Cherry Mix Tomato Seeds 10 Seeds

Cherry Mix Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme) brings together a cheerful blend of small, round cherry tomatoes in glowing shades of red, yellow and orange. Each fruit is glossy, bite-size and packed with a sweet, juicy flavour that makes the mix as much a treat to look at as it is to eat. Pick them straight from the vine for snacking, scatter the colourful medley through fresh salads, roast them whole to concentrate their sweetness, or use them as a vibrant garnish. Generous and easy to enjoy, this mix turns a sunny patch, a balcony pot or a garden bed into a bright, productive corner.

Planting

Tomato is a warm-season, frost-tender crop, so start your seeds indoors about 5 to 8 weeks before the last spring frost and before you plan to transplant outdoors. Sow each seed roughly 0.6 cm deep in a sterile, soilless seed-starting mix. Keep the mix warm at around 24 to 29 C and the seeds will usually sprout in about 7 to 10 days; a heat mat helps hold that temperature until the seedlings break through. Only move plants outside once all danger of frost has passed and the soil has warmed. Choose a full-sun spot offering at least 6 hours of direct sun a day, ideally 8 to 10 hours, in a warm and sheltered position. Space transplants about 45 to 90 cm apart along the row, with roughly 90 to 150 cm between rows; vining types take the wider end of that range while bushier plants can sit closer. In Egypt the most productive window is a late-winter to early-spring planting (around February to March) once frost risk has passed, with a secondary autumn planting around September to October; in the cooler Nile Delta and Cairo area wait for February to March to avoid frost injury, while warmer Upper Egypt can lean toward autumn and late-winter plantings to dodge extreme summer heat.

Fertilizing

At transplanting, use a starter fertilizer with an NPK ratio under 10 and go easy on nitrogen, since an excess produces leafy plants that are slow to fruit. As the first fruits begin to enlarge, side-dress with nitrogen to support the developing crop; one practical option is a nitrogen and calcium source such as calcium nitrate (15.5-0-0) applied about 3 to 4 weeks after planting. If you are growing in containers, feed every 10 to 14 days with a high-potassium liquid feed once the first fruits start to swell.

Care

Steady, even moisture is the key to healthy fruit: aim for about 2.5 cm of water per week from rain and irrigation combined, and avoid swinging between wet and dry, which causes fruit splitting and blossom-end rot. Container plants can need watering daily in hot weather. When you set young plants out, plant them deep so only the top 2 to 3 sets of true leaves sit above the soil, as the buried stem grows extra roots; harden seedlings off over about a week before planting out. Watch for common pests such as tomato hornworms, aphids, flea beetles, cutworms, Colorado potato beetles and whitefly, along with diseases like early and late blight, Septoria leaf spot, bacterial spot, tomato viruses and grey mould. Harvest once the fruit reaches full size and the colour begins to change to the variety's ripe shade, leaving the stalk attached for the best flavour; first ripe fruit typically arrives about 52 to 90 days after transplanting depending on the cultivar, and any green fruit can be ripened indoors at around 21 C.