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Very delicious! Although they are in the tomato family, they taste more like a sweet berry. My 2 and 5 year old boys love them. I have not had any pest/disease problems and they produced fruit past the first hard frost (while all my other tomatoes were dead).

The fruit is within a thorny husk and you do need to be careful when "popping" the fruit out. I peel them for my children. Once you learn the trick to avoiding the spikes, they are quite easy to eat.

Questions & Comments

I plant them just like a regular determinate tomato (with cages or a single pole that I tie them to).
They get about 4-5 feet tall.

It is so hard to describe the taste, very fruity, and the texture is not jelly like a tomato. My kids will eat 10 or more a day.

Mar 4th, 2015 at 6:13:49 AM PST by

Do they require the same care as tomatoes? How big are the plants?

Mar 4th, 2015 at 5:47:57 AM PST by

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Mar 4th, 2015 at 11:00:19 PM PST by

Yes, came care and planting rules. The fruit is about the size of a grape.

Mar 5th, 2015 at 4:46:34 AM PST by

So the pods that the tomatoes grow in is surrounded by spikes - to protect themselves since they are so delicious. You know they are ready when the pod starts to pull back away from the fruit. I can easily pick the fruit without getting "spiked" as long as I am careful. I also found that if I simply wear a pair of gloves that I can squeeze the base (without worry of getting spiked) and the fruit ust pops out.

I admit, its a little extra trouble, but now that I've had them, I will never stop growing them.

Mar 5th, 2015 at 4:50:57 AM PST by

Litchi Tomato is in the Home & Garden | Gardening | Gardening Seeds & Bulbs category