Tomato ‘Rose de Hongrie’: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
How do you sow 'Rose de Hongrie' tomatoes under cover?
Prepare to sow your 'Rose de Hongrie' tomato in a warm, bright, frost-free place. Choose timing according to your intended planting date and local conditions, allowing roughly six to eight weeks to raise young plants. Sowing too early in a poorly lit room readily produces elongated stems. Use pots with drainage holes and fine seed compost, moistened before starting.
Place one or two seeds in each pot and cover with about half a centimetre of compost. Water gently and let surplus water drain away. Maintain steady warmth around 20 °C and light moisture. If using a lid, ventilate it and remove it as soon as seedlings appear. An unheated greenhouse may still be too cold for this stage.
After emergence, give plants plenty of light and keep the compost lightly moist. If two seeds germinate in one pot, retain the stronger seedling or separate them gently once their first true leaves develop. Handle seedlings by a leaf rather than the stem. Space pots apart as leaves grow. Before planting, gradually acclimatise the young tomatoes outdoors; height alone does not guarantee tolerance of cold nights.
How do you plant 'Rose de Hongrie' tomatoes?
How to care for this plant
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Remove side shoots
If you train an indeterminate tomato on one or two stems, look for small shoots between a leaf and the main stem. Remove only those you do not want to keep, preferably while small, without removing flower trusses. Leave determinate bush tomatoes to branch naturally. If you do not know your variety's growth habit or prefer to let it grow freely, do not prune routinely. Between reminders, check new shoots when harvesting.
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Install plant supports
If your tomato variety needs support, fit a sturdy stake or string when planting. Tie the stem loosely and check ties as it grows. Bush varieties may not need staking.
How do you harvest 'Rose de Hongrie' tomatoes?
