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Black Cherry Tomato Insta-Garden

Black Cherry Tomato Insta-Garden

Deep mahogany skin, flesh so sweet and smoky it tastes like a good red wine — one of the sweetest cherries ever measured, with complexity that makes every other cherry tomato feel one-dimensional. The first one will stop you in your tracks. By the tenth, you'll be ruined for grocery store tomatoes forever.

Indeterminate Open-Pollinated · Seeded February 17 · Flowering now, first ripe fruit in 3–5 weeks · Full sun

📦 What's Included

This isn't a tomato start. It's an Alchemy Garden — seeded in February, fed on the farm, flowering and fruiting now, delivered ready to harvest from. You skip the hardest eight weeks of tomato growing and go straight to the table.

Every Insta-Garden comes with:

  • Established 2-ft tomato plant in a 3-gallon soft pot, seeded February 17 and grown out on-farm
  • 2.5 ft support stake installed (indeterminate varieties will outgrow this — plan to upsize by July)
  • 0.5 lb of Alchemy Gardens weekly feed — the same Mittleider-based formula I use on all 246 tomato plants across my farm, tomato/pepper optimized
  • Pre-measured weekly scoop — no guessing, no math
  • One-page growing and feeding instructions — written for Tulsa conditions

You water. You feed once a week. You harvest.

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📖 The story

Black Cherry was bred by Vince Sapp, husband of Linda Sapp who owned Tomato Growers Supply in Fort Myers, Florida. It wasn't planned. It started as a naturally occurring mutation — "a gift from Mother Nature," in Sapp's words — that he discovered in one of his fields and proliferated from there. Released to growers in 2003. Twenty years later it's still one of the benchmark purple cherries — a modern open-pollinated classic that came from pure luck and careful seed-saving.

🍴 What you're getting

Bite-sized deep mahogany-burgundy cherries with a complex, fruity, balanced, rich, sweet, and intense flavor — similar in color and flavor profile to a Cherokee Purple, in a cherry size. Brix value around 8 to 10, making them one of the sweetest cherry tomato varieties available. Roughly 1-inch round fruits in loose clusters all season.

📅 What to expect

Steady producer from late May through to frost. Heavy rain after dry spells can cause cracking — pick promptly when fruit starts to color.

💧 Care in Tulsa

Water 2x per week at the base. Mulch heavily. One scoop of feed per week. Prune lower suckers for airflow. Pick at full dark color for best flavor.

☀️ Heat mitigation

Afternoon shade cloth during 100°F+ stretches helps fruit set. Consistent watering is the real defense against cracking during rain-drought cycles.

🛡️ Common problems

Early blight (remove affected lower leaves, improve airflow), hornworms (hand-pick), aphids (neem oil spray).

✔ Best for

Composed salads · Slow-roasting until they collapse into jam · The charcuterie board next to the good cheese

$30.00/each

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