Half-hardy Annual
£3.49
Stunning trio of sweet red yellow and orange cherry toms
Fruit produced above the leaves for easy harvest
Quick to produce new fruits so crops all summer!
Height Up to 30cm (12in)
Spread Up to 50cm (20in)
Half-hardy Annual
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A rainbow of delicious red, yellow and orange toms cascading from your hanging baskets! Tomato ‘Rainbow Drops Mix’ is a great new hanging basket trio of colourful and sweet-tasting cherry tomatoes. What makes this tomato really different is the fact that most of the fruit is produced above the leaves, so it's much easier to harvest. Better still, plants are quick to produce new fruit after the first harvest, so they’ll keeping cropping all summer! Each sweet tomato weighs 8-12g and has a Brix of 8. Plant ‘Rainbow Drops Mix’ into baskets, window boxes and pots and snack on these moreish fruits straight off the vine whilst pottering in the garden! Height 30cm (12in). Spread: 40-50cm. (16-20in).
Companion planting: Try growing tomatoes with French marigolds to deter whitefly, and basil, chives or mint to deter aphids and other pests.
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1 Packet (6 Seeds) (KF2516)
For greenhouse cultivation: sow from February to April.
For outdoor cultivation: sow from March to April.
Sow seeds on the surface of a good, free-draining, damp, seed sowing mix and cover with a fine sprinkling of compost or vermiculite. Place seed trays in a propagator at a constant temperature of around 15-20C (59-68F) until after germination, which takes 7-14 days. When seedlings gain 2 true leaves, transplant into individual 7.5cm (3") pots of compost and grow on at a minimum temperature of 15C (59F).
When growing in a heated glasshouse tomato plants may be transplanted at the end of May or when the first flowers are showing, if earlier. Allow 3 plants per growbag, or one per 25cm (10") pot, or plant tomatoes directly into the greenhouse soil.
When growing tomatoes outdoors, wait until all risk of frost has passed before transplanting tomatoes. Gradually acclimatise them to outdoor conditions over 7 - 10 days before planting out from early June when tomato plants are 20cm (8") tall. Choose a sheltered position in full sun on fertile, reliably moist, well drained soil, and transplant at a distance of 60cm (24") apart. Drive a (5') cane into the soil adjacent to each plant to support them as they grow, and tie each main stem to its support with soft garden twine.
Water tomato plants frequently, to keep the compost evenly moist. Feed tomatoes regularly with a high potash plant food once the first fruits have formed. Tomatoes can be harvested as they ripen from July to September. Basket varieties do not require staking or side shooting.
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