Vegetable Seeds Catalogue

Tomato

Sds/g: 300-400                    Feed Requirements: Moderate                         Usual Seed Life: 4-6 years

 

Cultural Notes:

  • In cooler areas start seedlings indoors 5 – 6 weeks before your last frost and plant out in week 8 to be on the safe side. Plant deeper than the roots as the stem will form extra feeding roots. Do not start seedlings too early as root bound, leggy plants are bound to disappoint and be poor croppers.
  • Determinate tomatoes form bushes that do not need to be pruned and produce fruit earlier but over a shorter period than indeterminates. Indeterminate tomatoes need to be trellised, trained up a string or staked. Given the room indeterminate varieties are prolific growers and will easily outgrow your average tomato stake.
  • For best results plant against a high north-facing fence.
  • Plant into soil with good organic matter and do not provide high nitrogen fertiliser, otherwise you will end up with excess leaf growth and late flowering. It is possible to force flowering by stressing the plant a bit with infrequent watering, however, once flowers have started ensure the plant gets regular water. Plant indeterminate seedlings with 80-120 cm centres and determinate seedlings with at least 50-90 cm centres.

Problems:

  • The best way to avoid problems with tomatoes is by supplying sufficient moisture applied at soil level and adequate calcium. As tomatoes respond very well to foliar feeds a good preventative is a seaweed foliar spray every 2 weeks.

Harvest:

  • Your homegrown tomatoes will taste better than any from the supermarket.
  • Cherry tomato varieties ripen earliest. Unripened tomatoes should be harvested before the first frost. Either pull the plant and hang in a shed with good ventilation to avoid moulds or harvest tomatoes and ripen them in the house.

Sowing periods

Cool Climate Periods
Sep 1st to Nov 30th
Temperate Climate Periods
Aug 1st to Dec 31st
Tropical & Sub-Tropical Climate Periods
Jan 1st to Dec 31st
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1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

An heirloom variety that is sweet tasting with low acidity. A great variety for the home gardener as it is a vigorous grower with high yields over a long period. Produces large smooth deep red fruit. An indeterminate variety that needs staking. 80 seeds.

1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

A German variety with round, mid-red fruit, that sets very early. This productive tomato is tasty, tangy, sweet and juicy. Performed well in our cool season trials in 2019, it was one of the earliest mid-large size varieties. Needs staking. Eat fresh or in salads. 50 seeds.

Organic
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1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

Add a splash of green to tomato salads and salsa with this old variety that remains green when ripe. Nice to slice, it’s medium to large, fleshy, mild tasting (not too sweet, not too acid) fruit is great fried or pickled, too. An indeterminate variety that needs staking. 80 seeds.
 

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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

A large heirloom variety from the Viginia, USA. It produces large beefsteak fruit that are meaty, full of flavour, low acidity and have few seeds. When ripe they are reddish-pink with yellow shoulders. An indeterminate variety that needs staking.  80 seeds.

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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

Consistently the first tomato on our plates (if it makes it there from the garden). A compact bush variety that bares a heavy crop of sweet, golden cocktail sized sweet tomatoes. Great in salads and a colourful addition to chutneys/relish. A great tomato for containers or areas with a short summer. 30 seeds.

Organic
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1 pkt
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Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

A very attractive, yellow/green tomato with dark, green stripes and small, plum-sized fruit. This very hardy and prolific variety sweet flavour with a bit of tang to it. A great salad tomato for color and flavour. Needs staking.  80 seeds
 

Organic
1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

An Australian Heirloom. Probably Australia’s oldest and most popular staking tomato. Grosse Lisse, meaning ‘large smooth’, reliably produces an abundance of big, round, red fruit. Mid to late season maturity with strong harvesting period. 80 seeds.

1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

A tasty, low-acid tomato adding a flare of orange-yellow to salads, salsas and sauces. An early, heat tolerant beefsteak type that produces medium to large, round fruit. An indeterminate with compact, tidy vines that need staking. 80 seeds.

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1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

An early , staking type with medium sized, round, red fruit. Very cold tolerant, potato leafed heirloom variety, also setting fruit in cooler weather and resistant to tomato blight, giving it a long season. It even produced large numbers of fruit thorough the cold summer of 2008-09 when many other varieties failed!! 25 seeds

Organic
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1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

A very popular Australian heirloom that originated in Victoria (also known as Scoresby Dwarf). Loved for its flavour and being a good all-rounder that produces medium, smooth round red fruit that does not need lots of attention. A bush variety. 80 seeds.

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1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

This variety is truly a ‘Legend’ for cool climate gardeners as it is reliably one of the earliest of the larger slicing tomatoes for cooler areas. Bred in the NW of America this determinate tomato is parthenocarpic, meaning that it can form fruit naturally even in cold weather. The fruit are red, rounded, 10-15 cm across and amazingly sweet. 25 seeds.

Organic
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1 pkt
A$3.75
Botanical Name
Lycopersicon esculentum

An old English heirloom. A vigorous and reliable early tomato producing an abundance of perfectly round and red, thin-skinned medium-sized fruit. Peter Cundall’s pick for shape and flavour. A robust variety that copes better than most with humidity. An indeterminate variety that needs staking. 80 seeds.