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Tomato Seeds - Description
- Variety: Matina Tomato Seeds
- Type: Round, Red
- Early Maturing Variety
- Salad Tomato
- Great Flavour
- Packet Size: 20 Seeds
- Fruit Size: 70-90g
- Produces an Excellent Crop of Fine, Full Bodied, Rich Red Skin Tomatoes
- Hardy Plants, can be Grown Indoors or Outside
- Greenback Resistant Variety
- RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
- Heavy Crops of Uniform, Smooth Fruits
Tomato Seeds - Sowing Instructions
- Sow: Late March to the end of May
- Harvest: June to October
- A constant supply of moisture is essential
- See how to grow tab for full growing instructions
Tomato Seeds - Uses
- Ideal for salads
- Suited to Outdoors growing
- High in vitamin C & Iycopene
Tomato Seeds - Advantages
- Recommended for beginners
- An improvement on the moneymaker variety
- Excellent flavour
- Highest quality
- Award winning
- Succeeds equally well in soil or in grow bags
- Can be grown in polytunnel, greenhouse or planted outdoors in May
Index
- Sowing Instructions
- How to Transplant
- Crop Maintenance
- How to Harvest
Tomatoes are mostly grown in a greenhouse. It is warmth and not direct sunlight which promotes fruit ripening. Tomato plants can be grown from plants bought from garden centres in May or raised from seed in February.
Sowing Instructions
- Sowing Time: Sow indoors in February
- Sowing location: Sow in 24 cell trays or 9cm pot indoors, under cover
- Sow 3 seeds in each pot & thin out later
- Or sow 1 seed per cell
- Sow seed 0.1cm deep in 3 inch pots using potting compost
- Place in propagator
How to Transplant
- Prick out into 9cm pots once large enough
- April / May transplant again into larger, 1ltr pots using potting compost & place in greenhouse
- Some varieties can be grown outdoors in May
- These include Sungold F1 & Alicante
Growing outdoors
- Transplant seedlings in late May
- Position in a warm, sheltered & south facing sunny location
- Plant into soil which is fertile, moist and drains well
- Add well rotted farm-yard manure to soil before planting
- Keep soil moist throughout growing season
- A regular water supply is essential for a successful crop
Crop Maintenance
- Feeding
- Use a liquid feed. Once first flowers appear, use tomato feed, or fertilizer high in Potash
- Read instructions provided on fertilizer label
- Feed once each week
- Watering
- Avoid irregular watering: If plants dry out, fruits can shrink leading to splitting
- If over watered, tomatoes can develop ‘blossom end rot’, a black mould on base of fruits
- Keep soil moist, water once a week
- Supporting
- Tie main stem to a cane or support plants by tying them to greenhouse crossbars over head
- Do not tie twine too tight around stem
- Pruning
- Reduce the number of fruiting stems to speed up ripening
- Plants can be pruned so that only the main stem and 4 or 5 side shoots remain
- Remove any remaining side shoots as they appear (from the base of every leaf), this is known as pinching out
- Cut off yellowing leaves and those shading lower ‘trusses’ of fruit
How to Harvest
- Harvest after 25 weeks
- Tomatoes require heat for fruit to ripen
- Maintain regular watering at time of harvest
- If fruits are still green, ripen indoors
- Placing tomatoes in a warm location next to bananas helps speed up ripening process
Note: We don't ship plants on Fridays due to the extended period they would remain without light & water
Shipping Options & Rates
FOR IRELAND & NORTHERN IRELAND
- Standard Courier Delivery With Fastway (3-4 Working Days)
- Cost is €4.95 on Orders Below €75
- Free Delivery on Orders Above €75
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- Express Courier Delivery With Fastway (1-2 Working Days)
- Cost is €5 extra for express delivery
- This service guarantees that any order placed before 4pm will ship from our depot the same day on the next day delivery service *
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- Express Delivery With DPD (1-2 Working Days)
- Cost is €11.45 for orders below €75
- Cost is €6.50 for orders above €75
- This service guarantees that any order placed before 4pm will ship from our depot the same day on the next day delivery service *
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- This services comes with email tracking
- 'Seed' Postal Delivery Option ***
- Cost is €2 - Packet of Seeds ONLY Orders
- Note: Does Not Apply to Seed Potatoes, Bulbs or Sets ***
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- This is a non-trackable service
MAINLAND ENGLAND & SCOTLAND & WALES (Currently Unavailable Due to Brexit)
- Standard International Courier
- Cost is €10
- UK shipping fee covers parcels up to a total weight of 20Kg
WESTERN EUROPE & WORLDWIDE
- Standard International Courier
- Delivery rates vary, please see chart below
- Note: There is no free delivery for Western Europe Deliveries
Bulk Bags & Large Item Pallet Deliveries
- Bulk bags & large orders are shipped via pallet couriers on a rigid lorry
- Delivery is to kerbside only
- If road access to your site is tight, then please advise us before purchasing
- Please Note: We cannot guarantee next day delivery on pallet deliveries
- Also, we cannot guarantee delivery on a specific day (Please allow 1-3 days for delivery)
- It's always best to order well in advance to avoid disappointment
- Cancellation of pallets when items are already in transit will incur a 40 euro per pallet cancellation fee (To cover return delivery costs)
- Where pallet delivery can not be made due to site access, a 40 euro per pallet cancellation fee will apply (To cover return delivery costs)
International Delivery Prices & Times
- Please note max weights below, heavier orders may require additional payment
- We will contact you to discuss, if max weight of order exceeded
Terms
- The shipping fee is fixed for an order, regardless of the number of items bought
- All courier orders require signed proof of delivery & the customer must be contactable by phone
- We do not offer a weekend delivery service (Mon-Fri Only excl. Bank Holidays)
- * Our courier achieves a 98% success rate on next day deliveries
- Once your parcel is shipped it will be placed on works courier's next day delivery service
- ** Seed postal option applies to seed ONLY orders & is available in all 32 counties of Ireland
- *** Does not apply to seed potatoes, bulbs or sets
