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'Tumbling Tom Red' Tomato Plants

The tomato you can grow in a hanging basket

Grown by Josh

South Downs National Park

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'Tumbling Tom Red' Tomato Plants Vegetables
'Tumbling Tom Red' Tomato Plants Vegetables
'Tumbling Tom Red' Tomato Plants Vegetables
'Tumbling Tom Red' Tomato Plants Vegetables

£8

Pre-order for delivery Mid April

Pre-order for delivery Mid April

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The highlights

  • Sweet and delicious red cherry tomatoes
  • Easy to grow bush variety - no training or side shooting needed
  • Grow in baskets, pots and window boxes
  • Harvest from June to October

Description

  • Tumbling Tom is a beautiful alternative to floral baskets that will give you basket fulls of sweet, juicy bite sized red tomatoes
  • Perfect for snacking, salads, roasting, frying and sun drying
  • Grow in a basket, patio pot or window box
  • This is a strong, garden-ready bush tomato plant which requires no training or side shooting
  • Compact, reliable and naturally trailing, with trusses that cascade over the edges of the pot
  • Grow indoors or out
  • Premium jumbo plug plants grown by vegetable experts on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
  • Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop
  • Easy to grow and care for - plant out after the last chance of frost has passed and wait for the crops to roll in. You should see your first tomatoes within 18-20 weeks

What To Expect

Supplied as:

Garden-ready plant in a 8.5cm Pot
Garden-ready Plants in 8.5cm Pots (Triple Pack)
Plant in a 2L Pot
Extra Large Plant in a 2L Pot x 3

Height on arrival:

Eventual height:

30cm
30cm
30cm
30cm

Eventual spread:

30cm
Spreads approx 30cm
30cm
Spreads approx 30cm
30cm
Spreads approx 30cm
30cm
Spreads approx 30cm

Tasting notes:

Bite sized sweetness
Bite sized sweetness
Bite sized sweetness
Bite sized sweetness

Time to first crop:

18-20 weeks
Pick your tomatoes as and when they ripen throughout the season
18-20 weeks
Pick your tomatoes as and when they ripen throughout the season
18-20 weeks
Pick your tomatoes as and when they ripen throughout the season
18-20 weeks
Pick your tomatoes as and when they ripen throughout the season

Hardiness:

Not hardy
Plant out only when all risk of frost has passed, or grow under glass. Choose a sheltered position away from cold winds.
Not hardy
Plant out only when all risk of frost has passed, or grow under glass. Choose a sheltered position away from cold winds.
Not hardy
Plant out only when all risk of frost has passed, or grow under glass. Choose a sheltered position away from cold winds.
Not hardy
Plant out only when all risk of frost has passed, or grow under glass. Choose a sheltered position away from cold winds.

Uses:

Salads, sandwiches, sauce, roasting, preserving, juicing
Salads, sandwiches, sauce, roasting, preserving, juicing
Salads, sandwiches, sauce, roasting, preserving, juicing
Salads, sandwiches, sauce, roasting, preserving, juicing

Rootstock:

Spacing:

45-60cm
Space 45-60cm in rows or one plant to a 30cm pot
45-60cm
Space 45-60cm in rows or one plant to a 30cm pot
45-60cm
Space 45-60cm in rows or one plant to a 30cm pot
45-60cm
Space 45-60cm in rows or one plant to a 30cm pot

How To Grow

Good pest and disease resistance

Our vegetable plug plants are bred for good pest and disease resistance, but may still be susceptible to common problems. The main pests and diseases that affect tomatoes are whitefly, aphids and tomato blight. It is important to look out for yellow and curling leaves or rotting fruit as a sign of these. You can prevent blight by keeping leaves away from the soil and also keeping the leaves as dry as possible. If you find whitefly or aphids on your plant try spraying them off with water. You can also plant marigolds which will attract natural predators such as ladybirds which will eat the pests.

Water regularly

Tomatoes are thirsty plants! Water the plants regularly to keep the ground constantly moist. If you are unsure, feel the soil with your hand. If it feels dry up to a fingernail deep then you can give the plant a watering. During very hot, dry spells you may have to water up to twice a day.

Full sun

Tomatoes need to be planted in full sun.This should be somewhere where they will receive 6-8 hours of sunlight every day.

Any fertile, well-draining soil

Thrives in any well-drained soil. If your soil is particularly clay-heavy and/or often becomes waterlogged then you can improve the drainage by adding in plenty of organic matter such as garden compost as well as some perlite or gravel.

Feed regularly

When you first pot your plant, you can give it one serving of a balanced (meaning it has an equal amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) plant feed. This helps the green parts of the plant to grow. When you start to see flowers emerge, you will then want to switch to a serving of high potash feed every week. Potash (or potassium) promotes flower and fruit growth and the tomato plant will want a lot of this. High potash feeds are very common and can come as a liquid feed.

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South Downs National Park

Meet Josh

Slow grown veg from the sunny South Downs

Our vegetable plants are sown on a family farm in Lancashire, then nurtured into strong young plants by Josh in the sunny South Downs before they rock up in your garden. By selecting only the strongest and tastiest varieties, Josh makes sure you get a headstart on your plot, with impressive crops and no waste.

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Specialist UK growers we know and trust grow your plants the traditional way, with organic fertiliser and biological pest control. They pick only the healthiest plants for you, professionally pruning them so that they’ll grow strong and well shaped.

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When will I get my plants?

The delivery timescale for each plant is on the web page (near the 'add to basket's button). You'll receive a dispatch email with an exact delivery date once your plants are on their way, so you can get the garden ready.

How will my plants be packed and delivered?

We send all of our orders through a courier network designed to handle plants. Specialist equipment ensures that no plants will be damaged during the packing process and every order is carefully finished and checked by plant-loving humans. Your plants will arrive in the most sustainable packaging possible with minimal to no plastic used.

Where do you deliver?

We deliver to anywhere in Mainland UK for our standard delivery cost. We are able to deliver most plants to Highlands and non UK mainland however this will be at an additional cost. This will be calculated at the checkout. Please note, deliveries to these locations will take longer. Unfortunately, we are not able to deliver to Northern Ireland at present.

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