cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1803373
Man, if you ever want to eat 10,000 tomatoes in a season, plant yourself a Spoon Tomato.
I made the mistake of growing two of these last summer, and each grew up, over, and across the length of my trellis arch, about 20’ in length. To keep them from utterly smothering their neighbors required pruning fistfuls of vines literally daily.
It’s insanely prolific in fruits too, I gave up harvesting them all when I was picking hundreds a day. That sounds great, but each is the size of a pea or smaller, and they had the tendency to split at the top rather than keeping their caps, so they didn’t store well at all.
The flipside is they do have a great tart, intense tomato flavor. I mostly ate them as garden snacks, or sprinkled on salads or focaccia.
[Image description: a small metal spoon holding a dozen tiny, bright red round cherry tomatoes. Green tomatoes and flowers are seen on the vine adjacent to the spoon.]
If you want something vaguely similar but with a more random appearance and size, I swear that harvested seeds from the Costco assorted cherry tomatoes are proving for the second year to be incredibly hardy and prolific.
Yeah, I posted about a couple a volunteers I’ve got in my backyard that don’t look quite like any variety I’ve grown before. I’ve given them no love or water, but they’re just happily charging along.