This is the famous Brandywine tomato in the size of a cherry tomato. Rosita Brandywine Cherry is the accomplishment of longtime tomato breeder Kanti Rawal and seedsman Steve Peters of California who founded ‘Seeds rEvolution Now’. Their goal is to create great tasting, hardy open-pollinated tomatoes for the public domain, ‘heirlooms of the future’.
Rosita Brandywine has large satin pink cherry tomatoes on compact (18″ to 2 ft) plants. The tomatoes are sweet and juicy like its famous namesake, Brandywine, but the plant is more manageable in size, earlier, and perfect for containers. And SO productive. This little tomato is covered with beautiful pink cherry tomatoes early in the season until the end of the season.
Here is how Rosita Brandywine is described by ‘Seeds rEvolution Now’:
“Another triumph from long-time tomato breeder Kanti Rawal, who crossed an heirloom Brandywine with, among other things, a prolific cherry tomato to achieve this blemish-free, full flavored heirloom-of-the-future. This unassuming little tomato packs a surprising punch of deliciousness! Brandywine Cherry had a huge harvest window of fantastically flavorful little gems. AND it’s the earliest tomato we have ever seen! A very high-yielding determinate plant.”
How to Plant: Start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last frost. Plant seed 5mm (¼ inch) deep. Keep moist. When true leaves appear, transplant to a larger container if needed. Transplant outside after the danger of frost has passed/later spring.
