Red Cherry Tomato Seeds (25)

Red Cherry Tomato Seeds (Solanum lycopersicum) 25 seeds

The Cherry tomato is a mid-season variety producing long clusters of small red tomatoes 3 to 4 cm in diameter. To be grown as a bush, easy to succeed, it does not require disbudding or staking. A generous annual, the cherry tomato will reseed itself, thanks to the few ripe fruits that will escape your vigilance and will give birth to new plants the following spring, which you will only need to thin out. You can place the plant in the vegetable garden, in a container on a terrace or even in your flowerbeds. The flesh of the small cherry tomatoes is firm, juicy, with a tangy taste.
Cherry tomatoes are ideal as an appetizer, in salads, as a decoration for dishes, in tarts or in sauces.

Sowing: from February to April on a warm layer (20°) or in pots indoors or heated greenhouse, in fine sowing soil. Tomatoes need a minimum constant 20°C to germinate.
Bury your tomato seeds 1 cm then cover with seedling soil. Water your potting soil with a sprayer so that it stays moist but not soggy. Place your terrine near a window to prevent your seedlings from running upwards to seek light.
Transplant in place when frost is no longer to be feared and the plants reach 12 to 15 cm in rich, loose and healthy soil. Distance: 70 cm between rows and 50 cm on the line in sunny exposure.
Put the stakes in place before starting planting. Water abundantly at the base once a week to prevent the development of diseases.

There are different points of view on how to approach the famous pruning of tomatoes and each gardener has arguments to justify his theory. To the question "what to do?" the answer is very simple: whatever you want!
Pruning tomatoes by disbudding is not obligatory; it is intended to increase the size of the fruits, their earliness and to facilitate the harvesting work.
This method nevertheless has two drawbacks: it requires time and discernment. Indeed, the head of the tomato plant is not always easy to distinguish from a secondary branch. In addition, removing the suckers causes wounds for your plant. It is therefore strongly recommended to consider helping the healing with a dusting of maerl or a green clay wash.
Another vision is therefore not to prune at all and to allow the plant to fully develop. It will therefore need more space in the garden, i.e. 1 m between each plant. The fruits will be smaller but more numerous.
A third solution remains the two-strand training. After pinching the foot 20 cm from the ground, only the two strands that form laterally are kept. Then all the suckers are removed.

You can harvest tomatoes 4 to 5 months after sowing.


Reproducible seeds harvested exclusively in the Pot'à'Jo garden, a horticultural and permaculture market garden of 1500m². Everything is cultivated there with deep respect for nature and their inhabitants. I have been growing my own seeds from seed to seed for years.