Tomato 'Sweet Chelsea'

This variety puts on lots of tomatoes. The size of the tomatoes are larger than the grape varieties and they seem to be slightly larger ...Read Morethan the Tommy Toes.

Review based on 2 plants.

These are VERY vigorous vines. Plan on significant height. I grew in 4-5 gal, self watering ...Read Morecontainers (on a balcony) & I had to start topping these plants at about 8-8.5 feet.

Also plan on a fair amount of time pruning suckers to get full production. Although I did not have time to pinch suckers thoroughly, I still got very good production from both plants. Each plant yielded approximately 300+ tomatoes. Plants had NO issues with BER.

Tomato size varied from a few marble sized to just smaller than golf ball size (majority of tomatoes this size). Tomatoes were uniform, round cherries. Fully red & slightly firm. Only a few tomatoes cracked, typically when I left on the vine much too long. These tomatoes had good hang time on the vine & on the shelf so you won't have to consume immediately upon ripening or harvest.

Taste? Average. Not sweet (as the name would lead you to believe) & frankly, very little taste at all. I would still rate them higher than store bought but not by much. *BUT, the limited taste may be related only to my plants. I grew in our fall season on a porch/balcony so they only averaged 4 hours a day of sun. With the limited amount of sun, the plants could only produce so much sugar & probably did not develop their full flavor potential.

Disease resistance was exceptional. I had only a few leaves that succumbed to early blight but after I pinched them, I had no other problems and the plant grew healthy replacement shoots EXTREMELY quickly. The plants were still growing & putting out blossoms when I had to toss them to make room for my spring plants.

Would I grow again? Definitely yes. But I would try during the spring/summer to see if increased hours of sun improve the flavor. When I have a chance to grow them again, I have very limited space & am trying a number of different cultivators, I'll update this post if I get different results.

Sweet Chelsea is a large, almost golf ball sized, cherry tomato. Great flavor for salad and snack sized eating. Healthy disease free pl...Read Moreants grew moderately tall 5'-6' on my wire mesh cages. Very good yields noted. One of the few tomatoes that survived the dreaded tomato blight last year in this area. This one's a keeper.

I have been growing this for over a decade. Very productive, large cherries, sweet, but not like a sungold or sun sugar.
This on...Read Moree retains more of that real tomato flavour. Also it
is one of the last in the season with good ripe fruit for the picking.