Description
Nightingale Indeterminate cherry tomatoes are ivory yellow cocktail cherry tomatoes on prolific, vining potato leaf plants. Fruits hang neatly on short trusses. These ivory yellow fruits are called “white” in the tomato world. This is the only white cherry, potato leaf variety we know of. Flavour is sweet, crisp and fruity. The closest thing to a grape I’ve tasted! The absolute highlight of my 2024 growing season was these plants.
I trialed Nightingale in 2024 and mistakenly placed these prolific vining plants in an area without trellises. Despite spending the entire season sprawled out on the ground like a squash vine, Nightingale showed great tolerance to disease that comes with my humid growing condition. These indeterminate (vining and bearing fruit continuously, until the frosts), require trellis support. Vining tomatoes are a great way to get lots of fruit in small growing spaces.
“Bred by Karen Olivier. Vigorous and healthy indeterminate potato leaf plants with excellent flavour. Midseason maturity and meaty interiors that give them the texture of a larger tomato. Big flavour, small tomatoes.” – Karen Olivier
The Story behind the “Nightingale” tomato.
“These fruits were named in honour of my nursing colleagues in 2020 which was a terrible year due to the covid pandemic and it was also the international year of the nurse and nurse midwife and Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Sweet and crisp with a fruity flavour. The only potato leaf white cherry that I know of.” – Karen Olivier
Another rare and delicious cherry tomato of Karen’s is: Sweet Baby Jade Cherry Tomato Seeds, semi-dwarf potato leaf plants that yield lots of green-amber fruits. Delicious flavour.
Pictured are Nightingale tomatoes. They are less yellow in real life. Photography is by Sow Local Seeds. Photo of tomatoes in a paper plate is by Karen Olivier.
This variety was grown out for seed production by Sow Local Seeds, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Thank you for supporting local seed. 75% of your purchase goes to Karen’s breeding projects for northern tomato varieties suited to short and cold growing seasons. Note that the price reflects that this is a NEW 2025 release.
Approximately 25 seeds per packet
Germination for 2025: 99%
