Tomato 'Sweet Million'

I ordered transplants of this little tomato after checking on the forums to ask everyone's favorite tomato. Due to the weather, I wasn't ...Read Moreable to get them in the ground till mid-May. I picked my first ripe ones yesterday, June 16, and they are yummy!! They are everything everyone says they are! This one's a keeper!

One of the first red tomatoes to ripen. About 1” red cherry, larger than Sweet 100 and much more sweet.
Definitely a must have.

Have been growing Sweet Million since 87 great taste thin skins and always dependable.We make a salad of cut sm;s
with olive oil a...Read Morend fresh basil that is our favorite'

I have actually had good success growing this plant from seeds. I love the fact that they don't split and wanted to try to grow my own....Read Morer />
I've seen sites where the gather of any tomato seed is quite detailed...yet this one has been easy for me.

I just cut open the tomato, get a toothpick to navigate the seeds, and put them along the edges of a dixie cup (plastic works best). It doesn't matter if there is some pulp on the seeds. Line them up so they don't touch. Some will sink to the bottom of the container if there is too much pulp with them. Keep moving them up until they stay put.

Let them dry on the cup by a window for a week or two, then chip them off of the cup and into a little storage bag. I have done this three years in a row, and over half of my seeds sprout. After a week after planting (the next season), I have almost 20/50 sprouted, with a new one or two each day.

I've grown Sweet Million successfully in the past in Southampton, NY, where they were my all-time favorites. This year I tried them in K...Read Moreent, CT along with 4th of July (a winner, first to ripen, nice flavor) and Sweet Snack (not- late, not outstanding, and first to go in the fall). The lawn guy told me at the end of the season that he'd helped himself freely to Sweet Million all summer after sampling all three!!! And I was blaming the change in zones for lower yield!!!

This was my first year to plant a Sweet Million...and of course, it was one of the hottest on record. Other growers seemed to have tomat...Read Moreoes right and left, but our tomatoes kept growing, just not producing (and we tried everything). It wasn't until the heat broke and we started dropping temps at night that they really started going. It wasn't just the SMs affected, but also the Romas and Beefsteaks as well. I am going to try moving a plant into the greenhouse over the winter and see how it weathers. So far, we're still producing a lot and it's nearly Thanksgiving. I would recommend that a tarp be used on outdoor plants to help prevent them getting too cold at night if your area is starting to get a bit frosty. I don't know when they will finally get too cold. I planted them with basil and lemon balm and next to an agastache, so we would have a lot of friendly pollinators.

As a note: They LOVE, in a crazy-go-nuts sort of way, to have coffee grounds added to their soil. If you're not a coffee drinker (and even if you are), a lot of coffee shops will give you used grounds free of charge. They are a staple in my compost bin now.

I read the reviews of this plant and thought it would work in the late summer heat of Miami. It did not. Night time temps in the low 80...Read More's and lots of humidity and rain killed the pollen. They started flowering in late August. I am now in October and have gotten maybe 1 tomato per plant. It is starting to cool down to low 70's at night and now the upper branches are starting to produce a little bit. I have a few more started for this winter. They predict they will give me a much better show.

By the time this cultivar stops producing, you'll be tired of eating tomatoes. Container friendly, needs to be pruned.

I have grown these for the past 4 or 5 years. They are fairly difficult to germinate from seeds, even with a temperature controlled heat...Read More mat. This is a prolific plant that produces thousands (maybe millions??) of wonderfully tasty tomatoes. I have seven varieties of tomatoes planted this year and all of them, except the sweet million, have been affected badly by alternaria fungal blight. I have Juliet, Sun Gold and a small Roma cherry-type tomato plants as well as a few salsa and meaty-type larger tomato plants. All of them have significant blight damage. The sweet million plant has just a few leaves that have been affected--it seems to have a pretty good resistance to this fungus.

I didn't think I liked cherry tomatoes, but these are really sweet, the skin is thin and yummy, and they are super easy and prolific. Th...Read Moreey taste more like a really good slicer. Mine is in my best organic soil and is over 6 feet high in late July. Will grow again.

Produced better than average tasting cherry tomatoes from July through September. I had one plant in the sun and one in a fairly well sh...Read Moreaded spot and they both had good crops of 1 to 1.5 inch fruit in clusters of 6-8.

I planted a Sweet Million for the first time about four years ago, and it has produced at least one volunteer every year since. So, I gro...Read Morew it every year whether I like it or not (LOL). It is sweet and very productive. I have a hard time keeping up with all of the tomatoes (but if I let them rot on the ground I just get more volunteers!). They are a good cherry to snack on while you are gardening and kids love them.

This is the most prolific cherry tomato I've ever seen and one of the most delicious I've grown. I've had my whole neighborhood eating t...Read Morehese tomatoes. And, here in the SF Bay Area, I had fruit until the frosts kicked in around Thanksgiving. Can't wait to grow this again next year.

This marvellous plant lives up to its name, that's for sure. One plant will produce ridiculous amounts of bright red, marble-sized sweet...Read More bites, enough to keep you snacking as you garden, snacking some more afterwards, plucking more for your harvest basket, fretting over the dozen or so that dropped as soon as you handled the plant, giving bunches away, and then finally hoping that the local wildlife will make use of what you can't (and it does!).

Excellent disease resistance, virtually no cracking. I didn't fertilize my Sweet Million plant and it wasn't even in full sun, and yet it was an outstanding specimen. It's a long vine but not too difficult to manage, and holds up nicely all the little tomatoes it bears. Pop one into your mouth and you'll experience a crisp, juicy burst of sweetness with little acid to speak of.

I preferred Sweet Baby Girl for flavor,and SWB's productivity is darned good, but Sweet Million is certainly nothing to sneeze at, and a great choice for those who only have room for one cherry tomato plant, like a sweet flavor and want to invest their efforts in a plant that isn't fussy or unreliable.

It's a keeper. Very sweet and tasty. Only problem was the one plant produced a million more tomato's than we needed. Will plant it in a s...Read Moremaller container this year to limit the production and plant size.

This little tomato is a star! This was my first year for growing tomatoes, and this plant out-performed all other varieties that I grew,...Read More hybrids and heirlooms. This plant tolerated and peformed in extreme heat (95+ in September) and kept up with production until the first freeze (production increasing as it cooled down). I also grew Sun Sugar, but the Sweet Million were much sweeter and pleasing (to me), and the plant was much more productive. In an added bonus for my yard, at least, this plant peformed well in fairly shady conditions which didn't favor many of the other tomato varieties that I tried. It also thrived in a container, even though the vine eventually grew to be over 6 feet tall. I think this is a pretty fail-safe tomato for beginners and will definitely be on my tomato list for spring planting.

Very very sweet and very very productive. The plants grew over 6ft and the amount of tomatoes that grew on them were amazing. I did Sweet...Read More 100 last year, but Sweet Million is much more productive, vigourous and the tomato flavors are even better than Sweet 100, in my opinion.

I live in the northern Illinois area. I have grown Sweet Million tomatoes every year for what must be 15 years now. I experimented firs...Read Moret with Sweet 100, Supersweet 100 and Sweet Chelsea, but found that Sweet Million was sweeter, more crack-resistant and more productive.

Profilic, very sweet fruit.