A cherry tomato plant started growing on its own in my compost bin last year. It was huge and the most productive one I've ever had.

My grandma who’s been growing cherry tomato for years always said to cut the leaf under the suckers once they get big enough, so that the plant will put energy into growing the fruit bearing part. This directly contradicted all the tomato videos I’ve watched. Finally, your video is the first that’s told me to do what my grandma does, but for cherry tomatoes only! I finally feel justified and like I’m not going crazy. Thanks!

Here in New Zealand we call suckers, laterals. I pinch some of the laterals out and plant them. The grow quickly and bear fruit. Free plants.

I'm 80 years old. I only use is concrete wire, I make a circle out it. After a few years its gets rusty so I paint them with a aluminum paint. I'm still gardening

I learned to garden organically from watching how my grandparents did it. They never bought any amendments or soil conditioners. They only put down heaps of compost and manure in late fall after the last harvest and cleanup and then tilled in spring. Once it was warm to plant they sowed their seeds and planted their tomatoes and peppers and added fresh grass clippings throughout the summer to keep down weeds and enrich the soil. The tomatoes were out of this world with flavor and we could never eat a store bought tomato after the last of these wonderful fruits was eaten and all with simple readily available organics.

Back for the refresher versions of these videos. I hope everyone has a great growing season!

In all of my large containers, I line them with newspaper around the inside and then fill them. This seems to keep pots insulated from heat during the summer and also retains moisture as it seeks to drain down along the sides first.

How can anyone NOT learning something from your videos-they’re the best. The two tomato cages together is genius, I’ll have to try that this year. Thanks again Brian.

Wow! I’ve been plucking off the suckers of my Sungold tomatoe plant. Won’t do that anymore. These tomatoes are some of the sweetest cherry tomatoes I’ve eaten. It’s winter now and they are still growing in Southern California.

My friend gardens and had a ginormous cherry tomato plant that produced an incredible number of tomatoes. She decided at some point to count them and picked over 1,000 cherry tomatoes off the one plant! I don’t have a the perfect place to grow one in the ground - not enough sun - so am going to try your container method! Hoping for a bumper crop.

I appreciated your cherry tomatoes in a container video because that's exactly what I'm doing this year. We have voracious rabbits in this area so I stacked the growing container on top of an empty container upside down, This raises the plant taller than any rabbit can reach. Also the slippery sides of the containers foil rodents that might try to climb.

My mother had a green thumb and could grow anything with minimal effort. She planted cherry tomatoes in a flower bed and just let them grow rampant. Our family of 6 had more tomatoes than we could ever eat.

Since you are not a huge cherry tomato fan, I will give you our favorite recipe to use lots of them. Use whatever you like as your favorite crust (unbaked), brush with a bit of olive oil, top with some shreaded herbs, then halved cherry tomatoes, cut side down, salt and pepper. Bake at 375 until bubbly. Magic happens in the oven. You can drizzle some pesto or sour cream if you like, but these never last long.

Fun fact: those side suckers root out nicely and quickly. Start a plant extra early and clone a bunch from it for easy free plants. They should start producing earlier than the same size grown from seed, given the advanced maturity.

I always plant deep. In fact I grow them long and leggy in the pots just for that reason. I also like to lay them over and plant that deeply as well. I can sometimes get almost two feet of stem under the dirt. When planting sideways, you can leave a side shoot intact, and it will make a second vine from the same rootstock.

I planted two CHERRY 100's last year in Colorado. They both grew to between seven and eight feet and had so many delicious tomatoes!! If you can find them you will be thrilled with the results!

As a first time gardener of cherry tomatoes, this video has come in handy😊

Compact dwarf cherry tomato varieties are great when you need to fit 2-3 plants in one large container. Just make sure there's extra soil, water, nutrients & airflow. Six to eight hours of full sun too. Noticed plants placed to receive the first blast of cooler early morning light grow & produce the best. (Plants placed to receive mostly blazing mid to late afternoon light wilt & struggle with spotting & other diseases much more.)

When the tomatoes get really tall and you are near the end of the season, the top flowering stems make great cut flowers. They last forever if you replace the water regularly and they smell herby and fabulous. The greens are beautiful with other cut flowers, too. They will also root if you want to try a winter indoor plant. I never tried planting the rooted stems and keeping over winter but I can imagine someone with the space and light might try it.

Thank you. I've done cherry tomatoes in pots for several years. My neighbors love me. I give sandwich bags full ALL summer long.

We save our eggshells, wash them out, bake them to make sure bad bacteria are killed, and then grind them up for some calcium. We leave some for the birds, too.

I love your double tomato cage. Great idea for stabilizing the structure. I'll be using this to discourage the stray cats and challenge the wind. Might even use it to set up a planter for a vining plant. Still modifying my layout. The more I put outside, the more I change my plans. Also, thanks for the "sucker" advice. I didn't know not to prune them on cherry tomatoes, this year I will make sure to let the armpits bush out. (Give Hairy Vetch a run for its money. LOL.)

I find tomato cages work well for cucumbers. I train the plant around each ring as it grows and then up to the next one.

You just blew my mind with stacking tomato cages. I was like - well duh! Thanks for the great tip!

I’m actually growing all my tomato and pepper plants in grow bags this year for space reasons so this video is right on time

Galvanized fencing is another budget friendly swap for tomato cages. Thanks for listing what to put in the soil and the unique pruning required for cherry tomatoes . That information was also very helpful.

Great advice. I've always wonder why my yield was small. I was discarding the suckers. I didn't realize that this is not to be done with cherry tomatoes. Thank you.

I needed this. I built my first ever above the ground vegetable garden, and planted 1 tomato in a five gallon bucket.

I love that you keep your additives in buckets with lids. My puppy has torn into my fabric greenhouse and shredded bloodmeal and other additives! That will keep her and I friends

I cannot believe how timely this was for me. This is my first year to grow Cherry Tomatoes and have also elected to grow them in a container. I will be looking forward to any follow up vids in the future.

I'm growing Tommy Toe tomatoes. I sowed a total of 6 seeds hoping to get 2 good plants for the season. This newbie now has 6 very sturdy Tommy Toe starts! Thank you for showing how to plant them in containers! 🍅 👍🏻😋

I like the way you show us everything step by step. Really easy to understand your directions for a newbie like myself.

Due to my mom getting old and not very healthy, I'm planting and maintaining my parents' garden this year (first time). I feel like I just got a GREAT crash course for my cherry tomato plant because I knew none of this. THANK YOU!! Now I'm going to see if you cover all the plants I'll be planting (not more than 10-12; small garden basically for salad vegetables).

Brian you are in for a treat. Sungolds are incredible. I have been growing them in pots for about 8 years. I use at least a 10 gallon pot. I also grow most of them in fabric pots. You definitely have to stay on top of the watering, but I love the fabric pots. Very healthy plants. Looking forward to see what you think of the Sungolds. My neighbors and co-workers ask for them by name each season, when I start sharing. In fact one of my friends named them "little balls of sunshine". Like the idea of turning over the tomato cage, because they can get very big. I will do that this year. Love your channel, always learn something new. Thanks again!

OMG! I’ve been doing it wrong all these years. I’ve always removed the suckers on my cherry tomatoes. Lots of great info. Thanks so much.

OMG, this is the only gardening channel one ever needs to grow a garden!!! Thank you!!! ❤❤❤

wow I've been cutting all the suckers off of my cherry tomatoes! no wonder they didn't produce! thanks for the tip!

My 4 yr old loves eating Sungold tomatoes all summer whenever we're in the backyard. We're adding more varieties this year.

Love the idea of combining the 2 cages to make a trellis. Last summer I had one cherry tomato plant that grew like Jack's beanstalk and I had to get pretty creative on how to support it and train it to wrap around itself etc. This will help!

I love that we plant basil with cherry tomatoes. I wrap a basil leaf around the cherry tomato and snack all afternoon in the garden.

Yass. Here in Alabama, I grew my sweet 100’s in a container last year in about a 4 gallon. It went well and they put out and survived well into October and November. They actually did better in the fall due to cooler weather. Our summers get into the 90’s and 100’s here in Bama.

I never fail to learn something from your videos. Retaining it is the tricky part 'cause I'm, like, old. 🤦‍♀️ No worries; I take notes. 🤗

Learning more and more. Cherry tomatoes on my list to grow. 2nd year of gardening. Homegrown tomatoes taste so much better than supermarket ones.

I'm always so psyched after one of your videos. I'm focusing on cherry and paste tomatoes this year, so the timing on your advice is perfect. Thanks, as always!!

Love all your videos! I live in south central Ontario next to Lake Huron, so quite a different climate from yours. All the information you provide works well here with slight modifications. Thanks so much. This will be year 2 for my raised bed garden and I can’t wait. Last year, implanted late due to being locked down in Toronto from March to June first. Following your advice, I still had quite a good crop.

Perfect timing. I'm only growing cherry tomatoes in containers this year, and I was all set to follow instructions I've seen for regular ones.

I am going to try this on my cherry tomatoes this year. Thank you for the info.

You are so good at explaining all the details needed to be a successful Gardener. I really appreciate that you have made these videos for gardeners like me.. Have a great harvest!!

6x6 road mesh works great for tomato cages. Put in pot first, and then soil. As for watering, I have water heater pans under my buckets that hold water and I can add liquid fertilizer for plants to wick up. After the plants are toward the top of the cage I take a piece of PVC pipe and string it through horizontal at the top of multiple buckets for added stability during the growing season.

I have followed your seed planting in growing pods and then transferred them to the red cups. They have wonderful root systems and are the size of your example here. I am planting in pots and appreciate your help in this video.

I will definitely use your tips. I grew about 100 tomatoes from seed. Kind of over did it. Giving them to all my friends. I will grow some in a container.

Can’t thank you enough. It’s like you were reading m mind. I was contemplating growing cherry tomatoes in a pot & your video popped up. I appreciate that you covered EVERYTHING because I know absolutely nothing.

Thank you so much for this information! Here in Florida, we mostly grow cherry or determinate tomatoes; as the humidity and heat get to be too much for larger tomatoes to develop. I love knowing I can leave those suckers on there and get a bounty. I am also growing them all in containers because we don't have our raised beds up yet; plus I can move them around if I need to. Your videos are always so specific and so informative, and I love that you include notes for different climates. I hope you'll show us your cherry tomatoes as they grow throughout the season.

Excellent tips! I grew cherry, grape and a mediums sized slicer last year- the double cage into a trellis is an awesome idea! "Almost" makes me regret getting rid of the cages left by the previous homeowner when I bought my house 8 yrs ago! 😄 Almost, but not quite! Thanks so much and have a great day! ☕😊

Just bought cherry tomato plants yesterday and going to plant in raised beds in my yard. This was a helpful video, thank you!

Looks like those wood chips falling was some good ASMR for you! 🤤😂

You know exactly what I need! lol. I started cherry tomato seed in 6b. Looking forward to plant it in a container.

Great video, as usual. Planted cherry tomatoes last year and had pretty good results but this info especially the pruning details will help to improve on that this year. I planted a variety called “Flavor Bombs” and they are the best tasting cherry tomatoes I have ever had. Thanks again for all the information you provide on all things gardening.

My elderly parents have a balcony they use, and Dad wants a cherry tomato plant again this year. I'll definitely use the double cage idea. Thanks for that tip!

I'm completely new to gardening and your videos are so helpful. Thank you.

Oh! I never thought to group cages together. I cannot wait till my cherry tomatoes are big enough to plant. Growing Sweetheart Cherry and Isis Candy Cherry. I love all your ideas and advice. Thank you!

Great info. I am growing just cherry tomatoes and also experimenting with growing cuttings from the lower branches that were too close to ground of the Sun Sugar yellow cherry tomato! The prices at the big box were over $5 per plant so propagation makes sense. The cuttings are growing root hairs right now after about 5 days in the water.

After putting my Raised Garden Beds on Autopilot last year, I needed the memory jogging to grow Cherry Tomatoes and restart the soil nutrients for them. Love the double cage idea ❤

In this video, I learned not to trim out the suckers from cherry variant tomatoes. Thank you so much! I'm growing both this year, this being my first time with cherry, so you're a crop saver!

After watching this; I’ve decided to plant my sweetcherry tomato seeds in a container! Thank you so much as I hadn’t really thought to do it!!!

Last year I grew my cherry tomato plant in my raised bed on an 8 foot stake. It grew 8 feet tall. The problem was keeping the stake secure in the rocky soil in Massachusetts (zone 5a). So it leaned, no big deal. Also I should have notched my wooden stake to keep my ties secure around the stake. This year I'm growing a grape tomato plant (among others) but with a few adjustments. I think if I did a container I would use four stakes to make a square around the plant for more stability. It's really not a matter of growing in containers or raised beds, the important part is the stake and how secure it is and if it's easy to maintain. I'd be interested how well your cage idea works out when the plant is producing heavily. I don't think it's stable enough. The bigger the container and the deeper it is, the more stable your staking will be. In a raised bed you have a foot but here everything below that is filled with rock so I really need to excavate and back fill. Again, if using wooden stakes just notch the stake so the tie has something to grab ahold of. I'm "The Northeast Garden" on Facebook.

I bought a cherry tomato and had no idea how to trim it. Thank you for answering that question!

I really like the idea of using the two tomato 🍅 cages to support the indeterminate cherry tomatoes. I have one variety and will use this as someone gave me two old tomato cages. Great information in the video.

Great idea with the cages! Great channel. Thanks. I tie the long branches to cages loosely with strips of old plastic grocery store bags - soft and flexible.

Great video! I am going to try cherry tomatoes this year. So glad I saw this. Such great information. I have had a lot of issues with all my tomatoes developing blossom end rot so I’m hoping by following your videos this will be the year that I don’t have that issue.

Perfect timing, thank you! I always learn so much from you Brian. You keep me inspired. 😊

Thanks for the video on growing cherry tomatoes in a container and the tomato cage tip. Ive always grown them in the ground and they just spread out so much. My Tomatoes were always good and I always get plenty of them . I think I’ll try in a pot this year. Thanks for the tip on the two tomato cages. Love watching your videos always so informative. I like that you include growing guides to us who live in Northern areas of the U.S.

Brian, I just finished watching 2 of your videos on growing tomatoes in pots, this one and one from last year which by the way it was so informative. Ive had blossom end rot for several years in a row and everything ive read talked about calcium deficiencies and it didnt make sense because i used different soils every year, but you were the first to say it's related to the absorption of calcium. Thank you, thank you, thank you for these videos. I'm so impressed! Last year was the first time I had heard of indeterminate variety and I couldn't believe how big they got, and this year I'm going to try peardrop , jet star and a patio tomato so the information you gave on feeding them is so great. I can't wait to grow my tomatoes this year. Everything from the bucket and nutrients you told us about to the staking and pruning was super helpful!!!

And I was JUST about to move my cherry tomatoes into pots this week!! Perfect timing!!

Love these videos, no nonsense and you keep it short which is great for the add'ers like me , thanks!

Thank you so much Brian for this very needed information I love growing my cherry tomatoes but have always pruned them like my other tomatoes 🤔 This is a huge game changer for me. Love your site. Have a blessed day ❤

I like the idea of the bottom trellis being upside down. Years ago, I lived in inner city Philly. My back yard was as big as a bedroom. I wall mounted some pots with Cherry Tomatoes and let them hang. The pots were a little small, but this could work anywhere. And it's decorative. I did have to water more often than a regular garden.Now there are many more options for wall mounted planters.

New subscriber here: I learned SO much!!!!! Your voice is perfect. I could understand every word. Can't wait to correctly plant a few tomatoes in pots!!!

Omg! I took the suckers out for the first time and I have some cherry some not.., I was glad to hear you say it was ok to take out the suckers on only the first few branches as that’s all I have so far! I learn so much from this channel! Thank you for all of the great information you put out!!

I'm trying Artisan Bumblebee cherry tomatoes, (3 types) for the 1st time this year. I bought self watering 10 gallon pots for the 1st time too. I'll be following your lead on amendment's, caging and pruning, thanks!!

My grandparents seemed to grow tomatoes so easily when I was a kid but I've been having a horrible time of it so decided to watch a bunch of videos. I've learned a lot! Question: why do you not trim the "armpits" of cherry toms? I seemed to have missed the "why"

Just a small correction @ 7:44 and 8:50 : not all cherry tomato plants are indeterminate, there are lots of determinate cherry types out there. Thanks for the video!

I have 8 large red cherry and 2 husky cherry in 8 gal containers right now. Never had serious problems with any of them. Delicious fruit in abundance.

Brian, you're terrific. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and tips. I plan to watch all or most of your videos. You are my new gardening guru.

I always learn something new . You keep my attention and reference other videos, because you know questions sort to more questions. Lol. I'm a teacher, so I'm listening to the delivery on all levels. Most excellent.

Thank you so much for all this information in a concise, understandable format. You hit on so many important points for a person, such as I, who never has grown a tomato plant successfully. I have grown large vines with plenty of leaves and two to three brown bottom tomatoes. I never tried again. I’m in humid Oklahoma with tons of wind and rain in spring and drought in hot summer. After watching this video, I’m going to try one, just one patio tomato plant. The only thing I plant is peppers. They love the weather here. But even basil gives up. I can only do container gardening. I’m ready, after three years of only planting peppers, to give other veggies another shot. Thanks so much. I’ve subscribed to your channel because I’m sure I’ll learn more important information.

First time container grower. Great video. Very informative. Thanks

I found this channel right on time. Thanks for the info and tips.

Stacking the cages ?? What an excellent idea!!! thanks 👩🏽‍🌾👍🏽🍅💚

Thank you, I learned a lot and may put my cherry’s into containers because 1. You make it seem easy and 2. I can use the room in my beds. 👍🏼🍅

I have never seen so much effort for tomatoes. I'd love to see these in full season!

The sun gold are sooooo sweet and yummy! I'm growing them for the first time this year too. 👍🌱

I’m doing many varieties of tomatoes in stock tanks and my greenhouse in Central Oregon (high desert) this summer. This helps.

I used the 2 cage system last year for my in-ground cherry toms. Mid season I had to stake like you did with a big heavy post. Worked for awhile, but that plant got so big and heavy (and full of fruit!) that I just let it go... every morning I'd go out and pull it up straight for the day 😂😂😂

Wow, definitely a lot of info I didn't know about growing cherry tomatoes, you are the best, Brian!

I had a cherry tomato plant randomly pop up in some overgrown brush I found clearing it out. It was delicious grew wild and completely healthy

My first time trying central stem style pruning, I tried to prune my cherry tomatoes this style. One plant died. The other just kept putting out side shoots. I ended up with a very strange looking plant, with FIVE support stakes and many, many cherry tomatoes. I appreciate the information on pruning difference between cherry and standard sized tomatoes. Here in the pacific northwest, we have plenty of calcium in the soil, but the soil in most areas is acidic and this prevents calcium uptake. Adding calcium doesn't work, but correcting the ph level does. What this tells me is checking ph levels would be a good idea when planting any calcium hungry vegetable.

Oh my goodness this was So Helpful!! This taught me so much! I had no idea that I should leave the suckers on my cherry tomatoes! I have been pinching them off for years just like on my regular tomatoes. 🙄 I am also happy learning about the soil amendments you use. I can’t wait to see how my cherry tomatoes do this year! Thank you so much!

I will be growing sun gold, sweetie cherry tomatoes , and containers choice tomatoes. This cage method should be exceptional for all three. Thank you for the great video ❤️

My favs are the black cherry tomatoes & the yellow pear cherry toms. Delicious!