When to Plant Cherry Tomatoes

The same rules in dates for three climates, using typical frost dates. Enter your ZIP code above for the dates where you live.

Vigorous vines ripen fruit earlier and keep cropping until frost, so give them a tall stake or cage.

• —Spacing: 24 in apart, in rows 48 in apart. In a raised bed, 1 per sq ft at square-foot spacing.
• —Days to harvest: 55 to 70 from transplanting, then about 12 weeks of picking.
• —Rotation: cherry tomatoes are in the tomato family. Plant them where nothing from that family grew in the last two years. See crop rotation.
• —Traditional companions: basil, bell pepper, borage, calendula, carrot, celery, chives, cucumber, garlic, green onion, head lettuce, hot pepper, leaf lettuce, leek, marigold, mint, nasturtium, onion (bulb), oregano, parsley, romaine lettuce, shallot, sunflower, thyme. See companion plants for cherry tomatoes.
• —Usually kept apart from: broccoli, brussels sprouts, bush bean, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, fennel (florence), kale, kohlrabi, potato, sweet corn.