Tomato 'Gardeners Delight'

Common name: Tomato 'Gardeners Delight'

Description: Gardeners Delight is one of the most enduringly popular cherry tomato varieties in the UK, and its reputation is well deserved. This cordon variety produces long trusses of small, intensely sweet, deep red cherry tomatoes with an exceptional depth of flavour that outperforms many modern cultivars. It has been a staple of British kitchen gardens for decades and remains the benchmark by which other cherry tomatoes are often judged. Plants are vigorous and productive, growing well both under glass and in a warm outdoor position.

Other benefits: outstanding, classic flavour; very heavy cropping; suitable for greenhouse or outdoor growing; trusted heritage variety

Wildlife attraction: bees and other pollinating insects

Height & spread (approx.) at maturity: 1.5–1.8m x 45cm (cordon grown)

Position: full sun to partial shade; grows well in a greenhouse, polytunnel, or warm sheltered outdoor position

Soil pH: slightly acid to neutral (pH 6.0–7.0); fertile, well-drained soil or compost

Moisture: regular, consistent watering essential; high-potash liquid feed once flowering begins; remove side shoots regularly to maintain as a cordon

Winter hardiness: frost tender; grow as an annual from spring