Solanum Pimpernelifolium 'Red Currant
Tomato 'Red Currant' (Cherry Tomato)
Tomato 'Red Currant' is very disease resistant, and can tolerate cooler temperatures. Each tiny tomato is crisp, and has a really intense, sweet/tart flavour. Good in salads, or straight from the plant. Grow them as a cordon, side shoots need to be pinched out at leaf joints and careful watering is a must to stop fruit splitting and for flavour. Keep water off the foliage as blight can be a problem.
Contributed by @helmside
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Full sun
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Occasional watering
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Not Frost hardy
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Rich and free draining
Common name
Tomato 'Red Currant' (Cherry Tomato)
Latin name
Solanum Pimpernelifolium 'Red Currant
type
Fruiting Vine
family
Solanaceae
ph
5.0 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Rich and free draining
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When to harvest
full grown dimensions
0.60 M
2.00 M
Solanum Pimpernelifolium 'Red Currant
Tomato 'Red Currant' is very disease resistant, and can tolerate cooler temperatures. Each tiny tomato is crisp, and has a really intense, sweet/tart flavour. Good in salads, or straight from the plant. Grow them as a cordon, side shoots need to be pinched out at leaf joints and careful watering is a must to stop fruit splitting and for flavour. Keep water off the foliage as blight can be a problem.
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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