Crop type: Tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicum ‘Sweet Million’ AGM
Common name: Cherry tomato ‘Sweet Million’
Crop slug: tomatoes
This Allotment Pro editorial draft summarises the cited RHS cultivar profile.RHS cultivar profile
1 - Overview
‘Sweet Million’ is a cordon cherry tomato for greenhouse or outdoor growing. It carries heavy crops of long cascading trusses filled with tasty round red cherry fruit, earning the cultivar its productive name and RHS Award of Garden Merit.
2 - Size
- Ultimate height
- 1–1.5 metres
- Ultimate spread
- 0.5–1 metre
- Time to ultimate size
- 1 year
The upright columnar plant needs firm support for its laden trusses.
3 - Growing conditions
- Suitable soils
- Clay, loam or sand
- Moisture
- Moist but well drained
- Soil pH
- Acid or neutral
Even water and high-potassium feed after fruit set sustain the long trusses.
4 - Position and hardiness
- Light
- Full sun
- Aspect
- South- or west-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- Hardiness
- H1c — an outdoor summer plant above approximately 5–10°C that needs frost protection
Set outside only in warm sheltered conditions after frost.
5 - Colour and seasonal interest
| Season | Flowers | Foliage | Fruit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | — | Green | — |
| Summer | Yellow | Green | Red |
The unusually long cascading trusses of small red cherries distinguish this cultivar.
6 - Botanical details
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Native to Great Britain and Ireland
- No
- Foliage
- Evergreen on the profile; grown as an annual
- Habit
- Columnar and upright
- Name status
- Accepted
- Award
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
Genus
Solanum includes plants with simple or lobed leaves, five-lobed flowers with prominent stamens and fleshy fruits.
7 - How to grow
Cultivation
Grow in full sun, keeping the root zone evenly watered. Feed with high-potassium fertiliser after fruit sets and secure the cordon.
Propagation
Propagate by seed indoors.
Pruning
Remove side-shoots and stop the leader after seven trusses under cover or four outdoors.
Pests
Glasshouse whitefly and tomato moth may attack.
Diseases
The profile lists rare honey fungus, potato and tomato blight, leaf mould, tomato viruses, magnesium deficiency and blossom-end rot.