Description

Tomato Spoon
Solanum pimpinellifolium

Redcurrant tomato. Red, less than 1 cm in diameter, smaller than Little Sparrow. Good sweet-tart flavor. Forms long clusters of around 15 mini-tomatoes. Hardy, prolific plant. 1.50 m and over. Early. A variety that can be left lying on the ground for children to nibble at will. Indeterminate. 60 days to maturity.

Full sun, well drained and rich soil. Sow indoors 6 to 8 weeks before last frost. 5 mm deep. 60 cm between plants.

Germination: 93% in November 2025
Ecological seeds produced at Catherine’s Ornamental Garden.

Note
We received a bag of Spoon seeds with an order we placed with Baker Creek in the winter of 2024. We’d been seeing it in catalogs for a long time, so we thought, “Bah! Why not?” We found a little place for it in our gardens. We imagined it smaller than it really is. And we didn’t mind the taste at all either! We’ve tasted some really disgusting redcurrant tomatoes in the past, but Spoon has a little zing we couldn’t get enough of.