Tomato Heirloom Tommy Toe Yellow

Medium sized sweet yellow fruit, sometimes almost the size of an apricot! Has an excellent flavour and produces a large amount of tasty fruit over along season.

Common name (s):                             Yellow Tommy Toe Tomato,

Description:                                        

Long cropping with masses of sweet yellow fruit, 8-10kg per bush.  Excellent taste, good soft yellow color and disease resistant.

Flavours/Food Partners:                                

Fresh tomatoes partner well with Latin herbs like garlic, oregano, marjoram, rosemary and thyme when cooked or when fresh they are enhanced by herbs like parsley, chives and celery leaf.   They are pleasant when eaten whole on their own.

Health/Cooking/Medicinal:           

Like all tomatoes, Yellow Tommy Toe are high in the cancer fighting agent, Lycopene.  This is enhanced by moderate cooking.  They are high in Vitamins A, B1, B2 and C.  These tomatoes are the size of a small apricot so can be used as a cherry tomato and eaten as a snack, they are great for salads and make good full flavoured sauces and chutneys, are easy to pickle and put in the baking dish 10 minutes prior to serving for a tasty and colourful garnish

Landscaping/Planting:                    

Plant in an airy, sunny position in well drained soil or very large pots.  Requires a 1.8 to 2.2 m stake

Cultivation/Fertiliser:                     

Like all tomatoes it must receive a deep soaking when almost dry and should not receive overhead watering.  Feed regularly with Seasol and Powerfeed.  A small amount of dolomite lime after planting will make stronger plants.  Remove side shoots and develop two or three main leaders.  Harvest when fruit is full color

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• 1-                                            Frost Sensitive
• 2-                                            Full Sun
• 3-                                            w:50cm  h:2.0m

LATIN/ BOTANICAL NAME:       Lycopersicon esculentum 'Tommy Toe Yellow’