We Taste Tested The TOP 4 Cherry Tomato Varieties YOU Recommended: Here Are The Results!
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- In this video, we taste tested the top 4 cherry tomato varieties you recommended we grow, and we share the results with you! All four of these cherry tomatoes are incredible, but we ranked them according to our favorites. Come find out what we think are the best tomatoes!
Growing tomatoes can be overwhelming due to the thousands of choices. How do you know you chose the best tomato varieties? I'm growing the 4 favorite tomato plants according to YOUR recommendations from last year, and we pit them head-to-head. Make sure to bring a pencil and paper so you can choose which tomato plant varieties to grow when growing tomato plants next season!
This video contains a rare guest appearance from Brittany
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 The 4 Cherry Tomato Varieties I'm Growing
0:41 Cherry Tomato #1: Super Sweet 100 Tomato
1:44 Cherry Tomato #2: Sun Gold Tomato
2:40 Cherry Tomato #3: SunSugar Tomato
3:42 Cherry Tomato #4: Black Cherry Tomato
4:31 All 4 Cherry Tomato Varieties Side-By-Side
5:17 My Official Cherry Tomato Taste Test
11:17 Brittany's Cherry Tomato Taste Test
15:27 Adventures With Dale
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I always love when multiple people do the taste test. Makes me feel better about selecting different varieties.
I've been growing SuperSweet 100's for many, many years. Wonderful cherry.
I THINK SOMEONE GAVE ME A SUNGOLD TOMATO PLANT THIS YEAR!- I'M NOT EVEN A TOMATO FAN BUT NOW I'M EXCITED! 👍
FWIW - I completely agree with your assessment of the other 3 varieties. Sungold and Supersweet are good, Sunsugar is close but not quite as good. Black Cherry (for me), blows them away...It tastes absolutely amazing when it is perfectly ripe. I agree with the previous comment about stone fruits - they are almost like a plum! However if not ripe, they are pretty blah. The color of yours and your comment about the core, makes me think that they were not yet ripe enough. The core goes away once they are ripe enough... I pick mine at about the same color as yours and then leave them on the counter for up to a week. You will get a sense of when they are ready. They are by far and away my favorite cherry. (BTW - Try Jaune Flamme - a big sized sungold with more acidity - yum!)
I almost didn’t watch this episode because I couldn’t imagine being convinced of the best tasting cherry tomatoes by watching you eat them. Boy am I glad I watched! Your face expressed what I couldn’t taste (if that makes sense). And what you conveyed in words, about each tomato, was also very clear and convincing. Thanks for the recommendations.
I’m glad the video was helpful. Just remember taste is subjective. It’s possible you’ll totally disagree with me. However, I will say I’ve never heard of a single person that didn’t love Sun Gold! Hopefully, this will give you some ideas.
For what it’s worth, and I’m not into acidic tomatoes, the Black Cherry improves over the season. The first few fruits of my plants are always a little blah. Once the heat cranks up it goes crazy and there is a bit more of an acid/sweet balance. I’m zone 8a-8b piedmont SC.
Now I pick black cherry when really dark after hot sun.
Agree with you on this, the fruit tasted better every week. Although I only had one plant to snack from.
Agreed. Black cherry has to stay on vine until very dark. And definitely is a better tomato later in the season.
Totally agree... My last Black Cherries are always the best tasting. But I find that with a number of heirlooms. The hybrids tend to be more consistent in flavour, but the heirlooms can go anywhere from blah to mind-blowing, depending on conditions.
totally agree. same here SC grower
If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊 TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 The 4 Cherry Tomato Varieties I'm Growing
0:41 Cherry Tomato #1: Super Sweet 100 Tomato
1:44 Cherry Tomato #2: Sun Gold Tomato
2:40 Cherry Tomato #3: SunSugar Tomato
3:42 Cherry Tomato #4: Black Cherry Tomato
4:31 All 4 Cherry Tomato Varieties Side-By-Side
5:17 My Official Cherry Tomato Taste Test
11:17 Brittany's Cherry Tomato Taste Test
15:27 Adventures With Dale
This was a great first harvest taste test session! Brittany’s second opinion was also helpful for comparison. It would be interesting to have another taste test mid to late season to see how maturity and heat affect the flavor of these tomato varieties. And of course, Dale is a scene stealer with his new Nerf ball ! 🍅🐾
I snack on these as I garden in the heat. Also put halves in loaded focaccias for beauty and taste. Fruity flavors of these cherry tomatoes are so wonderful! Thank you for the taste test.
Thanks for the video! I’m growing Sun Gold, Sun Sugar and Super Sweet 100 cherries this year ❤️ My absolute favorite year after year is always Super Sweet 100 but I‘ve never grown Sun Gold. Can’t wait to taste those!
I decided to grow Sun Gold and Super Sweet 100 for the 1st time this year, based on everyone's suggestions. I haven't eaten either variety before. I finally got a ripe Sun Gold yesterday and I wasn't quite prepared for the flavor. It was like a punch of awesome to the taste buds! If I can get enough ripe at the same time, I think they'll make a kick ass salsa! I can't wait for the Super Sweets to ripen, so I can compare them.
I love mixing different colored cherry tomatoes in a salsa. It is so beautiful and has complex flavors! I'm in zone 8B in SW GA and cherry tomatoes keep on going all summer long!
I planted 2 Super Sweet 100, also! They produced 100's of tomatoes! I love them and everyone I shared with was asking for more! My problem was the stink bugs also loved them, and were so bad that i ended up pulling them up after Spring and didn't get to enjoy them over Summer! I tried several things to treat the stink bugs, but couldn't get rid of them! 😢
I'll definitely plant again!
I think tasting the black cherry last was a mistake, also not drinking water in between them all was. Black cherry isn't as strong as a flavor but it has more complexity, it has the taste of a stone fruit. It doesn't taste as good directly after a sweeter tomato though which messes up your palate.
Agree, sweet last!
How would he know if it was sweeter if he only tried 2 of them previously,
I'm growing a black cherry this year. I'm normally not a cherry tomato person but this one is calling me for whatever reason.
I also grew all 4 of these varieties this year. I will fully agree with your assessment of each. Each one stands on its own. Each are delious. Because I live in central FL I prefer to grow varieties that develope quickly (cherry and mid size) due to heat, humidity, rain and diseases. I start my tomatoes early fall and am usually finished by end of May.
I love a good taste test with lots of detail. Super helpful in determining whether to use space trying out new varieties. Love your channel, thanks!
Yes totally agree the," Sun Gold", supreme .
I prefer acidic in standard Tomatos but the smoky sweet of black cherry is my fav... fun vid thanks
Sun gold are special to me too. First thing I grew at my new house in a container and that first victorious bite of home grown with that taste *chefs kiss*
I have since harvested three sun golds, and they are delicious. I am not a raw tomato eater, I like my BLT, but I popped the whole thing in my mouth and IT WAS SSSOOOO GOOD! Love this time of year!
Super sweet 100 are planted all over my farm....I can grab a hand full pretty much anywhere I am working. I did put in a hand full of Sun Gold this year...looking forward to tasting them.
Super Sweet 100 is amazing! I loved them, when I grew them in 2022.
I’m glad I watched this bc I was feeling down that I wasn’t able to get any sun gold seeds, but I did get super sweet 100s. I’ve never really been big on tomatoes but like you said I can’t compare home grown tomatoes to store bought ones. I’m excited for when I finally get to try some of my own tomatoes.
I got SunGold and Love it!
I love how excited you get over all of them! Thanks for sharing! Great video!
I wait all year for this. I'm finally at the point now where I have something to look forward to every season. I look forward to spring for starting the garden, early summer for tomatoes, late summer for figs, fall for feijoa and persimmons, and winter for citrus. If you grow enough stuff, there is always something to look forward to.
@@TheMillennialGardener I’ll get there eventually! Haha
I am surprised that you didn’t need a cracker or something in between each type of tomato! Great comparison, thanks!
What fun taste comparisons ~ they all look wonderful! And the later Sun Sugar means you can stagger your harvest a bit. Will look out for Sun Golds again this year, as I adored the flavor after picking a plant clean at Lowes last year while shopping. A Black Cherry too - oh, yum! 🤭 (Yes. I bought the plants :)
(Husky cherry tomato fan as well, but they've been a little difficult to find the past two years. They're not overly sweet but they do have a full rich tomato flavor that's nice for snacking off the vine.)
Fun video! I no longer remember where I learned of it, but I'm growing the Black Opal Cherry tomato for the first time this year. I'm in a colder climate than you so it will be awhile before I can try them, but they were bred from Black Cherry & are supposed to have better growth habit & have better flavor. This is the first year I'm not growing Sungold but I gave a seedling to my Mom so hopefully she'll have a few extras. I always find new ones to try don't have room for them all! The other cherry tomatoes that I'm trying out is Black Strawberry, Garnet, & a couple of patio tomatoes in containers.
Man I just started watching your videos recently and I tell ya it gets me excited about my garden!
Great video. Great production quality. Great comparison. I love a cherry tomato, especially in a little cherry tomato salad with some cinnamon, olive oil, etc. I gotta start growing my own.
Thank you! We have been eating a lot of cherry tomato and basil salads, and tonight will be no different! We love it!
I love the sun gold too, then the red millions ! Great test! Thanks!
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
I usually grow sungold, but this year I also got a free cutting of a super sweet 100 from my neighbour! I'll see if they last to the first frost like you said. I'll definitely buy seeds next year if I can reproduce their "long-lasting" quality. Thanks for the info!
I'm growing sungold this year for the first time and super sweet 100's for the third year. Tasted the sungold today. Oh my goodness!!! I had a taste explosion in my mouth! Lol This is a definite for the rest of my gardening years! Going to try sun sugar next year.
Northern Ohio here, I've been growing Sweet 100's for 20 years and all my neighbors love them, tough plant and an excellent producer. A couple years ago you talked about Sun Gold, I could never find them anywhere. This year my local home improvement store has Sun Sugar so I took a chance. Soglad I did, wonderful flavor sweet and tasty, another neighbor favorite. Also grew Brandywine Red for the first time. This will also be one that I grow every year. The Black Cherry sounds like a Cherokee Purple in flavor also a delicious choice
I absolutely love these kind of videos, awesome job brother bringing in another person to taste test.
Thank you! I wanted to be fair. Taste is subjective, so you may not agree with my personal tastes. However, all 4 of these tomatoes are exceptional.
I grow a dozen super sweet 100s every year and I noticed there are differences between some of the plants. Some are much tastier than others. I always have a couple of favorites that I eat from the most.
Good fun video, we grew about 5 different species of tomatoes this year loved them all, I kind of pick the ones to grow based on colors
I just found your channel and was super excited to find out that you're here in WIlmington! I'm just getting into vegetable gardening here and appreciate your videos, I want to try growing all these varieties of tomatoes!
Sun Golds are my favorite . I went to 4 different stores before I found one this year. There was was one sickly yellow Sun Gold plant that I found left. I took it home and took care of it. It turned back to a healthy green and grew like crazy and now it has blossoms. I'm also growing super sweet 100s, and Sun Sugar.
I grow Super Sweet 100 every year, including this year. I found one Sun Sugar, all the rest were sold out. I can't find Sun Gold anywhere. 😭
I have been walking out into the garden every morning and having a handful of super sweet 100’s for breakfast lol
I have to agree with Brittany, super sweet 100 and sun gold are just as good, just different.
This is my first time growing the super sweet 100 I'm also growing cherry tomato and roma tomatoes this year planning on trying to Black cherry this year thanks for sharing this video.
OKay I planted my mom a couple Sun gold's last year in hot dry southwest Oklahoma. We usually have trouble growing tomatoes from middle of June until the middle of September because our temps get to high to pollinate. Her sun gold's did great all summer and 84 year old gardener said that Sun gold is the best tasting most prolific tomato she has ever had. I would go visit her and she would always have a basket full on her table snacking on them. I'm glad to hear your take. I'll tell mom there's a goober on the east coast that agrees with her. lol Well two goobers. Me included! Thank you
I dig the taste tests...thanks for your information!
You’re welcome! I’m glad the video was helpful!
@@TheMillennialGardener And by the way, I always dig Dale...thanks for including him.
I grow 100's every year, solid flavor and prolific producers. I have alternated Sunsugar and sungold the past 3 years and while the sun sugar are really good I agree the Sungold are a cut above them and the 100's flavor wise. But my favorite cherries are the Baby Boomer hybrid determinates. They are sweeter than the 100's and for determinates they put out a ton of tomatoes
Nice video. I had very similar results with my tomato taste last year. My family's tasting tipped the score to Sun Sugar as the favorite. My viewers suggested Black Cherry too and I'm looking forward to tasting it this year. You might want to try Sun Peach for an interesting and tasty option.
I will say Sun Sugar has improved throughout the season. It still doesn’t quite have the punch of Sun Gold, but it is more productive and doesn’t split. Black Cherry, so far, has been disappointing. The flavor isn’t there, and it totally lacks disease resistance. The plant is on its way out, where Sun Gold, Sun Sugar and Super Sweet 100 continue to produce. I’ll likely replace Black Cherry with a hybrid next season.
I suggest you try the Black Cherry and also the Black Icicles.
I like sunsugar the best, so do the others I share my favorites with. It may be because the growing conditions here favor sunsugar
I enjoyed your comparison of the cherry tomatoes. I like cherry tomatoes also but once I tried the sun gold that was a winner for me. I don’t think I only planted one cherry 🍅 this year but I’m hoping that I have some volunteers from the Sun gold like I did last year. So yummy! Need to also plant some of those 100s next year because they are so good!
If you would like to try a white cherry tomato, try Snow White. It has NO acid, which you may not find to be your favorite, but what's so interesting is that it's very sweet. It's like eating a grape. You could make a jelly from it.
What a fun video. Hope you can do more comparison videos, they are great.
Thank you! It is always a challenge for me to get good enough weather for a fair comparison. Hopefully, dry weather will persist.
Without a doubt the Sungold is my favorite! To me it almost has a nut like taste & I don’t care if they crack. I’ll eat them anyway
Cool video! I'm excited to try the Super Sweet 100 next year.
Sweet football game with your fur baby.😃 I liked hearing Dale's bark...cute!🙂
I highly recommend the Super Sweet's. I need to try another red variety just as a trial, but it's hard not to grow them. They're too good. Dale LOVES those blue Nerf balls. If yours likes larger toys that squeak, they're the best
Cute video- loved it!!!
We grew Black Cherry last year and really liked the larger size of the Black Cherry. So this year we looked for bigger cherry tomatoes. We’ve grown Super sweet 100 and it is a good regular cherry. So we are growing Honeycomb, Sparky and Black Cherry.
This made me interested in growing a black cherry now. I think I will try that next season! :)
I, too, have been a huge fan of Super Sweet 100"s. I planted Sun Golds this year and they are already on my favorites list! One of my concerns when choosing cherry tomatoes is the toughness of the skins. I realize that probably helps to keep them from splitting, but I enjoy them when they're easier to eat. So do my grandchildren. 😉 Any suggestions?
Great taste test! 😁👍 Thank you! ✌️
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
My best cherry tomato this years is Bosque Blue Bumblebee. It's AWESOME! Heavy producer, great flavor, beautiful skin, few pests.
I am enjoying Chocolate Sprinkles. Will put Sun Gold on the list. Thanks!
I have been growing Sun Gold for several years and absolutely love it! Last year I planted Sun Sugar because I heard so much about it. To me, it did compare in taste to Sun Gold, but the Sun Sugar did not produce as well for me as well aa Sun Gold did. I'll use the Sun Sugar seeds in the event that I can't get Sun Gold seeds at some point. This is the first year I'm growing the Super Sweet 100's. I'm excited to try those!!
Thanks for sharing your videos and keep them coming please. Hard to beat the sun golds in my opinion.
They're the best tasting, in my opinion, by a mile! However, I will say this: my Sun Gold vine was not nearly as stout as my SunSugar. My Black Cherry tomato died very early in the season, my SuperSweet 100's both eventually died of wilt, and my Sun Gold was just yanked this week. My SunSugar is the *only* indeterminate tomato in my entire garden that's still alive and producing. It's a monster.
I grew Barry’s Crazy Tomatoes last year, and now I won’t go a year without it. It’s a yellow, teardrop shaped multiflora cherry tomato with a decent amount of acid. I ended up eating most as I was picking them. You should try this variety!
One of my favorites too!
Looking forward to trying Sun Gold and Super Sweet 100 next year!
What do you plant this year!
Just happen to be growing all of these as well. I’ll report back in a month when they should be ready.
I've heard good reports about the Sun Gold. My favorite is A Grappoli D'Inverno Tomato.
I dropped Super Sweet 100 this year, which I grew year after year, after growing Sun Gold for the first time last year and planted two Sun Golds along with one Yellow Pear (love it for snacking, cut in half and salted) and two other cherry tomatoes I've never seen: Black Cherry and Orange Roussollini. My sixth small tomato plant is Wapsipinicon Peach, a 2" pale yellow tomato with a hint of peach fuzz that's mild but tasty. My other 6 are bigger: Brandywine, Kellogg's Orange Breakfast Tomato, Cherokee Purple, Polish Linguisa, Supersonic, and Nepal.
YES!!!!! SUN GOLD!!!!! I HAVE YOU!!!!
I'm not a big tomato eater so I'm picky , but I do grow and eat them. I think the Sweet 100 is just hard to beat. I think just about anybody could eat them till their sick. And I like the Black Cherry tomato when fully ripe. Straight up their yummy. Cut one in half and a couple drops of a good quality Balsamic Vinegar and holy moly. Stuff them in quart jars and can them...wow. They hold their shape well after canning. Their a great little tomato.
LOVE your channel.
Thank you! I appreciate that very much!
My favorite small tomato is the yellow pear. So sweet and it's heirloom.
To each his own! I’m not so big on those. It’s all sun gold for me, but I did have an insane harvest off a rapunzel cherry tomato plant last year and those were pretty good
This was so much fun 🤩
I'm happy to hear that! Thank you for watching.
If you're interested in yellow tomatoes, you might want to try growing Wapsipinicon Peach toms, which (as i understand it) are named after the Wapsipinicon river in Georgia, where they originate. They are a "saladette"-size tom, which are pretty-much exactly the same size range as your Black Cherry toms there.
They're named Wapsipinicon PEACH because they're covered in fuzz, just like a peach. (It's super-easy to rub or brush off.) They're fun to grow and fun to show off and I liked them in salads or just sliced in half with sea-salt or garlic-salt. When fully mature the toms are a lovely yellow with a pink-to-orange blush, like they're shy or embarrassed or just awkward. Fun.
They're also an heirloom.
Interestingly, I've got a packet of black cherry seeds waiting for me... it may be time to go ahead 'n plant some of those now.
ONE THING that I like to do is go to my local grocery and buy heirloom tomatoes, take them home and try them. If I love them, then I save the seeds and plant them in my garden. Easy-peasy.... and costs WAY less than buying a packet of seeds.
This year I'm trying that with Trader Joe's tomatoes-on-the-vine but I don't know if they are heirlooms... so IDK what I'll get.
Knock on wood.
I agree with you on the Sungold! I kept hearing that the sun sugar was the same but crack resistant so I tried it the year after I first had the Sungold. Even though is had been a whole year since I had the Sungold I knew with my first bite that it was not as good as Sungold. So now Sungold is my favorite must grow tomato.
SunSugar is a very good tomato, and if you just casually pick them off the plant, they seem very similar. However, when you actually eat them side-by-side, they aren't even close to the same. The Sun Gold is a much stronger tasting tomato. SunSugar is much milder. I love the face-punching flavor of Sun Gold.
I’ve grown Sungolds every year since 2015. I love Sweet 100s, Sweet Millions, Supersweet 100s, and Sprite Grapes, too. But Sungolds are a must for me. In 2016 I won First Place with both my Sungolds and New Girls at our local Tomato Featival.
Wow, that's great! I have not tried the others so I will have to give them a try.
so cool, I had sun gold and black cherry last year, black cherry are very mild, sun gold, which I normally grow every year, are phenomenal, I gave some to a friend and they blew his mind...unfortunately I couldn't find sun gold this year, so I planted 9 (yes 9) different varieties, mostly 'rare' heirloom, things like orange currant, champagne bubbles, white cherry, one called gobstopper, and others, we'll see how it goes (missing me some sun gold!)
Brilliant video , thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
My 2 favorites last year not cherries but reg size was Amish goat bag an Cherokee purple is amazing.
This was a good taste test video.
Enjoyed this video so much! I am growing the chocolate cherry for the first time this year. Would you say that it tastes similar to the black cherry? I am also growing the super sweet 100 for the first time, which I am so excited for!
Good test! I've grown all them before and they are all great but haven't ever grown them all 4 in one season to compare. The only one I would recommend that I think is in the top cherry tomato is the Barry's Crazy Cherry. It's my favorite. It's the only cherry tomato I grow every single year.
I'll have to add that to the "research list" for what to buy next year. There are so many varieties out there it's overwhelming. It's impossible to go wrong with any of these four.
Boy those are great and they put out so many.
They're fantastic. I recommend everyone grow cherry tomatoes, because they'll still produce well in bad years.
AWESOME- that was cool! 👍
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Super sweet 100 is my favorite. Have tried others in the last few years. Always go back to Super Sweet 100
So interesting. The only cherries I ever grow are sungold and black cherry. Your black cherries were not quite ripe. They have to stay on the vine until absolutely no green shoulders and get very very dark purple. Sungold is consistently better but a perfectly ripe black cherry will rock your world. You’ll know it when you eat one that is perfectly ripe. Thanks for sharing
I thought the black cherry wasn't quite ripe either, I also wonder if the sungold could be a bit oranger and then it's sweeter as well. I always grow sungolds, didn't remember to save seeds from the black cherry so didn't grow them again, I found them to take soooo long to ripen! I dry all my tomatoes and sungolds are just perfect for that!
I agree. Having both sun gold and sun sweet. They should be quite orange when ripe. And ditto in the black cherry. First time I grew them it took me quite a while to learn when they are truly ripe. You are right. They need to be very dark. No green. Patience is needed as they take longer to ripen.
I agree: the black cherry tomatoes weren't ripe. They take a LONG time to ripen in my experience (in southern Michigan).
purple bumble bee is my absolute fave cherry tomato
I grow mostly cherry tomatoes because they're earlier, have more intense flavor, come in a variety of flavors, and are easy to eat right off the plant.
You should try *Orange Paruche,* *Bronze Torch* and *Orange Zinger.*
Variety is the spice of life, and those three varieties bring the spice to life in abundance.
I have my seeds for the year, but I am trying some new varieties. Black Cherry didn't work out for me, so I'm replacing that with another hybrid black tomato. I'm also trying a new red tomato in search of something more acidic than SuperSweet 100.
Bronze torch is to die for
where can we find those 3 you mentioned for sale? recommendations?
@@Larkz0717
I bought Orange Paruche at *Territorial Seed.*
I bought Bronze Torch at *Johnny's Seeds.*
I bought Orange Zinger at *Totally Tomatoes.*
@@firecloud77 Thank you!
I've grown Sun Gold for five years and it is my favorite cherry tomato. It does tend to split if you don't pick them quickly after they ripen. This year I'm growing Black Strawberry cherry tomato from Baker Seeds, can't wait to try them. I wan to grow Super Sweet 100 next year, a lot of TH-cam gardeners rave about it.
The first of my black strawberries are ripening, so far I am impressed. The plant is crazy vigorous and the fruit seems thick / meaty.
Great video. Thanks for the taste test comparison and I enjoyed the second opinion since taste is so subjective. I just subscribed. THANKS!!!
Sungold is by far my favorite. Sun sugar is nearly identical but there is something missing that I can’t describe. Blue berries tomato is another great one. A pretty purple variety.
Isn’t it cool how different different each tomato tastes? They are amazing. Make some pico de Gallo using the cherry tomatoes. It’s amazing!
Do tomatoes taste different?
@@ivanhawkins3552 yes lol
I planted a lot of Roma tomatoes this year, just for Pico de Gallo and bruschetta.
I live in Iowa and SunGold has practically disappeared from nurseries. SunSugar seems to be taking over. I grew SunGold from seed just to make sure I could grow it. I never saw seedlings of SunGold commercially here in 2022. Thanks for the video.
I had the same experience of not being able to find Sun Gold seedlings this spring. I am in west central Alabama.
It's the same here in New Mexico.
Always great videos!
I would have had a palette cleanser in between tastes, no?
Wow very nice video thank you for sharing 👍👌🥰🥰
You're welcome!
The sun gold has an umami flavor! To me, that's the difference.
I made salsa with them. OMG!
The black cherry tomatoes are great for sun dried tomatoes if you get tired of eating them raw.
I have finally broken down and bought the famed Sungold and SuperSweet F1 hybrids this year to see all of the hype! I've always loved and grown the Black Cherry and loved it! It's always a slow one for me with the ripening, especially when we have a cool wet summer like last year! I've always also liked the yellow pear and gold nugget heirlooms that are supposed to be the most comparable in flavor to the Sungolds.
Blondkopfchen is my favorite yellow cherry. Side by side growing next to Sun gold the BK outproduced SG, and never split while SG did. All with BK having lovely flavor. You need to try it.
I agree with your assessment, however, those black cherries weren't fully ripe.
I prefer
1. Tarana B. Monster Nose Pimples (a lot of fruitwater, when pressing)
2.Tali Ban Sweet 16
3. Black Dwarf
4. Brown Mermaid Sugar
I only grow one super sweet 100 a year now. It produces so many. It’s also our favorite
I recommend trying Sun Gold. While I love Super Sweet 100, the Sun Gold's are out of this world in terms of taste.
I'm growing Black Cherry, dwarf Eagle Smiley, Prescott Cherry, Sunsugar, and Kiss the Sky cherry tomatoes. I've tried all of them except for Kiss the Sky, which has yet to ripen. Sun Sugar is a big disappointment, and it's too bad I didn't grow Sungold instead but didn't because of it being prone to cracks. I might try Sungold next year. Black Cherry is our favorite with Prescott Cherry second. Eagle Smiley and Sunsugar are rather small in size and not very sweet, so they won't be grown again in our garden. We like dark tomatoes, and Black Cherry has similar flavor, but we'd still like to find a Black Krim tasting cherry tomato. Cheers!
I plant two of each in 16 inches by four-foot beds, Steak Sandwich, Roma and Super Sweet 100. I have 3 4x4 beds, two of them will have 3 Straight 8 and 8 pepper plants, Candy Apple and Thunderbolt. In the last I plant Super Sweet peas carrots and radishes. I will also plant various companion plants.
try the midnight snack tomatoes!
I may. That is one I've been interested in. I also may try a green cherry tomato. My problem is that I only have room for around 5-6 cherry tomato plants, so in order to commit to new varieties, I have to cut others.