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Tomato Principe Borghese ORGANIC Seeds

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Tomato Principe Borghese ORGANIC Seeds - Irish Plants Direct

This Italian heirloom tomato has plum shaped bright red fruits with an excellent flavour.

This classic fruit can be dried and will retain both its colour and flavour.

A bush type tomato that doesn't require staking that can be grown outdoors in a sunny sheltered place.

Seed Qty 0.2gram

Sow March - April

Germination 7 - 14 days

Harvest August - October

Companion Plants Basil, beans, peas, carrots, chives, marigolds, nasturtiums, onions and peppers

Do not plant with potatoes or kohlrabi

Pick the fruits as soon as they are ripe

A good source of Vitamin A and C

Use in salads, sandwiches and sauces

Tomatoes can be grown in pots, containers, in the garden border, greenhouse or tunnel. Prepare the soil by digging in compost or well rotted manure adding a granular fertiliser 2 weeks before planting.

Grow bags are great for tomatoes.

Make sure the plants are planted in full sun.

Sow between March - April planting into seed tray or a pot place on either on a warm windowsill or in a heated propagator the temperature for germination needs to be between 21 - 27 degrees.

Make sure the seedlings have plenty of light and when they get their first true leaves transplant to a larger pot to grow on.

Transplant when the plants are around 15cm tall if they are to be planted outside ensure they have been hardened off and all chance of frost has passed.

Water well before transplanting tying in the main stem to a cane for support.

It's important to water regularly and feed with tomato feed fortnightly when the flowers appear.

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Principe de Borghese

Declan Reidy - 09/28/2022

Germinated well. Grew very well in the greenhouse and surprisingly outside too. Huge cropper. Buckets of tomatoes. wish I had a dehydrator to store for winter. No pests. No diseases. Gave tons of them away.

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