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Solanum Lycopersicum 'Early Girl'

 

Tomato 'Early Girl'

Tomato 'Early Girl' is a large slicing type of tomato, with 6oz-8oz fruits. It is one of the first to fruit, and will keep fruiting to the first frosts.

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plant Features
  • Tomato Early Girl likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Tomato Early Girl likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Tomato Early Girl is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Tomato Early Girl likes rich and free draining

    Rich and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Tomato 'Early Girl'

Latin name

Solanum Lycopersicum 'Early Girl'

type

Fruiting Vine

family

Solanaceae

ph

5.0 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Tomato Early Girl likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Frost

    Tomato Early Girl is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    Tomato Early Girl likes rich and free draining

    Rich and free draining

  • Water

    Tomato Early Girl likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Tomato Early Girl is 0.60meters x 2.00meters 0.60 M 2.00 M

Solanum Lycopersicum 'Early Girl'

Tomato 'Early Girl' is a large slicing type of tomato, with 6oz-8oz fruits. It is one of the first to fruit, and will keep fruiting to the first frosts.


Propagation by seed

From Early Spring TO Mid Spring

Grow from seed in early spring in heat, one seed per tray division, or pot. Fill 9cm (3½in) pot with seed or multipurpose compost.Level and firm the compost, then water. Sow seeds on the compost surface, spacing them evenly, about 1/2" apart, (to help prevent "damping off" disease). Cover the seed with a layer of vermiculite, or sifted soil or compost. Keep at approximately 21°C (70°F), ideally in a heated propagator, When seedlings are big enough to handle, plant out in to a greenhouse - at least 16" apart - or, although less satisfactory, to a sunny windowsill

 

Planting

From Mid Spring TO Early Summer

Plant tomato plants grown from seed into the greenhouse border, when they are big enough to handle, and when risk of frost has passed. For outdoor varieties, young tender plants need to be hardened off, gradually, first in a cold-frame, and then in the open, before planting into their permanent position.

 
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