Smallest Tomato: The Currant Tomato and other Small Wonders

By Vanessa Richins

Many people aim to grow the world’s largest tomato.

Have some fun and go for the opposite route - harvest some tiny tomatoes the size of peas.

Currant tomatoes (Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium) are closely related to our standard garden tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) and are very similar to the wild tomatoes of Central America.

Other common names include wild tomato, Wild Florida Everglades Tomato and spoon tomato.

These little heirlooms are bursting with flavor. They produce hundreds of sugar packed fruits on indeterminate vines. Health benefits abound as they have forty times as much Read the rest of this entry »