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Thanks to the University of Maryland/Maryland Grows this informative article on tiny tomatoes.

Just a quick post this month to shout out the virtues of the first tomato plant to produce ripe fruit for me this year: ‘Veranda Red’ patio tomato.

This little cutie is only 18 inches high. In fact, it would be shorter if it was growing in full sun instead of the partial sun on my deck. I have other plants with green fruit ready to turn red that are less than a foot high. The container team at the Derwood Demo Garden has a plant only about six inches high that has ripe fruit.

Patio tomatoes as a group mature at less than two feet. They grow well in smaller containers like window boxes or gallon pots...