3 cherry tomato plants in AB color mix

Cultivate color and flavor in your vegetable garden with this trio of vigorous cherry tomato varieties: Yellow Pear, Red Barbaniaka and Black Cherry. Transform your garden into a festival of colorful gourmet gems!

Ideal for aperitifs and salads, they also make delicious homemade ketchup!

• Yellow Pear Tomato

The Poire Jaune, a very old, vigorous variety with indeterminate growth, produces bunches of sweet-tasting, pear-shaped cherry tomatoes right up to the frosts.

• Barbaniaka tomato

The Barbaniaka tomato, originally from Hungary, produces a multitude of long bunches of small, round, shatter-resistant fruits weighing around 15g. Their delicious flesh reveals an intense, sweet flavor. With its determined, vigorous growth, it's ideal for pot or window box cultivation.

• Black Cherry tomato

Over a long period, this Black Cherry produces clusters of dark purple to black cherry tomatoes weighing around 20 g, with a mild flavor. Its vigorous, wide-growing plants have indeterminate growth and produce abundantly until frost.

How to grow cherry tomatoes

Grow your tomatoes in fertile soil, rich in organic matter, and choose a sunny spot sheltered from strong winds.

• Start tomato seedlings between February and April, depending on the climatic conditions in your region.
• Use a suitable container, such as a small bucket, box or honeycomb tray, and high-quality organic sowing soil.
• Sow the seeds at a depth of 0.5 cm in a warm, well-lit spot.
• Harden the seedlings before planting in the garden.
• Plant the tomatoes in well-amended soil in a sunny spot, 50 cm apart in all directions.
• Prune indeterminate plants.
• Mulch plants generously.
• Use a variety of natural fertilizers.
• Water regularly, especially for this variety, which is sensitive to apical necrosis.

When to transplant the cherry tomato trio?

Fertile, well-drained, sunny soil is ideal for transplanting, leaving a distance of 50 cm on all sides. Successful planting depends on abundant watering at the time of planting.
To allow tomatoes to acclimatize to outdoor conditions, we recommend taking them outside for 4 to 7 days before planting them in the garden or in a pot.

When to harvest cherry tomatoes

Cherry tomatoes begin to be harvested in the garden 60 days after transplanting, then very regularly as the season progresses.

Diseases and pests of cherry tomatoes

In many vegetable gardens, tomato diseases are legion. All it takes is a rainy summer or fungus in the soil to wipe out the crop, but downy mildew and chlorosis are not inevitable.

The most common tomato diseases, caused by fungi or deficiencies, include :

• downy mildew ;
• powdery mildew
• apical necrosis ;
• botrytis ;
• Alternariosis ;
• chlorosis.

Companion plants for cherry tomatoes

Cherry tomatoes will thrive near :

There are a number of useful associations with tomatoes, notably to repel insects and other pests in order to prevent disease, but also to save space in the vegetable garden or improve the taste of tomatoes.

Crops to combine with tomatoes include

• cabbage ;
• carrots ;
• radish ;
• beet ;
• lettuce
• aromatic plants in general and basil in particular;
• flowers, especially carnations and marigolds.

Shipping and delivery of the cherry tomato assortment

• Orders are dispatched Monday to Thursday.
• Shipment to mainland France only.
• Shipping cartons designed for optimal plant protection.
• Free shipping does not apply to plants.