Fox Cherry Tomato | Solanum lycopersicum | Certified Organic
Highly vigorous–produces perfect, plump, salad-sized red tomatoes.
This sly fox has skipped over Aesop's unreachable grapes and gone right for the grill. Why waste your energy jumping for something you can't reach when these sweet fruits are right at your fingertips? These two-bite tomatoes are prolific and easy to pick, hanging at comfortable heights along vines that reach skyward. Their perfect, plump size accommodates skewering, halving, and quartering for grilling and chunky salads. Follow the Fox's lead and you'll be grinning, too.
Fox Cherry Tomatoes grow on big, rangey vines. Unlike most cherry tomatoes, the fruits are large enough to use as regular tomatoes. They can be sliced into small rounds, or quartered, or chomped whole. Cherry tomatoes are more disease-resistant than standard varieties, and this is a particularly hardy, productive choice.
Indeterminate. Sow indoors 3-8 weeks before last frost, then transplant after frost into good garden soil. Provide support for these tall, rangey vines. Prune after they've been in the ground for 3-4 weeks to decrease soil-foliage contact, increase air flow around leaves, and establish sturdy structure.
Days to Germination 3-10 days
Days to Maturity 75 days from transplant
Planting Depth ½"
Spacing in Row 24"
Spacing Between Rows 42"
Height at Maturity 72"
Sun Preference Full Sun
Growth Habit Indeterminate
Illustration by Deb Lucke. Drawing upon her experience as a children's book writer and illustrator, Deb painted this grinning grilling fox in a friendly style that embodies the whimsical and sweet nature of summer cherry tomatoes.
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These Art Packs, most fundamentally, tell stories. Hudson Valley challenges artists to convey in a manner that is fully their own, the history and meaning of the seed variety contained in each pack. These stories were once integral to traditional societies-stories of seeds were often origin stories for entire communities and peoples, and the lore and beliefs that accumulated around seed varieties reflected the nearly familial way in which gardeners and farmers regarded their crops. Our society is, by and large, no longer connected to plants this way. But we like to think these Art Packs help to stitch our fragmented world back together: useful seeds, evocative art, both equally valuable to our experience of being human.