I have grown cherry tomatoes as well as other fairly standard ones, whose names i did not retain. The ones i have growing now are different types, which i started inside about the middle of April, and planted about a month later.
The plants are on a the roof of the 3 decker we live in, which is in a city with one of the highest population densities in the U.S. And as the sun has already peaked, and we are on the north side of a hill, altitude is helpful.
I use roofing rubber as a much, which keeps the heat in, and the roof itself is rubber, so that helps, as the night temps here are not consistently in the 60’s till almost mid June.
The soil is a mixture of top soil we got cheap from the store, and some local soil, and i did not use any fertilizer besides some stuff which i found which is for rose bushes and that type of plant.
As these are so close together and competing for nutriments, the plants do begin to get brown leaves faster after setting fruit, but i get a good yield of ripened tomatoes, and they tasted good.
I have a hose running from the basement to the roof, which i use to fill 5 gal buckets with and then portion out to the plants. One dry summer squirrels were coming up and eating part of the tomatoes. Someone suggested moth balls as a deterrent, and so i put them in little foil trays and left them. Afer a few days i checked them and almost all were gone, and it had not rained except lightly a very little bit. I think that the squirrels ate them because i saw very few the next year. Lots more this year, but i got the city to cut down the tree they climbed up on. No picture yet, but i will try to get some, thanks to be God.
Mothballs just naturally evaporate and will dissapear on their own. I would have to look it up to be sure but I think it is called sublimation(sp?) solid to a gas.