1 / 2open-pollinated
Gardener's Delight
Also sold as: Gardener's Delight Tomato, Gardeners' Delight
Classic red open-pollinated cherry tomato with cascading trusses, dependable yields and sweet rich flavour.
- Shape
- Round
- Fruit type
- Cherry
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 16 g (8–30 g)
- Days to maturity
- 68 days (67–68) from transplant
- Sweetness
- High
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- Very high
- Cracking resistance
- High
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Growing advice
- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Cool-climate suitability
- Medium
- Growing notes
- Train as a cordon on canes/string and remove side shoots in the usual UK system. Large containers work if support, feeding and watering are reliable.
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8.0/10
Grower rating
1 review
8.0 / 10
Flavour · 1 review
100%
Would grow again · 1 of 1 answered
Sweetness
Very high
1 grower observation
Acidity
Very low
1 grower observation
Flavour intensity
Strong
1 grower observation
Productivity
High
1 grower observation
Generally low cracking reported by growers— observed by growers, not a breeder resistance rating (1 report)
- None100% (1)
Growers describe the flavour as
- Classic tomato
CClare
8/10 overall · 8/10 flavour
United Kingdom · Outdoors · In the ground · Full sun · 2026
- Sweetness: Very high
- Acidity: Very low
- Flavour intensity: Strong
- Productivity: High
- Cracking: None
- Would grow again: Probably
Classic tomato
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Fruit
- Seediness
- High
Growing
- Grafted
- Not grafted
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