Black Crimean Tomato plants

Discover the organic Crimean Black Tomato, an ancient mid-season variety from the Crimean region near the Black Sea. This drought-resistant, indeterminate-growing vegetable will provide you with an abundance of fruity delights. Its generous tomatoes, weighing from 150 to 500 g, are reddish-brown in color, darkening in the sun. Their dense flesh contains few seeds and reveals an excellent flavor, delicately sweet with no acidity.

Perfect for brightening up your summer salads!

How to grow the Black Crimean tomato?

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 Black Crimean tomato plants?

Tomato seedlings should be planted out in the garden when the risk of frost has passed, which in many French regions means around mid-May, during the "Saints de Glace" period. Ideally, the outside temperature should not fall below 10°C when the young plants come out.

When to harvest Crimean Black tomatoes?

Black Crimean tomatoes begin to be harvested in the garden 70 to 80 days after transplanting, then regularly throughout the season. Fruits should be well formed and have a very dark red color.

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.

Shipping and delivery of Crimean Black Mid-Season Tomato plants

• 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.