[Fred Hempel]

I am noticing alot of interest, from restaurants, in tomatoes that are the next size up from cherry tomatoes.

I always call these "saladettes"

Others seem to call them "cocktail"

What do you call them? And what are your favorite tomatoes in this size class?

We had 3 tomatoes that made up most of our saladettes last year

1. Bellota. A new Orange/green football shaped variety that was consistently saladette for most of the season, and cherry sized at the very end.

2. Fuego Verde. A Plum-shaped green-when-ripe variety. Most of the fruits were larger than saladette early in the season. Then most were saladette near the end. In the middle we were putting these in saladette boxes and "medium" boxes.

3. A little red hybrid with yellow stripes. We made the cross thinking it would be a small beefsteak, but it turned out to be a ridiculously productive round saladette tomato. Perhaps the "mistake" of the summer.

So, clearly we could use a little color diversity in our saladette boxes!