Tomato Gardeners Delight – wicker basket of red and a few green cherry tomatoes outdoors

Tomato Gardeners Delight

£1.95
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Tomato Gardeners Delight – wicker basket of red and a few green cherry tomatoes outdoors
RHS Award of Garden Merit

Tomato Gardeners Delight

Solanum lycopersicum 'Gardeners Delight'

Trusses of six to twelve sweet-tangy cherries with firm, crack-resistant skins. An RHS Award of Garden Merit variety that fruits well outdoors, even up north.

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At a glance

Height
1.8-2m
Spread
45cm
Spacing
45-60cm
Position
Full sun. Sheltered. Greenhouse or outdoor.
Seeds per packet
50
Soil
Rich, fertile, well-drained.
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About this variety

The cherry tomato that has been the British gardener's favourite for fifty years and shows no sign of being displaced. An RHS Award of Garden Merit, and recommended in more garden writing than almost any other tomato, for one straightforward reason: the flavour is exceptional. Sweet, intensely tomatoey, with enough acidity behind it to stop the sweetness cloying.

Fruits are proper cherry size, carried in long trusses of eight to twelve that ripen progressively along their length, so picking runs continuously from July to the frosts. A single well-grown plant will give you five kilos or more, which is a good deal more than most households eat fresh.

Open pollinated, so you can save your own seed. If you have only ever eaten supermarket cherry tomatoes and wondered whether home-grown is genuinely better, this is the variety that answers it.

RHS Award of Garden Merit

The RHS Award of Garden Merit is given to plants of outstanding excellence for ordinary garden use. To earn this award a plant must be of good constitution, available to the gardening public, and perform reliably across a range of UK growing conditions. It is one of the most trusted plant recommendations in British gardening and a genuine mark of quality.

Learn more at RHS.org.uk →