Tomato 'Whipper Snapper'

This is my 9th season of growing this variety. Because the plant is difficult to contain (sprawling 12" branches everywhere), I grow it ...Read Morein hanging baskets. It produces lots of early, tasty, pink fruit and continues producing all summer.

I tried Whippersnapper because a grower in Fairbanks, Alaska (permafrost country) said in an Internet forum that Whippersnapper was alway...Read Mores the first to bear fruit. Aha! Input from a real gardener, not hype from a seed catalog! It’s a cherry; it takes 67 to make a pound. The plants sprawl on the ground. Of the 9 varieties I grew in 2007, Whippersnapper was the most susceptible to sunscald. Hardening off is therefore very important. I grow it as a season-extender on the front end of the season. It does produce red tomatoes ahead of anything else; 3 weeks ahead of Rutgers.

"Extremely early, dark pink oblong shaped cherries grow in low lying sprays."