Four Heirloom Tomato Varieties Sowing and Growing Kit Gift Box

World. At first, the aromatic fruits were not appreciated here at all but instead were suspected of causing some dangerous 'love madness' if consumed. This is in fact explains the origin of the old names for tomatoes: Apple of Paradise, Paradeiser, Love apple and Pomme d'amour.
Tomatoes only started to rise in popularity as a vegetable after 1839 when introduced in the form of tomato sauce served along pasta by the Italians. Since then, tomatoes have become an essential ingredient of European cuisine.

This seed kit contains four colourful and famous aromatic old tomato varieties:

1. Berner Rose' (Solanum lycopersicum)
   An old Swiss tomato cultivar with heavenly delicate melting flavour. For us, one of the most outstanding tomato varieties of all times.
2. Tigerella' (Solanum lycopersicum)
   Very striking and decorative variety with its bright red-yellow tiger stripes. Extremely robust and high-yielding with many juicy, sweet-fruity tomatoes.
3. Golden Queen' (Solanum lycopersicum)
   This yellow tomato variety has been cultivated since the late 18th cent. It produces many round crops of very mild, rather sweet taste and little acidity.
4. Red Wild Tomato (Solanum pimpinellifolium)
   This robust species is very productive and might carry up to a thousand marble-sized fruits on good soils. Today it is probably the most original existing form of wild tomato still available.

Tomatoes thrive in direct sunlight and appreciate warmth. They are commonly started as a pre-culture indoors from mid March, before being relocated outdoors, after the lasts frosts of the 'Frost Saints' in mid-May. Tomato plants will need a support structure and protection from rain.

This seed set also contains the following sowing accessories:

• 16 peat-free expanding coconut coir pellets
• 16 wooden plant label sticks
• Detailed sowing-, cultivation- and care instructions