Tomato 'Cherry Yellow Currant'
Tomato 'Cherry Yellow Currant' is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Yellow Currant' is an heirloom variety possibly dating to the 1700's but is likely to be far older and part of ancient Peruvian agriculture for millennia. It is the closest cultivar still in cultivation to tomatoes wild relatives. The small, round, bright yellow fruits with thin skins have a sweet-tart intense flavour. It is excellent used in salads and preserved. The vigorous, easy to grow plants are covered in clusters of 1 cm round tomatoes. It is hardy and disease resistant and rarely attacked by fruit fly. An indeterminate (climbing) type so requires staking, it produces a large, sprawling bush. Days to harvest: 75.
Product: Tomato 'Cherry Yellow Currant'
Product type: SEED (50)
Botanical name: Lycopersicon esculentum
Syn.: Syn. 'Broad Ripple Yellow Currant'
Syn. 'Broad Ripple Yellow Currant'; an heirloom variety with small, round, bright yellow fruits with thin skins have a sweet-tart intense flavour. It is excellent used in salads and preserved. The vigorous, easy to grow plants are covered in clusters of 1cm round tomatoes. It is hardy and disease resistant and rarely attacked by fruit fly.
Plant type: Warm season annual, frost tender
Plant height: 1.5m; indeterminate type needs staking
Sow when: Germinate best at 18 - 28°C soil temp.
Temperate: Early spring - inside with extra heat; outside after frost danger has passed
Subtropical: March - October in frost -free areas
Tropical: Late April - July
Germination: 7 - 14 days
Depth: 6 mm deep
Position: Full sun
Sow where: Into seedling pots; liquid feed once germinated
Soil type: Fertile, well-drained, pH 5.8 - 7
Rows: 90 cm apart
Details: To transplant: remove seed leaves, plant deeper, up to the 1st set of true leaves; this increases rooting & speeds maturity; keep well fertilised and evenly watered
Harvest: 75 days
50 seeds per packet
Lycopersicon esculentum
Syn. 'Broad Ripple Yellow Currant'
Warm season annual, frost tender
Tomato 'Cherry Yellow Currant'
Yellow Currant' is an heirloom variety possibly dating to the 1700's but is likely to be far older and part of ancient Peruvian agriculture for millennia. It is the closest cultivar still in cultivation to tomatoes wild relatives. The small, round, bright yellow fruits with thin skins have a sweet-tart intense flavour. It is excellent used in salads and preserved. The vigorous, easy to grow plants are covered in clusters of 1 cm round tomatoes. It is hardy and disease resistant and rarely attacked by fruit fly. An indeterminate (climbing) type so requires staking, it produces a large, sprawling bush. Days to harvest: 75.