Cherry tomatoes
The cherry tomato is a "variety" of tomato with a particularity: a reduced size. The cherry tomato can be eaten as an appetizer, as a salad garnish or as a tomato coulis. This vegetable is part of the Solanaceae family. There are many varieties of cherry tomatoes, such as the "sweet" variety, the "golden grape", which has a beautiful orange color and sweet flavor, the "yellow pear tomato" and the "red pear tomato" which are both pear-shaped or the "pigeon heart".
The cherry tomato is a very easy plant to grow. You can plant it in pots or in the ground. If you wish to sow, you will have to take into account the sowing calendar and start them in March indoors or even February for the most temperate regions. If you buy seedlings from a nursery, you can plant them from May, once all risk of frost has passed. The cherry tomato plant is particularly fond of sunny places but also sheltered from the wind.
A well-drained and rich garden soil will allow you to have a very abundant harvest. It is important to keep the soil moist at the base of the plant by mulching it. While waiting for your harvest, you can remove the suckers. You will be able to enjoy your harvest about five months after sowing.
Cherry tomatoes
- Type : Vegetables
- Subtype : Fruiting vegetables
- Botanical family : Solanaceae
Characteristics
- Exposure : Sun
- Hardiness : Not frost resistant
- Easy to grow, but requires regular maintenance (difficulty : 2/3)
Sowing & planting
- Sowing depth : 1 cm
- Plant spacing : 60 cm
- Row spacing : 80 cm
- Emergence time : 8 days
- Emergence temperature : 15 °C
- From sowing to harvesting : 100 days
- Seed storage : 5 years