Cherry Tomatoes

We are being overwhelmed with cherry tomatoes.  We have so many that Tom has had to take up some room under our carport to house them.  Here's what he has rigged up.

(Note, we are in the process of expanding the pavement in order to have a place for a picnic table.  Thus, the bare dirt that you see.)

We have four different varieties of cherry tomatoes, as you can see below.  The lower left are Large Red Cherry tomatoes.  To their right are Coyote.  Above those are Sweet 100 and in the upper right corner are Black Cherry tomatoes. 

Here is a close-up picture to show a better comparison.

From left to right, the varieties are Black Cherry, Large Red Cherry, Sweet 100 and Coyote.  
This is the first year we have grown the Black Cherry and Coyote tomatoes.  Our original intent was to have several cherry tomatoes of about the same size, but different colors, that we could mix together in boxes to offer our customers at the farmers' market.

Unfortunately, the Coyote tomatoes turned out to be much too small for that.  They are, however, wonderfully sweet and delicious!  

In regard to the difference in size, there are three different types of "cherry" tomatoes.....regular cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes and currant tomatoes.  The seed catalogs disagree on which varieties fall in to which category.  Generally, grape tomatoes are smaller than cherry tomatoes and currant tomatoes are smaller than grape tomatoes.  

I would categorize the Black Cherry and Large Red Cherry as true cherry tomatoes, while the Sweet 100 is a grape tomato, and the Coyote is a currant tomato.  However, the seed catalog that we ordered from called the Coyote a cherry tomato!  Go figure!