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Cherry Tomatoes - Description
- Pack of Cherry Tomato Seeds
- Variety: Tumbling Tom Red
- Type: Plum Cherry, Red
- Seeds Per Pack: 10 Approx
- Gives Good Yields
- Indoor Cordon Type
- Produces Sweet Red Cherry Tomatoes
- Cascading Habit
- Good Disease Resistance
Cherry Tomatoes - Sowing Instructions
- Sow: March to April and plant outdoors
- Transplant into final growing pot once 10 to 15cm tall
- Grow indoors, in greenhouse
- Harvest: August to October
- Timing for planting outside is key, cannot tolerate any frost
- See how to grow tab for full growing instructions
Cherry Tomatoes - Uses
- Sweet cherry baby tomatoes are perfect in salads
- Suitable for hanging baskets, containers
- Great for eating on their own
Cherry Tomatoes - Advantages
- Produces high yields
- Can grow in containers
- Bred specifically for hanging baskets
- Excellent quality
- Low cost
Index
- Sowing Instructions
- How to Transplant
- Crop Maintenance
- How to Harvest
Tomatoes are mostly grown in a greenhouse. It is warmth and not direct sunlight which promotes fruit ripening. Tomato plants can be grown from plants bought from garden centres in May or raised from seed in February.
Sowing Instructions
- Sowing Time: Sow indoors in February
- Sowing location: Sow in 24 cell trays or 9cm pot indoors, under cover
- Sow 3 seeds in each pot & thin out later
- Or sow 1 seed per cell
- Sow seed 0.1cm deep in 3 inch pots using potting compost
- Place in propagator
How to Transplant
- Prick out into 9cm pots once large enough
- April / May transplant again into larger, 1ltr pots using potting compost & place in greenhouse
- Some varieties can be grown outdoors in May
- These include Sungold F1 & Alicante
Growing outdoors
- Transplant seedlings in late May
- Position in a warm, sheltered & south facing sunny location
- Plant into soil which is fertile, moist and drains well
- Add well rotted farm-yard manure to soil before planting
- Keep soil moist throughout growing season
- A regular water supply is essential for a successful crop
Crop Maintenance
- Feeding
- Use a liquid feed. Once first flowers appear, use tomato feed, or fertilizer high in Potash
- Read instructions provided on fertilizer label
- Feed once each week
- Watering
- Avoid irregular watering: If plants dry out, fruits can shrink leading to splitting
- If over watered, tomatoes can develop ‘blossom end rot’, a black mould on base of fruits
- Keep soil moist, water once a week
- Supporting
- Tie main stem to a cane or support plants by tying them to greenhouse crossbars over head
- Do not tie twine too tight around stem
- Pruning
- Reduce the number of fruiting stems to speed up ripening
- Plants can be pruned so that only the main stem and 4 or 5 side shoots remain
- Remove any remaining side shoots as they appear (from the base of every leaf), this is known as pinching out
- Cut off yellowing leaves and those shading lower ‘trusses’ of fruit
How to Harvest
- Harvest after 25 weeks
- Tomatoes require heat for fruit to ripen
- Maintain regular watering at time of harvest
- If fruits are still green, ripen indoors
- Placing tomatoes in a warm location next to bananas helps speed up ripening process
