Pocket Star

Description

(74 days) Open-pollinated. Indeterminate. Two years ago after giving one of my Grow-for-Fedco talks at Common Ground Fair, a young farmer took away one of the grower’s applications. This year he showed up at the Fair with some fruit in his pocket: an attractive green cherry tomato with little flecks of gold around its crown that we transported back to the warehouse taste kitchen to start the work week. It’s rare when our tasters all agree but this was just such a rarity: “nice acidity with a sweet balance that moves into complex full tomato flavor. Meaty. Yum.” We were instant fans and luckily the grower could hustle and save enough seed for us to list in a limited quantity this year. He says it showed up amongst a crop of not-green tomatoes, has come true-to-type and produces an abundance of 1″ round fruits. He named it for the sci-fi novel Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. This stellar cherry tomato is sure to please. Distinguishing ripe green fruit is easy: fruit begins to show a slight golden yellow at the base when ready for harvest.