📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Gardener’s Delight (Vostorg Sadovoda)
- 🌍 Origin: A world-famous old European commercial variety (originally German/British). In the Russian and Ukrainian seed collector circuits, it often circulates under the translated name “Vostorg Sadovoda” or slightly misspelled as “Gardeneros Delight”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. It produces a relatively sturdy, dependable vine. Growers note that it stays somewhat manageable for an indet, reaching about 4-4.5 feet (1.2-1.3 m) by the end of the season.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Red, round cherry tomatoes that run on the larger side for a cherry. Some fruits can take on a slightly blocky/squarish-round shape. The flesh is dense and very firm.
- 👅 Flavor Warning: While this variety is globally famous for being incredibly sweet, the Russian growers in this thread found it to be completely average or even flat-out bland. It produces heavily and rarely drops blossoms, but it might struggle to develop its famous sugars in cooler, shorter summers.
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Seeds from Dukhov (Ukraine). Mid-season variety, I picked the first ripe fruit on August 2nd from seeds sowed on March 9th.
- Bush appearance: mid-early, indet (indeterminate), relatively sturdy vine.
- Fruit set: perfect, didn’t drop any blossoms.
- Bush height: on Aug 2nd it was about 4 feet (1.2 m), and on Sept 6th it was 4.2 feet (1.3 m).
- Trusses: dense, 3 to 6 maters per cluster.
- Fruit: roundish-square, red.
- Density of ripe fruit: high.
- Taste: your standard tomato flavor, juicy, sweetness is a 4 out of 5.
First impression: just a standard little cherry mater.
My ratings: seedlings got a B- (4-), bush got a B (4), fruit got a B (4), overall variety rating is a B- (4-).
Edited February 14, 2016 by Drosera
Gardeneros Delight (Vostorg Sadovoda). Indeterminate mid-season cherry variety. The fruits are red, round, and quite large for a cherry. The flavor turned out to be totally bland. Good yield though.
