Tomatoes · warm season
Cherry tomato
Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
Fastest tomato for Ohio. Cherry types ripen before main-season slicers and keep bearing in heat that stalls larger fruit.
- When to plant in Ohio
- Start indoors late March; transplant mid-May
- Harvest window
- Late June through frost
- Days to maturity
- 55–70 from transplant
- Spacing
- 18–24 in.; trellis strongly
- Light
- Full sun
How to grow it
Same indoor start as slicing tomatoes, but they vine harder—use a cattle-panel trellis. Harvest often; overripe fruit splits after summer storms. Sun Gold, Sweet Million, and Black Cherry all finish reliably in Ohio’s 160–180 day season.
Related tomatoes
Slicing tomato 70–85 from transplant
Roma / paste tomato 75–90 from transplant
Heirloom tomato 80–100 from transplant