[Max4]

Looking for the benefit of experience here.

Need some recommendations for tomatoes for next year. Will be grown in the polytunnel and looking for cordon types for both cherry and a main crop. The main crop has to be about golf ball sized - grew money makers this year and my wife complained they were too big!

Very many thanks

Mark

[fatbelly]

Sungold are an excellent Cherry type tom.
Shirley is similar to money maker but not quite as big

[surbie100]

Hi Mark,
I grew 16 different varieties this year (full review is on my blog) and of those my favourites are:

Cherry: Black Cherry, Ildi, Blush and Sweet Million F1
Salad size: Red Zebra

Crimson Crush F1 are also very good, and the blight resistance is coming in very handy as it's growing outside.

[jambop]

All my toms are grown out side but the best cherry has to be Cherry Roma by a long way. For a standard plum San Marzano or Princip Borghese and if you want a good beef tom Coeur de Boeuf or Marmande.  There are plenty of new toms  but I think the older ones are less hassle and better flavour.

[oldgrunge]

For cherries, Black Cherry and Sungold. Everything else I usually grow is on the big side, bur FYI they are, Black Russian, Brandywine, and St. Pierre.

[TheWhiteRabbit]

I grew Tigerella and Alicante for the first time this year. I think the Tigerella are the better flavoured tom but the skins have been a bit thick but then, it's not been a great year for toms so I'm not sure if that's the cause. They're a good size though, not too large and not too small.

[JayG]

I grew Gardener's Delight for the first time this year (from a 5 year old packet of seeds donated by a friend who got them free with a magazine!)

Still fruiting now in the greenhouse, very prolific, very red, and very tasty - long time since I held a golf ball in my hand and reflected on its diameter , but if you describe them as 'small tomatoes' rather than 'large cherries' they could possibly pass your wife's size test too. 

[Potty Plotty Lotty]

Galina for the cherry tomato (if she's OK with a yellow one)
Grow at least some Stupice for the main crop tomato-they are very early and are not too bad in taste in my opinion and golf ball sized.

[Headgardener22]

Can I ask why you want to grow small tomatoes? (Other than instructions). I have always found that the Orange Beefsteak (Summer Cider and Marvel Stripes to name but two) have a much better flavour than small red tomatoes.

However, if you want to grow cherry/small standard tomatoes, then Green Grapes (providing you let them ripen fully), Brown Berry, Orange Berry, Rosella and Snow White would give you a range of other colours.

[cadalot]

I've grown Red Robin for the seed circle this year and they have been great, so far blight free in the greenhouse. going smaller 100s and 1000s are a great hit with my daughters. 

[mumofstig]

Can I ask why you want to grow small tomatoes? (Other than instructions).

If they are what his family want to eat, isn't that a good enough reason to grow them? 

[sunshineband]

Can I ask why you want to grow small tomatoes? (Other than instructions).

If they are what his family want to eat, isn't that a good enough reason to grow them? 

and 100s &1000s are both extremely prolific and delicious too. Just the job whole in tomato chutney 

(PS Thanks for the seeds Cadalot  )

[surbie100]

100s&1000s are lovely. A bit of a pain to pick, but lovely to eat. (again, thanks Cadders!)

[Aunt Sally]

Sungold are a fabulous small tomato too

[Auntiemogs]

Orange Paruche are my favourite cherry tomato.  Larger than Sungold and a bit sweeter.