In some ways, grape tomatoes are the perfect size; you can eat one or a handful at a time. Their texture is often crunchy and they often last longer in the pantry than other tomatoes. The taste of the red ones is often sweet, at least, and sometimes complex. I want tasty, crunchy grape tomatoes of all different colors and if they don’t exist, I will try to create them myself!

Towards that end, I grew many types of grape tomatoes in 2025, and in anticipation of there being some good varieties amongst them, made 34 crosses. Once I was able to evaluate the flavor and vigor during the whole season, I narrowed it down significantly to the following 10 that I’m interested in following up with:

Elf Tears x Red Grape

Frosty Grape x Green Tiger

Frosty Grape x Lucky Tiger

Yellow Grape x Green Tiger

Frosty Grape x Medovaya kaplya

Medovaya kaplya x Yellow Grape

Golden Grape x Medovaya kaplya

Red Grape x Medovaya kaplya

Medovaya kaplya x Lucky Tiger

Medovaya kapyla x Prairie Fire

I thought four or five would be enough to make a nice mix, but now I can see there are enough interesting crosses I’ve made already that I could end up with “Nine Grapes,” which has a certain ring to it. I don’t know if some or all or none will have potato leaf. I imagine a greenflesh bicolor, a red striped, and at least some with anthocyanin.