moneymaker and Sungold are in the top 5 tomatoes chosen by home gardeners to grow from seed. I profile them all (and Shirley) in the Tomato Lover’s Top 5 Tomato Seed Guide.
However as yet I haven’t said much about the other 6 tomato varieties. Time to put that right.
My other seed choices were Black Cherry, Carbon, Garden Pearl ( Gartenperle), Red Robin, Tigerella and Tumbler.
Starting today, over the next week or so I will profile each variety. Today’s profile is of Black Cherry.
To eat, Black Cherry is:
- Sweet, rich complex, very sweet, rich smoky flavour, sweet and juicy flavour, very rich and sweet
- Cherry size, round, perfect round cherry
- Purple skin, deep red blackish hue, dark red flesh, purple skin, dusky purplish black, deep mahogany brown
To Grow, Black Cherry is:
- Cordon Interderminate
- Glasshouse or outdoors
- High yield, huge yield, abundant, huge clusters, large clusters, prolific
- Vigorous, tall, large, sprawling
- Early maturing, early season
- Crack/spilt resistant
- Very easy to grow
To buy Black Cherry:
Available packet size tended to be between 15 and 25 seeds. Average seed priced worked out at 8 pence per seed. Seeds are stocked by Nicky’s Nursery, Thompson & Morgan and Ready to Grow
All my research on Black Cherry makes me very excited to be growing it. It seems the perfect combination of exotic, delicious fruit AND an easy to grow plant.
Have you grown Black Cherry? Am I right to feel excited about its dark mystery and sweet promise?
Photo by old tasty
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Hello, I’m enjoying your website. I grew Black Cherry this year from Thomson and Morgan seeds. Mine were deep red to purple with green shoulders when ripe. Mine weren’t quite as productive or as quick to ripen as Gardener’s Delight, but I germinated them a month later. well worth it. They have a sweet, tangy and subtly nutty taste, not as sharp as G.D. They also keep well; the last few of mine are on the windowsill. A definite for next year and well worth the wait.
Thanks for the feedback – glad you are enjoying the site.
Great to hear that you still have some from this year to eat fresh . So much better ( & cheaper) than what’s avaliable in the supermarket right now !