11 Best Tomato Varieties for Hanging Baskets

Don’t have a lot of space to grow tomatoes? Don’t worry. Here are the Best Tomato Varieties for Hanging Baskets that offer bumper harvest!

Garden-fresh tomatoes are juicy and flavorful that they will surely ruin store-bought ones for you. But don’t fret, as you can grow your own delicious garden tomatoes without a garden landscape at all. Here are the Best Tomato Varieties for Hanging Baskets that take a very little space!

Here are the best tomatoes varieties you can grow in pots

Best Tomato Varieties for Hanging Baskets

1. Micro-Tom

Created and bred by the University of Florida in 1989, Micro-Tom was declared the world’s most miniature tomato variety. It produces small and bite-size sweet tomatoes that taste best when fresh. 

2. Floragold Basket

Floragold Basket is a micro-dwarf variety with large golden-yellow tomatoes. It has a sweet taste and needs at least 3-5 hours of bright sunlight to grow well. 

3. Tumbling Tom

Perfect for hanging baskets, Tumbling Tom produces a lot of tomatoes per pot! The plant also looks quite beautiful with stems cascading freely with red, juicy fruits.

4. Whippersnapper

Whippersnapper is a beautiful tomato that ripens in a gradient of light pearly pink to cadmium red. Sweet in taste, the skin is not very thin, which may lead to some cracking but allows for an enjoyable eating experience.

5. Baxter’s Bush Cherry

This is a variety of red cherry tomatoes that are built with remarkable weather tolerance and keeping quality. They are also resilient to adverse weather conditions. 

6. Red Robin

If you want a variety that also looks beautiful in hanging baskets, then go for this one. It offers sweet cherry tomatoes that taste best when fresh. The plant does remarkably well in indirect light, producing bountiful fruits.

7. Rambling Rose

If you want more yield per hanging basket, then this is the perfect variety–you might need a slightly bigger basket for this one though. It grows pink fruits with a sweet taste.

8. Midnight Snack

Producing large clusters of tasty fruits, this cherry tomato variety does best in full sun. The fruits take a black-purple hue when they are ripe.

9. Napa Grape

If you want the sweetest tomato of them all, then this is the one to go for. The small, 1 inch fruits taste best when fresh and also look beautiful dangling down the vigorous vines.

10. Tumbler

One of the best contenders for hanging baskets, this cherry tomato harvests in just 45-50 days. It tastes best sautéed and you can also toss it over pasta.

11. Tiny Tim

As the name suggests, the cherry fruits are tiny and have an excellent tarty taste. The plant also does remarkably well in less sunlight as compared to the other tomato varieties.

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