3 plants Assorted Old Varieties Tomatoes AB

Welcome these traditional heirloom tomato varieties into your kitchen garden: Marmande, Rose de Berne and Cœur de Bœuf de Nice, for a generous harvest of fruit with the authentic flavor of heirloom tomatoes.

Perfect for all fresh tomato salads and sauce recipes!

• Tomate Marmande

Even at low temperatures, Marmande tomatoes produce an abundance of red fruit weighing around 250g. Their firm flesh, with its delicious aroma and high sugar content, is ideal for making sauces. Semi-determinate, vigorous growth.

• Rose de Berne tomato

The highly productive, indeterminate-growing Rose de Berne offers an abundance of round, slightly flattened fruits, weighing from 180 to 240g. Their thin skins enclose very juicy, particularly fragrant flesh. One of the tastiest varieties.

• Coeur de Bœuf de Nice tomato

The Coeur de Bœuf de Nice offers a multitude of bunches of 3 to 4 pear-shaped fruits, more or less ribbed on their upper half, weighing 200 to 300 g. Their flesh is very dense, with excellent flavor and few seeds.

How to grow the heirloom tomato trio?

Grow your tomatoes in fertile soil, rich in organic matter, and choose a sunny position 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 heirloom 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.

For more information, see our guide to transplanting plants.

When to harvest tomatoes from the heirloom trio?

Tomatoes begin to be harvested in the garden 65 days after transplanting, then regularly throughout the season.

Tomato diseases and pests

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.

Tomato companion plants

Tomatoes will thrive near :

There are a number of useful associations with tomatoes, notably to repel insects and other pests 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.

Shipment and delivery of heirloom tomato assortment

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